Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2018

Author: Kevin McGirl Sales managers have a tough job. A good sales manager needs to stay on top of their game at all times, and ensure that their team is focused, efficient and most importantly, profitable. Success in sales demands quick reflexes. It requires patience, agility, and a lot of motivational guidance.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In this blog, we discuss the best habits of highly successful salespeople and sales managers. Being an extraordinary sales manager is grueling and time-consuming.

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Research suggests that the best sales coaches can drive 19% more sales than those who are less effective coaches. Yet, despite these promising numbers, many sales managers remain disengaged from the coaching process. A sales manager might be adept at closing deals but lacks the techniques to effectively coach a team.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite good interviewing skills, many sales managers are guilty of making the following hiring mistakes: Hiring people they like. Do your sales managers have the tools and processes to systematically identify top sales performers from those who are pretenders? Settling for mediocrity to fill the vacancy.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 26, 2014

In my world it is simply the ten hottest prospects you are currently working, ranked in order of their ability to be closed. It is not a Wish List, it’s not an “I’d love to have that business” list, it is made up of the Ten best prospects you’ve made presentations to and are working through the sales cycle.

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Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I interviewed sales manager, sales person, sales trainer and all around smart guy Jorge Soto. I asked Jorge about how he uses Sales 2.0 Jorge, I know you are a fan of Sales 2.0 Jorge: It’s interesting because I never considered it Social Selling when I started to use social media tools to sell.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sales teams are juggling more tasks than ever. In this environment, your sales operations tools and platforms can’t just be effective — they need to be transformative. What Are Sales Operations Tools? This is invaluable for sales teams to identify personalized sales opportunities quickly.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 21, 2022

If you get this objection—while closing or qualifying—then the worst thing you can do is try to answer or overcome it. The reason this technique—among others you’ll learn in my on-demand training—took my sales career to a new level is because by using it I avoided talking past the close and chasing what wasn’t even the real objection!

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Can sales managers influence the buying process? You can’t manage revenue. If sales close, you win. Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 19, 2021

More specifically, it wants to onboard new sellers as quickly as possible, and ensure that onboarded reps earn more and more closed-won deals. They do all of this by equipping your sales organization with the insights, data, culture, tools, and knowledge it needs to sell better. . The post What Is Sales Enablement?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 10, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Can you name 10 Core Competencies of a great salesperson? Let''s see, there''s prospecting, qualifying and closing, and then there''s.wow, this is difficult! Next week I''ll introduce our new and revised Sales Management Core Competencies. They are marketing themselves.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If sales is a journey, your strategic plan is the roadmap you'll provide your team to help them reach their destination. It is one of the most important activities you will ever do as a sales manager because, without it, your sales team will have no direction and no instruction manual to follow in order to achieve their targets.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

These famous words from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice equally apply to our sales pipeline. As sales managers, we know from experience that when we review the opportunities our sales reps have promised to close this month, next month and the next 90 day, that they won’t all close. So what went wrong?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. As a sales manager, see whether this sounds familiar: You sit down with an underperforming salesperson and open with a statement like, “You’re not hitting your numbers.”

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 11, 2021

B2B sales tools are meant to automate day-to-day processes, increase efficiency in all aspects of the sales process, and simplify various aspects of a sales rep's day to save valuable time — time that can be spent focusing on prospects and deals. B2B Sales Tools. Why use B2B sales tools?

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Lately I have had a chance to sit in on a number of “opportunity reviews”, and it is interesting how the format and tools have changed, the plot and the theme have not changed much beyond the costumes, props, and players. Become one of the thousands of sales professionals receiving my latest updates on sales execution, tools, tips and more.

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Force Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Healthy sales pipelines and accurate forecasts are grounded in structured territory, account and opportunity planning processes. These processes provide sales managers with an unrestricted line of sight into their sales organizations.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

For that reason, we teach sellers in our LinkedIn training to subscribe to omnichannel prospecting for the best sales success while prospecting. It means using every sales strategy, every tool and every channel to engage and connect with prospects. Because buyers respond to sales outreach on different mediums differently.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 24, 2024

” – Rob Ulsh Key Takeaways: AI is not a threat to sales professionals but a powerful tool that can enhance their effectiveness. He recognized the need to understand and embrace AI as a tool for sales leadership. AI tools can also assist sales leaders in responding to customer inquiries in real time.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 5, 2021

Exemplary sales managers don't just pop up out of nowhere. And very few — if any — reps can assume a management role and thrive, based strictly on intuition. Even the most effective sales leader might struggle to turn a rep who seems like "management material" into a successful manager.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

While the exact list depends on who you ask, the following (alphabetized) traits are all critical for a sales manager: Able to coach, analytical, available, confident, empathetic, good listener, innovative, leads by example, loyal, motivating, passionate, positive attitude, serves vs. dictates, strategic vision, strong communicator, and thoughtful.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 15, 2024

Involving frontline managers in the decision-making process increases buy-in and accountability. Patience is essential for sales leaders, as behavior changes and shifts in an organization take time. Providing tools and resources for coaching and investing in sales leaders’ development is crucial to success.

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Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2018

Keep reading for our top tips to increase sales forecast accuracy and speed up your pipeline. Ditch the weighted sales pipeline. A weighted pipeline approach involves careful analysis of opportunity stage and making predictions about which deals will close and how much each is worth. Measure the right sales activities.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2021

As a sales manager, ensuring that your team's communication with prospects is tight and effective is in your best interest. That process — making sure your team's communications aren't erratic — is most commonly referred to as implementing consistent sales messaging. Managers have to be closely involved.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 2, 2024

I’ve helped sales managers and business owners interview hundreds of potential sales reps over the years, and I’ve identified 3 top mistakes that virtually eliminate sales candidates on the spot! Mistake Number Two: Talking past the close. Too many sales reps like to talk.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Conversation intelligence provides reps with a deeper understanding of sales calls by recording, transcribing, and analyzing these meetings to deliver AI-based insights. Research firm Forrester found that 57 percent of B2B sales leaders intended to invest more on AI and automation tools in 2021.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

But the secret to closing great deals is about more than having high-performing salespeople on your team. Between prospecting, sales calls, data entry, quote preparation, and follow-ups, it’s very easy for teams to mismanage data and trip over themselves on the way to the finish line. Salespeople are busy. Let’s jump right in!

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

You need to make sure you’re putting your team members in the proper sales motions. Do you need prospecting, lead development, sales, someone who can handle everything from prospecting to closing the sale, customer engagement, long-term customer relationship, transactional relationship, or something else? Go get ‘em!

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 14, 2024

Nally knew that the sales tools provided would help her when it came to creating an event promoter ad campaign. “[The SalesFuel - Sales Credibility | Sales Research | Sales Hiring | Sales Management | Sales Enablement

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Highspot

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Many sales teams put in the hours, follow every playbook, and use every tool at their disposal, yet their efforts don’t seem to pay off. It’s a common issue in sales. In fact, leaders reported that 91% failed to hit sales quota expectations this year. Are sales reps following processes?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

For example, what caused pain points at the end of the program: reps changing territories mid-program, sales that were booked but not invoiced, clients who made verbal commitments but didn’t sign contracts, field sales managers that vouched for sales that didn’t get logged into the system on time, etc.?

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Forecast management needs to be overhauled A third area ripe for AI is forecast management. “In In my experience a lot of sales managers are keeping deals in their heads and they spend a lot of time discussing what they think is going to close and why. Paul agrees that some companies have too many sales tools.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 16, 2021

In sales, this means leading by example. When I became a sales manager, I was already the top producer in the office (and this is how many managers are promoted), and it was easy and natural for me to jump on the phone and take over a call. Or, they tell me that it’s the job of the sales rep to make the calls—not them.

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 21, 2024

Solution: Turn to AdMall’s multiple sales tools Flaten doesn’t have a specific favorite AdMall report because he loves to use them all. “My Regional banks had $332 billion in revenue in 2022 and generally manage $50 to $500 billion in assets.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 24, 2018

Just because certain sales prospecting techniques are all the rage, doesn’t mean they’re right for you or for your buyer. Sales productivity tools are everywhere, but do they really enhance productivity? How to Evaluate Sales Prospecting Techniques and Technology. It’s pretty simple, really.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve maybe been in the sales forecasting hot seat — of presenting numbers that look different from your prediction. What Is Sales Forecasting? Sales forecasting is how sales managers, directors, and VPs estimate upcoming revenue. Length of sales cycle forecasting.

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