Sales Gravy

APRIL 2, 2025

Dennis from Chesterfield, Missouri, wants to know if sales coaching truly moves the performance needle, especially when shifting from transactional approaches to more consultative selling. Why Sales Coaching Is Essential Sales is a skill position. Thats where coaching comes in. Think about it this way.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 22, 2014

In the same period of time, there have been major shifts in the quality of sales candidates , in the roles those candidates will fill, and the capabilities we need those salespeople to possess. Seven years ago, a company may have wanted sales managers who were task masters, holding salespeople accountable to top of the funnel metrics.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 18, 2018

Inside Sales Management Made Easy. Learn effective inside sales force team rep performance management training ideas, tips, techniques and plan with best practices. Being an inside sales manager is tough these days. And, by the way, how are sales and how are you trending this month?

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 10, 2018

Inside Sales Management: Are you Measuring What Matters Most? Learn about successful inside sales force management closing strategy, process techniques, training ideas, prospecting tools and best practices for managers and representatives. By Mike Brooks, www.MrInsideSales.com.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 20, 2023

Effectively Coaching Inside Salespeople As you look to develop a world-class inside sales team, the role of coaching inside salespeople can’t be understated. The key to effective coaching lies in understanding the unique challenges and opportunities of the inside sales environment.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech. Table of Contents What is inside sales training? Here are five reasons you should.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 16, 2013

“Tell me about your rep coaching sessions.” I asked the Sales Manager. The Sales Manager outlined the structure he used in each one on one meeting. Okay,” I hesitated, “Can you tell me how often your boss, the VP of Sales, coaches you?” The manager thought hard. This manager isn’t alone.

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Coaching Sales Coaching Follow-up Pipeline 288

Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Inside Sales. When it comes to inside sales, put aside old visions of airplane hanger-size room filled with lots of salespeople making lots of sales calls using finely polished scripts. These rooms may still be around but inside sales has undergone a dramatic shift in the last several years.

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Velocify

APRIL 22, 2013

A good coach doesn’t treat each player the same,” said Lori Richardson, ScoreMoreSales.com. We’ve blogged recently about the importance of leveraging the skills of your inside sales team and playing to each reps strengths like a good coach. Tip #3 – Some training should be optional for top performers.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 2, 2019

In many ways, technology, like Google Maps, is similar to sales management software. Sales management software provides streamlined tools for data entry and management to speed up this process. And they often include some of the most popular sales tools (e.g., Free Sales Management Software.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 9, 2014

” and makes the case for why younger reps can be great at inside sales. So what does this mean for sales organizations and sales managers ? But does that mean sales reps over age 30 are becoming obsolete? Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business'

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Lessons from inside sales mid-pandemic [18:50]. Kristin on the future of sales [23:04]. Sam Jacobs: This week, we’ve got another great episode for you with Kristin Twining , VP of business development and inside sales for FireMon. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The real key to building a winning sales team is effective sales management. Are you wondering how to manage a sales team effectively? Well, you can get many tips, tactics, and strategies from various sales management books. Best sales management books you must read. Author- Kevin F.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 28, 2018

I’m here this week presenting at the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP) Leadership Summit. If you’re in sales leadership or in a direct sales management role, you’ll learn a ton of useful strategies and tools to help your team produce more and be more confident.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2013

TeleSmart is a leader in providing inside sales coaching and consulting to Fortune 1000 companies. As publisher of TeleSmart’s “Trend Report,” Josiane has spent most of the last decade tracking the biggest challenges that sales leaders face each year. The Inside Sales Superhero to the Rescue. They’re social.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Jill Konrath is THE top name in B2B sales thought leadership today due to a 2nd best-seller, SNAP Selling – and her talented writing and videos regularly produced to a worldwide audience. Trish Bertuzzi has set a standard in research and factual study of B2B Inside Sales, and is top thought leader for it.

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Keith Rosen

JUNE 15, 2013

For this to be effective, the manager must be able to, at least temporarily, suspend any agenda, especially an agenda around wanting to keep that person in sales, when in actuality, it’s just a pit-stop on their way to achieving their bigger career goals or they don’t really want to be there. They’re just going to leave anyway.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 7, 2019

Or they're a more tenured rep who's struggling to apply a new sales approach to their workflow. Clearly identifying these areas for improvement in the performance review will provide points to work on during any coaching or training after the performance review. The template includes: A template for manager review and rep self-review.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 8, 2022

As I thought about the teams currently in mini-camps, I thought about the coaching staffs. I thought about all the professional athletes who are still being coached, day in and day out, by coaches. I mean, why do they still need coaches? And that led me to think about sales teams and individual producers.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

I read all sorts of articles about coaching from some very thoughtful, smart, and successful people. Many of those articles have provocative titles or themes like, Who Benefits Most From Coaching? Where Should You Spend Your Time Coaching? But the reality is, spans of control are decreasing in field sales.

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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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Training Sales Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring 130

Engage Selling

AUGUST 19, 2022

??????????? What’s the right outside and inside sales team structure? I recently had a conversation with an exceptional sales leader I work with. The post The Right Outside and Inside Sales Team Structure | Sales Strategies first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Conduct assessments to find reps consistent to what it takes to succeed in sales at your company. Train and coach frontline sales leaders. Studies show this is the best place to invest in training with follow-up coaching for reinforcement. Assess everyone through metrics and conversations. Increase Opportunities.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Help the sales leader identify any reps that are at risk of leaving. This should actually be an ongoing task of the HR leader to have frequent discussions with Sales Directors and Sales Managers to keep pulse on which Reps may be at risk for leaving. Has any documented issues of “disconnect” with sales management.

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Sales Talent Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

Gong.io

APRIL 9, 2019

Are you looking to get better at sales coaching, but you’re not sure how? Let me guess: no one trained you for sales coaching. You’re simply doing your best to pass on what YOU know about sales to your team. BUT… that’s a dangerous sales coaching mistake. Don’t settle for “random acts of coaching.”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 2, 2016

In fact, if you want your sales team to sell using a defined sales process, then pick up the phone and demonstrate how to do that. A great coach once said to his players: “I don’t hear what you say – I hear what you do.”. People will always follow what they see.

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Pointclear

APRIL 4, 2013

Staying current on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be daunting, especially in the the digital space. PointClear''s staff and Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from our digital circles about B2B sales. Sales Coaching - The Use and Abuse of Modeling.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Structure problems - field Reps were overpaid for work that should be done by lower-cost resources (aka Inside Sales). Sales coaching. Guide the Sales Managers on how to effectively coach C players. For one thing, coaching of C players should NOT be more than 10% of a Sales Manager’s time.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Time is vitally important to the success of a salesperson—time to research prospects, time to hone the sales pitch, and time to communicate with potential clients. Chris said he still has a lot to learn, and sitting in while a sales rep speaks to prospects is a two-way educational street. Meetings can keep reps from their jobs”.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 24, 2025

Those 5 metrics are the basis for assessing each person on the team, how they are performing, and where he needs to coach them. Once he starts seeing a problem area, then he drills down, looking at more data, coaching his people. It took him sometime to build this management system.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

If your hiring strategy involves bringing in fresh talent, you can’t expect these new inside sales professionals to be confident and successful, without a strong onboarding effort. What’s inside sales onboarding, you ask? If you have poor training, there will be a lack of confidence between the sales leader and new hire.

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Inside Sales Hiring How To Negotiation 80

Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

In today’s post, we’ve compiled a list of the top sales influencers on our radar. Leading off our list is sales consultant and coach, Jeb Blount. For those unfamiliar, Jeb is the CEO of Sales Gravy, a sales training organization known by many as THE sales acceleration company. Check them out!

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SBI

AUGUST 13, 2013

“Inside Sales now generates more than 50% of company revenue and is being tasked with more responsibilities and expectations—to grow territories, form partnerships, and generate new business. In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments. Playbook is an apt description for The Smart Sales Manager.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

I was speaking at the AA-ISP event in Boston earlier this month when I learned something very interesting about how sales leaders feel about coaching salespeople. I was leading a session on how to coach Inside Salespeople. At this event I had just 30 minutes. So what is the surprising lesson I learned at this event?

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Coaching Microsoft Sales Coaching Sales Leadership 120

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Top 25 Sales Blogs for all Sales Professionals. 1. Factor8: Your Inside Sales Advisor. According to the Factor 8 website, Factor 8 is an award-winning inside sales training and consulting firm catering only to inside sales. Score More Sales. Selling Power.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Webinar Metrics 206

Increase Sales

AUGUST 3, 2012

Now some sales training coaching experts to organizational development consultants will focus on this new sales skill to increase sales or to new strategic systems wide continuous process improvement. Inside sales has confrontations with accounts receivable. Credit www.sxc.hu.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 9, 2014

By the same token, a sales manager is one of the sales professional’s top customers – if not THE top customer. Help your sales manager do their job by getting them what they ask for in a timely manner. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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