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The Fearless Sales Leader

Steven Rosen

The solution is simple yet complicated: Bring in outside expertise to help develop sales managers and you open a whole kettle of trouble. Many sales leaders fear that engaging an outside sales coaching expert will show that they can’t do their job. So how do we overcome this biased assertion?

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5 Traits You Need to Be an ‘A’ Player in 2013

SBI Growth

Examples include a well-defined sales process , and regular call cadence. 15% of ‘C’ players can jump to ‘A’ through effective coaching and focus on fundamentals. The graphic below demonstrates the uplift sales organizations experience when a step-by-step sales process is implemented. It wasn’t magic.

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How Significant is the Migration to Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

As recently as 5 years ago, only 20% of my personal clients were inside sales forces. Half of my own training, coaching and consulting clients are inside sales forces! The September, Week 4 Issue of Top Sales Magazine is available here. And the brochure for the 2014-2015 Top Sales Academy is available here.

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When Sales Leaders Don't Lead With Their Strengths

Understanding the Sales Force

When VP's request this assessment, they can use it as a self-coaching tool or as a coaching road map by an outside sales leader. It becomes interesting when a VP scores high in one competency but defaults instead to a different competency (one where they scored lower) to drive revenue.

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Inside Sales vs. Outside Sales: Which Is Best for You?

Sales Hacker

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Hiring guide.

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Top 4 Questions, 2 Words of Advice about Sales CRM

Understanding the Sales Force

In this case, the way that IT should support sales is by staying out of the way, like an application engineer in the sales process. Let sales choose the application. They''re not going to use it, review it, coach from it, hold anyone accountable to it, train anyone to use it or customize it. And for crying out loud.

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Inside Sales Growing by Leaps and Bounds

Score More Sales

The state of the profession known as Inside Sales – or Remote Professional Selling – is thriving. While outside sales positions are on the decline, Inside Sales positions are growing at a phenomenal rate. She talked about the need for more regular coaching by managers to reps.