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7 Different Roles of a Successful Sales Manager

SBI Growth

Managing a high-performance sales team can be challenging. One of the main challenges is that the job requires sales manager to take on multiple different roles. For example, one day you could be on ride-alongs coaching your reps , the next day, working on new territory plans for your team. So if you don't want to struggle, here are seven management roles you must adopt to be successful.

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12 Talent Things to Focus on in 2025

The Center for Sales Strategy

It’s already time to look ahead into 2025. What are your priorities, and how are you going to set yourself up for success? Here are 12 talent-related items to consider focusing on in the coming year. Bookmark this blog to reference it monthly, or take a few minutes right now to add these items to your calendar.

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Your Template for Building Your 2025 Sales Plan

Salesfolks

As 2025 approaches, sales leaders are reflecting on past performance while building their strategies for the future. A well-crafted sales plan serves as your roadmap, guiding your team toward your revenue and growth goals while adapting to a changing market. Here’s a comprehensive guide to building a 2025 sales plan that aligns with your business goals, empowers your sales team, and keeps you accountable for success.

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B2B Sales Process: 9 Steps to Avoid Failure

Lead411

B2B Sales Process: 9 Steps to Avoid Failure Succeeding in B2B sales heavily depends on using data strategically to target the right leads, personalize outreach, and close deals efficiently. If you have the wrong data, outdated data or missing data, the time wasted will be tremendous. Here’s a guide to help you leverage the right data effectively: 1.

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Buyer’s Guide: 5 Tough Questions To Ask a Salesforce Managed Services Provider

This guide is for leaders who recognize the importance of Salesforce but would rather trust a team of external experts to do the heavy lifting. Choosing the right managed services provider is a significant decision that impacts your business's efficiency and success. In this 10-minute read, you'll find 5 essential questions to ask any potential provider.

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Coaching Salespeople: Shift the Focus – From 'Here's What to Fix' to 'Here's What You Do Best'

The Center for Sales Strategy

When was the last time that someone sat you down, focused all their attention on you, and talked to you about the things that you do really well? Still thinking? It’s usually hard to pinpoint the last time that happened because, for most of us, it doesn’t happen very often. Unless you are an NFL football player, then the last time would have been Monday morning, and it would have gone something like this (imagine dreamlike music).

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Change Sales Culture to Boost Sales Performance and Retention

Sales and Marketing Management

Gartner Senior Director Analyst Shayne Jackson explains why a company’s sales culture is directly tied to performance, and shares tips on how to assess your sales culture and make any necessary changes. The post Change Sales Culture to Boost Sales Performance and Retention appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The Impact of Sales Training on Employee Morale and Retention

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales training enhances morale by providing the skills, knowledge and confidence salespeople need to perform effectively. Go beyond product training with resellers. The post The Impact of Sales Training on Employee Morale and Retention appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How to Get Sales and Customer Success to Work Together

Predictable Revenue

Daisy Chung underscores that revenue growth comes from a synchronized approach between these two departments. The post How to Get Sales and Customer Success to Work Together appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Video Platforms Are Top Tools for Selling

SalesFuel

I’m a long-time fan of video tools for selling. I spent years touting the sight, sound, motion, and emotion of television advertising in a local, traditional media environment. Specifically, I was selling to advertisers the viewers of programs adjacent to these television commercials. It was relatively easy selling a product that you totally believed in and witnessed its success firsthand.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.

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Leading a Sales Team: 10 Keys to Success (Part 2)

Anthony Cole Training

Sales leaders must be both effective managers and great coaches by arming their salespeople with the skills to be successful and managing their strengths. This week, we identify the final 5 keys to success in leading a sales team.

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What conferences are really for

Sales 2.0

Your potential clients are inundated by emails, unsolicited messages on social media and cold calls. They have become better than ever at ignoring unwanted messages. Here are some recent real numbers from the front lines of selling that sales expert KD Dorsey just shared. These metrics show how cold approaches have become less effective even over the last four years (and this decline has been going on for a couple of decades.

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3 Ways to Drive Go-to-Market (GTM) Efficiency Through Increased Productivity

SBI Growth

Driving GTM efficiency was the focus of this year’s annual planning webinar series. Optimizing your GTM strategy for efficiency is essential for success, as is recognizing the impact of productivity. Productivity is boosted when teams better anticipate buyer behaviors, streamline processes, and respond effectively to market changes. As a sales leader, it’s crucial to develop a strategy that prioritizes increasing productivity for overall success.

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While the Market Turns Against GenAI, AI Agents are Disrupting the Workforce

Sales and Marketing Management

The rise of AI agents represents a once-in-a-generation moment of opportunity. The ongoing emergence of AI agents has placed us all on a level playing field, and those who can master and apply these tools the fastest will race ahead of the pack. The post While the Market Turns Against GenAI, AI Agents are Disrupting the Workforce appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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ZoomInfo and Clari Groove: Streamline Lead Management for Accelerated Sales

Zoominfo

Go-to-market teams are constantly looking for integrated solutions that can help them work faster, smarter, and more effectively. Today, we’re happy to say that more ZoomInfo customers will be able to reach those goals. ZoomInfo’s new integration with Clari Groove helps sales teams automatically sync contacts between ZoomInfo, Salesforce, and Groove Flows — seamlessly bridging the gap between lead identification and engagement.

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Control Disguised As Coaching

Membrain

Often, when I talk to managers, they tell me how much time they spend coaching. They tell me stories of meeting, weekly, with their people, doing reviews, pipeline discussions, activity discussions—all sorts of “coaching meetings.

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Reflecting On “Founder Mode”

Partners in Excellence

Since Paul Graham’s fascinating article on Founder Mode, I’ve been reading/rereading his article and listening to Brian Chesky talk about his re-wiring of AirBnB. I’ve also been wary of way too many pundits jumping on the bandwagon with their thoughts about Founder Mode as the miracle cure to our business woes. (Let me be clear, neither Paul, nor Brian talk about it in that way.

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Communication Is Essential

Sales and Marketing Management

E-mail, in-person events and a partner portal are the top three ways that companies communicate with their channel partners. A closer look at the numbers. The post Communication Is Essential appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Good Timing: The Account Exec’s Secret Weapon

Zoominfo

You’re the AE who’s got it together. You’ve done the research, memorized the features and benefits, and nailed your talk track. You’ve got a pitch-perfect personalized email, and the most detailed buying committee map ever created. But if you’re reaching out too late in the buyer journey, it’s not going to matter. “Timing is everything in sales — especially when it comes to outbound sales programs,” says David Mansfield , a new business sales manager at ZoomInfo.

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Winter In Summer: How Walmart Plans Holiday Deals

Grant Cardone

The holidays are just around the corner and while you might be feeling the pressure to find the perfect gift… Retailers are busy trying to stock the perfect products… But Walmart is one step ahead in creating holiday deals… They start curating their selection MONTHS ahead. Here’s how the giant retailer plans for the holidays… […] The post Winter In Summer: How Walmart Plans Holiday Deals appeared first on GCTV.

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The “Things We Don’t Want To Do”

Partners in Excellence

Regardless our role, there are certain aspects of our jobs we don’t like. They are the things we don’t like or want to do. They vary for each of us. For individual contributors, it may be prospecting, admin tasks, researching our customers, managing our pipelines, dealing with all the minutiae of moving deals forward, and on and on For managers, it may be hiring, coaching, dealing with poor performers, understanding performance data, and on and on.

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Building Business Partnerships for Long-Term Success

Sales and Marketing Management

By some accounts, as much as 75% of all B2B sales are made through channel partners. Recruiting and retaining channel partners that create win-win relationships is akin to hiring and keeping top employees. Learn more about collaborating with the right partners. The post Building Business Partnerships for Long-Term Success appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Latest Podcasts: 2025 Sales Best Practices

Force Management

In the past month, the Revenue Builders Podcast has hosted some insightful conversations with experienced sales leaders. They discussed their sales journeys, critical career moves, management advice and emerging technologies. We also heard some great perspectives from our hosts, John Kaplan and John McMahon. Tune in below to hear 2025 sales best practices from a variety of established minds in the sales world.

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Denny’s Shuts Down Over A Hundred Locations

Grant Cardone

Looks like it’s closing time for Denny’s locations across the country. After years of missed sales expectations, the company finally pulled the trigger on its restaurants… But will it be enough to get the company standing on two feet again? Goodbye Denny’s Locations Starting this year and continuing through 2025, Denny’s is shutting down 150 […] The post Denny’s Shuts Down Over A Hundred Locations appeared first on GCTV.

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RevOps Can And Must Do Better!

Partners in Excellence

It’s “strategic planning season” for many companies. I sit in countless discussions and reviews, led by RevOps teams. They are presenting the strategic goals and numbers for the coming year. In addition, there have been a lot of RevOps conferences, where these leaders talk about developing the function. While none of these discussions have been “wrong,” I worry that so much more can be accomplished.

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The Golden Rule to Channel Partner Success

Sales and Marketing Management

A company can maximize its channel programs by understanding a few secrets that help move the needle by gaining the time and attention of channel personnel. The post The Golden Rule to Channel Partner Success appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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How To Motivate Employees Before a Trade Show

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How To Motivate Employees Before a Trade Show Putting much emphasis on your trade show displays before a show is wise but equally or even more important, you will want to recognize the importance of a happy staff. Most employees don’t want to pick the short straw when attending the company trade show.

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GoFundMe Makes It Easy For Gen Z To Donate

Grant Cardone

GoFundMe is introducing new ways for Gen Z to donate, ushering in a new generation of philanthropists. Thanks to new partnerships, the for-profit company makes donations accessible to untapped audiences… Here’s what’s getting an update. New Features Make It Easier To Donate To GoFundMe GoFundMe is the largest platform for online donating and fundraising.

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Who Is This Important To?

Partners in Excellence

We are taught to “call high.” We want to reach the top executives in an organization, getting their support in buying our solutions. In our best days, we have articulated a business case about the impact of our solutions. “We can reduce costs by $10M. We can reduce swelling admin time by 20%, we can increase revenue by $100M… ” The numbers can appear big, particularly in context of the investment the customer may have to make in our solutions.