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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 If you have the wrong data, outdated data or missing data, the time wasted will be tremendous.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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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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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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Streamlining Complex Sales Processes: The Ultimate Guide for Industrial Companies

Are you struggling with slow quoting cycles, complex product configurations, and disconnected data in your manufacturing/distribution business? This article will help. Learn how industrial companies are revolutionizing sales processes with an integrated platform that includes quoting, inventory, and service, providing real-time data and offline access for field teams.

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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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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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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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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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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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All In or Nothing

Anne Miller

How often have you been in this situation? You present your service to a qualified prospect. He definitely sees its value and acknowledges the benefits that would accrue to his business. He has been thoroughly engaged throughout your meeting, but when you come to the next step, the financial commitment – which is not inconsequential, but also not beyond reason for the expected returns – he hesitates.

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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.

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From Hustle to Leadership: The Journey in Sales and Staffing feat. Andy Matheou

Sales Gravy

In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount sits down with Andy Matheou from RHM Staffing to dive deep into the challenges and triumphs of selling in the staffing industry. Andy shares his journey from individual contributor to a leadership role, offering invaluable insights on hustle, resilience, and the unique demands of staffing sales.

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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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The Trends You Need to Succeed This Holiday Season

October Prime Day is usually an early sign of how consumer spending trends ahead of the holidays. This one was no exception. Our October Prime Day Report breaks down what’s working: the products flying off the shelves, the categories winning big, big brands, and the search terms defining demand. All brought to you via Similarweb’s Shopper Intelligence platform.

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Perception vs. Reality in Sales and Hiring (video)

Pipeliner

In a recent episode host John Golden sat down with Joel Quintela , the founder and CEO of Quintela, a minority-owned business specializing in HR technology solutions. With over 25 years of experience working with Fortune 500 clients and advanced degrees in business psychology, Joel offers a wealth of knowledge on the critical distinction between perception and reality in sales and hiring processes.

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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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Business Gifts Are No Time for White Elephants

Sales and Marketing Management

Gifts can go a long way toward building better business relationships. However, there is a double-edged sword to corporate gift-giving. If you select the wrong gift, it’s forgettable at best and, at worst, damaging to your reputation or harmful to a client’s sense of your good judgment. The post Business Gifts Are No Time for White Elephants appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Are You Observing Leadership Styles for Business Growth?

Smooth Sale

Photo by Mindworld via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Are You Observing Leadership Styles for Business Growth? Common thought is that leaders are extroverts who freely express their ideas as they put themselves front and center of their audience. However, experience shows introverts quietly lead in their unique style, allowing their mind to wander and ultimately giving themselves a strategic advantage.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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AI-Enhanced Inbound Sales: The Human Touch in Philippine Call Centres

Pipeliner

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into business processes has been revolutionising industries across the world and inbound sales is no exception. In particular, the Philippines—a leader in outsourcing and customer service—has embraced AI technologies in its call centres, optimising efficiency while maintaining the crucial human touch. The combination of AI and human agents is transforming the inbound sales call centre landscape, creating new opportunities for businesses to engage c

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6 Key Mistakes You Can Make Mistakes When Trying to Build Rapport

Hubspot Sales

Sales engagements are pretty strange interactions when you really think about them. They involve an element of friendliness, but the endgame isn‘t making friends. Shocking as this sounds, you’re actually trying to sell something when selling. That means you have to strike a balance between approachability and authority — but that's easier said than done, making rapport building equal parts essential and screw-up-able for sales professionals.

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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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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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Interest Rates and Small Business Loans: Is now a good time?

Pipeliner

High interest rates put a damper on getting a loan. People in the homebuying market have been waiting for lower rates to make an offer. Those who want a new car have been waiting for lower rates before taking out a new car loan. Small business owners have been holding off on getting growth-enabling loans because they’re not willing to spend so much on interest.

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Pushy Vs. Pushing, A Matter Of Context

Partners in Excellence

Sellers are too Pushy! Customers always seem to move more slowly than sellers want. They wander, waste time that sellers don’t have. Sellers are anxious to move things forward! Get the meeting, get the demo, get the order! Sellers have always been known for being pushy, we as sellers recognize it, we high five each other on our clever techniques to get the customer to commit faster.

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Manage Smarter 265 — Developing Your Mindset for Business Success with John Marvin

SalesFuel

Growing up in Western Kansas, John Marvin initially pursued a career in marketing and advertising and shares his journey from being fired to adopting a new mindset, then transitioning to pharmaceutical sales at the suggestion of his father, a family physician. This path eventually led him to Texas State Optical, where he became President in 2001. Under his leadership, the organization transitioned from a traditional franchise to a member-owned cooperative, focusing on younger optometrists and le