Braveheart Sales

AUGUST 12, 2021

We know that sales managers require different skills and strengths than salespeople. Sales managers need to recruit the right individuals, coach, hold people accountable, and motivate their teams. The same is true of sales managers vs other managers. Additional Sales Management Abilities.

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Sales Management Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Coaching 76

Sales Evangelist

JULY 12, 2024

Capturing your prospects' attention is more challenging than ever, thanks to our distracting world. In this episode of The Sales Evangelist Podcast, I speak with Alan Versteeg, a seasoned sales leader and head of Growth Matters. The Importance of Mindset How important is mindset in sales?

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Prospecting Scale Hubspot How To 40

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 19, 2012

Most people in sales management or with a title that is responsible for leading a sales team, speak about leading by example. Many think that to lead your team by example, is to sell as much or as more as each member of the sales team. In some sales organisations, this may be practical. D = Done It.

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Examples Sales Management How To Loyalty 295

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s hard to become a sales manager without first being a good sales rep. After all, when the majority of your own quota is based on your team’s sales performance, you need to know how to sell. . But that doesn’t mean the best closer is guaranteed to make the best sales manager. Let’s look at each one.

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Sales Management Forecasting Report Face-to-face 62

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 27, 2024

Also, be sure to check out my blog posts from earlier this year: Sales Managers: Get Your Head Out of Your Spreadsheets “Message to Management: Your job is to get the rocks out of the road for your salespeople so they can do what they were hired to do—sell!” More importantly, what can sales leaders do to improve these numbers?

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Referrals Cold Calling Social Media Sales Qualified Lead 156

Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 9, 2020

There are sales organizations with anemic pipelines and too few opportunities struggling to find growth. The idea is that by eliminating prospecting from the top salesperson’s duties, they can focus all their time on “closing” deals. Prospecting and Opportunity Creation.

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B2B Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 103

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Winning salespeople and sales managers know the game is won early, not last minute. It takes more energy to scramble at the end, than digging a bit more at the start. Year end should be a time for where you can add extra value by helping prospects plan. Like winning an account no one thought I could or should.

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Energy Video Account Prospecting 201

Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 27, 2019

That activity is prospecting , and it is what is required to open new relationships and create new opportunities. If you want success, you need to build the prospecting habit. How did we get to a place where salespeople don’t spend their time prospecting? How Prospecting Was Lost. How You Build the Prospecting Habit.

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Prospecting How To Harvest Call-back 95

Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Over the past nearly forty years at the helm of Kurlan & Associates, I’ve struck out on some opportunities too but never gave those losses any further attention, energy or life. So if we tie win-rate directly to baseball and define a sales loss the same as we define a strike-0ut, I struck out in 56% of my at-bats.

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Pipeline Coaching Opportunity Comparison 175

Selling Energy

APRIL 13, 2023

Just because a prospect isn’t actively seeking your offerings doesn’t mean they don’t genuinely need them. Another sales manager told me that he would find leads by looking up “lighting-related accidents in industrial settings” by state. This is the case when it comes to safety in the workplace.

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Prospecting Relationals 70

Anthony Iannarino

MAY 31, 2019

These days, sales conversations are becoming even more buyer-focused, which means sales reps have to get creative when it comes to prospecting. Everyone is scrambling to develop their own hacks, techniques, and processes for prospecting in order to move prospects through the sales funnel and turn them into customers.

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Prospecting Cold Calling eBook Top of Funnel 105

SalesFuel

AUGUST 15, 2024

It takes energy to fill your pipeline, communicate with customers and deal with department heads; but occasionally boredom sets in. But here’s a sales skills tip: When feeling bored, stop and find an alternate use of your mind. Noticeably, there is very little energy transfer from our mundane tasks.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Study Energy 105

Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 6, 2015

Increase Your Summer Energy. Every salesperson and all sales leaders at this time of year must focus on maintaining or even increasing their levels of energy-especially for the months of July/August. Your prospects need their energy boosted as well-become the energizer. Best day to prospect BTW is Thursday.

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Energy Lead Rank Lead Scoring Referrals 40

Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Sales managers are responsible for growing revenue. That means 1) providing sales reps with the guidance they need to continuously improve, 2) building a sales process that gives reps the best chance at closing each lead, and 3) understanding which efforts are moving the needle and which are a waste of energy.

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Software Software Tools Sales Management 71

InsideSales.com

JUNE 15, 2020

The rapid changes that sales go through means reps have needed to develop hacks and techniques for prospecting. But what are those sales prospecting methods? In this article, XANT will give you a guide on sales prospecting methods you can utilize to maximize their benefits. Why is Prospecting Important?

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring 63

SalesFuel

MARCH 26, 2024

Most sales managers would like to do that. But since they can’t, the next best thing may be to reengineer your sales training program. How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program Before you begin to adjust the details of your sales training initiatives, take time to study your rain makers.

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Training Hiring How To Proposal 116

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 11, 2019

That is where those sales people spent all their time and energy (at least if they were good.) Their job was getting meetings so brilliant sales engineering geeks like me could waltz in and generate sales pipeline by talking engineer-to-engineer. Their biggest problem is not enough meetings with prospective customers.

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Engineering Small Business Small Business Banking 262

Sales Hacker

MAY 1, 2023

Providing feedback has been a challenge for busy sales managers for decades. It helps that a majority of sales meetings are happening over video and being recorded. This makes them look distracted and the prospect is losing interest. It didn’t go particularly well and the whole event felt low energy.

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Sales Coaching Coaching How To Call-back 110

SalesFuel

JULY 25, 2024

Who Is Better at Sales: Introverts or Extroverts? Extroverts love being around other people and gain energy from social interaction. However, Matthew Pollard, writing for Entrepreneur discloses the Sales Superpowers of Introverts. Prospects deserve to be heard and their positions thoughtfully considered.

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Positioning Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 105

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. Ai is already being applied to sales conversations.

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Conversion Amdocs Territories Forecasting 195

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 12, 2020

That’s because inbound sales transforms selling to match today’s empowered buyer -- so sales reps can sell the way people buy. What is inbound sales? Inbound sales is a personalized, helpful, modern sales methodology. Here's how to understand the difference between inbound and outbound sales.

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Inbound Top of Funnel Outsourcing Services Hiring 140

Keith Rosen

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Does the idea of prospecting scare you? Are you a fearless salesperson or do you procrastinate the activities that will enable you to achieve your sales goals? Even if you’re hiding behind Social Media as your primary lead generation strategy, you eventually need to speak with every prospect! I fear rejection.

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Cold Calling Prospecting Face-to-face Social Media 71

MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

Sales Management 40

Sales Management Hiring Referrals Energy 40

MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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Sales Management Hiring Referrals Energy 40

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2019

Author: Rory Christian According to IDC , despite a "typical" $1 billion company spending a large amount of resources devoted to training for customer-facing people, poor sales enablement results in around $14 million of wasted sales and marketing expenses, and $100 million in lost sales opportunities. Forrester research.

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Hiring Decision Maker Energy Face-to-face 233

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. . -->. 4 Easy Steps to Better Prospecting. Identify the prospect. Too many salespeople make prospecting too complicated. Client List.

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Motivation Prospecting Hiring Jigsaw 178

The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Recently, I had a discussion with a sales manager about how to connect with customers. The sales manager knew me well from my work with him at a previous company. Trust me, hiring a salesperson who views sales as a job and make it all about the products they sell fails faster than fast. How do you view sales?

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Hiring Scale Energy Motivation 178

Keith Rosen

APRIL 17, 2019

Unfortunately, when managers collapse closing with coaching, the results can be catastrophic. To make matters worse, if you’re a sales manager who used to be a salesperson, it’s in your DNA to ask rapid-?re Isn’t My Experience and Top Sales Performance Why I got Promoted? There’s no such thing as CLOACHING!

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Coaching Sales Management Intent Report 117

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). What Is Prospecting? What's the difference between leads and prospects? Sales Prospecting Techniques.

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Prospecting Tools Top of Funnel Lead Rank 145

SalesFuel

APRIL 25, 2024

This is in addition to your core responsibilities of prospecting, upselling, data management, and continuous improvement of your selling skills. Strategically identifying accounts that contribute the bulk of your quota is key to account management. But constant improvement can build relationships and enhance your sales career.

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Hiring Scale Referrals Promotion 115

Anne Miller

JULY 15, 2023

You are the sales manager of this tech firm. The bad news is your team doesn’t see how to approach or easily present it to prospects. They are also reluctant to call on old prospects who have previously said “no,” because those prospects saw “no need” for the original product. What would you do?

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Up-Sell Relationals Prospecting Energy 117

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Imagine similar spikes in your sales metrics and you’ll see the glaring imperative for setting goals. So yes — there are few things more important to you as sales manager than to set goals. Skip right to the 6 steps to influence outcomes as a sales manager >>> Having Goals is NOT Enough to Break Through.

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Sales Management Revenue Incentives Incentive 80

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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Coaching Construction Pivotal Positioning 257

Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Now think about all the time and energy you spend trying to close a lead that is never going to buy anyway. It’s no wonder most sales people go home exhausted at the end of the week and are discouraged when they come into work on Monday and look at their list of prospects to call back…. in the office.

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Closing Sales Qualified Lead How To Decision Maker 130

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Author: Robert Workman As a trainer, especially a trainer of salespeople and sales managers, you bust your butt to do a great job. I’ve been one of those prima donnas and hot dogs for four decades – salesman and sales manager. 1 in Sales and Sales Management? You’re halfway missing the boat.

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Training Hiring Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 194

Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 31, 2020

In B2B sales, the list of necessary actions is fairly short, but it must dominate your time, your energy, and your focus. Prospecting. Prospecting — actively seeking prospective clients and scheduling meetings with them— is critical to sales success. Every day should include at least some prospecting!

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eBook Face-to-face Energy Lead Rank 125

Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2018

Every business runs like a B2B sales prospecting operation. For B2B organizations, customers now represent the new gold to be desired and the sales team’s pipeline the new gold mine to be developed. Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. What is B2B Sales Prospecting? Brian Tracy.

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B2B Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 91