Exact Incentives Sales Management 
Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
In short, more precision is better for rewards used with incentives, while less precision is better for rewards used with recognition. By precision, she’s referring to specificity or how the reward aligns with an exact amount or value. Incentives. Good incentives rely on high degrees of precision to generate motivation.
No More Cold Calling
JANUARY 16, 2020
Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sales managers do what they ask others to do.
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Understanding the Sales Force
MARCH 13, 2013
Sales Management must spend 50% of their time coaching salespeople like this: An enormous part of developing salespeople these days is helping them to differentiate themselves from your competitors. That creates urgency, and an incentive for a prospect to self-qualify. I will share the article I wrote for EcSell below.
No More Cold Calling
AUGUST 1, 2019
The problem is with typical sales metrics. If sales managers hold their people accountable for the number of phone calls they make, emails they send, and invitations and InMails on LinkedIn, that’s how they’ll prospect. I always advise clients against offering incentives for referral business. Forget about incentives.
MTD Sales Training
DECEMBER 15, 2011
Sales people need to learn more and such continuing education is everlasting and is an investment. The problem is that many managers have difficulty in figuring out exactly what to train/coach/teach. The sales team has already gone through the company sales training. You need to coach or train during every meeting.
Understanding the Sales Force
JULY 22, 2014
With all of that information about their past, how can you possibly gauge potential when hiring for your sales force? Objective Management Group (OMG) has three candidate assessments that provide companies with exactly that for sales, sales management, and sales leadership (VP/Sales Director).
Understanding the Sales Force
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
They must be trainable (incentive to change) and coachable (not resistant to change). The fourth event rarely occurs unless your sales trainer knows how to accomplish it: 4. In most cases, this is why the majority of sales training program fail to help most companies. Take Need for Approval for example.
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