Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If sales is a journey, your strategic plan is the roadmap you'll provide your team to help them reach their destination. It is one of the most important activities you will ever do as a sales manager because, without it, your sales team will have no direction and no instruction manual to follow in order to achieve their targets.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 27, 2017

I’ve been working on growing sales for over 30 years. First with Nautilus Exercise Equipment, then in the insurance business and for the last 23 years with Anthony Cole Training Group. It’s been at least 25 years since I heard David Sandler, on a cassette tape, say; “there’s no such thing as bad prospects, just bad salespeople.”

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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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Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

This article explores what a sales coach does. It covers how an effective sales coach can take a good or even mediocre sales force and make it great. Grow your revenue with all-in-one prospecting solutions powered by the leader in private-company data. What does a sales coach do? Search less. Close more.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 1, 2024

In the competitive world of SaaS sales, 40% of salespeople cite prospecting as the most challenging part of the sales process, ranking it more daunting than closing or qualifying stages. 1- Increase Accountability Accountability is key to ensuring that individual sales reps are meeting their goals.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Perhaps more than other more average fields, you really need virtues in sales management. The bottom line: if you don’t clearly understand how a sales manager needs to be poised for the future, you reduce the chances of creating value and growth. The need for courage comes into play all throughout a sales manager’s job.

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Anthony Iannarino

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Today’s post, as you have already discerned, is about the resolutions you should make as a sales leader (and if you are a sales manager, you are by definition, a sales leader). Here are six gigantic resolutions a sales manager must make to reach their goals and lead with purpose.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

What is a Sales Manager. A sales manager is a person that’s responsible for building, leading, and managing a sales team within an organization. . A sales manager will work closely with managers of other departments, as well as communicate with prospects and customers on a regular or semi-regular basis.

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Women Sales Pros

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One area you will want to apply this technique is when you are deciding which prospects to add to your weekly prospecting list. If your current strategy involves calling a random list of prospects, chances are you are not seeing the results you want, or it’s the reason you procrastinate prospecting. New to sales?

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first step is to identify ideal prospects is to look in the current customer base by firmqographic details. Stated otherwise, if your best customers are in a specific industry, have a certain number of employees, and deploy a competitive or complementary technology – then companies that also fit that profile will be your best prospects.

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 15, 2024

Significantly, this exercise was designed to find the ‘task-carry-over-effects’ of boredom. The more you know the fine points of competitor claims the better prepared you are to discuss with prospects. Adopt a “No-Time-For-Boredom” Mindset Sean Huckstep, writing for SalesRabbit offers 11 strategies for staying motivated in sales.

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Nutshell

MARCH 11, 2019

Adjusting to a new sales manager can be difficult, especially if the last person in charge was well-liked by the team. If you’ve been promoted to a manager position from within your organization, you might even encounter some jealousy or hostility from your former peers on the sales floor.

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One of the most difficult aspects of a salesperson’s job is prospecting. As a sales manager, you can alleviate some of this prospecting pain by engaging your team in targeting and lead scoring. We find the most common cause of poor prospecting is failing to consider who exactly you are trying to reach.

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Nutshell

JULY 2, 2020

We interrogated collaborated with our resident communication pro Kristen Gray and compiled a gigantic list of sales call dos and don’ts, as well as a bunch of successful strategies to help boost the quality of your sales calls for good. Creating a positive sales call experience. Listen to recordings of your sales calls.

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Like it or not, your goal as a sales manager is not about making numbers. For high-performing reps who’ve moved on to management, this truth is a tough one to swallow. But as Dave Brock , author of the Sales Manager Survival Guide , says, “Your job as a front line manager is to maximize the performance of your people.”.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 24, 2024

The Sales Health Alliance notes micromanagement is the number one mental health concern for salespeople. This stat alone should make all sales leaders and managers take note. In addition, sales managers themselves know this is an issue. Here, we’ll explore the pitfalls of micromanagement in B2B sales.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2021

What Is a Sales Pipeline? A sales pipeline is a visual representation of your current deals and opportunities. It shows where leads and opportunities are in the sales cycle, from prospecting and first approach to discovery and (hopefully) closed-won. The sales cycle begins when your customer is just a new prospect.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Certainly, being articulate is an ingredient in the sales success recipe, but that is not the one that makes someone a sales rock star. Those of us within the profession know that what you say to a prospect is not the secret to winning in sales. Learn more in Lee’s new, groundbreaking book “Sales Differentiation.”

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Our fifth and final installment of CPQ Perspectives focuses on the sales manager—those folks who oversee the selling operation. Sales management is full of challenges, and we can’t possibly touch on every issue that affects sales managers in this blog post. What matters to sales managers?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2018

And while thousands urgently indulge in Cyber Monday, we cringe every time a prospect responds with, "Can you get back to me in a month?". It's very likely that your prospect forgets your name by the time you reach out a month later. At HubSpot, lacking urgency is the number one objection we face in the sales funnel. Rep: “Okay.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This is just one example of a sales technology interfering with the customer relationship. Technology is supposed to make it easier and more efficient to reach prospects and sell to customers. A sales manager can spend hours every day inside their technology stack. But for others, this falls on the sales manager.

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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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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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Mindtickle

AUGUST 25, 2022

Sales coaching can only be effective if you know how to coach your reps in the first place. Sales managers are busy, meaning companies need to provide the tools, training, and resources to help them deliver effective sales coaches without requiring much prep time. Provide regular training for your sales coaches.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2022

All I remember is running around the office in celebration when one of the sales development representatives (SDRs) on my team booked their first meeting. At that moment, reveling in victory, I realized the most critical element of sales management: People. The purpose of this exercise is to: Align expectations.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Sales eXchange – 119. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , HR Management , Hiring Sales Talent , Proactive , Sales eXchange , execution. We often do an exercise with teams centered on expectations of roles, the frontline reps and their managers. Who’s Expectations? What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It was a room full of 8-year-olds running through call scripts like pint-sized sales reps. Then we had to do the role-playing exercises in front of the entire class (!), That actually isn’t too far off from how some companies train and coach sales reps today. But old-school sales training will only take you so far these days.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 7, 2018

I’m not sure there is a manager or leader on the planet who hasn’t at one point gotten caught up in the internal politics of their organizations. It can sometimes mean exercising a little courage and saying NO—not just because you can and you have the right to, but because it’s right for the business, the team and your customers.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 22, 2022

Practice and role-play exercises benefit everyone on the team. These days, when most sellers are pressed for time, are role-plays and practice exercises really worth the time and effort? In fact, when they’re done well, practice and role-plays benefit everyone on the sales team. Benefits to sales managers.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 11, 2013

All of these do have influence but I believe that the influence has to do with 1) How easy is it to engage a prospect or 2) How hard is it to engage the prospect. To really have impact then sit down with each individual and have the discussion on developing strategies and disciplines consistent with the outcomes of the exercise.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

Sales skills like how to have a good discovery call, pricing and negotiation is like physical exercise – you need to learn the techniques from subject matter experts (SMEs) and then practice repeatedly to gain muscle memory. Part of that is mixing it up so it’s not staid and the exercises are not too easy.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 4, 2014

Most of the focus on persistence is related to contacting new prospects. What about the prospects who are far along in the sales process when they suddenly go missing? An alignment of prospects willing to take a stand against salespeople that are getting too close? Is there suddenly an epidemic of rudeness? Just say no.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s true that most sales professionals improve with experience, but if you can provide feedback and personalized goals, it’s possible to accelerate the learning process and get your sellers engaging with prospects faster. This is the time-tested practice of sales coaching. Foster a growth mindset.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2017

What was striking is that for the most part, these “events”, fall in to one of two groups, they are either objective, fact based exercise, leading to a realistic view of their opportunities, with the conviction one gets when one is fully engaged and working the opportunity. Real or Fantasy.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

He emphasized the importance of alignment from top leadership and suggested starting with exercises like weekly bold behavior drills to encourage and celebrate bold actions. We discussed the trap of assuming engagement based on conversations with prospects.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team. From generative AI to conversational intelligence, AI is reshaping how sales managers provide coaching and training to improve sales performance and increase win rates.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 11, 2023

A sales manager recently asked, “Is cold calling effective?” My answer was not an attempt to be glib or elusive, but rather a factual observation from working with hundreds of sales teams. There are sales teams who find cold calling effective, while there are others who think it is useless. I replied, “Sometimes.”

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