Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

It’s a lot like the fashion industry, every year, that which was “new and fashionable” is displaced by something newer. It is no longer fashionable to talk about sales enablement, now it’s revenue enablement. The comment got me reflecting.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 23, 2014

And in Sales 2.0, A buzzword (a term first used in 1946 as student slang) is a word or phrase used to impress, or one that is fashionable, according to Wikipedia. Disrupt, disruptive innovation, disruptive technology: These seem to be the fashionable phrases from 2013, and I say we leave them there. How about you? Comment Here.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 17, 2022

I wasn’t hearing anything about sales management–both top sales executives in setting the overall goals and priorities of the organization, and front line sales managers. The words “sales management” were not uttered in the conversation.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Thankfully, there are plenty of opportunities to develop and manage your referral network. While social media can help you begin conversations, turning those connections into relationships means socializing the old-fashioned way—offline. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business'

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 3, 2014

The same is true in sales management. The very strategies you use for attracting clients are the key to increasing sales effectiveness for your team. Management by walking around” changed the cadence of business — in large part through greater leadership involvement and presence. Simply put: Conversations count.

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Membrain

MARCH 13, 2019

What do fashion trends, U.S. elections, and your sales team have in common? They’re all influenced, for better and worse, by the bandwagon effect.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JANUARY 23, 2017

Channel sales management for dynamic sales volume and velocity markets. Each has its own family of add-on products and bike accessories available to enhance the basic sale. Regulatory issues and channel sales management . Make sure you align and tailor your support of these two distinct sets of needs.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 23, 2015

It''s very fashionable - and a best practice - to continue promoting the most-read, most-liked, most-favorited, most-shared, most-tweeted and most-commented articles; but I don''t think anyone has gathered up their worst work and said, "Look at this!" Photo Credit: Psychic Library. That''s right. The least read.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 9, 2014

What generation is better suited to engage customers in this fashion than millennials? So what does this mean for sales organizations and sales managers ? Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business' They have been living online for the last half-decade creating their personal brands.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

So embrace your inner caveman (or cavewoman), and start connecting with people the old-fashioned way—in person. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business' Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post''s poll. Connect with No More Cold Calling.

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Braveheart Sales

JANUARY 2, 2018

Here is a quick checklist for sales managers to make sure you have everyone focused correctly. Each individual salesperson must know what’s expected of them regarding sales. This includes where the sales need to come from – will it be from new clients, an expansion of existing clients, or some combination of the two?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It’s hugely fashionable right now, so many organizations are trying to copy it. While I’m oversimplifying it, we want to minimize the friction that sales creates reducing it to electronic fulfillment (no sales involved) or order taking. What Slack does is successful for them, but not a promise of success for us.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 2, 2015

So, let’s take a look at some of the issues starting with the main perceived reasons for not coaching top sales performers. If you listen carefully to conversations among sales managers and get the story behind the story, two rationale for not coaching top sales performers pop up more than others.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As today’s buyers are more educated and sophisticated, sales management must realise that today’s sales people have evolved as well. When communicating with sales people it is very easy to belittle or disrespect them inadvertently. Instead, lend value to the question and simultaneously uplift the sales person.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

To be honest, I have a “love/hate” relationship with sales enablement (not the people in sales enablement.). I think it’s a critical function to support and enable sales people. It may be failures on the part of sales managers and sales people, failing to implement the programs sales enablement people develop.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2024

At 25 I was unsatisfied about my job – I just earned a degree in Psychology but I didn’t want to be a clinician, so I ended up working in Retail Stores management: at that time, I was managing 5 stores all over Italy for a famous fashion company. in Marketing with Sales Management – one of the best decisions of my life.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

It's become fashionable to attach someone's name to a behavior. Sales Manager: "Hey Steve, how did you make out on that sales call to Exxon/Mobil?". Sales Manager: "What happened?". Here are ten which I've heard: "Oh, them? Steve: "Oh, not too good.". Steve: "We got Obama'd.".

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A Sales Guy

JUNE 16, 2021

Sales management is equally infamous for making the CRM a tool the salespeople hate. However, if we take a deeper look, the results here highlight a GROSS problem in sales and one that plagues almost every sales organization in the world. Here are the results. Salespeople are notorious for hating the CRM.

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Pointclear

MAY 5, 2017

Now there is a rush for software and computers to reason (yes, that is the right word) and to take action for sales and marketing revenue increases by people or in a programmatic fashion. Sales managers must acknowledge that AI is going to make its way into the ways in which sales people work, prospect, and sell.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 3, 2019

Too often when I speak to sales managers, they focus on “monitoring” their sales people. Are the sales people hitting their goals on prospecting calls, customer meetings, and so forth? Monitoring, in this fashion, provides no value to anyone! Are they keeping CRM and other systems updated?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Coincidentally, several of their sales managers were supposed to attend our sales leadership event and were unable to be with us because they were required to be at the client appreciation event. To me, the concept that salespeople entertain their clients in that fashion sounded very 70''s.

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The Pipeline

JULY 26, 2018

Now, clients can screen calls, send our emails to spam and reject our sales pitches without ever having to look us in the eyes. We may now live in a digital culture with all sorts of wireless gadgets, but nothing has replaced good, old-fashioned salesmanship. Is this actually the death of salesmen? Not really.

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BrainShark

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

With Coach Insights, sales enablement teams can quickly identify gaps in their program and the coaches themselves can see areas of opportunity in their own performance. A study by the Sales Management Association states that organizations who effectively coach their reps are outpacing their competitors by 15% in terms of quota attainment.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 3, 2024

After so much time cooped up in their homes, a good old-fashioned impulse buy could be just what they need now that spending money on anything other than groceries and stockpiling nonperishables feels almost nostalgic. Remember, just thinking about businesses reopening will excite and inspire some customers.

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Pipeliner

MAY 14, 2022

I know many sales managers would argue with me, but right now would venture to say that most mid-level companies have very inaccurate forecasting systems. It’s only when you truly know where you stand regarding sales figures, and where you’re most probably headed, that you are on safe ground and can manage sales with some certainty.

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SBI Growth

JULY 13, 2013

Dave was promoted to be Acme’s VP of Sales for the Americas. He did it as a District Sales Manager. Dave became VP of Sales for the Americas. Dave became VP of Sales for the Americas. In the first 6 months he: Did monthly pipeline reviews with every sales manager. Dave was a turnaround guy.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This thought/concept is very important for sales managers and sales people alike to grasp and think about EVERY day. Rather, it is a process that evolves out of focused commitment and dedication, ongoing study and professional growth, high-road ethics, unwavering determination, and plain, old-fashioned hard work.".

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 7, 2022

Some suggestions: Sales management, enablement, and operations need understand the connection of each tool to the outcomes actually produced. In your assessment, focus on the value these produce for the sales people, that is, how they contribute to sales person improvement. Are they producing those expected?

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SBI

JUNE 28, 2021

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Q: What should sales leaders do differently when giving coaching remotely? It’s easy for remote sales managers to get overly focused on specific opportunities or calls.

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Revegy

MAY 4, 2021

It’s no secret that many companies are struggling to realize their returns on investment (ROI) in any quantifiable fashion, meaning companies are spending a significant amount of money on CRM solutions that often fail to live up to expectations. Traditional CRM platforms provide a backward-looking view of sales and customer activity.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 2, 2023

With outsourced sales, you won’t have the same level of control over every aspect as you’d with an internal approach. Yet, as a sales manager, it’s essential to recognize that many outcomes are beyond your control, regardless of your approach. Trusting others to handle the work can be challenging.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 10, 2020

And companies will service anyone in this fashion, no matter how they appear or are dressed. The right technology allows a sales manager to reinforce buyer-centric behavior. Technology, such as Pipeliner CRM, reveals all sales activity through totally visual analytics and data. It’s a very customer-centric approach.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Only 37% of sales reps’ time is being spent on revenue-generating activities ( source ). 51% of sales organizations are using data to analyze and improve performance ( source ). 51% of sales professionals state that their companies use data to assess their sales performance ( source ). Sales reps need more time to sell.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 12, 2021

It’s become high fashion to declare the future of selling is “virtual.” For example, sales people can make back to back sales calls through the whole day. ” While F2F, telephone, text, and other approaches will continue to exist, everything is moving to virtual.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 15, 2019

The fashionable answer to making our numbers is doing more–finding more opportunities. Alternatively, if we are making our numbers, and we are driven to grow, the fashionable answer is, find more opportunities. The reason people are worried about finding more opportunities is that we are struggling to make our numbers.

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Trinity Perspectives

JANUARY 7, 2017

Optimising sales is the single biggest priority for sales managers and sales reps in most businesses around the world. The ability to sell in a consistent and predictable fashion is the clearest (though not the only) predictor of a business's long-term viability.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Ultimately, Sales Managers are the crucial key to any kind of Sales force adoption. But to ensure the highest adoption, Sales must leverage HR. World-class HR is a center of excellence for Change Management. Sales Managers that are not onboard – can you spell failure? 100*0=0 Effectiveness.

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