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Executive Leadership is the Key to a Lasting and Successful Sales Transformation

Understanding the Sales Force

The article was incomplete because while it discussed which category of sales process you had, what a proper sales process must include, the importance of a predictive sales scorecard, and the benefits of both, it did not include anything about governance. This is where executive leadership enters the picture.

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Use a Custom Sales Process to Increase Sales by More Than 28%

Understanding the Sales Force

The Existence of Sales Process You and your sales team fall into one of four categories relative to having a formal, staged, milestone-centric, buyer-focused sales process: You don’t have one – salespeople just do their thing You have a seriously incomplete sales process consisting of fewer than seven steps.

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Expectations, Revisions, and Excuses on the Sales Team

Understanding the Sales Force

When half of salespeople hit quota it equates to strong sales performance across the team. When Sales Managers have any conversations with their salespeople it is considered coaching. The government is doing it too. The government calls it a revision. Your company calls it success. I call it lying.

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14 Lessons From My Dad, The Sales Manager

Anthony Cole Training

I started that post with the comment that I thought my dad could have been a good sales manager. He was a little rough around the edges and would not have survived current HR and political correctness constraints… BUT he would have had a highly productive sales team. Tell your sales people to say, “Great!

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What If Our Sellers Had More Autonomy?

Partners in Excellence

We have endless dashboards of metrics governing how we spend our days, “Dave you can pee at 10:15 and 3:45… ” As leaders, we had our own formulas for managing our organizations. We assign pipeline metrics, identifying the number of opportunities each person must have for a “healthy” pipeline.

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How Do You Succeed? It Depends On Who You Expose Yourself To.

Jeffrey Gitomer

I can’t resist mentioning this bit of her wisdom… Government “help” to business is just as disastrous as government persecution. The only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. Get Sales Blog Updates. Sales Management. Sales Videos.

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How Big Data Can Help the Sales Leader

SBI Growth

This creates a huge headache for every sales manager. One sales leader we know named Phil took a different approach. A quick meeting with Sales Reps and Managers revealed the industry was in turmoil due to government regulations. Still, it’s completely subjective. Some reps are confident on every deal.

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