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How Good is Your Team at Prospecting for New Leads?

Anthony Cole Training

As sales manager, business line leader, or CEO, is your team finding, qualifying and closing as much business as you think they should? Most say "No" when we ask that question, which means that something in your client outreach and sales process has to change. And that change, we believe, starts at the very beginning.

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How Big Data Can Help the Sales Leader

SBI Growth

These companies are harvesting vast amounts of internet activity and point of sale data. Many of the B2B sales leaders simply dismiss the Big Data revolution. This creates a huge headache for every sales manager. One sales leader we know named Phil took a different approach.

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Who’s Harvesting Your Lead Farm?

SBI

They qualify raw leads, nurture lukewarm prospects into the hot category, and turn the developed leads over to the sales force for harvesting. Think of this group of specialists as “lead farmers,” or prospect development experts. The best lead farmers are experienced professionals who are patient, persistent, and informative.

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5 Signs Your Star Salesperson Will Make a Terrible Sales Manager

Sales Hacker

Kim* was fed up because James,* the star salesperson her organization promoted, wasn’t making it as a sales manager. James had been killing it at sales. It was clear he knew the industry and how to convert leads into sales. When is a top performer really going to make a great manager, and when are they going to bomb?

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The Pipeline ? Shrink Your Way To Success

The Pipeline

A common concern I hear from sales leaders across all verticals is that they don’t feel that reps are fully covering their territories. This concern applies to coverage for existing accounts, or harvesting the new business opportunities. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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Sales Managers: What are you Thankful For?

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Managers: What Are You Thankful For? because of our Thanksgiving holiday and while many other nations have similar events based upon similar justifications; i.e. thankful for successful harvests, it is always important for everyone to pause, at anytime, and consider what they are thankful for. Acumen Management Group Ltd.

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Low-Hanging Fruit, “Operation Bounty” and the Problem with Having Too Many Orchard Crates

Pointclear

Call it laziness if you will (and many sales managers do), but going after the low-hanging fruit first just makes a heck-of-a lot of sense. Most sales organizations don’t have the good fortune of plentiful deals ripe for the pickin’ So Marketers set to work finding and delivering the fruit to them.

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