Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 30, 2018

Davis Excellent sales managers aren’t made overnight. As a manager, you’re always learning and growing along with your sales team. Every team member has a unique reaction to your management style, and it takes a great manager to navigate all those unique situations and relationships. Author: Kevin F.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 4, 2013

Plagued by Sales Rep turnover? This post is to help discover the root cause of Sales Rep turnover. It is for HR Business Partners working with Sales Leaders. Here’s a sales rep turnover example. These also relate to Sales Rep turnover. Poor Hiring. Sales success is 50% talent and 50% performance conditions.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

“Do we have a sales turnover problem that needs to be fixed now?". HR is busy filling open Sales Rep positions. This post helps HR and Sales decide if it’s time to fix the underlying cause. She is the HR business partner to sales. She does great work in recruiting and hiring of Sales Reps.

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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

“All hiring is on hold until further notice. The CEO wants to approve all hires until the beginning of next year. This means no hiring except in extreme circumstances. You have to make the rest of 2013 with the sales heads you have.” Getting a hiring freeze from corporate is out of your control.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

In B2B sales, activity leads to results. The correct time to add sales people is when business is soft. More sales people means more sales calls. This means your sales force will be in more deals. You reduce the number of sales reps to cut costs. We have spoken to several recently hired reps.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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Steven Rosen

MAY 1, 2024

In this episode of the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Brandon Nye , Vice President of Sales for Inmode, shares the key qualities to look for when hiring salespeople, including a proven track record in B2B sales and a competitive mindset. This is a crucial skill that many companies overlook when hiring salespeople.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’ve read our blog lately, you’ve noticed sales execution is a popular subject. Increasing New Hire Productivity. Each of these articles focuses on your sales reps. Effective ways to enable your sales reps to make the number. Today’s post focuses on the missing link: Enabling your front-line sales managers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2019

Sure, they keep the sales rolling in, but they also play a key role in keeping your entire team motivated. So, as a sales manager, you need to guide your top salespeople in choosing new skills to learn and next-step goals to accomplish. Involve them in the hiring process. If you were me, would you hire this person?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Finding effective leadership in sales is every bit as difficult as it is vital. You need someone with the authority and experience to set and maintain an effective course for your sales efforts. The term that best captures the nature of a sales executive's responsibilities is guidance.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 28, 2019

Quit blaming salespeople for bad prospecting habits when you as the sales manager are the one with the bad prospecting habits! If you want your team to focus on prospecting, you must make it a priority. Your role as a sales manager/leader is not to be the best prospecting person.

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Startups are super exciting but they can turn a “rockstar sales person” into a “loser”. Most startups make their first sales through the founders. In fact when you boil it down they make their first sales through social selling. This is often when the founders call in a “sales professional”. Startup sales reality.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

Are sales managers really at fault? You don’t hear that phrase very often anymore, but account based sales reps still carry a bag. They’re expected to land and expand within their named accounts. But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota. environments.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 10, 2021

Invest in your sales managers to unlock the potential in your sales organization and turn that performance into sustainable performance As the leader of your organization, the next 6 months will prove to be more pressure-filled than you may have experienced in years. Invest in your sales managers.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 16, 2022

We are always asking our salespeople to prospect and keep their eyes open for new potential clients. As sales managers, we need to treat recruitment the same way. It’s tempting, and easy, to fall victim to lowering your hiring standards to fill positions. Recruitment will continue to be a buyer’s market in 2022.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2014

Sales or marketing challenges exist in every organization. Sales performance may be suffering. The acute issues of 5-10 years back (sales process, CRMs, dialing or direct mail leads, etc.) aren''t the same today (social prospecting, content marketing, buying process maps, etc.). Russ is the HR business partner to sales.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s that sales representatives are one of the toughest positions to hire for. The demand for sales reps is one of the highest of any job. Sales courses are largely absent from college curricula. Most sales managers will tell you that they’re looking above all for the right attitude. Leadership.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 2, 2024

I’ve helped sales managers and business owners interview hundreds of potential sales reps over the years, and I’ve identified 3 top mistakes that virtually eliminate sales candidates on the spot! Nothing is more of a Red Flag to a potential hiring manager than instability of employment.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The top sales executive in every organization faces the same problem: spin. Learning the truth is critical for your sales strategy. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” When you register, you’ll also receive the Sales Organization Discovery Guide.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

The success of your business depends on the success of your sales hiring process. The best companies always look for top talent and understand how hiring salespeople impacts their revenue growth. But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. .

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

The success of your business depends on the success of your sales hiring process. The best companies always look for top talent and understand how hiring salespeople impacts their revenue growth. But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. .

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In this blog, we discuss the best habits of highly successful salespeople and sales managers. Being an extraordinary sales manager is grueling and time-consuming.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Author: Todd Handy Before we start, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page regarding the term “direct sales.” Often, the differentiator may come down to the sales rep, whose product knowledge, experience and ability to solve the customer’s problem end up being the deciding factor in turning a prospect into a customer.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Recently, I had a discussion with a sales manager about how to connect with customers. The sales manager knew me well from my work with him at a previous company. One thing that made our time meaningful was our complimentary view of sales. Neither one of us think of sales as a job. How do you view sales?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 5, 2019

At the time, it was one of the largest single sales in Salesforce history. Word in sales circles was, the relationship between Salesforce and State Farm had languished under the watch of a sales rep who, for years, couldn’t find a way in. “As And this is exactly what the new Salesforce sales rep did. How did he do it?

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The Pipeline

MAY 18, 2021

The video below looks at how to approach a multi-track sales execution. As a person obsessed with prospecting, I am always on the look out for things that will give me and you a competitive advantage. Wendy tells that “this is the answer to new sales hire turnover and the breakthrough that turns new salespeople into rainmakers.”

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Today, we’re sharing the ultimate list of sales podcasts. If you work in sales, it’s our hope that this list of sales podcasts provides you with some fresh listening material, newfound inspiration, and the tips and tricks you need to excel in the world of sales. The Ultimate List of Sales Podcasts. Listen here.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 10, 2020

The use of Zoom and other face-to-face applications to carry out sales calls instead of doing them in person is the new normal. Encouraging the Team Through Changing Sales Climates. To me, the most important role of management is to motivate and remove obstacles for their sales teams. Shifting Messaging .

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 3, 2019

Author: Lance Tyson In the hypercompetitive field of sales, escalating goals have become standard. This year we’d be fine with flat or declining sales.” Everyone wants to see that hockey stick curve of escalating sales performance that will take their organization to unprecedented levels of success.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. What is Prospecting?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 2, 2024

His Objective Management Group (OMG) sales evaluation says he is one of the worst. If we define a top salesperson by a single metric – total revenue – then the person who manages the most revenue would be the top salesperson. And his accounts are the biggest accounts so, at best, Fred is an account manager.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 10, 2015

Of course my focus is on sales, sales leadership, executives and business. Your firm is growing and needs a competent, energetic sales manager to increase revenue and direct sales operations on the frontline. Here are my Top 10 Reasons Why New Sales Managers Fail.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Listen up Chief Sales Officer. It’s time that Sales Operations gets your undivided attention. Download the Leaders Guide to Sales Ops Enablement by clicking here. There are multiple reasons why Sales Ops needs your attention now. Sales, marketing, IT, strategy, operations and customer service. Opportunity is ripe.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Many of the answers to a sales leader’s execution problems are in the market. To understand how sales forces have prioritized this initiative, click here. You will receive the Sales Leaders Listening Tool. As a VP of Sales, lack of execution drives you crazy. There are 8 different ways that sales forces listen.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

It’s common knowledge that working in sales is hard. Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. In today’s post we explain the effects of sales pressure and provide ways to mitigate this stress productively. ” ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

Assessments Compared Data on Sales Excellence Coaching Salespeople MUST READ: Are Assessments as Evil as the Persona Movie Suggests? The Caliper vs OMG Comparison: Which Sales Candidate Assessment is More Predictive? How to Transform Your Sales Pipeline Today Can Malcom Gladwell Explain the Sales Hiring Problem?

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 7, 2014

Salespeople not performing, dragging you down, and compromising your team‘s sales effectiveness? On-boarding a new sales rep requires more than providing a desk, a phone, and a password. It’s also possible you just hired the wrong people in the first place. Where Should Sales Managers Spend Their Time?

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