Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2014

There’s a lot of stuff written about what sales managers have to do and their key job responsibilities. Some of the laundry list items include: Make sure the team makes the number, develop the strategy, manage the forecast/pipeline, manage performance, recruit, train, coach, and on and on. No related posts.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 6, 2018

This article takes you through 5 crucial tips to efficiently manage your sales pipeline. Before we jump right in, let’s define what a sales pipeline is. A sales pipeline is a systematic and visual representation of your sales process. Summary: Stay on top of your sales pipeline metrics.

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Salesmate

JUNE 4, 2021

Similarly, many other practices in sales have changed with the changing world around. One such practice is that of providing sales incentives to the salespeople. What are sales incentives? Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.” – Nikita Khrushchev . Split incentives .

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. Assess your strengths as a manager. Understand how your team wants to be managed.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2012

The other day I wrote about the “Almost Perfect Sales Management Article.” ” That post stimulated a flurry of questions about a Sales Management Standard Operating Process/System. There are a few key building blocks to the Sales Management/Leadership Process.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 9, 2024

Metric Baseline 10% Better Opportunities (annually) 100 110 Pipeline $4 million $4.4 Lack of sales training. Sales Managers aren’t asking them to, requiring it, or leading them through it because they too don’t know what good sounds like. Lack of sales management training. Do the math!

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

When that transition is from an individual contributor to manager, that adjustment can be even more jarring. We all know the typical story with sales managers – they were a top performing salesperson, had ambitions to move up in their career, and then a position opens up and they are managing a group of salespeople.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

Although it’s easier said than done, as a sales rep or sales leader, it’s important to shift your focus to the activities that lead up to a sale. This way, you build a strong pipeline that will protect you should you lose a big account or sale at the last minute. Need more pipeline? Incentivize. Communicate.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 7, 2018

While utilizing the right sales and performance management technologies, in addition to synergizing cross-organization collaboration, Sales Enablement optimizes the selling motion in order to increase pipeline, move opportunities forward and win bigger deals more efficiently to drive profitable growth.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The Sales Manager Boot Camp. Becoming a new sales leader is overwhelming. Suddenly you go from having a quota to managing the quotas of multiple people. Improving your professionalism as an experienced Sales Manager is just as hard. This is what New Sales Manager Boot Camp is all about.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Here are a few tips to accelerate performance during this critical time: Review Pipeline. While periodic pipeline reviews are essential, they are more important than ever in Q4. Here, managers can help reps analyze the deals in their pipeline to determine which have the best chance of closing. Shorten the Sales Cycle.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

These are all activities that sales people perform or should be performing. These are all activites that should be used as metrics for success because they can give you, the sales manager, a leading indicator as to what will show up in pipeline and what will potentially be sold.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” There are surveys asking for the one area sales managers should focus on. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process. ” If sales management and selling were that easy… The problem is, these are false choices.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Imagine similar spikes in your sales metrics and you’ll see the glaring imperative for setting goals. So yes — there are few things more important to you as sales manager than to set goals. Skip right to the 6 steps to influence outcomes as a sales manager >>> Having Goals is NOT Enough to Break Through.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

That’s why the salesmen and saleswomen who cultivate relationships and leverage them for introductions to prime prospects get meetings faster, fill their pipelines with hot sales leads, and convert prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time. The #1 Sales Management Problem You Can Fix. Absolutely!

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

You have a strong solution to go along with a solid stream of both inbound and outbound activity, which prompted you to split the team by each channel to maximize meeting creation (and hopefully pipeline!). But we have to warn you, there are sales leaders who will advise otherwise. When They Ask About Expectations and Incentives.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 21, 2018

Imagine similar spikes in your sales metrics and you’ll see the glaring imperative for setting goals. So yes — there are few things more important to you as sales manager than to set goals. Skip right to the 6 steps to influence outcomes as a sales manager >>> Having Goals is NOT Enough to Break Through.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 15, 2017

Amad said, “Yeah, they give us quotas, but the sales managers don’t have the same numbers, and the systems engineers aren’t on the same system; so no one gets punished but us.”. In my years of sales management and sales consulting I have found the following four reasons for sales failure in many companies.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The sales-specific beliefs which support or sabotage their sales outcomes. Whether they have the incentive to improve their sales competencies. Assessments are only a minor part of an effective sales force evaluation. Whether your sales force can execute your strategies. Record Collection. What it will take?

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 24, 2011

The Importance of Sales Management in a Recovering Economy. We have met with Sales Leaders from around the world, lead workshops, presented keynotes and developed new long term relationships with our client base. Based upon my conversations almost every sales leader is optimistic and pipelines are filling.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Ineffective Sales Coaches – Despite the proven efficacy of well-executed sales coaching, it’s likely that many of your sales managers will be insufficiently trained in how to conduct it properly. As an executive, it’s your responsibility to ensure that your sales managers are coaching their reps effectively.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 14, 2023

Spiff budget for monthly incentives/contests (keeps it fun). Cost of living limits incentive %. Stephen Farnsworth , Head of GTM at Stealth Startup : SDR comp – commission should be 90+% based on things the SDR can control…booking a qualified meeting that is accepted into pipeline. Measured by qual opportunities per month.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Of all the essentials for a sales manager—and our research has turned up dozens—the first and foremost of these is the sales manager’s very own mindset. With it, the sales manager is capable of changing or worsening their team and their performance. The Big Sales Manager Complaint.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

If you’ve never thought much about a company’s sales velocity, take a moment to brush up on this important equation -- and go beyond KPIs to impress your manager or future manager the next time you meet. So, what is sales velocity? Sales Velocity. Creating Sales Velocity.

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SBI

JULY 24, 2018

In fact, who doesn’t love a good forecast session with their sales manager? Not only that, sales reps see tremendous value in the information reported back to them from the CRM. It is often a point of contention between sales managers and reps to update their activity and forecast. Sales training and enablement.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Achieving sales excellence is, in large part, a matter of putting in more effort than your colleagues. You want your reps to be ambitious and dedicated — willing to do that much more to book an extra meeting or keep a prospect with waning interest in your pipeline. Prizes can be valuable incentives to motivate your sales rainmakers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It should have lead metrics (like activity) and lag metrics (like pipeline and closed-won). For example, our pipeline is at 125%, however, when we double-click that number, we see that we only have 30% of the opportunities we should have. A dashboard for frontline reps will look very different than one for a sales manager, for example.

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LevelEleven

MAY 17, 2018

Q & A with Derek Wong, Geopointe Sales Development Supervisor. Many modern sales teams are implementing a Sales Management System that integrates with their CRM in order to motivate, engage, and coach their teams around the behaviors that support their business goals. We’re in sales and salespeople like incentives.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Having a sales performance management process in place is crucial for your team’s overall success. There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. Helps predict future sales trends.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

These are all activities that sales people perform or should be performing. These are all activities that should be used as metrics for success because they can give you, the sales manager, a leading indicator as to what will show up in the pipeline and what will potentially be sold.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 12, 2015

In both our interview and her presentation, she talked about three dangers that modern sales organizations face, and how they’re creating a perfect storm that wreaks havoc on sales pipelines and future performance. Sales managers aren’t blind to what’s happening in our profession. It’s tough to follow.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 14, 2022

I’ve seen numerous discussions around, “our people aren’t doing the prospecting needed to fill their pipelines, but if we compensate them on their prospecting efforts, we can incent them to do the work… ” Huughh???? Pipelines are getting drained and no one wants to fill them.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 3, 2010

Sales Force (5). sales goals (29). sales improvement (22). Sales Jobs (5). sales leadership development (4). sales management (49). sales management success (1). sales management training (4). Sales Manager (2). sales metrics (7). sales people (8).

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