Allego

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Today’s fast-paced, tech-driven world is causing a massive shift in the medical device sales industry. The days of relying solely on face-to-face sales meetings are over. Digital selling is the game, and you must have a strategy that ensures your team succeeds in medical device digital sales.

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Strategy Face-to-face Buyer Lead Rank 62

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

I would add another disconnect that prevents sales training from achieving a positive return on investment is a lack of alignment between the organization’s strategies, structure, processes/operations, incentives and people. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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Sales Management Hiring Training Lead Gen 62

Sales Training Connection

APRIL 15, 2015

You have to act like a leader before you’re appointed to a leadership position, and you have to manage your own leadership path … only be exiting your comfort zone can you develop “outsight”— the term she coins to describe the valuable perspective gained through actions.”. So let’s translate this message to sales management.

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Sales Management Sales Leadership Coaching Sales Coaching 50

Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Sales managers have every right in the world to be informed of everything going on in their territories. If a sales manager sees a month of no CRM activity posted by a sales rep, they need to place that individual on an improvement program or show them the door. No commissions are paid; no exceptions.

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CRM System Outside Sales Policies 48

Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 6, 2013

The first is Friday May 10 th , Building Predictable Revenue: Sales Management Systems. The second is May 28 th , 1pm EST: Creating Sales Compensation Plans for High Performance. This is one of 10 Sales Management Training programs from Top Sales Management: read below. REGISTER: https://m360.salesassociation.org/event.aspx?

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Compensation Forecasting Penetration Sales Leadership 74

Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The reality of Sales departments is that salespeople live quarter to quarter, and they have to hit a quota each quarter in order to stay in the good graces of their department. While this is a great incentive for keeping your sales team motivated to bring in revenue, that same incentive be counterproductive in the lead qualification process.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Qualification Marketing Qualified Lead 83

Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Sales reps don’t become trusted advisors without help and that means training. With that in mind, how is your SKO agenda training your salespeople to: Engage rather than repel buyer interest with sales messaging and approach? Conduct sales meetings using business acumen & insight vs. feature dumps & demos?

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Read on for our top five tips on how to hold a sales team meeting that’s actually worth everyone’s time. Make the Meeting Convenient. The biggest hurdle when scheduling team sales meetings is finding a time that works for everyone. Pro tip: If you want to maximize attendance, offer incentives.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 11, 2018

Information hits sales managers from all sides on the subject of creating high-performance sales teams. Provide constant feedback, hire the right people, incentive programs, create compensation plans that drive behavior…the list goes on and on. Yard sales’ occur every day in the sales profession.

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Sales Training Advice

OCTOBER 19, 2010

When times are tough and prospects seem to be holding on to every dollar, your job as a sales manager is more important than ever before. Now is the time to roll out a sales contest to generate additional sales and build morale. Offering a contest to your sales team is a smart business decision on many levels.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 22, 2018

So it’s easy to get jaded when you sit in sales meetings. Last week, I had the privilege of sitting in the single best sales meeting of my career–even those I have had with my own sales teams. Their compensation and incentives were all aligned around that value creation.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Revenue Incentive 83

Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2019

This let her focus on her sales meetings and her productivity increased and close rates skyrocketed. RELATED: How to Motivate Sales Reps So They Won’t Quit. Extrinsically motivated sales reps work for the money. She admitted she didn’t enjoy prospecting and had a hard time sitting down to do it.

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Motivation Compensation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 105

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 27, 2020

You can use a single question to determine how experienced a sales manager is: “What has a bigger impact on your team’s success, sales skills or motivation?”. Newer managers tend to say the former, while more experienced ones pick the latter. Sales Bingo. Winner's Choice.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Motivation Retention Lead Rank 131

Zendesk Sell

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

What made them want to work in sales in the first place? Make sure your sales managers also understand what motivates their team members. Managers too should have positive mind-sets to inspire their teams. Use nonmonetary strategies to motivate your sales teams. What are their career goals?

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Motivation How To Survey Incentive 71

Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Sales managers have every right in the world to be informed of everything going on in their territories. If a sales manager sees a month of no CRM activity posted by a sales rep, they need to place that individual on an improvement program or show them the door. No commissions are paid; no exceptions.

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CRM System Policies Commission 59

ExecVision

MAY 29, 2018

Almost everyone on my sales team has a best friend at work. ? SPIFFs are loosely defined as Short Term Performance Incentives For Fun. ? We have an annual or semi-annual incentive trip to a place like Playa del Carmen or the Dominican Republic. At least half the team makes the trip. ?

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Xvoyant

JULY 2, 2020

We pay them well and provide incentive motivations and trips (Cancun, anyone?). Instead, I’ll opt to provide clarity on what you could be doing to radically improve the performance of your sales force. Sales coaching is a formal developmental process where sales managers partner with their sales reps to improve sales performance.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Forecasting Enterprise 62

The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

To select the right KPIs for your sales organization, follow these rules of thumb: Less is More – It can be tempting to track every data point related to the sales department, but the most important information will likely be lost or unactionable if you try to track too much. Projected Sales Pipeline. Length of Sales Cycle.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Inside sales roles and team structure . The typical inside sales team consists of six roles: SDRs (Sales Development Reps). AMs (Account Managers). CSMs (Customer Success Managers). Sales Manager, Leader, or VP. SDRs aren’t responsible for closing sales — that’s the job of the AE.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Encourage sales reps to participate in live sales calls or meetings with their sales managers, followed by a debriefing session to discuss what worked and what could be improved. Feedback Mechanism: Establish a feedback mechanism for sales representatives to share insights, challenges, and success stories.

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Webinar Metrics Training Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 52

The Brooks Group

MARCH 4, 2014

3 Ways To Drive Sales Coaching Knowledge Application: Install measurable accountability into the program. Requiring salespeople to publicly report back (in sales meetings, conference calls, etc.) how they’ve applied their managers’ coaching in real-world settings can be an amazing way to create value in sales coaching.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Call-back Incentive 40

Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

A CRM also simplifies your team’s sales activities. For example, you can use it to automate follow-ups, check in with prospects, and organize one-on-one sales meetings. Train and develop employees Most employees still require guidance and sales training to effectively manage their time and resources in a remote setting.

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

A CRM also simplifies your team’s sales activities. For example, you can use it to automate follow-ups, check in with prospects, and organize one-on-one sales meetings. Train and develop employees Most employees still require guidance and sales training to effectively manage their time and resources in a remote setting.

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Hiring Strategy Top of Funnel Face-to-face 52

PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Take advantage of a number of sales competitions and incentives. However, make sure you don’t repeat the same sales contests — not only will the same people keep winning (causing everyone else to give up ultimately), but you’ll also turn the winners into natural targets. A competent manager strives to achieve this.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 31, 2019

To align marketing and support departments with sales, sales managers can construct an ongoing, interdepartmental job-shadowing program. Put marketing and support staff in a sales-shadowing rotation once a month to sync knowledge and skills. Weekly sales meetings would also be helpful to shadow.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Exercises Lead Rank 68

Close.io

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This is an article rich with great sales objection advice. B2B appointment setting: How to book more (and better quality) sales meetings. Appointment booking is both a science and an art, and quite possibly one of the most under-appreciated opportunities sales teams have. READ THE FULL ARTICLE ?.

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B2G Outbound Government Sales Forecasts 89

The Brooks Group

JUNE 29, 2015

A great way to get reps’ buy-in is to have other sales team members that have seen success in using the CRM system to conduct a training during a lunch-and-learn or at the end of the sales meeting. The fact that they will have to invest time in learning a new system can be a huge obstacle when getting sales reps to adopt CRM.

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CRM How To System Benefit 40

Highspot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We recommend using your sales enablement platform to manage pre-work assignments. Incentive participation: Make sure your salespeople are bought in before your event. Ask the team: Finally, don’t forget to ask both sales managers and reps what they want from their SKO experience.

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Hiring Education Face-to-face Sales Enablement 52

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

More sales meetings, more money. Second sponsor Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. And most of our data now as a software company it’s because that’s my background, but you as a sales professional can go to RepVue and view detailed analytics about sales organizations related to compensation data.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional. There are plenty of sales prospecting tools and sales management software to help automate your manual tasks while personalizing your outreach.

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Sales Tools Tools Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 52

LeveragePoint

JUNE 29, 2018

Internal promotion then spreads the word among sales professionals and sales management. A results-driven sales culture and incentives will take over from there. Product managers and marketing professionals sometimes think they can roll out great content themselves. One success becomes a trend.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 8, 2013

Instill pride for sales. Have incentives and contests to keep it competitive. Pay a larger incentive the second time. Have regular sales meetings. Have regular sales training. A weekly sales meeting should include 15 minutes of training. The bigger the prize, the bigger the effort.

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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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Close.io

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Once your sales team grows beyond just one or two reps you can personally coach through the challenges that arise with their accounts, implementing a proper sales training workflow into your new hiring process (and ongoing rep development) becomes essential. Mentorship picks up right where management leaves off.

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Lead Rank Closing Lead Scoring Hiring 117

Close.io

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It’s likely you already know some of the sales metrics that matter to your team. To fill out the rest of your list, you need to ask a few basic questions: Are there sales metrics your team regularly views during the day or during sales meetings? What are the sales KPIs that are driving your strategy and plan?

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Examples Top of Funnel Forecasting Lead Rank 82