One of a Kind Sales

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Recently, I had a discussion with a sales leader who told me that she believes her success – and that of her team – is primarily determined by the sales compensation plan. The post What Drives Sales Leadership Success? The post What Drives Sales Leadership Success?

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Steven Rosen

JULY 8, 2024

In this article, Jenn Steele discusses the vital role of customer feedback in refining marketing and sales strategies. She stresses listening to customer insights to tailor messaging and optimize sales tactics effectively. Key Takeaways: Collaboration between sales and marketing is essential for business success.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 25, 2024

Rusty sales skills won’t win the gold. It’s the same for your sales team. If you want this to be a game-changing year, it’s up to the CRO to make skills-building and practice a requirement, an integral part of your culture, and a major component of your sales strategy. What sales lessons can we learn from them?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. 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.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 25, 2022

If you are in sales, you likely see yourself as a leader. If you are a sales manager, you must be a leader. But if sales management is a new role for you, it can feel like you are swimming upstream. First Rule of Sales Leadership: Know Your Purpose . What is that purpose of a new sales manager?

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

That could crush your sales organization. Let’s face it, being a sales executive has become increasingly more difficult. Chances are next year’s sales objective is going up and your budget is being reduced. I have spoken to a number of sales executives trying to understand their most perplexing challenges.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Price is a ‘big’ subject for all in sales, right from those developing product, to marketing, all in the sales organisation, and as important as any, the customer. I think one reason is the message many sales leaders send their teams, and their peers in the revenue generation process.

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A Sales Guy

MARCH 17, 2012

It’s not uncommon for people to ask me what’s the best way to motivate sales people to sell more. If you are using money to incent sales people to sell MORE, you have a big problem. I participated in this sales webinar yesterday; Best Practices in Modern Day Selling. A few obvious things: A shitty sales team.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 11, 2024

Sales Leadership hesitates to terminate salespeople because they see potential. The simple solution is to have your sales team evaluated! The simple solution is to have your sales team evaluated! They hope for improvement. They wish for a change in attitude. Let the data validate your suspicions and hunches.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 12, 2021

Sales like most tribes being a bit more civil than antelopes, prefers the 80/20 rule, over herd mentality. I have always been fascinated by how willing sales types are to accept the 80/20. As has been the case through the ages (I’m old enough), sales leaders look for “solutions” to fix their problems. A Crisis In Leadership.

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Xactly

MAY 16, 2018

The sales compensation planning process can be complex, and unfortunately, sometimes a headache. Luckily, with the right tools, sales operations can reduce the stress and time it takes to design, test, and implement a new compensation plan, and they can work to maintain and tweak the plan throughout the year.

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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. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sales managers do what they ask others to do. Sound familiar?

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 22, 2024

For sales leaders, building a robust sales culture is the bridge between mediocrity and excellence. The journey to a winning sales culture is a nuanced strategy that unfolds over time and demands patience, careful planning, and decisive leadership. This promotes innovative problem-solving for complex sales challenges.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 19, 2024

Interested in understanding how a sales manager directs a successful sales team? This article offers essential strategies for leading a high-performing sales team, including establishing clear roles and putting efficient processes into place. That’s why we recommend the FlyMSG Sales Pro Plan for teams of 10 or more reps.

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 8, 2021

How to Motivate Your Sales Team. Sales leaders agree that a highly motivated and engaged sales force drives greater performance. Many sales managers ask me how to ensure that they have a highly motivated and engaged team, and I usually ask them “WHY”? .” Tap into the WHY! External Factors.

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Sales Gravy

JUNE 4, 2021

What does emotional intelligence have to do with sales leadership? According to Colleen Stanley, who is the author of the hit new book Emotional Intelligence for Sales Leadership, a high EQ matters a lot. In fact, it is the real secret to building a high-performance sales team.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Sales Leadership: How to Ensure You Exceed Your 2015 Quota. The end of the year is rapidly closing in and while everyone in your organization is focused on achieving their targets; as a sales leader it is crucial you are also focused on the new year. Create annual sales contests. Begin to recruit.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

One common perk of a career in sales is the ability to earn more based on your own hard work and selling success. With salary, commission, bonuses, and other incentives, sales professionals often have options and feel in control of the compensation they receive, which can be great for motivation and fulfillment.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Sales is the most important function with any company, and the sales manager plays a critical role within it. That said… The importance of your sales manager cannot be understated. The sales force drives the company’s revenue and it’s the sales manager’s job to drive the sales force.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2020

Author: Dave Gerry Building a winning sales organization is no small task. More than ever, that scenario calls for strong leadership and effective communication. When it comes to sales organizations specifically, those goals should include supporting and growing your customer base to increase revenue. Sales Takes the Lead.

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Vengreso

JULY 29, 2024

Have you heard about how important channel sales partners are? In this article we cover different kinds of channel sales partners, why they’re good, and how to work well with them. Understanding what each partner does and how they help is key to making a good sales plan to get the best results.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Sales Leadership: 2013 Sales Theme. Last week I was speaking at a conference on: “ Building and Maintaining Sales Motivation ”, after the program several individuals came up to discuss my concept of a “Drive Statement. Then engage several team members to assist you in developing a sales theme or Drive Statement.

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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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Mereo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Incentives and bonuses motivate sales professionals for good reason. But great sales leadership calls for more than monetary rewards. So, unfortunately, it is safe to say salespeople leave their job to get away from their chief sales officer. Encourage your entire sales team.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan There are more sales experts, self-professed and otherwise, than ever before. There is more free content on sales and selling than anyone could have imagined. There are categories of sales tools and CRM applications where none existed a few years ago. It seems to have worsened!

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 23, 2020

Have you: Successfully transitioned your sales team to WFH status? Done any training for your sales team? Like most sales leaders, you are trying to adjust to the immediate and basic needs of your business. In discussion with sales leaders, there is no one size fits all recommendations. Have you shared success stories?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. Are incentives obsolete? I’ve got bills to pay! Don’t do it.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 30, 2012

Sales Compensation and Having a Fun Summer. Sales Leadership Ideas. At this time of year sales management must be looking at pipeline levels and goals for July/August and determining if there is the necessary level of activity to ensure targets will be exceeded. A Contest Sampler. Improving customer service.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 19, 2012

Sales Leadership: Closing Summer Business. Now in reality, working the sales process effectively, increasing the number of opportunities and creating creative sales strategies are the fundamentals for a successful summer. Increase your sales strategy. Learn to negotiate more effectively.

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Vengreso

JULY 26, 2024

Looking to enhance your business and increase sales ? It equips you with the knowledge to deepen your grasp of customer preferences, refine the efficiency of your sales funnel, and harness the power of social media to escalate your earnings. This is where the FlyMSG Sales Pro Plan for Teams comes into play.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In sales, the fourth quarter is equally important. In the fourth quarter, both sellers and buyers have additional incentive to get deals done. As a football coach may pump up the team for the fourth quarter, sales managers can provide extra motivation. For many sales organizations, time speeds up in the fourth quarter.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 9, 2022

Even the most seasoned, effective salespeople can struggle when hashing out how to lead a sales team. Taking the reins doesn't come naturally to everyone, and even born leaders might need a little guidance when transitioning into a sales management role. Compensation is the most fundamental, powerful incentive for reps to perform.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

At best, these inspire and motivate sales teams to achieve results greater than they thought possible. Here, we will discuss leveraging stretch goals in B2B sales. This includes setting goals, effective implementation, and understanding their impact on sales teams and organizations. You don’t want to see sales teams fail.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 22, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The Harvard Business Review finally published a relevant article that I agreed with! With all of that information about their past, how can you possibly gauge potential when hiring for your sales force? Trainable - whether or not the candidate has the incentive to change and adapt.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The latest interview between Jonathan Farrington, CEO of TopSalesWorld , and me is available here. We discussed why only 17% of all sales managers are effective at coaching and the conversation was very enlightening. So why aren''t more sales managers effective at coaching salespeople?

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I have spent an entire career in sales since my early 20’s being called a guy. Being invited to sales incentive and award events at cigar bars. Filling out forms that said “Salesman Number”.

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

Motivating your sales reps is one of the key factors of sales success. In most sales organizations, the sales commission plan is the best way to do this. Your sales commission plan is a portion of your sales compensation plan. Data is the most important and useful tool for any part of a strategic sales plan.

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