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Opportunity Blindness – What’s in Your Sales Pipeline?

Understanding the Sales Force

Are the opportunities made of gold bullions or lumps of coal? Some observations: The data represents the forecast and funnel for 7 sales teams. The current closable opportunities (B) are at 23% of the forecast (C) and at less than 10% of the quarterly target (D). Early stage opportunities should not have an assigned value.

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When Your Sales Opportunity Stalls, Do You Call Roadside Assistance?

Understanding the Sales Force

When salespeople get into trouble and an opportunity stalls out or goes off the rails, their sales managers are the sales version of roadside assistance. In the context of a sales opportunity, there are typically three possibilities:

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Opportunity Math……

Partners in Excellence

Let’s look at some “opportunity” math. 60% of the opportunities we compete for end in no decision made! What if we set a goal of reducing the number of opportunities that customers abandon late in their buying process? We never even get exposure to those opportunities! Yet they fail!

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The Best Advice Sales Managers Can Give to Help Increase Sales

Anthony Cole Training

In this blog article, we discuss the best advice sales managers can give their salespeople, and that is to "keep moving." If you want to increase sales within your organization, you must keep moving throughout the ups and downs, the missed opportunities, the clients who "ghost" you, and more.

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Your Next Sales Coach is a Machine

Speaker: Matt McDarby & Dan Smaida, Managing Directors, Specialized Sales Systems

Most sales managers know this, but suffer from three conditions that limit their opportunity to help: Too many people, too much ground to cover, and not enough time for developing people. World-class sales managers have long used creative means to solve for time and distance. Fortunately, there are options!

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5 Lessons to Fast-Start Your 2024 as a Sales Manager

SBI Growth

2023 presented a unique set of challenges for sales managers. Economic uncertainty, cautious buyers, and reliance on existing customers contributed to longer sales cycles and pipeline woes. However, 2024 brings new opportunities, and with these five lessons, sales organizations can get on track for a fast start in 2024.

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Hey Sales Manager, Get Your Head Out of That Spreadsheet

No More Cold Calling

million per sales manager. Message to Management: Your job is to get the rocks out of the road for your salespeople so they can do what they were hired to do—sell!”. But I don’t think any sales manager listened, because more than half of reps are still missing quota. million per manager.

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Build a Successful and Results-Driven Sales Culture

Speaker: Gary Galvin, CEO, Galvin Technologies

As a sales manager, you’re tasked with not only answering this question, but directing your sales team to achieve goals and deliver results. This often means motivating your team through everything from revenue targets, to sales funnel and forecasting, to activity management and collaboration.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success. Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation.