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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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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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Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

No More Cold Calling

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.

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5 Unconventional Tactics of Excellent Sales Managers

Sales and Marketing Management

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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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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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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Top 13 Requirements to Help You Soar as a Sales Manager

Understanding the Sales Force

In addition to that, I received a number of emails asking, what are the requirements for becoming a great sales manager? Now for sales management. Do you remember the first time you coached a salesperson on an opportunity they were unlikely to win and they won it because of your coaching?

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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.