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Removing Risk from Your Next Sales Manager Promotion

SBI Growth

"I had no idea Dave was going to struggle so much as a Sales Manager. This post is written for the VP of Sales who wants to eliminate promoting the wrong rep to sales manager. A Sales Leadership Council is the top 10% of your sales force that has expressed an interest in sales management.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager

HeavyHitter Sales

Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors. Best New Sales Book of 2011 » October 04, 2011. Books For Heavy Hitters.

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Message to Management: Make Referrals Your Priority

No More Cold Calling

Whether you are CEO, vice president, or a sales manager , you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition to referral selling—the only business-development strategy proven to convert prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time. Referral Selling is a Complete Shift.

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Putting Customer Segmentation To Work In The Field

SBI Growth

Then you have to design a plan that reps, managers, directors all follow to maximize the up-side. Take the following steps with any segmentation work: Educate Sales Management along the way – Show them how the segmentation was done in layman’s terms. What geographies are under-penetrated? Make it Pay Off.

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Micromanage Me, Please

The Pipeline

I asked what expectations are set either in terms of activities, pipeline coverage, or territory contact/coverage/penetration. This would seem OK if they were blowing their numbers away, but that’s not why I was there. Apparently, they don’t like to exceed quota either. sell better Tibor Shanto'

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Top 5 Sales Rep Behaviors to Change in 2013 – with HR’s Help

SBI Growth

Sales Reps should also be participating in social groups by posting and answering questions - with the idea of educating with value, not pushing your brand. Reps must be able to social map an organization they are trying to penetrate. How can HR help Sales with this?

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Favorite Sales Manager Sayings and Clich?s

HeavyHitter Sales

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