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Are Your Sales Goals Just Pie in the Sky?

Increase Sales

Sometimes sales goals are just unrealistic and may become “pie in the sky ” to the sales team. When this happens, morale plummets, salespeople start questioning their own sales skills and sales managers may have to continually justify the inability to increase sales. Share on Facebook.

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Unleashing the Power of Frontline Sales Management, Part 2: What ‘Good’ Looks Like

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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Creating Sales Goals as a Sales Manager [Expert Tips & 11 Examples]

Hubspot Sales

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Management

Hubspot Sales

Although factors like your product line, buyer personas, and brand awareness are important, sales managers are also critical to the success of any business as they have the potential to unlock huge returns that impact the business's bottom line. Onboarding and training new hires is another sales management responsibilities.

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How To Incorporate Motivation When Setting Sales Goals

SalesFuel

Achieving sales goals is never easy. Setting sales goals can be even more challenging. But managers must do this part of their job well to ensure their company’s success. This detail suggests that your sales professionals want to work with competent peers. Keep this fact in mind when setting sales goals.

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How Realistic is your 2014 Sales Quota?

SBI Growth

This blog addresses how sales reps can ensure their quota is realistic and attainable. Many sales reps are forced to accept a quota that is neither. Over 65% of Sales Goals are driven by Executive and Corporate expectations. If their projections are unrealistic, so are the sales reps’ quotas.

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What is Sales Forecasting? Why it Matters + 11 Tools to Consider

Sales Hacker

Fortunately, sales forecasting tools are available that can do a lot of the heavy lifting by using algorithms to create more accurate forecasts. What is sales forecasting? Sales forecasting best practices. Sales forecasting methodologies. Do I need a sales forecasting tool? Features and functionality.