Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2021

More salespeople equals more sales, right? Scaling your sales team is crucial to growing a healthy business. Take a strategic approach to scaling your sales team, and make smart hiring decisions that will benefit your organization for years to come. Scaling your sales team almost always means bringing on new reps.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 13, 2024

I created an analogy for my first article when I wrote about scaling, hiring and firing salespeople , based on what I read in Genesis. Obviously, the concept of coaching salespeople isn’t a new one, but most sales leaders don’t do it consistently or effectively. Statistics from Objective Management Group’s nearly 2.5

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

This is often when the founders call in a “sales professional”. Maybe a chief sales guy or a VP of sales (usually the same function just a better title). It’s time to “scale their sales”. Startup sales reality. Startup sales missing link. I’m reading 80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall.

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Membrain

JANUARY 4, 2023

And that’s not the only reason why a scaling SaaS company must invest in consistent customer success. Happy, successful customers are the lifeblood of growing a SaaS business (or any business). When your business depends on monthly recurring revenue, you can’t afford to churn customers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

These efforts frequently end up with disappointing results, however, because most companies neglect the most powerful lever in their arsenal: their frontline, field-level sales managers who directly coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis. In this study, top managers brought in an average $3.5

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Are you crushing your sales numbers, or are you falling short? Regardless of which one it is, I would suggest that you take a moment to rate both your strategy and your execution on a scale of 1-10, with ten being excellent. Like many companies, you bring the sales management team in for a meeting and present the marketing plans.

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Strategy Scale Objections Maximizer 408

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If the processes that admins need to perform are well-documented, admins can be onboarded quickly and the number of admins can be scaled up quickly. Automate : There are more and more tools on the market that remove the need for sales people to do non-selling tasks. Sales management. They do not produce important results.

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Territories Compensation Scale Decision Maker 396

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

These efforts frequently end up with disappointing results, however, because most companies neglect the most powerful lever in their arsenal: their frontline, field-level sales managers. Frontline sales managers coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis.

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Sales Management Scale Compensation Study 168

No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Only one kind of lead that sales managers should care about. Thoughtful and provocative questioning has a huge impact on close rates and sales revenues. That’s why there’s only one kind of lead that should be in your pipeline. Only one kind of lead with a 50-to-70-percent conversion rate. And that’s referral leads.

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Closing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

For example, reps can watch for keywords in conversations that historically indicate a prospect is more likely to buy, while sales managers can better coach their teams by reviewing call trends. Research firm Forrester found that 57 percent of B2B sales leaders intended to invest more on AI and automation tools in 2021.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

It offers detailed, actionable advice for sales leaders looking to navigate the evolving landscape of AI in sales. Introduction to Matt McDarby Matt McDarby, the president of United Sales Resources, brings over 15 years of experience in developing sales managers and leaders.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. To say that sales managers have their work cut out for them would be a massive understatement. Managing At (Impossible) Scale.

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Sales Management Scale Top of Funnel Hiring 136

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Today’s post focuses on the missing link: Enabling your front-line sales managers. Without strong front-line sales managers, your chances of making the number are low. How can you help your sales managers execute? Download the CEO’s Sales Manager Test to help with this. Why Sales Managers Fail.

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Hiring Strategy Handbook Face-to-face 305

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Carol Malakasis (startup advisor and sales coach), and Jonathon Barkl (CEO and co-founder of Airgarage) come together to uncover everything from finding PMF, to leading a sales team as a founder, and successfully scaling your company. Transitioning from founder-led selling to hiring sales talent.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

. “Our win rate is 17%, our deal sizes a declining slowly, our sales cycles are increasing…… but we keep making our numbers, we are providing tools to improve productivity, we are hiring more people to drive greater volumes, we know how to scale!” ” I respond, “I get it!

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Download our Sales Rep Promotability Scale. You must attend multiple sales meetings. If you just listen to your sales manager, the critical interactions will be missed. When it does, the sales rep that endears themselves to the boss is promoted. The next Sales Manager completes most the signs weekly.

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Promotion Construction Hiring Scale 297

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

There has been no shortage of new sales related books during COVID, the usual mixed bag, with scale. But one stands out, The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement , by Mike Kunkle. Not only because of the author, Mr. Kunkle and the subject, sales enablement, but because way Mike approaches the subject. A Managed Process.

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Sales Enablement Scale Hiring Maximizer 201

Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2018

Since your reps work closely with prospects, they have valuable information that can be helpful when it comes to constructing your sales forecasting process. Who handles the sales forecasting in your organization? When sales departments operate like this, reps can feel pressured to underestimate or overestimate future sales.

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Sales Forecasts Forecasting Pipeline Scale 232

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 25, 2021

The best conclusion to any discussion on women sales leaders is what Barb Giamanco wrote in her eBook: “When I made the decision to convert the Women in Sales Podcasts into an eBook, the goal was to share expert advice and guidance that benefits anyone in sales, sales management, and those who aspire to advance in their sales career.

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Hiring eBook Cold Calling Scale 379

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sales teams thrive on the energy of effective outreach, but managing outbound calls at scale requires a lot more than just smiling and dialing. Chorus , ZoomInfos AI-powered conversation intelligence tool, helps sales teams extract valuable insights from call recordings and transcriptions.

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Bernadette McClelland

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

When you consider one of the key functions of a sales leader’s role is to build relationships that achieve results, then one of the key competencies must be to have the tough conversations. And this is where the difference between a sales manager and a sales leader becomes crystal clear. Think through strategy. ??

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Scale Face-to-face Account Sales Leadership 221

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

Given the COVID-19 pandemic and precarious global health situation that’s resulted, many informal and smaller scale teleworking arrangements are rapidly becoming widespread and institutionalized. These conditions can present challenges for sales organizations, where in-person meetings and events are typically part of “business as usual.”

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

These plays will then be scaled to strengthen your entire go-to-market engine and drive your team’s success. Research by Gartner shows that Conversation Intelligence is the sales tech solution category with the highest impact and highest satisfaction rates. Coaching and Training Superpowers. In today’s world, that can’t cut it.

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Conversion Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Rank 70

Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

And it makes sense — tracking and pulling insight from sales calls manually is a frustrating, labor-intensive, often ineffective burden that can eat up sales managers' time without offering much return. Sales managers stand to gain a lot by incorporating this kind of tech into their teams' day-to-day and broader sales efforts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

This is different for every company, of course and likely driven by the preceding year’s success, prospects for the new year and the tone that sales management wants to set. In InsideView’s case, we’d gone back and forth over the past few years between large scale/scope/budget/bold agenda and conservative/scaled back.

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Bernadette McClelland

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Or how do I get access to my salesperson’s calendar without them thinking I’m micro-managing? If you want every day to count and make it the best you can as a sales leader, then book a FREE 15 minute SCALE-UP Session with me. Write SCALE-UP in the comments and I’ll sort it asap. The post ??????

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Scale Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face 170

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

While these organizations are hitting their targets, and sometimes with aggressive YoY scaling, they should be doing so much more! Too often, our approach to driving growth is a scaling strategy. Scaling is simply that–scaling. We scale simply by doing the math. ” (We’ll come back to this.)

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 20, 2015

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve probably even said it. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during early stages of the sales process. I asked my client how the sales reps prepared. ” Was their sales manager clueless, or what? You are now a true sales manager.

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Closing Sales Management Referrals Ideal Customer Profile 120

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Good incentives with reasonably precise rules and rewards allow sales managers to send positive signals about the company’s priorities and transparency. Sales managers aren’t the only ones who benefit from good incentives – reps benefit on two levels as well. Sales managers can also benefit from using non-monetary points.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Is it just about scaling revenue, or is there more to the story? But lets be real, growth is one of those buzzwords that gets thrown around so much, it can lose all meaning. So, what does growth really mean in the B2B landscape? And how is it being impacted by declining commercial efficiency ?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2021

As a sales manager, ensuring that your team's communication with prospects is tight and effective is in your best interest. That process — making sure your team's communications aren't erratic — is most commonly referred to as implementing consistent sales messaging. It can be guided by example.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Recently, I had a discussion with a sales manager about how to connect with customers. The sales manager knew me well from my work with him at a previous company. Neither one of us think of sales as a job. How do you view sales? The longer the conversation, the more animated we both became.

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Hiring Scale Energy Motivation 178

Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Conversational Selling podcast brings together successful sales leaders, executives and entrepreneurs, and experts to share successes, challenges, and what’s working now in sales management, outbound sales and prospecting, and marketing. #8. Scale Your Sales hosted by Janice B Gordon.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2017

They think all they need to do is tell their sales teams to ask for referrals. Referrals don’t just happen, at least not at scale. Yes, occasionally a well-served client will mention your company to another buyer and you’ll magically get a sale. No other sales or marketing strategy delivers such powerful, predictable results.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 20, 2025

AI to coach more effectively Sales managers are busy. Because of this, they struggle to deliver personalized coaching at scale, often relying on manual tracking and generic feedback, which can lead to inefficiencies and missed growth opportunities for sales reps.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

The benefits of such efforts could not be operationalized at scale. What is most important about the maturity of AI-enabled forecast tools over the last two years, is that we can explain our predictions and make them actionable to a broad array of workers, from sales reps to channel managers to sales operations.

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