SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. Turn managers into leaders. Train on Social Selling. Demand Sales Force Automation adoption. The CRO asked his managers for “half their world”.

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Pointclear

MARCH 13, 2014

Dave Stein, ES Research Group, How Much Social Selling Should Sales Reps be Doing? Click to start video at this point —Are you a sales rep in the high-tech industry? If so, you should probably be doing a lot of social selling. which assists sales trainers in selecting the appropriate providers.

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SBI Growth

MAY 15, 2013

"Should we hire an external Sales Manager or promote from within?". Open Sales Management positions are bad for sales organizations. Having the wrong Sales Manager (SM) is worse. This post helps you decide between hiring an internal or external Sales Manager. It depends. Next Steps.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 19, 2023

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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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Is your LinkedIn social selling strategy based on FOMO (the fear of missing out)? Especially if we are talking about social selling on LinkedIn. We all agree exposure on LinkedIn is important, but there can be a negative impact without a clear social selling strategy. Do you have time to hop on a quick call?”

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SalesforLife

MAY 6, 2019

The first company wanted to hire a Director of Social Selling who could develop their social selling skills inside the business—almost like a train-the-trainer model, who could sell social selling to their team. I’m here to tell you that frontline managers are critical to social selling success.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MARCH 30, 2020

Even though using social media to sell has been widely adopted in many industries, the 2019 Media Sales Report revealed that social selling is currently more hype than reality. Only 12% of sales managers surveyed saying their salespeople are using social media effectively to set appointments with prospects.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 10, 2014

The biggest changes since our original set of 21 Core Competencies in 1994 are the inclusion of categories that compliment our dashboards as well as the inclusion of Sales Posturing and Social Selling. Next week I''ll introduce our new and revised Sales Management Core Competencies. They are marketing themselves.

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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

There are 10 best practices Sales VPs have taken to ensure this doesn’t happen. Below are five of the 10: Sales Manager/VP field sales rides : Participating with your sales reps on more field calls leads to increased revenue. By increasing the frequency you ride in the field, you will sell more business.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 17, 2024

Using video in social selling can boost engagement across social networks. Thanks to the shareability of video, and the continued use of social, combining the two is a smart choice. “It It should be an essential part of everyone’s social selling strategy,” advises Erin Pennings for HubSpot.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 12, 2020

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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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2014

A couple of weeks ago I went to the 2014 version of Inbound with about 10,000 other people and was thrilled to not only attend David’s talk but get him to do an interview about his new book and his thoughts on social selling. Some of these points may seriously imact your sales career. 1. Sales people need to make a choice.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Boomers can’t afford to let Gen Y have the social selling advantage. But I still manage to leverage technology (very successfully) in my sales process. ??There’s There’s a common misconception that people born before 1980 are not good with technology and don’t excel on social platforms.

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Most startups make their first sales through the founders. In fact when you boil it down they make their first sales through social selling. They use the founders’ networks (and/or those of their investors) to get warm introductions to accounts and greatly increase their sales chances. Startup sales reality.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 14, 2013

Last week, I received a phone call from an EVP of Sales. The board still hasn’t approved the sales plan. I need to take out another 3% on the expense line including sales management. Evolve Your Social Selling —being on LinkedIn is not enough. Sales forces have never had better access.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Join me for a Top Sales World webinar you won’t want to miss. Social selling isn’t a new concept. Sale s has always been social. Or you can make the connections you already have stronger—a strategy that’s much more likely to grow your referral network and fill your sales pipeline with hot leads.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 22, 2013

In particular, the front-line Sales Manager - a critical role responsible for marshaling a team of revenue makers. This post includes a downloadable Sales Leader Curriculum. This tool is perfect for HR Business Partners who serve the Sales function. It will help to prevent vacant Sales Management positions.

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Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I interviewed sales manager, sales person, sales trainer and all around smart guy Jorge Soto. I asked Jorge about how he uses Sales 2.0 Jorge, I know you are a fan of Sales 2.0 and Social Selling. Nowadays, I can’t even imagine a world without social media, especially for prospecting.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Why Social Sellers Need to Focus on Relationships, Not Networks Social selling isn’t a new concept. Sale s has always been social. There’s a common misconception that people born before 1980 are not good with technology and don’t excel on social platforms. Let’s start a conversation!

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Break Free from Failed Selling Strategies It’s common sense that annoying strangers who never expressed any interest in hearing your sales pitch is a waste of time. Yet far too many sales pros are still doing it, usually because their sales managers demand it. But cold calling doesn’t work. Or did you?

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I sit down with Mike Weinberg for Part One of our conversation on the state of the Sales Profession, sales leadership, and getting started as a new sales manager. Social selling should complement, not replace, these time-tested techniques.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 19, 2013

One rep suggested interviews include a staged sales negotiation while ‘selling’ a more complex product to the Sales Manager. Key Activities. The Onboarding Activities List has seen two big additions in the past year.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 9, 2013

The below downloadable tool will give over 40 sales leadership skills to choose from. For example, if your company needs to be “social”, then Social Selling skills are a must. If your company uses channel partners, Channel Management is a needed skill. Create the courseware for developing sales leaders.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Social selling is a ‘must have’ prospecting method to get reps into deals early. Your reps need to sell the way your buyers want to buy. There are 3 critical steps to hire modern ‘A’ players: TopGrading for Sales Interviews – Scenario-based interviews to validate the rep possesses the competencies of the new ‘A’ player.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There are hundreds of great applications that help us work more efficiently—including CRM, marketing automation, social-selling tools, and more. How do you use technology for sales? Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business' But closing deals is still our job. Finding the Right Balance. Comment Here.

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SBI Growth

MAY 11, 2013

Sales VPs need to make the number this quarter. Sales Managers want more new business. Sales Reps need more leads. Prospecting for leads is being replaced by Social Selling. And the foundation for Social Selling is creating Social Debt. Get the Creating Social Debt Guide.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 12, 2025

In a recent expert interview, John Golden talked with Chris Jennings , a sales leadership expert with more than 25 years of sales and leadership experience. They discussed new sales training methods, the importance of authenticity in sales, and the changing role of sales managers.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 14, 2013

That’s quickly changing, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Koka Sexton, LinkedIn’s senior manager of social marketing. An evangelist for social selling — and a U.S. What is Social Selling? It’s been an evolution, he says, as companies began recognizing the power of leveraging social media.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Well, sales is not a party. Selling is about building relationships, not having the most LinkedIn connections. For social selling , you actually have to be social, which means getting off your computer. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business' DO Be a Valuable Connection.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 27, 2013

Some complaints we’ve heard from Sales organizations: Forced to fill out old employee review forms on paper. Can’t promote a sales manager to a director. Consider embedding an HR Business Partner as a Sales Rep – to get a Sales perspective. Is Social Selling a necessary skill?

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Selling is hard enough for people with the DNA to succeed; it’s nearly impossible for people who lack those qualities, said my latest guest on PowerViews, Dave Stein, CEO and founder of ES Research Group Inc., which assists sales trainers in selecting the appropriate providers. How Much Social Selling Should Sales Reps be Doing?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

While that''s the case with technology, it doesn''t vary too much from that in non technology sales where most people believe that sales success boils down to one of two things; either a critical mass of meetings, or a proposal or quote. Dave Kurlan Inbound Marketing sales methodology closing sales performance sales selelction'

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 10, 2013

And, I don’t know anyone who has more than five minutes of actual experience and credibility in implementing successful social selling strategies who made the promise that using social media would cure the pervasive problems – many of them people, process and behavior related – that plague sales teams. Comment Here.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 1, 2021

This Expert Insight Interview discusses: The role of the sales manager in the post-COVID world. Effective ways to get the most out of your sales team. COVID and the Evolution of the Sales Manager. The sales manager role isn’t that well defined, to begin with. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 11, 2014

I sat in quite a few of breakout sessions – more than usual, and witnessed more sessions about social selling. One of my favorite breakouts was Sean Burke’s session called, The World’s Youngest Billionaire’s Guide to Social Selling. if you sign up for our updates, you''ll know when that happens].

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SBI Growth

JUNE 21, 2013

The secret to hiring a great sales leader is the ‘A’ Player Scorecard. Get it free here and nail your next sales leadership hire. Your next sales manager needs modern skills to make the number. He needs capabilities like social selling , buyer-centric selling and big data for sales.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 2, 2013

Build specific competency and accountability based scorecards for Sales Leadership and Sales Reps. Download the Sales Manager Competencies and Example Accountabilities Here. Sales teams can generate their own leads. In the digital age, reps can also utilize social selling to generate leads.

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