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What does a sales manager do? (+7 must-have skills)

Zendesk

During the company’s all-hands meeting, you find out a sales manager role has opened up. As a seasoned sales rep, you naturally get excited—until you realize that you don’t know how to transition from a sales agent to a sales manager. What is a sales manager? What does a sales manager do?

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Sales Project Management: What It Is & 5 of Its Key Benefits

Hubspot Sales

Sales orgs stand to gain a lot from incorporating project management principles into their operations. While sales project management is loosely defined and often overlooked, sales leadership should at least consider folding the core tenets behind it into their broader objectives and sales reps' day-to-days.

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Why sales leadership is not enough for KAM

Louise Collins Associates

So when organisations have tried, and failed, to introduce Key Account Management (KAM) it is no different. In most organisations KAM sits within the sales directorate and the responsibility for leading key account teams sits with the first line sales manager. Speak to your first line sales managers today.

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How to Kick Off Your SaaS Sales Career

Hubspot Sales

No matter how much — or how little — experience you have in tech sales, it's possible to climb the career ladder in this field. You can start in SaaS sales as an SDR and with enough experience, you'll be able to work in roles like account executive, sales manager, and even vice president of sales.

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Notes from the Front Line: Sales Manager Excellence

Engage Selling

When you’re part of an organization whose sales team is spread out over a large territory, it’s easy to lose touch with what’s happening on the front lines, where staff work directly with prospects and customers. Your sales managers are … Read More »

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Change Inhibitors In Sales Transformations

Sales Outcomes

Front-line sales managers are the key to enabling behavior change in salespeople. To that end, changes in sales manager behavior must come first; however, front-line sales managers live in a hectic environment – pressures from leadership, their teams, and other functions such as marketing, sales operations, HR, etc.

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Four personality traits to look for in a sales enablement manager

PandaDoc

Before we zero in on the important qualities of a sales enablement manager, we need to wrap our heads around the very definition of this role. We all seem to know what sales managers, account managers, and business development managers do — but who in the world is a sales enablement manager?