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10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Sales Manager

Hubspot Sales

So, you think you want to be a sales manager? If you’re an individual top-performing contributor in your sales organization and you’re thinking of applying for a sales manager role, let me give you a bit of a reality check first. What You Should Know Before Getting into Sales Management.

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Account Management: It’s About Keeping Customers!

SalesPop

Sales most definitely have two sides, and this is also true of account management. In his 2014 book Zero to One , Peter Thiel wrote, “In the 1990s, the focus was on the product, and not on sales. Once the sales manager has spent these hours every week, they must come back the following week and do it all over again.

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Key Sales Lessons from Oracle’s 4th Quarter Miss

SBI Growth

Oracle’s onboarding program is based on the waterfall method. Most sales teams are still using yesterday’s onboarding program. If you adopt the Agile method of onboarding , you will get these benefits: New rep ramp time will be cut in half. This dictates the need for a new onboarding approach. of this new process.

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The One Thing You Cannot Skip When Hiring an ‘A’ Player

SBI Growth

Planning for 2014 is in full swing. You just got off the weekly call with the Sales Leadership team. Your boss, the SVP of Sales, has some ‘great’ news. “We We got budget approval to add new sales heads. Start recruiting now so we can start of 2014 with a full team.” What is Topgrading for Sales?

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51 Ways to Fund Your Sales Improvement Effort

SBI Growth

To learn how other top companies fund initiatives, register for this event: How To Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute. I mentioned department-aligned efforts (HR = Talent or Learning; Marketing = Lead Generation or Sales Enablement; Sales = Sales Process or Sales Management.)

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3 Ways a Sales Leader Should Rollout a Quota Increase

SBI Growth

Top sales leaders know how to communicate and roll out a sales plan. Get your sales managers involved early in the process. The sales management team needs to have a clear understanding of the new quota. Once you have your managers onboard it is time to meet with the team. Start Early.

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The Rise of the Agile Performance Review

SBI Growth

Converting to Agile Performance Reviews will help you Make the Number in 2014. Unfortunately, none of these apply to a modern sales organization. Meanwhile, Agile is spreading everywhere in Sales - to onboarding , sales management, and sales training. Who Killed the Annual Review?