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Are Your Sales Targets Too High?

Brooks Group

As we pass the half-way point of the year, sales managers may start to hear a few grumblings that quotas are too high. While it’s wise to reassess sales targets to make sure they are realistic, assuming they are too high might be a mistake. Forbes reported that in 2017 that 57% of sales reps failed to meet quota.

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Selling in a downturn – Are your teams being trained with the proper tools for the job?

Mercuri International

In terms of investing in specific training topics, the top three topics that respondents viewed as ‘very important’ when taking an overview of all industries were, in order: Value based selling Winning new customers / lead management Sales leadership. Remote selling and remote leadership came in a close 4th and 5th.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

PandaDoc

This is understandable when you consider that data shared in the Harvard Business Review suggests that 90% of decision makers won’t respond to cold calls, according to Sales Leadership Forum. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales.