Mike Kunkle

JULY 4, 2022

There’s another alignment and partnership opportunity that gets a lot less airplay yet has equal or greater potential to drive sales results: the alignment and partnership between Sales Enablement and Front-line Sales Managers (FLSMs). The role of these managers in driving change seems to be a fairly-well acknowledged point of view.

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Red Star Kim

OCTOBER 13, 2023

At the 28 th PM Forum Annual Conference in September I (in my capacity as Head of Training and Learning Transfer of the Managing Partners’ Forum and PM Forum), co-presented breakout sessions with Julie McConnell of international law firm White & Case. Senior management and human resource professionals stressed the need for transparency.

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Here are three counterintuitive ideas to help your salespeople really remember and use your content from your 2019 sales kickoff. 71% of sales managers agree the ability to “ articulate value ” is the biggest difference between high and low sales performers. And I’d be interested in your plans for your 2019 kickoff meetings!

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Red Star Kim

JANUARY 23, 2023

But what we also learned from the Pandemic was the importance of soft skills – how we manage ourselves and interact with others. And the relentless rate of change and heightened competition means that you have to constantly update your technical skills.

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Data – CRM (Client Relationship Management) and CDP (Client Data Platforms) are often lacking. Processes and skills for managing opportunities and pipelines can be lacking. Time and capacity – Many fee-earners are stretched and compelled to manage large amounts of client work under heavy time pressures.

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Red Star Kim

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In practice, there is usually an iterative process where top-down and bottom-up strategies are negotiated and aligned. The result was that often leads generated by marketing were not tracked through the pipeline and sales process managed by fee-earners. One delegate said “We are regionally based so each region has their own strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

As you'll read below, sales operations includes everything from lead management, sales strategy, and territory structuring and alignment to process optimization, compensation plans, sales automation, training, and data analytics and reporting. Sales Data Management. Performance Management. Technology Management.

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Aepiphanni

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Philip Campbell, a CPA and author of Never Run Out of Cash, once said that while cash is the lifeblood of businesses, what fuels a company’s success is their ability to efficiently manage their cash flow. In a 2019 report by CB Insights , 29% of business failures were due to companies losing money. Efficiently manage your receivables.

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Mike Kunkle

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

” ~ CSO Insights 2019 Sales Enablement Report (p. Total Quality Management (TQM), Business Process Management (BPM), Six Sigma, and Lead Sigma are powerful methods for this sort of work. Sales process management requires this same attention, situational fluency, and skill. increase in revenue plan attainment 17.1%

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 8, 2019

Nearly half of American CFOs indicated they believed a recession would hit by mid-year 2020 in a Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook survey released in June 2019. On average, seller retention is down 5% in 2019. Here are a few for you to start: Have your C-sat scores dipped? What does retention look like on your sales team?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 27, 2020

According to Fundera , in 2019 over 1,800 businesses were founded by women each day. Arlan Hamilton is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital , a fund dedicated to bridging the gap between fundraising opportunities for founders who identify as people of color, women, and/or LGBTQIA. There are currently 12.3 Image Source.

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Red Star Kim

DECEMBER 7, 2023

kimtasso.com) January 2014 The post Book review – Can we start again?

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QYMATIX

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite its long history and prestige as a reliable and reputable company, KNV filed for bankruptcy in 2019. As the clock ticked closer to Insolvency, Eisenmann SE engaged in intense negotiations with a state-owned Chinese engineering group. The transition of ownership took place on 1 August 2019.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 20, 2019

The post A Flat Tire, A Moment of Need, And A Skills Training Revolution (Updated July 2019) by Tim Riesterer appeared first on Corporate Visions. So what does this have to do with sales manager skills training? I had to change a flat tire on my daughter’s car the other day. I’ll get to that in a second.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Excellent, high-value content: Negotiation skills (under-taught in most sales curricula today). Empower also provides a virtual coaching platform, sales content management , digital sales rooms , and conversation intelligence features. I promise we’ll bring you great content and exciting things in 2019 and beyond!

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Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 6, 2020

The Sales Conversation Metric evaluates how well your sellers deliver perspective to your customers, compared to the performance of the 1,000 global sales organizations that participated in the 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study. Negotiate for mutually beneficial decisions. Consistently conduct mutually valuable sales calls.

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Jermaine Edwards

APRIL 3, 2020

According to Deloitte Global’s 2018 crisis management survey, “ Stronger, Fitter, Better: Crisis Management for the Resilient Enterprise ,” nearly 60% of respondents believe that organisations face more crises today than they did ten years ago, yet many may overestimate their capabilities to respond. It’s about the result, not status.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 17, 2020

Adding to the complication managing a fully remote team that has key team members in different locations. Video meetings let everybody – decision-makers, managers, or other employees – join with one click from any device of their choosing, irrespective of where they live. Negotiating the Price. Consolidate the Deal.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Research published by Jo Liversidge and Alexa Bona at Gartner offers some advice in this regard: Do not assume the price will not increase without prior negotiation. Negotiate a maximum net price increase of 3% to 5% for a renewal term. In essence: negotiate, negotiate, negotiate.

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QYMATIX

APRIL 20, 2021

Not only top management decides based on data, but every department wants individual analyses that fit its own departmental goals. BI is not just software; it is a whole and complex system that spans the entire management and executive level. Today – in times of Big Data – it is instead a prerequisite to remain competitive.

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Sales Management Matters

AUGUST 2, 2019

This blog is a continuation of a seven-part series by OpenSymmetry for the Sales Management Association. CSO Insight’s 2018-2019 Sales Performance Report showed that the qualities most coveted in the buying process are being a ‘Trusted Partner’ with a ‘Dynamic Alignment’ process.

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Showpad

APRIL 15, 2020

Content management. It’s important to take note of how content management works for each software solution. This one is non-negotiable! How many customer accounts do you manage? Scalability is also important in terms of contract management. CRM integration. Do you plan on adding more sales reps this year?

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

After analyzing over 1 800 contract amendments negotiated using the PandaDoc platform , our experts were finally able to come up with a complete guide about how to change the terms of a written agreement. There are more like term negotiations, as changes in the original document can be easily made without altering its legality.

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PandaDoc

MAY 7, 2020

While this can be a challenge, it’s also a necessity — and how effectively agents manage it can have an impact on their bottom line. “Real estate agents with failing time management skills typically made around $25k per year while those who had mastered this competency made closer to $88k per year. Document management.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 16, 2020

In fact, according to HubSpot's 2019 Remote Work Report, communication with co-workers, feelings of loneliness, and overworking are challenges that remote workers face daily. Plus, we review best practices for managing a group of remote sales employees. Have a designated workspace that is non-negotiable. Maintain a routine.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

First, they prefer the leads and prospects that are undergoing some sort of change: a buyout, a restructuring, or a change in management. Written by Michael Bosworth, an accomplished sales manager, and published in 1995, this book is one of the most popular works on solution selling. The challenger customer” by B. Adamson, M.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The Sales Conversation Metric evaluates how well your sellers deliver perspective to your customers, compared to the performance of the 1,000 global sales organizations that participated in the 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study. Effectively negotiate for mutually-beneficial decisions. Sales managers effectively coach salespeople.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 12, 2020

Let us begin by understanding what does a customer success manager do. A customer success manager is responsible for customer loyalty and customer retention. Here, we have pulled average customer success manager salaries from across the globe, subjected to a lot of variable factors and then bring you a tentative salary bar.

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Sales Management Matters

AUGUST 8, 2019

In the final blog of OpenSymmetry’s seven-part blog series on effective sales compensation plan design, we’re looking at how to manage all kinds of deals — even the unforeseen deal. How do we best manage these situations? To read the entire blog series, start with blog one. FORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 18, 2019

In this, the third in our blog series discussing the findings of the “All That Glitters Is Not Gold: 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study,” we explore four ways that you can align your sales strategies for success, no matter the state of the market. Evaluate Your Existing Talent—and Rebuild Your Hiring Profiles.

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SBI

APRIL 1, 2020

WALTHAM, MA (April 1, 2019): Brainshark , Inc., Under the partnership, joint customers can easily enrich their sales training programs with content from GO1’s robust library – using Brainshark to manage and deliver the learning, and test for mastery. Brainshark Collaborates with GO1, Enhances Sales Training.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 30, 2019

In fact, 72% of manufacturing sales leaders say their greatest challenge in winning new business is identifying and gaining access to decision-makers, according to CSO Insights’ 2018-2019 Sales Performance Study. Bid Manager: Complex manufacturing sales are typically conducted through RFPs and bids.

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Help Scout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The Art of Negotiation. Our VP of Finance, Shawna Fisher, delivered a talk at a company retreat about how negotiation is best understood not as a face-to-face confrontation, but as a side-by-side, problem-solving journey: “Negotiation is fundamentally about human interaction. How to Hire for Chat and Email Writing Skills.

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Mercuri International

MAY 23, 2023

In the world of sales, AI offers huge potential — and it could be what strategic account managers have been waiting for…if used correctly. There are many aspects of business where AI is and will be impacting strategic account managers. Your competition and customers are most likely working on their own AI strategy.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In 2018, just 54 percent of all sellers met their sales quotas, according to CSO Insight’s 2018-2019 Sales Performance Study. Upper management often approaches sales leaders for on-the-spot evaluations of their sales reps, such as an open-ended question like, “Is this sales rep good?” Push Back on Subjectivity.

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QYMATIX

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

You can follow different kinds of paths if you are a company, a manager, or an individual. Reading the emotions of your customers and negotiating with them is not. Further Read: Yael Karlinsky-Shichor & Oded Netzer (2019): Automating the B2B Salesperson Pricing Decisions: A Human-Machine Hybrid Approach.

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QYMATIX

JUNE 14, 2022

Amazon is a company built on data and can manage prices dynamically. Research from Bain shows that if a company is not actively managing prices, it is losing 2 to 4% in operating profit every year. Besides, they make salespeople more confident during negotiations. 2019): Dynamic Pricing: Building an Advantage in B2B Sales.

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