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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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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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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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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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Future of Sales: Rethinking the Sales Manager

Engage Selling

This is the fifth of a six article series on the future of sales that I wrote for the Adobe Document Cloud Blog. You can check it out there along with content from other great authors… In this six-part series … Read More »

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The Sliding Scale of Sales Transformation

Mike Kunkle

Opportunity management is the act of purposefully uncovering and satisfying each buyers’ decision criteria and buying process exit criteria, to successful shepherd the opportunity through the stages of the buying and sales process to a final win decision. Negotiating is included here. Strategic Account Management.

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Creating a Leader versus Promoting a Seller

Engage Selling

I talk often about a new performance-management culture taking hold in the today’s B2All marketplace. To meet that challenge, not only must selling skills change, leadership skills must evolve, too. Your sales manager’s number-one job now is to teach and … Read More »