Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 16, 2013

Tweet REALITY QUESTION FOR SALES MANAGERS: Why would you, as a leader, take an improving salesperson who is having the best year of their career, and tell him or her they’re “not making enough calls”? You’re an idiot who knows nothing about leadership, coaching, or creating winners. Successful sales leaders….

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JUNE 14, 2011

It’s fun, it’s practice, and it’s profitable. Filed Under: Attitude , My Books , Networking , Sales , Success Tagged With: corporate sales training , establishing trust , gitomer , how to sell , Jeffrey gitomer , jefrrey gitomer , professional sales training , sales blog , the little red book of selling.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The Truth and Profit Behind Your Service. Leadership must embrace the process and take the training too. Happy people create loyal customers and unlimited profit opportunities. Get Sales Blog Updates. Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live!

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2024

Choose KPIs for Each Sales Process Stage Implementing well-defined sales processes that guide sales reps through each stage of the sales cycle—from lead generation to closing deals—is the next step toward sales success. Big goals such as doubling profit in a year happen incrementally.

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Brooks Group

JUNE 26, 2023

Your sales professionals may have the same job titles as teams at other companies —account executive, business development rep, sales manager—but have a diverse set of professional and personal experiences. The best sales training and development programs are tailored to the unique needs of your organization and sales force.

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Apptivo

JULY 4, 2023

Here are key sales KPIs that will energize any company and lead it to extraordinary success. 10 Sales KPIs Let’s look at a few key sales KPIs that provide full insights into the entire sales cycle, from the initial contact to the final transaction.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 27, 2023

Support sales teams in finding new leads and prospects (both inbound and outbound). Implement sales techniques and best practices that optimize performance flow. What Sets Sales Operations Apart From Sales Enablement? Sales operations and sales management are two different aspects of a business.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 4, 2011

If you make a big sale and the customer calls for help and gets a grump in accounting or shipping, you lose. Price pressure has lowered your profit for the past three years. Get back to profitability. Get Sales Blog Updates. Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Share this Post.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

The goal of sales training is to improve the performance of your sales team. This, in turn, can lead to increased revenue and profitability for your organization. Sales training can be delivered in various formats, including classroom-based instruction, online courses, webinars, and one-on-one coaching.

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Deep Insight

AUGUST 16, 2021

‘Hunting elephants’ is a term used by sales people to describe the targeting of very large clients. Elephant hunting is difficult to do, but very profitable if you’re successful. The message from this blog? The author is Barbara Weaver Smith , but the book itself has contributions from 14 different experts in global sales.

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Brooks Group

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Obviously, this can be broken down into monthly or annual goals and can be applied to an individual sales rep, sales manager, regional manager, or the company as a whole. For our purposes, we will be discussing sales goals as they relate to the sales manager. All calls are not created equal.

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PandaDoc

MAY 6, 2019

Make sure you have the right sales managers in place to set clear goals, define success, and ask the right questions. The leadership team should share a common vision and gain buy-in from employees. Sales engagement technologies align processes and goals, arming sales teams with the right tools and content at the right time.

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Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Customer Churn Rate This metric reflects the number of customers that have stopped doing business with a company over a given period of time and is an essential indicator of customer satisfaction, loyalty, and profitability. Setting sales goals for your business is vital to ensure its success.

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SalesGlobe

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Incentive compensation is a powerful tool that can be used to drive behaviors that result in higher profits, the retention of top performers, and a culture of excellence. However, if not designed and structured properly, sales incentives can have disastrous consequences. The most obvious type of return is increased revenue.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 22, 2011

You must sell your way to profit and success. Not just in front of your own people – make sure it’s on your company’s blog, in your weekly e-magazine, and posted on your website. Get Sales Blog Updates. Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Share this Post. Categories.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 21, 2023

Key accounts deliver huge revenue and profitability compared to other clients in your business portfolio. The idea of strategic account management is to increase the customer lifecycle of each key account. These plans must factor in each account’s uniqueness to maximize strengths and manage weaknesses.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

How to Delight | Top Sales Trainer | Best Sales Trainer | Top Leadership Trainer. They don’t want to know how to save money; they want to know how to make more profit. Get Sales Blog Updates. Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live!

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Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 23, 2011

Knowing how the customer and others produce and profit — When you are trying to make a mental impact on the decision-making process. Trying to persuade someone with facts about your features and benefits pales by comparison to proof that by taking ownership that the customer will increase productivity and profits. Leadership.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JANUARY 10, 2012

You have not shown the customer how they profit more or produce more as a result of owning your products or service. You tried to make the sale by yourself. Get Sales Blog Updates. Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Videos. When there’s no value, price is all that’s left.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 28, 2024

Learn How to Unleash Revenue Potential with Sales Team Training What Is a C-Level Decision Maker? A C-level decision maker is an executive who holds a senior leadership position, typically with a title starting with the letter “C” such as chief executive officer (CEO), chief operating officer (COO), or chief financial officer (CFO).

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Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 17, 2011

What are you willing to change, so that when you do get that CEO meeting you are ready to make a great first impression, an impressive first impression, a differentiating first impression, and earn a sale? Profit Producer. Write a white paper on safety, their industry, productivity, or leadership. Get Sales Blog Updates.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

APRIL 21, 2011

This is a 100% price driven sale. Low profit. Find out a little bit about the prospect’s business so you can go into the sales call with answers and ideas that may get the prospect excited enough to buy. It’s funny how so much of what salespeople are taught by their sales managers and uplines, etc.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

I recently featured a few of Gitomer’s videos on writing sales emails on this blog. They provide sales training as well as other topics applicable to advancing your sales career, such as personal development, time management and leadership training. I guarantee you’ll hear his voice in your head.

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DemandFarm

APRIL 26, 2023

What does a Key Account Manager do? A Key Account Manager is responsible for managing a company’s most important clients or accounts. Their primary goal is to ensure that their clients are profitable and satisfied enough to remain loyal to the company.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Get your prospect a sales lead. Give your prospect ten things he can do to improve his morale, productivity, absenteeism, or profit. Get Sales Blog Updates. Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Give your prospect an idea how to serve his customers better. Get the idea? See the work?

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Loving your job is one thing; profitability of it is another. Finally, feeling stuck contributes significantly to sales turnover. It’s critical to foster a company culture where your sales force interacts and freely shares insights and strategies; unfortunately, this is easier said than done. Communication and trust.

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Insightly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Compared to traditional corporate functions — like sales, marketing, human resources, and finance — revenue operations is a relatively new field. In this blog post, we’ll dig into the emerging field of revenue operations. With proper execution, revenue operations can deliver significant competitive advantages.

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Insightly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Compared to traditional corporate functions — like sales, marketing, human resources, and finance — revenue operations is a relatively new field. In this blog post, we’ll dig into the emerging field of revenue operations. With proper execution, revenue operations can deliver significant competitive advantages.

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Tenfold

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

There are several causes of bad sales data. Like we talked about in a recent Tenfold blog post , there is a prevailing notion that data accuracy, which entails administrative work such as data entry, cuts into a salesperson’s productivity. This leads to another common cause of bad data: lack of communication and leadership.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Strategic Coach offers curated content with blog posts, ebooks, worksheets, and guides to help entrepreneurs overcome roadblocks and achieve their goals. a) plan a) plan runs an insightful blog focused on business coaching for organizations and individuals. They also host events that business leaders can register for.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2023

In today’s economic environment, effective account management is essential for building and maintaining strong client relationships and achieving growth. From podcasts and webinars to blogs and social media posts, these influencers are using a range of channels to help other account managers learn, grow, and succeed.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 23, 2021

It's a robust tool with dozens of features for managing finances, including bill management, invoices and payments, payroll, project profitability, cash flow, contractors, and reports. It integrates with HubSpot so you can automatically send sales entries and invoices from HubSpot into your books. Not sure where to start?

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SalesGlobe

MARCH 8, 2023

Roberto Mallmann You can hide inside your shell, cut some costs in, wait for the storm to go over or you can plan for it, make adjustments, investing in markets or segments that it’s more profitable, more strategic for you cut the costs that are bad costs and be ready because the storm is going to pass. That’s very obvious.

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PandaDoc

JUNE 21, 2022

The key difference is that you’ll be investing (and losing) your own money — so it pays to be prudent, do your market research, and come back with a plan that maximizes your profit while minimizing costs. Update your lean plan accordingly and share it with your leadership team, then execute a new strategy to capture the new opportunity.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Let’s say you’re the head of sales in a small company that recently launched a product. Your task as a sales manager is to market it. But appealing to large audiences doesn’t help your business to reach sales goals, or generate and convert enough leads.

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Showpad

JUNE 22, 2020

It might come across as a bold statement — sales enablement is your engine to drive digital transformation. . In this blog post, I will show you why sales enablement should be set up in a way that it becomes the engine and the driving force for your digital transformation efforts in sales. .

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