SBI Growth

JUNE 14, 2013

I sat across the desk from Mike, the new VP of Sales. Before his promotion Mike was the can’t-miss Sales Manager. Now he was just another VP of Sales in the crosshairs. After a quick conversation, we found he was committing 3 of the sales myths below. The majority of Sales VPs are guilty of at least one.

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Nutshell

MARCH 11, 2019

You’ve probably just landed a new sales leadership role, and you want to make the transition as successful as possible. While this is an exciting time for you, it’s also a time of change for your sales reps. Adjusting to a new sales manager can be difficult, especially if the last person in charge was well-liked by the team.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 2, 2018

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. Check out my book on running a human-centric sales process that'll win more customers.

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Insightly

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Sales and marketing teams have the same ultimate goal: revenue generation and growth. Despite this, marketing and sales do not always spend enough time aligning on goals. This misalignment has led to tension between sales and marketing teams. Because of this, many companies have made strides to align marketing and sales teams.

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Insightly

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Sales and marketing teams have the same ultimate goal: revenue generation and growth. Despite this, marketing and sales do not always spend enough time aligning on goals. This misalignment has led to tension between sales and marketing teams. Because of this, many companies have made strides to align marketing and sales teams.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 18, 2018

How satisfied are you with the rollout and adoption of your CRM system? When we ask sales leaders this question, answers often range from “not very” to “not at all.” In our 2018 Sales Operations Optimization Study conducted by CSO Insights, only 47 percent of respondents reported adoption rates of greater than 90 percent.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

For many leaders, when we hear the term remote sales management, our blood pressure starts to rise. Sales teams are hard enough to manage already, let alone remotely.". Let’s explore some crucial components you can keep in mind when constructing your own sales enablement strategy. There is no need to fear.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 9, 2022

Even the most seasoned, effective salespeople can struggle when hashing out how to lead a sales team. Taking the reins doesn't come naturally to everyone, and even born leaders might need a little guidance when transitioning into a sales management role. Sales is an inherently competitive field. Let's dive in.

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 23, 2020

For sales leaders, it seems forecast accuracy is as elusive as the white whale. Miller Heiman Group research finds that fewer than 20% of sales organizations have forecast accuracy of 75% or greater, which causes plenty of trouble when it comes to predicting sales performance and meeting revenue goals. Seller Subjectivity.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

How has your sales leadership style changed this year? As companies are facing uncertainty with their ability to operate and sell their products, effective leadership may have a whole new set of requirements. It’s time to rewrite the sales leadership rulebook. Sales Leader Priorities for 2021.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

There are no one-fits-all solutions for sales training. The best programs are the ones tailored to your organization and sales force. That is where role-specific sales training comes in. For a program to be effective, it must be tailored to the needs of your sales force; otherwise, it can be counterproductive.

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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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Openview

MAY 11, 2018

To achieve explosive growth, technology startups need to have world-class sales teams. That is, if they have the right sales team in place. A company’s success depends on the ability of its sales teams to deliver sustainable, predictable revenue at scale. Here are 3 ways fast-growing startups build sales teams differently.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Editor’s note: Sales managers and leaders are often faced with creating a sales playbook from scratch. More than 8,000 companies use PandaDoc’s document management platform to send proposals and quotes (in fact, $16 million+ worth of deals have been closed with PandaDoc). Sales Process. Sales Team.

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QYMATIX

MAY 18, 2021

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is probably the most important planning process of any company. Sales & Operations Planning has two primaries, close-related elements: sales planning (related to sales and marketing) and operations planning (related to order-fulfilment, stock and logistics).

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2021

If you hear "ABC" and "Always be closing" pops into your mind, a sales career may be the perfect match for you. You've come to the right place to learn what it's like to have a career in sales, and it's about much more than the close. Sales seems like a fast-paced, hardball kind of career. What's a typical sales career path?

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 9, 2020

In this post, he recommends ways that sales enablement leaders can implement sales transformation strategies. As a global sales enablement professional and leader, one of the chief lessons I try to teach is moving sales enablement from the perception it’s purely a training function or just a new word for training.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 24, 2013

Speed, it is the most commonly used word among Sales and Marketing leaders today. It is now a critical attribute of successful B2B sales and marketing organizations. Because Sales and Marketing organizations are adjusting to the new B2B buyer behavior. Field Sales has seen a resource shift from outside to inside sales.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 17, 2023

What is a Sales Enablement Manager? If you’re looking to optimize the sales and marketing in your company, consider a sales enablement manager. Not all companies have them, but those that do can make more effective sales. This guide will cover what a sales enablement manager is and does.

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Mike Kunkle

JULY 4, 2022

There’s still a lot of talk these days in the sales enablement community and the market at large about the need for sales and marketing alignment. If it sounds as if I’m ignoring the need for top-down support for enablement from company executives and especially sales leadership – trust me, I’m not.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

APRIL 25, 2013

Accountability is the number one recurring theme throughout sales leadership in the United States. Sales leaders want their salespeople to be more accountable for their actions, activity, numbers, and (of course) sales. And it’s TOTALLY WRONG, TOTALLY BACKWARD, TOTALLY INSULTING, and TOTALLY ANTI-SALES.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 30, 2013

Yet many front-line sales managers are slow to respond. Because speed requires more time and effort from a sales manager. The average sales manager will avoid these requirements. This post will explore ideas sales managers can implement to increase their speed. Acquire new capabilities.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

According to Brian Halligan , LegalSpot was going to be "a suite of applications that helped you manage your law firm." He and Dharmesh Shah then "tinkered" with their business model until they transformed it into the universal Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service Hub it is today. The moral of the story?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 19, 2019

Sales training is a big investment. Not only are you paying for the training itself and related expenses, but your sales team is also losing prime selling hours to attend workshops and sessions. Nonetheless, this investment can reap significant benefits and set your sales teams up for success. Your managers aren't involved.

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SBI

APRIL 10, 2012

Tweet To stimulate your ongoing and by now thoroughly ravenous appetite for more delectable sales leadership fare, the name hovering up in the article heading will surely set this particular table in fine culinary style. If your sales are not where they should be, consider the three main lessons of Kitchen Nightmares.

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Zendesk

APRIL 13, 2022

The sales industry loves to throw around the word quota. So much success is measured by this one little word: how many sales you made, how much money you made, how many leads you made contact with, how many eyes saw your marketing. So, why are most companies neglecting the support systems needed to help their sales reps do just that?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

We write frequently about aligning your sales process to your ideal customer''s buying process. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” Learn why your team ignores your sales process and how to fix it. Embedding it in your CRM. Frustration results.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The term “sales culture” is a bit of a fuzzy concept. All of those elements and several others are influenced by your company’s sales culture. Here, we’ll discuss several aspects of sales culture, what a good one looks like, how to improve yours, and how to scale it as your company grows. Conclusion.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They don’t have confidence in your forecast or the data in your CRM. We see this happening to sales operations leaders often. Consistent use of one simple tool by sales will greatly reduce your pain. It's an ongoing sales aid for reps and a needed coaching tool by managers. The process is broken.

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SBI

JANUARY 30, 2018

For sales teams, it’s both a time of endings as well as beginnings. Closing out the year in sales means getting those last minute deals in and determining which reps will come out on top and make it to club. Likely countless weeks have been spent developing the sales operating plan. Strategy Adjustments.

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Insightly

AUGUST 28, 2023

We all know that the primary function of a customer relationship management (CRM) system is to collect, organize, and manage your customer-related data. You also need to understand what your CRM data is telling you. That’s where CRM reports come in. What is a CRM report?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 20, 2013

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. During that time, we have insisted on the ‘Topgrading for Sales’ method of hiring. What is Topgrading for Sales? It’s that time of the year.

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Insightly

JANUARY 4, 2024

In B2B sales, the role of a sales leader is both exhilarating and challenging. Juggling targets, managing teams, and making critical decisions can be demanding and overwhelming. This is where the power of a well-implemented Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) comes into play.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2020

Relationship-building is one of the most important competencies a successful sales professional can have. Sales groups on social media. Check out these social media sales groups and start building your network anytime, anywhere. Check out these social media sales groups and start building your network anytime, anywhere.

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Mike Kunkle

MAY 11, 2022

Sales Transformation. I’ve been involved in sales transformations that were entirely focused on getting the best-possible performance out of the sales force (ranging from a 30 to 600 percent increase in sales), independent of retooling the rest of the organization. The Elements of Sales Force Effectiveness.

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DemandFarm

JUNE 1, 2024

Among all the operations in your business, two major ones that drive growth are Revenue Operations (RevOps) and Sales Operations (SalesOps). Both RevOps and SalesOps are accountable for key metrics and KPIs, such as sales metrics, that drive predictable revenue and sales productivity and growth, including forecast accuracy.

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Brooks Group

DECEMBER 27, 2022

What Are Sales Goals? While there may be more elegant and creative definitions for a sales goal, let us define a sales goal as the total number of sales your team is responsible for obtaining within a fiscal period. For our purposes, we will be discussing sales goals as they relate to the sales manager.

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