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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Management

Hubspot Sales

Although factors like your product line, buyer personas, and brand awareness are important, sales managers are also critical to the success of any business as they have the potential to unlock huge returns that impact the business's bottom line. Onboarding and training new hires is another sales management responsibilities.

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Top 4 Skills You Need to be a Better Sales Manager

Brooks Group

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of blog posts about the most important sales manager skills. Still more provide readers with tips and tricks for getting sales teams to take action toward desired outcomes. As any good sales manager will tell you, a skill is an ability that can be learned and improved through practice.

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New Sales Manager? Follow This Guide to Crush Your First Quarter

Hubspot Sales

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. Assess your strengths as a manager. Understand how your team wants to be managed.

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7 Tips for Sales Kickoff Keynotes That Will Inspire Your Sales Team

Brooks Group

Planning your sales kickoff or national sales meeting? Your sales keynote speaker will set the tone for the rest of the event. A great speaker can help motivate your sales team, elevate your mission, and drive results. An energetic, engaging, relatable speaker will set the tone for the rest of the event.

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The 5 Characteristics of Sales Reps Who Meet and Exceed Their Goals

Hubspot Sales

But meeting your goal is far harder. As a sales educator, I've watched a great number of salespeople set goals and succeed -- and an even greater number set goals and fail. Imagine you set a goal of getting five executive meetings this month. However, whether or not you meet an activity-based goal is completely up to you.

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How to become a sales manager: Making the jump from seller to leader

Nutshell

Do you dream of leaving your sales associate desk behind and stepping up to a sales management position? The arrangements may vary from company to company, but in general, most sales professionals would jump at the chance to assume a leadership role. Are you Sure You Want to Become a Sales Manager?

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3 ways to reduce stress for event planners and win their business

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According to Forbes magazine, being an Event Coordinator is the 5th most stressful job. Event coordinators juggle lots of moving parts like keeping tabs on multiple clients, meeting tight deadlines, and dealing with unforeseen last-minute problems. As we mentioned previously, Event Planners are under extremely tight deadlines.