DemandFarm

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In the ever-evolving sales landscape, organizations grapple with post-pandemic shifts. Efficient sales leadership becomes essential to navigate these challenges and remain competitive. Sales leaders not only set strategies and inspire teams to achieve results but also play a vital role beyond mere management.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Exceptional sales management is key to an organization’s success—yet the role of a sales manager is one of the most challenging. Leading a sales team has become more difficult due to an evolving business landscape, technological advancements, changing customer expectations, and a host of other factors.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 4, 2023

Sales Leadership: Qualities Of A Sales Leader To be an effective leader, you need to make appropriate strategic decisions that fit within your organization’s vision and goals. What Are The Qualities of Successful Sales Leaders? Sales leaders have to be able to make tough decisions quickly and effectively.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

Technical Sales Manager Skills The sales manager plays an important role in any organization. Besides having soft skills, communication skills, and other common skills to boost sales performance, some technical skills are required for consistent success. Customer Satisfaction 10.7%

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Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to make sure your team has everything they need to succeed. The answer is resource management skills—a crucial but often overlooked skill in the sales manager’s toolkit. Table of Contents What is resource management for sales?

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Zendesk

OCTOBER 4, 2021

During the company’s all-hands meeting, you find out a sales manager role has opened up. As a seasoned sales rep, you naturally get excited—until you realize that you don’t know how to transition from a sales agent to a sales manager. What is a sales manager? Hire sales team members.

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Brooks Group

JULY 13, 2023

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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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

Specifically, the managers who lead your sales teams — they oversee the reps who communicate directly with your prospects and customers daily. Think about it this way: If you're a sales manager and you help each of your 10 reps sell 20% more, you've essentially just "created” two new salespeople.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It’s challenging to work in sales management today. Sales managers often resemble Atlas, tasked with holding up the world as their areas of responsibility are ever-increasing: managing their team and market. delivering stronger sales results. Sales Organizations Continuously Reinvent Themselves.

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Upland

MAY 4, 2023

So much so that we created this sales velocity equation to get sales teams moving in the right direction. Sales velocity vs deal velocity – what’s the difference? Deal velocity is how long it takes a deal to get through the sales cycle. Effectively, it’s the same thing as average sales cycle length.

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Engage Selling

MARCH 12, 2021

That means they are quick to conduct meetings and action important ideas. Conduct … Read More » The post The Critical Mistake Sales Managers Make | Sales Strategies first appeared on The Sales Leader. The most successful organizations I work with right now are nimble.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2022

One of my first customer visits as a young sales manager was in support of a salesperson — with a client I hadn't met before. As a result, the customer had researched other supply sources — and as we sat down for the meeting, he told us that he could buy the same product for half the price. 5 Traps to Avoid as a Sales Manager.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Top sales talent can walk out of your door to another career opportunity at any time. This puts more pressure on sales leaders than ever before to foster a sales culture and team environment that compels people to stay. Hiring the right salespeople is a huge challenge for sales leaders. Why sales leadership is personal.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 13, 2020

Sales managers normally face a trifecta of shifting demands from buyers, their direct reports and their organization. The COVID-19 pandemic gives sales managers the perfect opportunity to work toward transforming into more capable leaders. Shift From a Sales Manager’s Mindset to Sales Leader’s Mindset.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

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. Scale your own management process. Good luck, and happy managing! Assess your strengths as a manager.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In this article, I want to talk about using multi-factor analysis to maximize your sales performance improvement. The reason you’d do this is because there is rarely one right answer, or one performance lever to pull, that will deliver the maximum performance improvement with a sales force.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 22, 2018

Sales manager job description. Sales managers are responsible for helping their reps meet individual quota, getting the team to hit quota, forecasting sales and running sales reports, providing mentorship and training, recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new salespeople, and more. Company description.

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Zendesk

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In many ways, the pandemic has forced sales teams to become more efficient. However, remote sales teams have a bigger hurdle when it comes to forging genuine human connections—and not just between sales representatives and customers, but also between one another. How to build a remote sales team. But that’s not culture.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Even staff members notice a serious gap: 91% express accountability as their employer’s top leadership-development need. Simply put, the time to bolster accountability is now, and this all begins with leadership. What Is Accountability in Leadership? Making mistakes is inevitable in the workplace.

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Nutshell

MAY 16, 2019

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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Nutshell

DECEMBER 28, 2018

A 1:1 sales meeting provides sales managers and sales reps time for reflection and goal setting, as well as an opportunity for both sides to raise their concerns. As a manager, you shouldn’t look at your weekly individual meetings as simply a time to go over sales numbers.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the role of Chief Revenue Officers (CROs) or senior-most sales leaders (by any title), has never been more critical. When sales, marketing, and customer success operate in isolated bubbles, opportunities for collaboration and synergy are lost. This is a definite growth killer.

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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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Sales Readiness Group

JULY 14, 2020

Sales managers play a critical role in the psyche and success of their sales teams and that's especially true during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that most teams are now completely virtual, this has introduced new complexities in terms of how sales reps connect with their customers, managers, and peers.

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Chally

MARCH 5, 2020

All too often, new sales managers land in a leadership role based on their ability to sell. Because of this, many don’t know the first thing about sales talent management. Failing to Establish a Repeatable Sales Processes. Most sales managers want salespeople to be happy and independent.

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Revenue Storm

MARCH 15, 2022

Many Sales Leaders have directly experienced the impact with anecdotes ranging from, “I have turned over 70% of my team” to “It is almost impossible to recruit acceptable candidates to help us grow.”. Many Sales Leaders are still adapting to the remote or hybrid working environment, which has helped fuel the talent frenzy.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 30, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the Sales Enablement profession has reached a pivotal crossroads. To firmly establish the function as required and themselves as integral players in their companies, enablement experts must be equipped to prove their worth by improving sales results and bolstering profitability.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. What made you successful as a sales rep? How will your processes inform how you manage your team? What do you like and dislike about the sales process?

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As a founder and former sales leader, I get asked all the time how I decided to step back from my sales role and add a layer between me and my sales reps. When I founded ion interactive, I just sort of organically moved into the sales role. I had a strong sales background, and who knew the product better than me?

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Sales Readiness Group

AUGUST 9, 2022

Most sales leaders are hyper-focused on increasing the sales team performance and try anything to improve prospecting activities. They look to create more opportunities by adding new tools to the sales stack, retraining the team, automating processes, and even outsourcing meeting acquisition.

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Sales Readiness Group

MAY 30, 2019

If you’ve ever run a sales meeting, you probably know that most salespeople aren’t thrilled to attend. Good sales reps prefer to spend their time selling, not sitting in a conference room. After all, they can’t make quota daydreaming their way through a boring meeting.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How Do I Get Promoted to Sales Manager? But sales is a labor-intensive job. The day-to-day stress can be deflating, and most of the time, it takes everything you’ve got just to meet your goal. The day-to-day stress can be deflating, and most of the time, it takes everything you’ve got just to meet your goal.

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Upland

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Sales leaders often find that commitment to change is the single most important ingredient in a successful account planning practice. A lthough change can be scary, difficult and potentially costly if not managed correctly, it is ultimately the key to achieving higher win rates, championing large buying groups, and growing revenue.

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SalesGlobe

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Companies spend a lot of precious time and energy developing their sales strategies and programs for the coming year. For sales management what we tend to see are a less than effective methods that drive the quotas with less than effective results. Increasing quotas by 2% will lead to an increase in sales performance.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

There are many things to consider if you are interested in starting your career in sales. You’ll also need a thorough knowledge of sales trends and stats to succeed. With a modest, go-get-'em attitude, you can learn the stats you need to know to anticipate what a career in sales has in store for you.

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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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