Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The hiring manager said, “As soon as you get the orders, we can negotiate what type of development team you’ll have supporting you.” The same is true for implementing a new strategic account management plan. This is the type of change that can potentially lengthen the sales cycle and confuse your consultative sales professionals.

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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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Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sales coaching gives sales professionals the mentoring they need to resolve critical skills competency gaps and be more productive. Asking your sales professionals behavioral questions will allow you to learn their approach and help them reflect on areas where coaching is needed.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 9, 2022

You make those role play sessions more involved and realistic — or have them dive in and conduct real calls, videos, meetings, or emails.". Sandhu also stressed how managers need to commit to repetition when training their reps. He said: "It's not uncommon for reps to forget most of their sales training after their first month.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

You can achieve it with a structured sales performance management process. Now that you're clear on what sales performance management entails, let's talk about why it is so important to implement it into your standard operating rhythm. Why Sales Performance Management Matters.

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 24, 2024

This is good news for B2B sales teams that have faced economic headwinds, shrinking customer budgets, and delayed or canceled purchasing decisions. But even throughout this tough period, some sales organizations have found a way to meet or exceed targets—and feel confident in their ability to do it again this year.

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Brooks Group

JULY 7, 2023

Strong, Aligned Company Culture Your sales training company will interact closely, and build relationships, across your sales organization. Many sales training programs are complex, overly structured, difficult to customize, and contain more bulk than you actually need. Contact us today.

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Brooks Group

MAY 2, 2023

Opening the Meeting Is More Important Than You Know Our culture seems to underemphasize the importance of starting off strong. The process of tying up a sale doesn’t begin at the negotiation table after all the meetings have been had and solutions have been presented, but rather at the beginning of the sales process.

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Brooks Group

JULY 27, 2022

As we pass the half-way point of the year, sales managers may start to hear a few grumblings that quotas are too high. While it’s wise to reassess sales targets to make sure they are realistic, assuming they are too high might be a mistake. Forbes reported that in 2017 that 57% of sales reps failed to meet quota.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Follow these 4 keys to maximize the ROI of your sales training reinforcement program and improve the performance of your sales team. Immediately following your sales training, however, it’s a good idea to have an expert sales coach (who closely understands your sales strategy and business objectives) lead the reinforcement program.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My Last Public Seminars of 2011 | Don’t Miss Out! Tweet Share I want to make sure you know about my last three LIVE public seminars of 2011: If you live in or close to San Diego, Dallas, or San Marcos, I want you to join me for my events. See Jeffrey Gitomer’s Public Seminar Schedule For 2012. Sales Management.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2024

But these measurements alone don’t give sales leaders enough information to make good decisions that improve performance. Effective performance management requires establishing KPIs, metrics, and performance tracking systems to monitor individual and team performance, identify areas for improvement, and drive accountability.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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. Contact us to find your best sales kickoff keynote presenter today!

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Brooks Group

MAY 24, 2023

Time To Persuade The first three steps of the IMPACT Selling ® System (Investigate, Meet, and Probe) revolve around understanding the customer. As a sales manager, you need to make sure your team knows how to uncover the customer’s wants in addition to their needs.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 4, 2023

An excellent candidate must be able to lead a team and manage multiple aspects of the business. Let’s look more closely at the qualities of effective sales leadership : Emotional Intelligence Skills Finding and hiring people with emotional intelligence can sometimes be difficult. Sales is a mentoring-based career.

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Brooks Group

JUNE 2, 2023

And if conversion rates are low in the later stages of the sales funnel, you may need to focus on skills such as building value, managing objections , gaining commitment, and negotiating price. But according to the Sales Management Association, formal sales coaching strategies tend to be poorly executed or non-existent.

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Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Today, you’ll see far more transactors of products and services adopt terms like account, client, partner, and relationship manager for their job title than the overt “sales representative.” Of course, there are myriad reasons for this — both good and bad.

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Brooks Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the dynamic world of sales, where every decision can make or break a deal, harnessing the power of data is critical. As a sales leader or sales manager, your ability to navigate the complex terrain of market trends, team performance, and individual contributions hinges on a crucial tool—sales metrics.

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Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This post walks you through the four pitfalls of sales strategy and provides best practices to avoid them. Pitfall 1: Not Setting Clear Strategic Priorities The first pitfall of sales strategy is not setting clear priorities. Keep Everyone on the Same Page: Your sales team wants to be successful. 3 Best Practices for Success 1.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 5, 2022

He realized that he had a less expensive product—in stock —that would meet the customer’s needs. Management now had one year to break even, and two years to turn a profit, otherwise the company would be shut down. Upon his suggestion, the customer chose to cancel their original order and ordered the available product.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 19, 2023

Access Do your customers’ leadership teams seek you out for meetings and insight, or do you work mostly with lower-level decision-makers? Next up in the Key Fundamentals of IMPACT Selling ® series: Unlock “Meet”: The 2nd Key Fundamental of IMPACT. Download the interactive pdf here.

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Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For example, organizations that shift from account management to a prospecting mindset must validate that incentives are designed to drive new business growth. Step 3: Enable Sales Managers to Manage Change The next step when building a successful sales strategy is engaging managers. Change is a constant.

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Zendesk

JANUARY 24, 2022

But before they can even get to that point, they need to make their biggest sale ever: themselves. When you’re applying for a sales job, you’re essentially selling your value to a hiring manager. The hiring process is almost like a “sales funnel” if you think about the application stage through the onboarding stage.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 1, 2022

That requires involvement and buy-in from both sales leaders and salespeople. But how do you develop that level of commitment if salespeople see training as unnecessary, and management sees it as expensive but not something they need to participate in? What do salespeople say when management isn’t around (and vice versa)?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2021

That might be revamping their messaging, setting mini-goals they know they can hit for a quick confidence boost, talking to their sales manager, or ramping up their activity. High sales achievers don’t let themselves mentally count a deal as "won" until the prospect has signed the check. They’re paranoid. They're focused.

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 10, 2023

One of the most common requests we receive at The Brooks Group is for sales negotiation training on closing techniques. Too many sales managers think their team has a closing problem, when in reality, they have a prospecting problem. Until a person meets all the above criteria, they are still a suspect. Check it out!

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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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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. Each “B” stands for a different behavior.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JUNE 8, 2011

Come Meet, Tweet, and Eat with Jeffrey Gitomer, Noah Rickun, and Joe Sorge. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Dont let your next sales meeting suck! Public Seminars – See Jeffrey Live! Upcoming Seminars. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Select Category.

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Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Sales can be tough, and a good sales manager knows when an individual (or their entire team) needs some encouragement. An inspired sales rep will push themselves longer and harder than an uninspired rep. Motivation is external. Inspiration is internal. It is like a pilot light that once lit, will continue burning.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Types of Sales Collaboration Why Collaboration Matters Tools that Foster Collaboration 6 Tips for Collaboration How can sales and marketing collaborate? Sales and marketing teams today must break away from traditional silos and forge powerful, collaborative alliances.

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Brooks Group

JULY 14, 2023

Focused and Motivating The sales profession is not for the faint of heart. Effective sales leaders must be able to help sales managers motivate struggling team members as they face repeated rejection and buyer objections. Despite how hard they work, meeting their quota may be extraordinarily challenging.

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Brooks Group

JULY 15, 2022

What do we, as business leaders and sales leaders, need to be thinking about to combat these macro headwinds we’re facing and really these rapidly changing times? . This idea of recession resilience came out of a Vistage meeting I was in yesterday. The first of these is to focus on revenue, not just sales.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 17, 2023

CSOs need to conduct sales strategy meetings which include managing sales targets and making sure they are supervising everyone during the sales processes. They need to lead a team that can meet sales goals. Without them, there would be no sales department. Overall, their job is vital.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 27, 2023

Understanding Sales Operations A company’s operations team is responsible for everything from managing leads, selling strategy, and territory planning. This post is an acting guide on efficient sales operations team structure! Support sales teams in finding new leads and prospects (both inbound and outbound).

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 3, 2012

Tweet Share I want you to join me March 8th for an afternoon leadership seminar, and March 9th for a morning sales seminar at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel so you can make 2012 the year you dominate your market and the year you dominate your competition. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Upcoming Seminars.

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Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In either case, the root of conflict between managers and salespeople occurs when salespeople don’t do what their manager thinks they should be doing. Managers who use assessments get insight into who their salespeople are that would otherwise take years to learn. It improves their ability to connect with their team.

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