Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Being a sales manager is a whirlwind experience, especially for those who were once successful sales reps themselves. Fortunately, there are valuable best practices that can help aspiring sales managers excel in their positions. Best Practices for Sales Managers 1. Lay a robust foundation.

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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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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Ask a sales manager about the most important decisions they make, and you will probably hear about exceeding budget, growing market share, or achieving year-over-year growth. The most important decision you will ever make as a manager is the decision of who to hire.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Treating Social Selling Like Conventional Bhavik Sarkhedi , Growth Head & CMO of Content Whale , says, "One of the biggest mistakes sales reps make in social selling is treating it like traditional cold outreach. Social selling isn‘t about bombarding prospects with generic sales pitches; it’s about building relationships.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In fact, one of the most expensive mistakes you can make is hiring the wrong rep. In other words, as a hiring manager you want to do everything you can to bring the right candidates on your team. We asked HubSpot sales managers for their tips for avoiding costly hiring mistakes. Here’s what they had to say.

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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? What does a sales manager do?

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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. It taught me some key lessons I still apply today — shedding light on five of the main traps several sales managers fall into. 5 Traps to Avoid as a Sales Manager.

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Zendesk

AUGUST 18, 2021

As a company grows, its ever-expanding sales team needs a capable CRM system to keep track of prospects and customers. Sales management software is used by many salespeople to organize their contacts, manage their pipeline, and streamline workflows and organizational processes for maximum efficiency—allowing small businesses to get bigger.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This disparity isn’t surprising, as a number of factors have come together in recent years to make B2B sales more challenging than ever: That same HubSpot report also found that 38% of salespeople say getting a response from prospects is getting more difficult. Because every sale starts with a connection. Sales Gravy.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Unfortunately, many sales leaders may be aware that their managers need to spend more time coaching, but formal programs tend to be poorly executed or non-existent. Only 40% of sales professionals report a well-established coaching culture at their organization. Make sure they understand the benefits of meeting.

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Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Jeb Blount, author of People Follow You and Frank Cespedes, a Harvard Business school professor and author of the new book Sales Management That Works, discuss modern sales leadership challenges in a world that never stops changing. Listen to more episodes of the Sales Gravy Podcast

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Strategic Account Management Association

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But as a provider of a robust set of sales management and methodology capabilities , our teams work with some of the biggest sales organizations in the world. The foundational principles that move the needle are ones familiar to any sales leader: relationships and insights.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 26, 2023

73% of sales professionals seem to think so, agreeing that AI can help them pull insights from data they otherwise wouldn't be able to find. AI offers an opportunity to transform this data into actionable insights, enabling sales teams to make better decisions, future-proof their strategies, and keep a competitive edge.

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Brooks Group

AUGUST 8, 2023

For sales teams, understanding each sales professional’s personality can help align strengths and weaknesses to create a high-performing sales force. Here are 12 recommendations for sales managers. Manage Change Recognize that different personalities respond differently to change.

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Mike Kunkle

MAY 30, 2023

It’s organizational behavioral change management, for sure, and requires both smart and hard work. The goal of “enablement,” whichever term you use for it (sales, revenue, buyer, buying, performance, other) is ultimately to improve organizational performance. Which, earlier, we said wasn’t easy either. So, what’s an enabler to do?

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Upland

MAY 4, 2023

When used correctly, this formula can help organizations with their sales forecasting for a specific period of time and bolster their sales efforts. It also allows sales leaders to measure impact and make adjustments using the four levers, enabling them to create effective strategies to improve revenue growth.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 11, 2021

If you're looking for another article about why your sales team should only hire ESFJs, you've come to the wrong place. While it's true that not everyone is a perfect fit for the sales profession, most people just need the right motivation and management to thrive. ESTP (The Explorer). ENTJ (The Visionary). ISTP (The Detective).

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 30, 2023

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. They must show that they can make an impact with enablement and move the needle on the metrics that matter most.

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DemandFarm

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In this guide, we’ll delve into the intricacies of enterprise sales, their importance, key stages, and the metrics that will help you optimize your strategy as a key account manager. What is Enterprise Sales? Longer Decision-Making Process: Enterprise sales often require extensive negotiations and multiple rounds of discussions.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2024

Why would you need a script for making a cold call? Before the end of the day, you need to make 100 calls. Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. In many cases, prospects need to be compelled to act, and digital channels may not be enough to close the sale.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The ability to share information with other leaders, or to ask "how are you managing?" If you don’t have the time or resources to commission your own data, you’re in luck because we’ve compiled a list of important data points sales leaders need to know. 51% of sales leaders rely on data to measure sales rep performance.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

For sales reps, a client management software or customer relationship management system ( CRM ) can do the trick. CRM is a software that manages all your relationships with clients and potential customers. It can help maintain a healthy pipeline and make data entry and prospecting easier. HubSpot CRM. Price: Free+.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 8, 2023

This abundance of data can lead to analysis paralysis, where decision-makers are overwhelmed without the insights to drive action. Without a laser focus on the metrics that truly matter, sales leaders can find themselves rudderless. So can the absence of purposeful change leadership and management. Dashboards become mash-boards.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

That includes the number of sales calls, VP-level meetings, new qualified opportunities, and so on. With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results. When building your strategy, you’ll need to set sales activities goals and track how your team measures up.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 19, 2017

As a sales manager or leader, your problem probably isn’t too little data. From the percentage of reps using your CRM and cohort retention rate to average time to hire and sales velocity, there’s a nearly endless list of metrics, reports, and data points. Half of those make it to the demo stage. It’s too much data.

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SalesPop

MAY 7, 2021

But at the end of the day, account planning naturally evolves into creating a project, which falls into the realm of project management. One place where project management really comes into account management is bringing a broadly stated goal into realistic terms. Project Management Elements.

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SalesPop

MARCH 25, 2021

Sales most definitely have two sides, and this is also true of account management. In his 2014 book Zero to One , Peter Thiel wrote, “In the 1990s, the focus was on the product, and not on sales. This is also true of account management. If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough.

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Nutshell

JUNE 12, 2020

Promoting a sales manager internally is tricky, but hiring an outsider might be even trickier. Current sales reps can make great candidates for open positions within the company. They’re already familiar with company values and processes, making them better-suited for leadership positions and mentoring others.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It’s becoming apparent that you have a decision to make. He wants out of the cart and promptly begins pulling things off the shelves, so you put him back in the cart, and he begins throwing a temper tantrum. You look at your watch – it’s getting close to lunchtime, which is closely followed by naptime.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Instead of focusing on assigned reading and sporadic training sessions, concentrate on effective sales training techniques that stick. The best sales training can make a big difference to morale and performance, and motivate sales leaders and sales professionals on the frontline alike to move out of their comfort zones.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 8, 2025

Nevertheless, once youve identified your prospects intrinsic motivation and can understand their desired future state, Keenan suggests that all thats left is to make sure they not only believe that that future state can happen, but that you can make it happen better than anyone else. Con #1: Getting good at gap selling takes some time.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

This quote, from marketing guru Seth Godin, sums up the importance of good data in making better decisions. Think about the last time you made a quick decision that yielded disappointing results. Did you use data to inform that decision? Analytics inform decisions, lead to new ideas, and unveil opportunities for growth.

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ProlifIQ

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Salesforce Account Plans – Using Your CRM To Drive Strategy Salesforce account plans are a powerful feature within the Salesforce ecosystem, designed to streamline and enhance strategic account planning for B2B sales and account management professionals. Loading contacts into a map is simple.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 7, 2022

It makes sense: People have become accustomed to working from home, and have seen the benefits — including increased productivity and better work-life balance. Here, let's explore what virtual leadership looks like, the skills required to succeed, and tips on excelling as a virtual sales leader, according to three remote managers.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s the same as anticipating the likely outcome of a sales opportunity while there’s still time to influence it. Sales managers are like tornado watchers. Unfortunately, most managers are horribly ineffective at running deal reviews. Whatever those leading indicators are, make them part of your deal review.

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Brooks Group

JUNE 13, 2024

Sales scripts and pitch decks The language and visuals used in sales presentations to sell products or services are carefully crafted, and sales professionals can get quite defensive about their proven talk tracks and slide decks. It creates a feedback loop for constantly refining and optimizing processes over time.

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QYMATIX

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Every company is made up of countless logical decisions. And these decisions are rational, aren’t they? Every successful managing director or sales manager of a component manufacturer or specialized wholesaler should know how valuable their customers are. But who cares about that?

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