Sales Readiness Group

JUNE 28, 2023

The role of a frontline sales manager (FLSM) is challenging. At the same time, sales managers are becoming even more overloaded with administrative responsibilities, reporting requirements, and countless internal meetings.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You’ve just been promoted to sales management. Here’s some helpful advice for new sales managers to help you thrive in your new role and turn those butterflies into fuel for success. What Is a Sales Manager Responsible For? This may involve directly managing some high-priority customers.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If sales is a journey, your strategic plan is the roadmap you'll provide your team to help them reach their destination. It is one of the most important activities you will ever do as a sales manager because, without it, your sales team will have no direction and no instruction manual to follow in order to achieve their targets.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 19, 2021

As such, they are often impatient when it comes to their time and meetings with superiors are no exception. One-on-one sales meetings need not be inefficient. Sales managers that want to maximize the effectiveness of their sales team can do so with Individual Focus Meetings.

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Mike Kunkle

JULY 4, 2022

There’s another alignment and partnership opportunity that gets a lot less airplay yet has equal or greater potential to drive sales results: the alignment and partnership between Sales Enablement and Front-line Sales Managers (FLSMs). Sales Enablement initiatives ARE Change Management projects.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2021

As a sales manager, ensuring that your team's communication with prospects is tight and effective is in your best interest. That process — making sure your team's communications aren't erratic — is most commonly referred to as implementing consistent sales messaging. Managers have to be closely involved.

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RAIN Group

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Ask your sellers if they enjoy attending sales team meetings and you may hear things like, “They’re a waste of time,” “The meetings are monotonous,” “I’m sick of being talked at,” and “I don’t understand why I have to attend.” Most sales team meetings miss the mark.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Luckily, some major companies, like LinkedIn, have discovered a way to improve sales relationships, customer trust, and — ultimately — sales numbers. Recently, HubSpot sat down with Kwesi Graves , Regional Sales Manager at LinkedIn, to learn more about how he centers his team's sales approach completely around the ideal buyer.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

"4 out of 5 Sales Managers admit appointments, whether in-person or virtual, are more challenging to secure than five years ago.". This nugget of information came from The Center for Sales Strategy 2020 Media Report. I'd like to speak with the one manager who thinks getting a first time appointment is "easier" than 5-years ago.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 19, 2024

Furthermore, the Sales Coaching System is a subset of the Sales Management System. It should go without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that front-line sales managers should always know what is being trained and be prepared to support it. Sales Management System [Click the image to view a larger version.]

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Only 40% of sales professionals report a well-established coaching culture at their organization. Just 42% say sales managers at their organization are actually held accountable for providing good coaching. Have your salesperson write out a plan of action after your evaluation and revisit the plan at your one-on-one meetings.

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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

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 27, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I sit down with Mike Weinberg for Part One of our conversation on the state of the Sales Profession, sales leadership, and getting started as a new sales manager. The effectiveness of traditional methods like phone calls and face-to-face meetings remains significant.

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Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Then you know the transition from sales professional to sales manager can be tough. Overnight, you’ve gone from someone who was responsible for your own performance to running an entire sales team. There are a lot of new sales manager skills to learn.

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Upland

MAY 4, 2023

Biggest Benefits of Using the Sales Velocity Equation There are several benefits to using a sales velocity formula, and many organizations consider it their most important metric. From helping leaders define areas of focus, to helping sellers meet realistic quotas, the sales velocity equation is integral to your team’s success.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales leaders who did not invest in remote selling fell behind — 50% of this subgroup did not hit their sales targets this year. 70% of sales managers say a manager’s ability to navigate change is more important now than it was five years ago. 51% of sales leaders rely on data to measure sales rep performance.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you are a manager who does weekly individual focus meetings with your AE's or if you are a manager managing managers, these four things will help you keep the focus of the individual and the team on things that are crucial in moving the needle.

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Mike Kunkle

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It will be interesting, though, since there is no common language or approach for methodology, little attention paid to sales process, and front-line sales managers operate more like individual fiefdoms than a unified sales management team. Managers are “super-sellers” and coaching is nonexistent.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2020

Good sales performance is highly valued but it can also be elusive to achieve for many salespeople and organizations. The key to good sales performance is consistency. First, let’s discuss ways sales reps can improve their individual performance. The more people involved, the more variables to successful sales performance.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2019

In the film, Alec Baldwin's straight-talking sales manager arrives at a small business to motivate the sales team. For sales managers, "Glengarry Glen Ross" is a cautionary tale. Sales quotas are often part of a series of actions set to help salespeople achieve a certain goal. Volume Quota. Profit Quota.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In her new book, Helen writes that the hybrid work revolution has made sales management the most pivotal role in the innovation economy. To be successful you must be adept at both implementing and executing a system of sales management AND winning the hearts of your sellers. What you really get paid for as a sales leader.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Research from the Sales Executive Council (SEC) examined thousands of salespeople and found receiving quality coaching helped them improve long-term performance by upwards of 19%. of reps meet quota. In other words, no other productivity investment is nearly as impactful as sales coaching. Benefits of Sales Coaching.

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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.". Sales Enablement Strategies for Inside Sales Teams. Divide and conquer in weekly meetings. There is no need to fear.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 11, 2020

Remote work is the new normal for many professionals, and salespeople are being tasked with meeting and exceeding their sales quotas while making a swift transition to working from home. Stellar sales work is possible outside of a traditional company office. Remote Sales Management Challenges.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 30, 2023

Enablement professionals don’t market, they don’t sell, and we don’t directly manage front-line sellers nor sales managers. By collaborating and aligning with sales leaders, managers, and the sellers themselves, we can study best practices and act as catalysts for change. But it’s all about behavior change.

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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. We all know it: There is no sale more valuable than one made to an existing customer. These complex operations alone would be enough to keep anyone’s head buzzing.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 9, 2024

According to the 5th Annual Media Sales Report , a staggering 81% of sales managers indicated that meeting their targets has become harder compared to the previous year. While the goals may not be out of reach, the path to success requires concerted effort. This doesn't mean that the goals are not achievable.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 25, 2020

From my experience, direct sales management is one of the most challenging roles based on the variety of distinct skills that are required. Tough parts of the job include: Balancing hard and soft skills: In sales organizations, people management requires both soft skills as well as sales skills to be successful.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

Glassdoor estimates that inside sales reps often have a take-home pay of $70,000, including commission and bonuses. Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products. Glassdoor predicts the average yearly salary of an outside sales rep to be $72,000.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 6, 2019

But, that’s a lot easier said than done — especially if you’re only bringing your team together for conventional meetings. Now, this article isn’t some sort of new age, millennial, “everything you know about sales doesn’t matter anymore” hit piece on conventional sales meetings. What’s the Sales Huddle?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In this post, we’ll hear from HubSpot experts on their best practices for leading sales teams through periods of change, often called sales transformation, that will help you and your team contribute to overall business success. A sales team's transformation strategy is led and created by a sales manager.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 27, 2021

Most sales managers will meet that headline with an eye-roll but stay with us. Great sales leaders individualize their coaching while they manage a standardized sales process. The first job of a sales leader is relatively easy - the second takes more discipline. Only two jobs?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 15, 2020

"We leverage that data to inform us where each individual rep needs to spend the most time, and where managers need to spend time training individual contributors.". Two examples of enablement content Crayon leadership has provided to their sales team include: Call Recordings. Make sure sales managers feel supported.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Too many times, I meet with sales managers and salespeople who firmly believe that sales is a "numbers game" , but they have no idea what numbers they need to know or even what numbers they should be tracking. "If you don't know your numbers , you don't know your business." — Marcus Lemonis.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 13, 2021

This ownership, sometimes called sales accountability, is how sales managers prepare their teams for success by giving them all the information, tools, and training they need to succeed and meet quotas. Let them know once formal training is over that you’ll be meeting regularly to check in on progress.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 8, 2019

Activity Sales Metrics. These sales metrics show what salespeople are doing on a daily basis. Activity metrics are “manageable,” meaning sales managers can directly influence them. Number of meetings scheduled. Number of demos or sales presentations. Activity sales metrics are leading indicators.

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