Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 12, 2021

Here, we'll review some common sales coaching challenges, go over how to approach them, and identify the key qualities of reps that are flat-out uncoachable. One of the most common, contentious issues sales managers run into with sales reps is lack of motivation. How to Handle Coaching Challenges.

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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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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 19, 2024

Furthermore, the Sales Coaching System is a subset of the Sales Management System. However, there are nuances in their application that vary based on the specific context and needs of an organization. Sales Management System [Click the image to view a larger version.] This is how systems thinking works.

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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. You want to put out cohesive messages, in keeping with your organization's values and goals. So it falls on management to be active and involved while facilitating the process.

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DemandFarm

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Behind every high-performing sales team is a manager who doesnt just oversee but inspires, strategizes, and drives impactful results. Sales management today demands more than ever beforeits a delicate balance of leadership, technology, and insight. What sets exceptional sales managers apart?

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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. This shift requires not only a change in skills but also a fundamental shift in mindset.

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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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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2024

Sales effectiveness also corresponds with the return your organization gets from its sales investment. In this sense, measuring sales effectiveness can be as simple as calculating the cost of salaries, training, and/or tools against the revenue generated. That’s in part because they’re not focusing on the right metrics.

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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. How are we making this information visible within our own organization so that we can function as a cohesive revenue team? Insights are everything.

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Mike Kunkle

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In addition, expand your awareness of the disciplines and practices of organizational performance improvement, such as Organization Development. Organization Effectiveness, Organization Behavior, Business Process Management, Six or Lean Sigma, Total Quality Management, and Change Management.

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Force Management

MARCH 16, 2023

For the modern sales organization, certain technologies are universal in the age of Sales 2.0. We rely on CRMs and continuous learning platforms to increase the efficiency of our sales force and drive organizational outcomes.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Gartner research reveals that many organizations lack effective coaching. 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. Promote open communication.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 18, 2023

As a former sales manager and c-suite executive leader, and now working alongside sales managers to help them grow their teams, I know that a sales management career can really make an impact. Sales managers are your frontline leaders.

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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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Force Management

AUGUST 8, 2024

The answer is the Management Operating Rhythm (MOR). The MOR is a major way that organizations support their sales managers, outlining the actions necessary for repeatable success and holding them accountable to perform them consistently and at a high level. How do they do that?

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Upland

MAY 4, 2023

What is sales velocity? Sales velocity is the speed at which deals move through your pipeline and start to generate revenue. A sales velocity equation or formula uses four metrics to help organizations calculate their own sales velocity. Why does sales velocity matter?

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2025

Source: PCWorld ) 65% of respondents report that their organizations are regularly using generative AI (Gen AI), up from one-third last year. Source: McKinsey ) 83% of sales teams using AI saw revenue growth this year vs. 66% not using AI. Ive seen a lot of trends over the years. Were scaling a coachs time.

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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. Imagine if you had an entire sales department of people just like that. Would sales go up?

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Custom fields are an important part of customizing Nutshell for your business needs and organizing your CRM contacts. Nutshell lets you create custom fields for people, companies, and leads to gather and manage information like customer order numbers, important dates, and ICPs.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 4, 2023

Business organizations all have a culture, and when you walk into a business and take an instant like or dislike to being there, you are experiencing their culture. Business-to-business organizations don’t often have potential customers walk into a physical location.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales Performance. 65% of sales leaders that outperformed against revenue targets have a dedicated sales enablement person or team. 61% of over-performing leaders use their CRM to automate parts of their sales process , vs. 46% of underperforming leaders. 51% of sales leaders rely on data to measure sales rep performance.

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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. Yet, while we can exert influence, we lack the authority to direct sales teams to take specific actions or change behaviors. It’s a classic case of influence without authority.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 8, 2023

Let’s dive into the key barriers that often hinder sales leaders from reaching the full potential for their sales forces and explore strategies to break through these limitations. When sales, marketing, and customer success operate in isolated bubbles, opportunities for collaboration and synergy are lost.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 26, 2023

By acting as a centralized repository, these solutions also provide sales professionals with a single source of truth, making it easier to access and retrieve data. It's no surprise that 76% of sales professionals agree that AI can help organize and share data more effectively. Generating accurate predictions.

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 2, 2025

The Power of Being Side by Side One sales organization I work with discovered, after a big dip in sales productivity, that none of its sales managers were spending time on the floor. Rather than spending time on the sales floor coaching, the leaders were in their offices, behind closed doors grading calls.

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Nutshell

JUNE 18, 2024

A brainstorming tool provides individuals or teams with an easy way to collect and organize their thoughts during a brainstorming session. With them, you can: Organize your thoughts: Brainstorming software helps you sort and categorize all the information gathered during the idea-generation process, making it easier to understand.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 15, 2020

If you started paying more attention to the sales enablement needs of your organization, you’re not alone. For sales organizations that have been waiting to implement dedicated sales enablement measures — the time is now. Focus on sales team culture. Battle Cards.

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Mike Kunkle

MAY 30, 2023

There are also other factors at play, such as product-market fit, strategy, the chosen sales model, organization design, or lack of top-down support, that also influence our work. These are conversations to have in advance, when you are asking for what you need to deliver the results the organization wants. It’s not a surprise.

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Upland

JUNE 15, 2023

Many sales leaders attempt to bring account planning into their organization and fail because they don’t have the right technology in place. A technology that doesn’t integrate well into your processes and has poor adoption with your team is an issue, and it’s often too late once you’ve chosen the software to go back on it.

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Upland

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In this definitive guide to account planning, we’ve compiled everything you need in order to understand the importance of account planning, what it is, and why a complete mindset shift is critical to success for any sales organization looking to grow and retain revenue in their key accounts in 2023 and beyond. .

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 6, 2021

It's obvious why sales performance is a crucial part of any organization. Good sales performance leads to increased sales and greater profits. These results become a motivating factor for your sales force. A motivated sales team will perform well. This creates a cycle of continued success.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2022

These figures — ones used to measure how active and engaged salespeople are day-to-day basis — are central to the success and direction of most sales orgs. In HubSpot's recent Sales Strategy Survey of over 1,000 salespeople, we asked real sales managers about the metrics they track to gauge their reps' activity and effectiveness.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2020

It’s the measurement of sales activity and corresponding results compared to the sales expectations and quota. 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. Get organized.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

In addition, expand your awareness of the disciplines and practices of organizational performance improvement, such as Organization Development. Organization Effectiveness, Organization Behavior, Business Process Management, Six or Lean Sigma, Total Quality Management, and Change Management.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

It requires a process, a consistent sales methodology, and time. Plan to invest at least two to three years in a sales coaching program to get it off the ground. Coaching vs. Managing. Today's sales managers need to wear two hats – their manager hat and their coaching hat. Sales rep retention is a hot topic.

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Sales Readiness Group

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In our research report 5 Hallmarks of High-Impact Sales Organizations , we identified sales coaching as the top sales management action to improve sales team performance. One of the key benefits of sales coaching is that it helps managers transition from chief problem solvers to sales team enablers.

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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.". It is a valuable opportunity to share best practices within the organization and to help engage the broader team when we are working separately.

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