RAIN Group

AUGUST 31, 2022

How much control do sales managers have over the performance of their teams? A RAIN Group Center for Sales Research study found that Elite and Top-Performing Sales Organizations prioritize sales coaching significantly more than other organizations, and they have more skilled and motivating sales managers.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 3, 2020

It’s no secret that salespeople often fail as sales managers. Nonetheless, many of the best reps within an organization often end up in management positions. Whether you’re actively seeking a role as a manager or have already gotten a promotion, you should understand the most difficult aspects of the transition.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Have you ever felt like your sales team is doing an okay job, but you know they could be doing better? On the other hand, if you provide them with a strategic sales plan that clearly outlines the company's goals — and a thoughtfully laid out system to get there — you can expect your salespeople to impress. What is a strategic plan?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 12, 2021

But when it comes to sales, some managers might have trouble delivering on it — often through no fault of their own. 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. How to Handle Coaching Challenges.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

Conversational intelligence tools — programs that use artificial intelligence to automatically record, transcribe, and analyze hours of sales calls — are becoming a staple of a growing number of sales organizations' tech stacks. How Managers Can Use Conversational Intelligence.

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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. It's worth noting that sales messaging and marketing messaging aren't the same.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2024

Sales effectiveness is your sales professionals’ ability to achieve their goals and objectives efficiently and successfully. Sales effectiveness also corresponds with the return your organization gets from its sales investment. That’s in part because they’re not focusing on the right metrics.

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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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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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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. Our intent is never so transactional.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

I am exceptionally pleased and excited to announce that Felix Krueger of FFWD and I launched The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement Learning Experience on November 25, 2022. Access to a Growing Library of 4+ Hours of Video Content , teaching the Building Blocks of Sales Enablement framework.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Effective sales coaching can have a huge impact on your business. The biggest benefit of sales coaching is its contribution to revenue. Research shows that successful sales coaching programs increased average deal size, sales activity, win rates, and new leads by 25%-40%.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales leaders, be honest — you're curious about what your peers are up to. 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.

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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. In 2020, Crayon placed even greater emphasis on sales enablement to support their sales force.

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Upland

MARCH 13, 2023

Sales forecasting is equal parts art and science, right? The ‘art’ aspect of sales forecasting doesn’t need to be an educated guest. What is a Sales Forecast? Is Sales Forecasting Outdated? Some claim that sales forecasting is outdated. However, sales forecasting is still relevant today.

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Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Are you a new sales leader? 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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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.". Let’s explore some crucial components you can keep in mind when constructing your own sales enablement strategy. There is no need to fear.

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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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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

JUNE 16, 2020

What is sales performance? 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.

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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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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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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. Therefore, enablement is hard work. See what I did there? This remains true.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 10, 2020

What does it really take to be successful in sales? A salesperson’s definition of success is often influenced by the environment they work in, the greater goals of their organization, and their own personal drives and tendencies. Core Competencies in Sales. Foundational Sales Knowledge. Communication Skills.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 26, 2023

Is AI the future of sales forecasting? 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. Here, we‘ll delve into the ways AI is reshaping sales forecasting and explore how you can get started. How Sales Teams Are Using AI for Forecasting 1.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Any company's sales leadership needs to keep a pulse on how its salespeople are performing, both individually and on a broader organizational level — getting there often starts by understanding the degree of effort reps are putting in. That's where performance indicators known as sales productivity metrics come in. Why is it important?

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

You may already have a sales enablement program, initiative or function at your organization. If your enablement initiative drives sales results as expected, you don’t need to read this article. Myth #1: Sales enablement only adds more layers to and complicates tasks previously accomplished elsewhere. Probably not.

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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

MARCH 20, 2020

Sales coaching is all about looking forward and developing your people. High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program. Coaching vs. Managing.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 Why Sales Performance Management Matters.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Imagine your sales team performing 19% better month after month. 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%. In other words, no other productivity investment is nearly as impactful as sales coaching.

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Mike Kunkle

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

.” Nowhere is this more out of control than in the sales profession and our very own subset of sales enablement. Not All Sales Enablement is the Same Sales enablement is not the same everywhere. (For Not All Sales Enablement is the Same Sales enablement is not the same everywhere.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 19, 2022

The goal of any sales organization is, ultimately, to increase revenue. Which means the goal of any effective sales leader is to inspire and motivate their sales team to hit, or exceed, their revenue targets. But first — what is a goal driven sales environment? What is a goal driven sales environment?

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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. What is your sales culture telling them?

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Brooks Group

JUNE 13, 2024

Even the most cohesive organizations can experience sales team issues. Sales professionals (in general) tend to be confident, extraverted, and opinionated. Although some of these subjects might seem mundane to those who aren’t in a sales career , there are several topics sales professionals often have strong opinions about.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Working with sales leaders and managers through a crisis like the pandemic is full of twists and turns — and new discoveries! Significant transformations such as downsizing and restructuring because of things like COVID can disrupt the flow of a sales team, however, done properly, they can improve sales performance.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2021

LinkedIn's some 722 million members make for a massive pool of data that could provide sales organizations with invaluable guidance about potential opportunities and ideal prospects. What is LinkedIn Sales Insights? What can you do with LinkedIn Sales Insights? Create custom personas based on real-time data.

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