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New Sales Manager? Follow This Guide to Crush Your First Quarter

Hubspot Sales

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. Assess your strengths as a manager. Understand how your team wants to be managed. How strong is your champion?

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5 Strategies That'll Make Deal Reviews 5X More Successful

Hubspot Sales

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. Which evaluation criteria does Procurement use? Sales manager: “Okay.

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An Introduction to Enterprise Sales for Key Account Managers

DemandFarm

This process involves multiple product demonstrations, engaging with IT, procurement, and finance stakeholders, and significant customization to meet the client’s needs. Stages of Enterprise Sales Management The enterprise sales process is long and involves multiple stages, each requiring a strategic approach.

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3 Research-Backed Ways to Overcome Sales Enablement Obstacles

Hubspot Sales

Delivering value, making the ROI case, retaining customers, growing accounts, recruiting top talent, forecasting, implementing a sales process, using sales technologies, winning against the competition, developing sales managers, coaching sales teams, generating leads, onboarding, productivity, compensation.

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5 Keys to Successfully Selling to Fortune 500 Companies

Hubspot Sales

You’re likely dealing with a buying committee of three to five people -- who will need sign-off from the executives, board, Procurement, and/or Legal before the deal officially closes. You should also ask your champion or main contact for access to Procurement relatively early in the process. If yes, can we please have a copy?”.

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4 Differences Between Sales Coaching and Feedback

Hubspot Sales

In the past, sales managers often saw sales coaching as a means of correcting negative behaviors by providing real-time performance feedback. Unfortunately, this feedback often doesn't result in significant behavior change from the sales representative. Feedback can be spontaneous, while coaching is intentional.

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The 6 Elements of a Truly Consultative Sales Process

Hubspot Sales

Skilled salespeople will have already involved procurement prior to this stage. Make sure you understand what the procurement process is and confirm that the solution you've laid out meets your champion's expectations. A consultative sales process is powerful because it clarifies for salespeople what is expected.