Veloxy

MARCH 23, 2023

Click below to listen to the blog post. We’re living in an era where sales has the richest technology stack and set of professional capabilities than ever before. Yet, the sales organization is failing to crush their quota, let alone hit it. Why is sales quota important? What is sales quota?

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Women Sales Pros

AUGUST 22, 2018

If you are a sales manager, you probably received some solid training, read lots of books,and learned from experts in the field through seminars, webinars and blog posts.And all along the way, you learned that your primary job as a sales manager is to develop and coach your team. The Sales Manager.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

He asked me a fascinating question, “Why don’t managers have a development plan or roadmap for developing the capabilities and performance of their people?” Very few managers sit down with their people and develop a plan to help them learn, grow, and contribute at higher levels. But let’s shift our perspective.

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Force Management

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This blog is part of our Mission Critical Success Series, where we dive into the strategies leaders are using to execute on mission critical sales objectives during times of economic change. Each week, we will cover a different essential area of sales effectiveness. Sellers, however, tend to view their success point as the sale.

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Customers Objectives and Key Results Drivers/motivators Pipeline 107

criteria for success

AUGUST 23, 2022

Happy Tuesday, Let's Talk Sales listeners! Rene is the President at Sales Manager Now , providing fractional sales management services to small and family-run businesses. He is also the author of How to Build a Dynamic Small Business Sales Team. How fractional sales management is unique.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We talked about something I rarely hear managers discussing, and something I don’t see pundits commenting on. I seldom hear career pathing discussions from sales leadership. Perhaps things like, we move SDRs into AE roles, possibly an account manager role. For a few, possibly sales management.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 17, 2022

I’m a huge fan of sales enablement and some of the outstanding sales enablement practitioners who I count as friends. I think, however, one of the biggest problems with sales enablement is not what they do, or the quality of the programs they develop. Recently I had a fascinating conversation with a sales enablement team.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

A highly curated group of 200 GTM leaders, 85% director level and above across Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships. Data from Crossbeam shows that ELG is the third-most cost-effective strategy behind customer referrals and inbound sales. Sales tactics like cold calls often have a low conversion rate. Austin’s F1 track.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 11, 2021

Who in the sales organization owns the responsibility for a deal? Most of us would respond, thoughtfully, “It’s the sales person’s responsibility!” It’s the sales person’s responsibility to “make the number.” Stated differently, orchestrating resources to help the sales people.

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criteria for success

MARCH 20, 2022

Happy Monday, Let's Talk Sales listeners! Rhonda is the Founder & CEO of 3×5 Coaching LLC , where she provides sales performance coaching and training based on her extensive career in sales and sales leadership. In this episode, we talk about: Reframing the language around sales.

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criteria for success

JUNE 20, 2022

Happy Monday, Let's Talk Sales listeners! The “BE” of Do-Be is Brian Gorman, who is an executive and transformational change coach. He has extensive experience in coaching and consulting, and is a mastermind facilitator as well. CFS Resource Recommendations: Check out our eBook on Advisors, Coaches, & Mentors.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2021

My friend, Orrin Broberg, wrote a great post: 5 Critical Sales Enablement Mistakes To Avoid. His first point was stunning in it’s simplicity, we fail to give sales people what they need. It’s a critical issue, we have to understand, at a deep level, what sales people need to perform at the highest levels possible.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By demonstrating how adoption leads to improved performance, leveraging analytics to prove how your programs drive sales outcomes, and highlighting stakeholder feedback, you can create a compelling business case for enablement. Here are data-driven tips to champion sales enablement investment and maintain buy-in from your C-suite.

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criteria for success

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Welcome back, Let's Talk Sales listeners! In addition to her work as an author, she’s a business and management coach, recruitment expert, and prolific speaker. . Achieving sales success via marketing alignment. CFS Resource Recommendations: Check out our free resource … Subscribe to our blog ! CFSPlayBook.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In the HubSpot Blog's recent survey of over 500 sales professionals, we tried to see what sales leaders hope to achieve when training reps and the top sales coaching tactics they use to get there — and our survey produced some interesting insight on both fronts. Sales Leaders' Primary Coaching Goals.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2021

When you search Amazon for “marketing and sales books” 60,000+ options pop-up. That’s why I’ve pulled together some of my favorite marketing and sales books. Best marketing and sales books to recommit to your professional development: Getting Naked by Patrick Lencioni. The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier.

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Hubspot

APRIL 15, 2024

Thoughtfully calculated, well-executed prospecting is central to virtually every successful sales engagement. It sets a tone — giving you the momentum and perspective you need to lock in on viable sales opportunities and ensure the rest of your sales process goes as smoothly as possible.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2021

I was coaching an outstanding sales manager. She coaches each person, having a very disciplined approach in leveraging data and how they worked. I see managers at all levels who are trying to do the right things with their people and their organizations, but somehow they aren’t connecting. Thanks Betsy!

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 15, 2022

For years, there has been little attention paid to the topic of coaching. Sure, there was lip service, but when one looked deeply into organizations, either coaching wasn’t done, or the coaching that was done was horrible. It’s our job as managers to coach and develop those people that report to us.

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Iannarino

JULY 18, 2021

The Gist: More and more, sales organizations are refusing to provide their prospective clients with the help of a salesperson. Many of the new models are based on removing the costs of sales, something that limits success in complex sales. In professional B2B sales, human beings provide more value than automation.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 19, 2021

Too often, we get coaching wrong–if we do coaching at all. Too many managers think of coaching as something we do to someone. These managers inflict their opinions and direct the coachee. ” This type of coaching is a waste of everyone’s time. Let me dissect this.

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criteria for success

MAY 30, 2023

Tom Jackobs is an accomplished speaker and coach. He has an interesting career journey starting with theater management and continuing into sales leadership, coaching, and owning a fitness club! Based in Taipei, he now spends his time empowering business owners with his Impact Sales System. Follow us on Twitter!

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Highspot

JUNE 15, 2023

Often, the sales department is a company’s highest expense, which means that maximizing the potential of every rep to scale productivity is mission-critical in today’s economy. Increasing sales productivity ensures that you drive more revenue with each rep you have. Why is Sales Productivity Important? Every deal matters.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Today, I had the honor of participating in a webcast on coaching, with Lori Richardson, Jason Jordan, and Mike Kunkle. ” This is one area of coaching where I tend to be pretty hard-nosed, but I believe the following: If a person is uncoachable, it is not a question of IF that individual is terminated, only When!

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Highspot

MAY 3, 2024

Imagine that only 28% of your sales reps expect to hit quota. As a sales leader, you’d probably scoff at this. But according to Salesforce, this is the reality for many businesses, and the pressure to hit revenue targets has companies looking to improve sales processes to boost performance. Interested to learn more?

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

There’s so much quality information online — in blog posts and ebooks, on social media and review sites — sellers have a shortened opportunity to impact buying decisions. That means sales reps must make the most of every chance they get to interact with a prospect. Sales enablement, and sales enablement tools, help them do just that.

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Hubspot

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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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Questions are probably one of the most critical tools for sales people and all leaders. As managers, we do the same thing when we “coach” our people. Afterword: As I was writing this, I noticed a post by Keith Rosen on the same issue–focusing on high impact coaching. Related Posts: Questions As Weapons!

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 5, 2021

” Every organization has deal management, pipeline, and account management processes. Every organization has taken their people through the latest greatest sales training, spends thousands per person on tools. Every manager says they coach their people. Sometimes managers say, “Use these things!!”

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2022

” Readers of the blog, also, know that I’m a huge fan of data. A sales people and leaders, we are fortunate to have more data than we have ever had access to in the past–and some of it is actually useful and informative. When I meet with managers, I ask them, “What data do you use to monitor performance?”

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this blog you will gain insight into what a GTM team looks like, helpful tips to boost productivity within your go-to-market process, and technology you can use to align your teams and launch new products successfully. Structure this team correctly and you’ll be able to feed your sales reps qualified leads both before and after the launch.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 1, 2023

An ADHD coach might write a blog post about how to get through the holidays and offer coping mechanisms. Direct people from a holiday-based blog post or content page directly to relevant product pages to help users navigate to the right place and strengthen the importance of those products with internal linking.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 7, 2022

Every organization I work with has everything a sales organization should have in place. We go down laundry lists all the programs, tools, processes that are in place: CRM and the classic “sales stack?” Check, every sales person has access to Sales Navigator. Sales process? Bid management process?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We tend to focus on the pieces/parts of what we do, the responsibilities of our organization, for example marketing, SDRs/Inside Sales, AEs, Account Managers, Sales Engineering, Sales Ops, Sales Enablement. Today, I want to focus on Sales Management.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity.

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Pipeline Legal Objectives and Key Results Lead generation 52

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

” They manage strategies around low tenure (11 months for sellers and leaders). Low engagement, the great resignation, quiet quitting are now business constants that leaders have to manage around. We recognized not everyone wanted to go into management (actually, I learned few really wanted to be managers.).

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Brent Adamson wrote an outstanding HBR article on “ Sensemaking For Sales.” Brent, also, highlights three styles that sales people adopt to help their customers. What is we applied the principles of sensemaking to coaching and developing our own people? It impacts each of our people, and, even, leaders.

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