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Leading Your Sales Team Through a Tough Year-End

Cerebral Selling

When pipelines shrink, close rates decrease, and your team doesn’t see a clear path to the number, they lose motivation, worry sets in, and they start blaming things outside of their control. Why are territories carved the way they are? How many of those type of actions does it take to build enough pipeline?

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Coaching And Developing Managers

Partners in Excellence

Unfortunately, high impact coaching is rarely done. Instead, it is information sharing or an update on something–perhaps a deal, an account, the pipeline. One of the reasons, front line managers are probably so bad at this, is they probably don’t get a whole lot of high impact coaching themselves.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 240: Q & Brian Trautschold @BTrautschold

Heinz Marketing

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Well, welcome everyone to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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I Don’t Care How Many Calls You Make Or Emails You Send!

Partners in Excellence

However, every deal review, every pipeline review, every territory/account review, every call plan, every forecast will be done with CRM. Meaningful, high impact conversations with the right prospects and customers are what drives engagement and our ability to achieve our goals. But I’m not going to measure it.

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The Work Compression Model & Trading Productivity for Time

Sales Gravy

Sellers were getting more done, in less time, with better outcomes because all of the distractions that typically took them away from high impact sales activities were gone. Impactful things that generate revenue growth. If you're an account manager, you make an impact by expanding and retaining your accounts.

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Who’s Coaching Our Customers?

Partners in Excellence

The sales person learns how to think about what they are doing and how to be more effective–whether we are coaching deal, account, territory management, prospecting, or pipeline skills. Coaching is one of the most important things in driving high impact performance improvement with our people.

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Replacing The Sales Funnel With The Sales Flywheel

Partners in Excellence

We have those arguments with the pipeline, the funnel, and now the flywheel. And to be honest, I’ve never found the nuances of a pipeline and funnel very informative, and I feel somewhat the same about the flywheel. I took over a territory from a sales person, the customer discontinued something the sales person had sold them.