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Sales Managers must not only focus on recruiting, training, coaching and exceeding sales quota but stimulating their sales teams as well. I have written often on the mental side of sales management and need for the leader to emotionally motivate their teams to believe in themselves, their product/service and organization. Using sales contests or what ...

Trade has many benefits—to economies, to families, to individuals. It provides jobs, it provides incomes, it provides life to a culture and society. I think we can all agree that trade is a highly beneficial activity. But it has a far more significant role than you might at first think. Keeping Peace It’s not just ...

It’s not one thing. There’s no Hail Mary pass or silver bullet that will vault you from an average salesperson into a mind blowing success with results that stagger the imagination. But these 20 things worked for me. And they will work for you if you give them an honest try. Take a long term ...

For centuries, when someone talked about unicorns, everyone knew they were talking about a mythical creature that populated fairy tales. In the last few years, though, investors have jumped all over unicorns as real entities—in this case, startups that were worth $1 billion or more. But as has been noted in a recent Wall Street ...

So you have closed that sale… Congratulations are in order!!! So you may be asking yourself, now what do I do? Is that it? Is there more? Well this is a tricky question, because it really depends on what your ultimate goals are and what type of product you are selling. If the product is ...

Account-based sales development (ABSD) is a sales strategy that is growing rapidly in both adoption and best practice creation. According to TOPO, 30% of all sales development teams are implementing ABSD and that number is growing steadily. Having refined our own account-based prospecting techniques over the past 15 years, we have found that one fact ...

All companies know that information improves marketing campaigns, but what’s more important is the data collected as it improves customer experience. Every marketer will sell you the “content is king,” but without data, your efforts are wasted on content that will be irrelevant. Data gives companies an understanding of the customers mind and how they ...

In our continuing series on the pain points of sales management, we have explored the pain categories of sales management, the primary pain point of being a sales manager, the technology that sales management really needs, the vital subject of management, and specific pain points of sales management at a new company (part 1 and part 2 ...