What is the current role of the sales manager in the sales team? What are main sales manager duties? Accurate and usable sales analytics make many things possible, including changing roles for both the sales rep and sales manager. Sales reps have for too long been “data entry clerks” instead of the entrepreneurs they innately ... Read Post

Sales analytics and sales forecasting are vital not only to the survival of a sales department but to an overall company as well. Unfortunately, by actual statistic, sales forecasts—along with closing rates—are generally off by a considerable margin. Here are 6 key factors that, if implemented, will go a long way to greatly improving the ... Read Post

Are you wondering how to empower salespeople to be entrepreneurs? Last month, it was a great pleasure for me to be interviewed by Jim Obermayer from SLMA Radio. In this show you can find out why I decided to write my last book “salespeople embracing it all” and what do I mean by that; why we build ... Read Post

What is sales forecasting and how to build a reliable and accurate sales forecasts? For those that must analyze and forecast sales day in and day out, the phrase, “reliable and accurate sales forecasting” may very well sound like an oxymoron. Despite appearances to the contrary, sales forecasts are often done with considerable guesswork, sent ... Read Post

Are you looking for a right CRM system for your startup? Do you know how important is to have a sales process that follows your ideal prospects from start to close? In this article, you will learn how to develop a sales process and choose the CRM system. With a startup, an entrepreneur or several ... Read Post

Traditionally, sales forecasting has been done by the sales manager after lengthy consultation with sales reps. The sales reps are providing information based on their own estimations of what is in their sales pipelines and what they think they can close. The sales manager is then modifying that data (probably on the conservative side) and ... Read Post

In many companies today, the sales people are in revolt. While they might not be acting so obviously as to, say, storm the sales manager’s office with torches and ropes, inside most are seething. This revolt is usually held inside, it does make itself known through snappy comments, quiet asides, and bull sessions with colleagues after ... Read Post

What makes a successful sales force? Should your sales team reflect the CRM Solution, or vice versa? That might sound like a ridiculous question—but a recent article in a leading business publication (we’ll spare them the embarrassment of revealing their name) actually stated that, in order to get a CRM solution fully into use by ... Read Post