To be Head of Sales is my choice for the hardest leadership job. That’s not just because Sales is the source of revenue and tends to feel external friction first, but because sales organizations are all unique and create singular challenges. Remote and Distributed Teams Sales teams are frequently spread out over different time zones ...
Like Bill Murray in the now-iconic movie Groundhog Day, far too many executives fall short in their attempts to hire a sales VP who can get the job done, so they find themselves repeating the process again and again, without ever truly realizing why they continue to fail. I’ve spoken to enough CEOs to understand ...
Leads are the lifeblood of sales. Without them there are no sales. Without solid management, a lead is wasted — and that is hard to take. We recently asked several leading sales experts to weigh in about sales lead management, both from general and social selling points of view. Barbara Giamanco A leading social selling ...
Editor”s Note: One way for sales managers to get closer to reading the future is to use Pipeliner CRM for running scenarios. This activity provides an informed glimpse into potential futures that influence decision making and give you a more realistic look ahead. The good news is that you can use Pipeliner CRM for a ...
I’ve been working at Pipeliner CRM for a year now, and one of the biggest issues I see all the time is the serious confusion that affects small and medium businesses looking either to acquire CRM solution software or switch from a platform that isn’t working for them or their sales team and sales strategy. ...
Using Social Channels to Align With Your Buyers’ Journey Editor’s Note: Today we are posting Chapter 4 of a 10-chapter book, authored by our CSO, John Golden and Matt McDarby, President of United Sales Resources. John and Matt have collaborated before and have joined forces with this book to provide expertise to help our readers ...
At a recent conference, I started out by quoting from my favorite American philosopher, Will Rogers. Here’s what the Oklahoma cowboy said: “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble. It’s what we know that ain’t so.” That wisdom certainly applies to the field of persuasion. There are things that people are certain ...
No matter how you slice it, sales management is a tough job. The sales force is the front line of revenue. Company management doesn’t put that pressure on the salespeople, though: they place it squarely on you, the sales manager. The sales manager is the person responsible for meeting sales quotas, figuring out how they’re ...
