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Sales Management

How to Become a Better Sales Manager

As a sales manager, you know that the success of your team largely hinges on your effectiveness as a leader. And to be an effective sales manager, you need visibility into what you team is achieving. In this article we discuss many tips and ideas that can help you on your quest to become a better sales manager for yourself and your sales team. Tips to Avoid Micromanaging Your Salespeople Are you guilty of micromanaging your team? If so, it is important for you to learn how to stop micromanaging and start leading your team in a way that inspires
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Finding Good Salespeople at Conferences
Sales Interviewing & Hiring

12 Best Places for Finding Good Salespeople

As a Sales Manager, recruiting new salespeople is often a demanding part of your job that never seems to taper off. Do you ever find yourself wondering where to find good salespeople? Today we are thinking beyond the job boards and sharing a list of diverse resources for finding salespeople.  You will find a mix of paid and free resources, social media platforms, events, and good old-fashioned in-person networking, too. Although you might be interested in how to coach salespeople, finding and hiring talented salespeople is one of the most important investments a business can make. Sales staff are the
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Effective Communication in Sales Management
Sales Management

Effective Communication in Sales Management

Do you want to motivate your sales team to close more deals and work better together? It is every sales team’s dream to break sales records and increase company revenue. It’s also part of the sales manager job description. It is not impossible to get this done, but it comes down to effective sales management and more specifically, effective communication in sales management. Effective communication is crucial to successful sales management. Increasing sales and achieving targets within a time frame requires that salespeople connect with customers better.  Better connections stem from better communication which improves client relationships, builds employee confidence, and
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Sales Assessments

5 Key Personality Traits You and Your Sales Assessment Should be Measuring

 We know that individuals with Drive make great salespeople, but there are a number of other traits that complement Drive and are important to consider when looking to hire top-producing salespeople. These are sales traits that you just cannot identify from an interview alone. That is why it is critical to start out with an assessment that measures Drive, because coaching salespeople after hiring isn’t always the best way to find success. Keep the following five sales traits in mind during your next performance reviews or sales assessments to help you identify high-potential salespeople. Five Traits of Successful Salespeople 1)
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Things Salespeople Want From Their Sales Managers To Be Successful
Sales Management

5 Things Successful Salespeople Want from Their Sales Managers

Salesperson turnover rates remain one of the most challenging issues facing sales managers today. In fact, studies have found that the turnover rate in sales stands at a whopping 34%, when you look at both voluntary and involuntary leave. As you likely know, maintaining a solid sales team is quite a challenge when you have people coming and going at this rate. So how do you combat these high turnover numbers, and keep your salespeople successful and in your company? You give your salespeople what they want. Though that may sound simple, it is anything but. The art of giving
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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

The Sales Manager’s Interview Guide [Updated 2024]

Navigating the sales interview process to source top talent is a pivotal yet frequently overwhelming responsibility for managers. Without thoughtful structure, critical factors get overlooked when assessing candidates in the moment. This leads to making misinformed hiring decisions that negatively impact sales results and turnover rates. Establishing and executing sales interview techniques tailored to reliably identify competencies proves essential. This guide provides a strategic framework to optimize your sales recruitment best practices from first screening calls to final round interviews. We empower managers with the tools to qualify skills, mindsets, and fit accurately and efficiently. Learn to craft structured inquiry
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