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Top Tips on How to Improve Sales Team Performance
Sales Management

Top Tips on How to Improve the Sales Performance of Your Team

According to a Hubspot study, 66% of salespeople miss their quotas. This statistic really shines a light on the fact that a lot of sales teams are struggling. Even if you feel your sales team is doing a good job, ask yourself this: “Could they be doing better?” No salesperson in the industry has reached their absolute peak — the point at which they could not possibly improve anymore. There will be waves with your sales team in just how well your they are performing — sometimes things will seem like they are going swimmingly, other times you will feel
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KPIs Keep Tabs of The Performance Of Your Sales Team
Sales Management

7 KPIs To Keep Tabs On The Performance Of Your Sales Team [Guest Post]

The importance of an efficient sales team should be evident whether the company deals in distribution or wholesale. This is because the sales team is what links the products to the customers. The clients could be separate individuals or whole other companies. Whatever the case, their purchases are directly related to the sales team performance. Hence, any company worthy of flourishing should carefully measure their sales team’s performance using KPIs and metrics. The following are some useful key sales metrics one could use to gauge where their sales team needs improvement. This could help a business expand better and smoothen
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How to Deal With Negative Salespeople
Sales Strategies

5 Types of Difficult Salespeople and How To Deal With Them [Guest Post]

Every sales organization is bound to have a few team members that can only be described as difficult. While everyone on the team may have their own unique personality and attitude, it may take a lot of adjustment and patience to deal with certain people on any given day. As a sales manager, it’s important to know that just because one of your top sales representatives is consistently closing business doesn’t mean that they are untouchable. This person has to be a good employee, with a great attitude and loyalty to the organization. Some managers would rather turn a blind
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Sales Management

5 Inspiring Habits of a Successful Sales Mentor

Is your sales team running at its highest level? If not, it may need a strong, confident sales mentor to kick it into high gear. It is essential that every great sales manager, director or vice president develop a few key habits that will help cultivate growth and success for their team. Let us go over some of those habits and how they can help your sales team flourish. The Habits that Define a Stellar Sales Leader 1.   Waking up early Waking up early is not an easy habit to develop, but it is one thing that many successful leaders
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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

2 Simple, Yet Overlooked, Ways to Build a High-Performing Sales Team

Having a strong sales team is absolutely necessary to the success of any sales manager, director or VP. Therefore, it seems only natural that when it comes to building your sales team, you cannot simply rely on the luck of the draw—you need to have a strategic plan in place to find and hire the right salespeople. With that in mind, let us explore a couple of ways you can build the ideal sales team. 2 Underutilized Ways to Build a High-Performing Sales Team 1. Look for candidates with the key traits that support a successful sales team Some of
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Ways to Increase Sales Via Sales Training for Employees
Sales Training

5 Ways Sales Training Can Take Your Business to the Next Level

Whether you are a sales manager, a sales director or a sales VP, you are probably familiar with the frustration of an underperforming sales team. You may feel like no matter what you try, you simply cannot help your team achieve better results in a way that takes your business to the next level. If that is the case, it might be time for you to consider implementing more effective sales training techniques. When you put into action the right sales training techniques, you can feel confident that your team will improve their sales results and your business will reap
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