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Boost Your Sales Team’s Performance by First Understanding Their Challenges

“Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits on a daily basis” – Omar Periu As a sales manager, you probably focus on giving your team the right amount of push to get them to aim for, and achieve, increasingly high sales goals. However, if your team’s performance is not getting better after your attempts to motivate them, there may be a more serious underlying issue. Understanding your sales team’s challenges, and knowing how to address them, will help boosting your team’s overall performance. How to Identify the Problem Perhaps more than other professional industries, having a skilled
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7 Tips to Avoid Micromanaging Your Salespeople

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. However, some sales managers take their need for visibility too far and start micromanaging. This ineffective management practice often makes their team become resentful, hindering them from selling to the best of their ability. 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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Are Sales Scripts a Good or Bad Idea?

Ask around, and you will find that sales managers have varying opinions on sales scripts. Some organizations swear by the effectiveness of having their salespeople read a script word-for-word, while others feel strongly that allowing a salesperson to initiate a more natural conversation with his/her customer works better. If you are unsure of whether or not your salespeople should use a script, read on. This blog post will discuss the pros and cons of suing a sales script so you can make an informed decision about how your team should interact with customers so they can achieve higher sales results.
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10 Ways to Make Sure Your Next Sales Meeting is a Success

If you have ever held a sales meeting before, you know that salespeople are not always thrilled to attend. And it is easy to understand why they might feel that way. If they are not selling, then they are not making money, and they know that your meeting is a non-sales activity. They may also assume that your meeting is going to take up more of their time than it should and walk into the meeting with a negative attitude as a result.   Do not let that happen – if you do, it is highly likely that your salespeople
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6 Helpful Tips for Successfully Onboarding New Salespeople

A 2012 Allied Workforce Mobility Survey showed that it took one year or longer for most new employees to get caught up to speed in about 30% of companies. As a sales manager, you might find that statistic concerning. A year is a long time for a person to work at a company without completely understanding their job. For salespeople, slow progress translates to a lowered ability to sell productively. Can you imagine how much your team’s sales results could improve if every single salesperson went through an effective onboarding process? Chances are, their results would improve quite a bit.
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How to Effectively Evaluate Your Salespeople and Help Them Get Better Results

As a sales manager, you are always searching for new ways to improve your team’s performance. Chances are you have tried multiple methods in the past. But if you still are not seeing the results you want, it might be time to step back for a moment, evaluate your team and try something different to help them get better sales results. Ready to learn how?                                                                                                We have outlined multiple ways to evaluate your salespeople so you can use what you learn to help them reach their goals. How to Evaluate Your Sales Team Regularly analyze the sales process your salespeople
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