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Sales Management

Top 6 Sales Management Challenges and How to Overcome Them

As a sales manager, your leadership style is a major contributing factor to your team’s success. If you let your team down, you will likely see their results suffer. On the other hand, if you practice effective management and leadership skills, you can inspire your team and strengthen their performance. However, sales management can be challenging, especially if you are new to the role. Below are the top challenges faced by sales managers and how you can overcome them to improve sales productivity, become a stronger leader and get better results from your team: Top 6 Sales Management Challenges and
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How to Build and Manage a Successful Sales Team

Are you failing to get the results you want from your sales team? If so, it might be a good time to analyze your hiring and management process. With a few simple changes, you can start hiring and leading sales superstars who are capable of consistently growing revenue. That means no more wasted time or money, or frustration due to hiring and training the wrong people. How to Build and Manage a Successful Sales Team was last modified: July 28th, 2015 by SalesDrive, LLC
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Sales Management

How to Reduce High Turnover in the Sales Department

Here Is Why Salespeople Leave and How It Can Cost You Whether high turnover has resulted from failure to use a sales aptitude test to help you hire wisely, troubles with the company culture or something else, it is a problem that requires your immediate attention. After all, the cost of high turnover in a sales department can be quite staggering – both for your company’s budget and the overall morale of your team. Thankfully, many of the common causes of high turnover rates can be avoided relatively easily. Here are the top reasons companies experience high turnover in the
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Does Your Employee Need Training or is She Ill-Suited to Sales?

It is always frustrating when a new sales hire does not perform as well as expected. Hunting for qualified candidates is a lot of work, so it is important that the employees you commit to hire and train can pull their weight. If you have a new salesperson that is not performing as well as you had hoped, take a close look at his or her process to determine whether his success rate is being negatively affected by mistakes in his sales method or by his personality. 5 Signs Your Employee Needs Training, But Is Not Necessarily Wrong for Sales:
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7 Major Mistakes You May Be Making While Building Your Sales Team [Infographic]

Without a skilled sales team, your business simply cannot thrive. Unqualified salespeople may cause the team to repeatedly miss monthly revenue goals and unmotivated salespeople may bring down the morale of the team. Because of this, it is important for you to hire the right people and handle your current salespeople effectively. Errors are common among managers who have been tasked with building a sales team. Here are 7 of the most disastrous ones that you may be making: 7 Major Mistakes You May Be Making While Building Your Sales Team [Infographic] was last modified: July 14th, 2015 by SalesDrive,
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How to Train Your Salespeople to Handle Customer Objections

Customer Objections Kill Deals It might seem obvious, but there is great value in identifying the exact point at which most sales deals fall through. Deals rarely fail because of a weak approach or a lack of demonstrated value. If a potential client has been qualified as a legitimate sales opportunity, the most likely point of failure will be when that client raises an objection. How a salesperson responds to the client’s objection will make or break the deal, so it is critical that he respond in the right way when objections inevitably arise. Objections can be intimidating, so you
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