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Top 10 Sales Management Mistakes

Successfully hiring and managing salespeople are two of the most important things you will do as a sales manager. Here are ten sales management mistakes and misconceptions and how you can avoid them. Top Sales Hiring Mistakes and Misconceptions 1. I have a golden gut. A sales candidate is typically on their best behavior during the interview. They want to portray themselves as personable and motivated to succeed. After all, they want to get hired for your open position. And this may cause you to feel like “Wow, I just know in my gut that this person will be a
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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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Insider Secrets to Help Your Salespeople Sell Faster
Sales Management

5 Insider Secrets to Help Your New Salespeople Sell Faster

The success of your salespeople is rooted in one major thing: motivation. Without motivation, your hopes and dreams of your sales team achieving sales goals and bringing success to your company will forever remain hopes and dreams, and never transform into reality. But, as you likely already know, motivation is not as simple as it may seem. In fact, according to a recent Gallup poll, 51% of the workforce in the United States is disengaged from their job. Sure, a brand new salesperson fresh off of training may not be quite as jaded as some senior sales reps, and may
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Habits of Highly Successful Sales Managers to Adopt Today
Sales Management

12 Habits of Highly Successful Sales Managers To Adopt Today

A sales manager is a person with the unique position of empowering and influencing the sales reps in a company. Turning around an entire team and increasing sales is a must if you want the company to succeed, but many managers fail to acknowledge this and allow even the smallest barriers to turn into big issues. Fortunately, it does not take a lot to increase the positive impact a sales manager makes on the team. According to Jessica Jang, a content manager at Bestessays, ”there are three key points a sales manager must pay attention to: motivation, alignment and performance.”
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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 Coach Your Sales Reps to Success
Sales Management

Top 5 Ways to Coach Your Reps to Become Sales Superstars

Being an effective leader is one of the top ways to boost your sales. The better you are at leading your team, the better your team will be. Oftentimes, when your sales are sinking, you can trace it back to the lack of management and poor coaching skills. In order to avoid dealing with sinking sales, it is best to stay on top of coaching your sales reps. However, we recognize that this may not be as easy as it sounds. In fact, the daunting task of coaching your sales team is what has led to this staggering fact: according
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