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Sales Management

7 Tips to Keep Your Sales Team Happy and Productive

It is a top priority of successful sales managers, directors and VPs to make sure their sales teams are happy. Why is that? Because a happy sales team is a productive sales team, and the success of your business often hinges on your team’s productivity. With that in mind, let’s go over a few tips that will help you keep your salespeople happy and ready to crush their sales goals. How to Ensure Your Sales Team is Happy 1. Use an effective onboarding process A salesperson’s first impression of your company often becomes their lasting impression. In other words, if
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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 Management

3 Empowering Techniques to Help Your Sales Team Sell More

Whether you have a sales process in place or you are simply looking for a way to improve your sales team’s performance, there is always room for growth. Many struggling teams use the same sales techniques over and over again and expect different results. But if you really want to break out from a sluggish sales streak, you may want to consider shaking things up. Here are a few ways to accomplish that while empowering your sales team to sell more. 3 Ways to Increase Your Team’s Sales 1.   Warm Calling Though it may be effective under certain conditions, cold
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Sales Management

4 Frequent Struggles For Sales Teams and How to Fix Them

Is your sales team dealing with poor sales performance? If so, then you are probably scrambling for answers on how to overcome obstacles that are dragging your team’s productivity down. But what is the first step in trying to solve the age-old problem of struggling sales reps? The first thing you must do is find the root of your team’s struggles. 4 Common Sales Team Struggles 1.   Poor Sales Planning Paul Meyer, founder of Success Motivation Institute, once said, “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and focused effort.” With
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Sales Management

7 Signs Your Sales Rep Will Make a Great Sales Manager [Infographic]

A good sales manager is critical to the success of the entire sales team. The sales manager’s attitude can determine the sales department’s performance and the team’s attitude towards work. However, before you promote one of your salespeople to a sales management position, you should know that not every salesperson is fit to manage and lead a team to success. Sales management positions require an entirely different skill set and personality than typical sales positions, and you must know whether or not your potential candidate possesses those skills and personality traits before you can confidently promote them. 7 Signs Your
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Sales Management

4 Ways to Inspire Your Team To Sell, Sell, Sell!

Is your sales team performing at its full potential? If not, helping them get there may simply be a matter of keeping your team inspired and feeling engaged with your company. Whether you are a sales manager, director or VP, you have the ability to motivate your sales reps to focus on their goals and improve their overall productivity. With that in mind, let us discuss a few ways you can improve your team’s sales performance. How to Incite Your Team’s Sales 1.   Create an environment based on trust Interactions between a manager and an employee can sometimes be tense
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