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Why You Need a Modern Sales Process [Guest Post]

Guest Post by Tim Jernigan Managing a sales team can feel like being pulled in a hundred directions at once. If your sales team works the “old-fashioned” way – handwritten reports, navigating by instinct, using their brain as a  CRM – the stress is even worse. An old-fashioned sales process requires a lot more managing. You spend all of your time reading sloppy reports, paying out ridiculous mileage expenses and cleaning up after reps when they forget to follow-up with leads. A modern sales process eliminates busy-work. You’re leading your team, but they’re managing themselves. A full-fledged modern sales team
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How to Quickly Build a Sales Team Without Wasting Time and Money [Infographic]

As a sales manager, you know that building a strong sales team is critical to the success of your business. After all, salespeople are crucial to generating the revenue that keeps your company running, so every sales hiring decision you make should be handled with care. Now, you may be wondering: How can I avoid costly bad hires and quickly build a team of high-performing salespeople? Let’s start with an infographic to dive into this a little deeper… And here is the text version… How to Build a High-Performing Sales Team Fast Outline your standards. If you already have a
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The Process Fortune 500 Companies Use to Create High-Performing Sales Teams

Have you ever noticed how Fortune 500 companies always seem to attract the best sales talent? Clearly, they have the recruiting and interviewing process thoroughly mapped out because of the way they consistently create high-performing sales teams. Now, you may be wondering: How can I use the same process as Fortune 500 companies to create a high-performing sales team at my own company? If that is the case, keep reading. Today,  I am going to discuss the process Fortune 500 companies use so you can start finding and hiring the best sales talent.     How to Create High-Performing Sales
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7 Easy Ways to Boost Your Sales Team’s Productivity

The most effective sales managers understand that a salesperson’s productivity directly relates to the results he/she is able to achieve. An unproductive salesperson will not be able to sell as much as a productive one. So, how do you increase sales productivity in a way that helps your team sell more? Every sales team is different, but the following tips should help your salespeople regardless of what is slowing them down at work. By the time you finish reading this post, you will be well equipped to coach your team to greater productivity and sales success. How to Increase Sales
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Why “Always Be Closing” Advice Will Cause Your Salespeople to Fail

If you have worked in sales for a while, you have probably heard of “ABC:” Always Be Closing. If you have never heard of it, it simply means that the sales process should be focused on closing deals. This advice is often given to salespeople by managers in the hopes that it will motivate them to close more sales. Some sales managers even write a sales script centered around the “ABC” approach and require their salespeople to use it with every customer. At first glance, “Always Be Closing” may seem like a sound tactic, and it is true that it was
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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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