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Managing The Sales Team

How can you effectively develop and motivate your sales team to achieve great results? What are the attributes and key drivers of top sales performers?
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Compensate To Motivate Your Salespeople

by Lee B. Salz

Are you and your sales team really on the same page? Channeling the energy of a sales team can be a challenging endeavour, but here's an incontestable fact: How you compensate your sales representatives determines where they invest their time and the results you get.

How To Retain Your Best Salespeople

by James Adonis

It all comes down to this. If you give your salespeople what they can't get anywhere else, why would they ever resign?

The Move To Sales Management - Assessing The Fit

by Miller Heiman

Selling and managing sales are two different disciplines, involving two different sets of skills. Much of what may have made a sales star excel - independence, the ability to close a deal no matter what, and a fierce competitive spirit (even when competing against their peers) - are not the traits associated with legendary sales managers.

Taking On The Role Of Sales Manager - How To Conquer The New Terrain

by Miller Heiman

The move from top-performing salesperson to sales manager is more than just a cumbersome exercise in transporting pictures, pens and kitschy paraphernalia. The transition can be a tumultuous, arduous journey.

Guaranteeing The Revenue Result

by Ian Stephens

How do you increase the chance that your sales targets will be achieved? How do you ensure the sales-force lands the sales result in a timely fashion, and avoid finishing 10% down? In my experience, the answer lies in the following 4 key points.

Manage Or Damage - Is Your Funnel Ratio Up To Par?

by Miller Heiman

A company-specific Funnel Ratio, also known as the Pipeline Ratio, proves essential for maintaining sustained balance within your funnel and among accounts.

12 Keys To Tuning-Up Your Sales Force

by Lee B. Salz

Review these 12 keys to ensure that your sales organisation is finely-tuned and ready to conquer the selling world.

Managing A Gen Y Sales Team

by Gregory Stebbins

Seasoned sales managers are facing challenges managing new Millennials - also known as Gen Y, or people born after 1980. These new sales professionals have a different approach to life, which greatly impacts their ability to sell effectively. Here's how to get the most from them.

Achieving Greater Efficiency With Your Sales Force

by Adele Crane

Just because your sales force seem to be working hard doesn't mean they're working efficiently and acheiving their full sales potential.

Maximise Growth By Managing Your Sales Force Knowledge

by Adele Crane

In most cases, sales forces are as desperate for the right guidance and direction to conduct their sales activities as their managers' need for their sales teams to conform to the right procedures. Organisations with solid systems can usually deliver a 25-35% increase in results.

Ten Keys To A Successful Sales Transformation

by Carol Henriques

Ten principles for organisations contemplating an overhaul of their sales function that help minimise the risks.

A Best Practice For Shortening Sales Cycle Length

The accuracy of revenue forecasts is heavily reliant on information from the field. But, salespeople often times aren't estimating the correct time frame for a large sale, which inevitably throws sales calculations off balance.

Finding And Fixing Sales Performance Problems - Defining The Problem

by Prosell

This article looks at how a sales operation can identify its strengths and weaknesses and drive performance improvement.

Finding And Fixing Sales Performance Problems - Defining The Solution

by Prosell

This article looks at first-meeting-to-proposal and proposal-to-order ratios.

Finding And Fixing Sales Performance Problems - The Performance Improvement Process

by Prosell

This article looks at the performance improvement process and the role of the sales manager.

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