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5 Secrets to Managing Your Sales Manager Productively


Many people believe that the main reason for representatives leaving their organisation is that of money in that they leave for a bigger salary. In fact, the biggest reason why people leave organisations is that the role they are doing is no longer offering any challenge or excitement. The second reason is due to the behaviour and capability of the immediate line manager. More often than not, the two are strongly linked with the manager taking little interest in the representative?s development and as such the representative feels under valued and bored due to the lack of attention and challenge.

The Four ?D?s of Sales Management


Recently I stumbled across some notes that I had kept from a project I had been involved in which involved looking at manager behaviours. The aim of this project was to identify "preferred behaviours" in sales managers when they were working closely with their sales representatives. The outputs were interesting and helped my colleagues identify four main types of sales managers and the differences between effective and ineffective behaviours.

The Top 5 Issues Facing VPs of Sales


A recent study of 2,663 sales organizations by Think Training, Nightingale Conant and Trainique uncovered five areas that shed light on what separates the best from the rest (visit http://www.revegrowth.com/free_articles.htm for a copy)

Sales Competence Isn?t About Quota Performance!


Compounding the problem are two myths regarding measures of competency in sales.

The Art and Science of Managing Expectations in Selling


It is very easy to fall into a trap with the customer by extending offerings beyond that of what the company infrastructure is able to supply in a reasonable timeline.

Determining Sales Fit; the Key Growth Process for Your Business


Help your organization grow by assessing the right indicators in individuals slated for revenue-generating positions within your company. "Growth Talent", such as sales, account executive, consultant, sales engineer, or other individuals responsible for top-line revenue growth. The SalesFit processes addresses the individual uniqueness of your organization and the candidate. The power of the methodology is its ability to ensure an objective understanding of where the candidate is a good fit within your company.

How To Build A Worldwide Distributor Network


When your product is market ready and has a good bargain, it will be no value to you if you don't know who's going to buy it, or how you are going to tell the world about it. Your product will only sell if it has a good wide distribution network.

7 Tips for Testing Your Sales and Marketing


One marketing technique may work wonders for someone, but that doesn't guarantee that it'll do the same for you. The only way to really know what works for YOUR products and YOUR target audience is to experiment. Testing and experimentation are crucial to increasing your profits.

Building Trust For Lifetime Success


Trust.

Raise Your Fees Overnight!


Do you want to make more money?

Management From Within


Inspiration and Management from Within ? Part 2.

The Spirit Of Change


A Highly Conscious Approach To Business Management. For more on this topic please link to Innerwealth Web Site

Sales Pipeline Forecasting Is There A Better Way?


To put it mildly most companies sales forecasting just isn?t delivering, a staggering 90% of the deals do not close as forecasted even when the close probability is 75% or over. Even more astonishing is that 54% of forecasted deals are lost to competitors or to a no decision.

Is Sales Process & CRM Stopping Sales?


Standard metrics and KPI?s (Key Performance Indicators) are created usually between The Sales Director, The Financial Director and The Managing Director. These KPI?s tell the sales teams what they should be doing. For example, 'Your pipeline should be at least three times of your annual sales target'; 'Your conversion ratio of opportunities to closed orders should be 60%', and so on. Nothing like a bit of statistical analysis from the bean counters to motivate the sales team is there? Remember that old saying?'You can prove anything with statistics'. Here, we see it applied for real, albeit on an unconscious level.

Business Career, Executive Coaching Article - Perfection vs. Excellence


"(Howard) Hughes never learned how to convert his knowledge to practical application. Instead he sought a perfection that assured failure." - From Empire: The Life, Legend and Madness of Howard Hughes by Donald L. Bartlett & James B. Steel

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