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Great Sales Managers Have to Be Great Coaches

Integrity Solutions

Great sales managers are required to become great coaches. Great sales managers know that everyone in their organization takes a cue from them. It’s more true than ever that the best sales reps may not make the best sales leaders. World-class sales leadership is about embracing both of these roles.

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How Important Is Sales Forecasting Accuracy On Your Sales Team?

Integrity Solutions

It too often falls prey to a sales rep’s subjective emotions, sandbagging, happy-ears optimism or ignorance of the factors that contribute to whether an opportunity will close, when and for how much. In my view, pipeline management, coaching and forecasting accuracy go hand in glove.

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Sales Team Management: 24 Practical Strategies You Need to Know

Spotio

Let’s be honest, managing a high-performance sales team is hard. Especially when you consider that 91% of sales reps missed their sales quotas last year. The average annual turnover rate for sales teams is a whopping 35%. No wonder upper management is always trying to raise sales quotas.

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5 Strategies to Help Ensure Sales Process Improvement

Quantified

Most sales reps have a considerable number of tools at their disposal designed to help predict customer behavior, automate sales processes, and improve overall conversion rates. Why Are So Many Companies Prioritizing Sales Process Improvement Strategies? How can you make this happen?

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Best Practices for Accelerating the Sales Process

More often than not, sales leaders strive to accelerate their deal cycle, but it’s critical to also consider the opportunity cost. The bottom line is that, in B2B sales, speed is useless without control.

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Three Reasons Your Sales Pipeline Opportunities Fail to Convert to Revenue

Integrity Solutions

For every opportunity in your long-term pipeline or short-term forecast, you need to ask your account managers a few specific questions to get a more realistic view of what’s really likely to close. In other words, does the account manager understand the sale from the customer’s point of view? What are some examples?

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5 Common Sales Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Integrity Solutions

The fact the quota achievement rates are a continual challenge underscores the fact that organizations need to rethink the kind of support they’re providing to their sales teams. Sales Process Consistency. It’s a common complaint: We’ve taught our salespeople the process and skills, but they’re still not doing it.

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