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New Sales Manager Tips for Success

LSA Global

3 New Sales Manager Tips for Success for Your First 90-Days We know from our sales management training that being a high performing solution seller often leads to a promotion to sales management. Unfortunately, experience as a high performing solution seller does not fully prepare sales reps to lead others.

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Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team

Harvard Business

But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise.

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Impact of Marketing Consulting Services on ROI

Business Consulting Agency

The Impact of Poor Marketing: According to a survey by HubSpot, 63% of marketers indicate that generating traffic and leads is their top marketing challenge. According to a Nielsen report, 59% of consumers prefer to buy new products from brands familiar to them, underscoring the importance of brand visibility.

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84% of B2B Sales Start with a Referral — Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. In fact, a recent survey found that connecting with a prospect now takes 18 or more phone calls, callback rates are below 1%, and only 24% of outbound sales emails are ever opened. Why are more and more buyers avoiding salespeople during the buying process?

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It’s 10 AM. Do You Know What Your Sales Reps Are Doing?

Harvard Business

Sales executives with even moderately large, distributed sales forces rely on data to help them understand which activities and behaviors lead to the best outcomes. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles. At the highest level, Workplace Analytics can provide a factual foundation for decisions on sales structure and roles.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. Consider GM as a case study.

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Why Employee Recognition Matters in Today’s Workplace

Rick Conlow

The High Payoff of Employee Recognition Research shows employees with little, or no recognition exhibit decreased job satisfaction, higher turnover, lower productivity and engagement, and greater stress or burnout. For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers.