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| Page 1 of 2 | Previous | Next | YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU JUNE 9, 2013 Six Steps to Exceed Your Summer Quota Often when two executives meet to discuss business topics and get to better understand each other strategic topics come out that normally a salesperson working with IT teams are not aware of or are made available to them. 'Exceeding your Summer Quotas. Now is the time to act. Not only will it pay off this summer, but your third and fourth quarters will amaze you. Drop those lines. | YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 Sales Leadership: The Impact of Creating a Sales Process Recently in working with a client we spent about two hours simply documenting what a salesperson should do on each of the various steps of their sales process, it enlightened the existing sales manager and created the beginning of a new sales driven culture for the company. What has worked for you? Sales Leadership: The Impact of a Creating a Sales Process . It occurs almost every time I speak or every initial client visit. Why is this important enough to write about? The Results! What happened? Why is this important? Pipeline values become more accurate. What hasn’t? | | | | | | | YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU AUGUST 3, 2012 The End of Solution Sales Front the front page of the article: “The old playbook no longer works. The End of Solution Sales. The Role of Sales Leadership & Management. Now what does that title mean to you? Recently I spoke at a major software vendor’s partner and client conference and a few weeks later I received an email from one of the attendee’s suggesting I should comment in a future blog on the Harvard Business Review (July/August 2012) paper titled: The End of Solution Sales. At 35,000 feet it woke me up. Ken@AcumenMgmt.com. . www.AcumenManagement.com to register. Are their agile? | YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU AUGUST 27, 2012 Sales Leadership: Focus on Focus The company has been growing, not at an aggressive pace but slowly and the sales organization was in chaos, working opportunistically on various sales deals and randomly in the marketplace. Are they working smart? Third: Working Smart is smart. Sales Leadership: Focus on Focus. During an initial meeting where I was performing a business assessment with a new client several common topics re-appeared and since I seem to discover these quite often, I thought it would be a good topic for this blog. Can they sell your company effectively? www.AcumenMgmt.com. | YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU JUNE 4, 2012 Sales Leadership: Salesperson Business Plans This approach moves the sales team to working on a Pro-Active Approach vs a Re-Active Approach. Sales Leadership: Planning for the Second Half of the Year. Last week after meeting with a new client I started to lay out a project plan and identify the various challenges we need to address to increase the performance of the entire company. One of the first items we needed to address was the lack of accurate monthly forecasting by the sales team and the lack of accountability of the sales leadership team. The plan should include both personal as well as professional components. link]. | YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU FEBRUARY 27, 2012 Sales Management & The Impact of Social Media SCN will allow salespeople to reach more prospects, work at a pace commensurate with today’s current demands and profit measures. Sales Management and the Impact of Social Media. Ken Thoreson. While in the process of writing a future magazine column on the future of sales and social media I interviewed three people and posed several questions in order to get their view points. I thought for this week’s blog I would also introduce you to my current thinking and I would really enjoy hearing your thoughts on the direction of sales and the use of social media. Is your sales process? | | | | | | | | | - Sales Leadership: Impacting Your 2013 Revenue
Fourth, create a chart that describes your top five work experiences that a high performer should have and the top five personal characteristics you want from members of your team. Fifth, is your current compensation working to attract top talent? am currently working with a client building a process to hire a sales manager; this interviewing process becomes more complex and more important to get it right. Sales Leadership: Impacting Your 2013 Revenue. However, by adding new salespeople in the next 90 days, they will be ready to be contributors in 2013. . MORE >> -
Old Ways of Doing Business, No Longer Work 'Old Ways of Doing Business No Longer Work. believe that most of us accept that the old ways of doing business no longer work: the increasingly intense competitive challenges of the world economy, post the recent financial meltdown, challenge everyone, everywhere to adapt in order to prosper under new rules. The ever-pressing need to serve customers and clients well and to work smoothly and creatively with an ever more diverse range of people makes the ability to empathize all the more essential. Those who cannot - or will not - change are withering. MORE >> -
YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU | WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2012 Sales Leadership: Compensation and Summer Fun would like to hear from the readers, comment below as to what contests have worked for you and why? Or what contests did not work and why? Sales Compensation and Having a Fun Summer. Sales Leadership Ideas. At this time of year sales management must be looking at pipeline levels and goals for July/August and determining if there is the necessary level of activity to ensure targets will be exceeded. In this blog I wanted to share a few basic ideas from my books on sales management: Leading High Performance Sales Teams and Creating Sales Compensation Plans for High Performance. MORE >> -
The Renaissance Society Anyone working in business and driving a global business must read/ understand this chapter as you plot your long term strategies. What is working? What hasn’t worked? Reading this book has opened many new thoughts to consider while working with my clients, read it and see what it does for your organization. 'The Renaissance Society. How the shift from dream society to the age of individual control will change the way you do business. 2) The Green Society: a must scenario as societies that destroy their environments, destroy themselves. What needs to be changed? MORE >> - Make Monday Morning Meetings Work
Next, you should work from an agenda, using the same format every week. Building a high-performance sales team takes work, energy and organization. Make Monday-Morning Meetings Count . Use a well-organized, performance-oriented gathering to motivate your team for the coming week. . Based upon several comments/questions from various clients in the last 3 weeks, I decided to include a chapter from my latest book: “ Leading High Performance Sales Teams as my blog this week. The agenda is one item included in our Interactive Sales Management Tool Kit. Plan Ahead. MORE >>
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- The Power of Net-New YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU | MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 2010
- Build a Personal and Professional Vision for Growth YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU | WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010
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- Sales Leadership, Marketing and Social Media YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU | FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 2010
- A Walk Through a Broken Organization YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU | TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012
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