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November 2016
Let’s be honest: A sales activity tracker sounds like micromanagement. Used a certain way, it can be. Tracking sales activities for the sake of monitoring every rep every moment of every day is definitely micromanagement. But sales activity management gives a new meaning to sales activity tracking. Instead of using it to control sales behaviors,...
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Sales leaders spend less than one-fifth of their time on sales coaching, according to research from CSO Insights and the AA-ISP. That seems odd. One of the primary responsibilities of a sales leader is to empower their reps for success. As Jason Jordan explains in “Cracking the Sales Management Code,” sales leaders are like war...
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Sales leaders, here’s something to be grateful for this year: inexpensive sales incentives. The last thing you want to do at the end of the year is try to find budget to motivate your sales team. But the good news is that you don’t have to. Competition, recognition and low-cost sales incentives can all drive...
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Your Salesforce default display should be like your office desk: designed to achieve maximum sales productivity. For a lot of sales teams, however, configuring Salesforce tabs seems like just another administrative task that takes them away from selling. Many reps never bother. But Salesforce tabs not only help reps focus on the most impactful tools...
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Yesterday, Salesforce released the second annual State of Sales report. The company surveyed more than 3,100 sales professionals to understand the tools, strategies and struggles of modern sales management. Sales leaders can learn a lot from the research: Click here to read the full report. The 60-page report is packed with information. Before you dive...
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