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What separates a good sales rep from a great one? Some might say it’s skill, others attribute it to pure luck. But there’s one factor that consistently drives performance across high-impact sales teams: intentional, consistent coaching.
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This is a guest post by Aaron Ross, co-author of “Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com”. You aren’t alone – just about every company struggles with adoption of their Sales Force Automation (“SFA”) system – even the SFA companies like Salesforce.com! WHY EVERYONE STRUGGLES...
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Most hiring best practice guides focus entirely on locating, interviewing and onboarding sales reps. Very few focus on onboarding an even more important role: sales management. Sales leaders have a notoriously high turnover rate, and employee turnover is very expensive. That’s why creating a comprehensive onboarding process for sales managers is critical. Of course, your...
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Your salespeople seem talented, but aren’t able to deliver good results. Why?   Old school sales managers would be quick to point the blame at the reps, themselves. But sales team performance is a reflection of sales management, as a sales leader’s job is to coach and guide reps around the fundamental activities that lead...
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More than 70 percent of leading companies say sales coaching is the most important role of a front-line sales manager. But less than 20 percent of the average sales leader’s time is spent on proactive sales coaching. This doesn’t make sense. Especially when research shows that sales coaching is the best productivity investment to improve...
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