Top 10 Attributes of Successful Sales Managers

Characteristics and attributes you can seek to cultivate as a sales manager. In my mind, there are two broad influential categories: trust and presence. Under each category are five specific characteristics that every effective sales manager must possess. I call them the Five Cs of Trust and the Five Points of Presence.

B2B Sales Lead Generation Investment: Match Your Demand Generation Programs To Sales Needs

Billions of dollars from business-to-business marketing budgets are spent each year on sales lead generation.Unfortunately, much of this investment in B2B sales lead generation is wasted. Why? Because many sales lead generation programs and lead qualification efforts are not in harmony with the needs of sales. Learn how to optimize your sales lead generation programs and lead qualification efforts.

Responding to Bird Flu Pandemic Readiness From Customers

Soon large corporate clients will be asking you if indeed you will be able to manage incase of a Bird Flu Pandemic. They will want to know if indeed your company will still be around to supply them in the event there is a Bird Flu Pandemic? What will you tell them?

Training the New Network Marketing Distributor: Working Depth With Your MLM Downline – Step 3 of 3

Work with your distributors; give them tasks to accomplish each time you contact them. But, that's about all you can do. If they don't want to build their business and be responsible for their own success, then you must spend your time on those who have earned it, i.e. those who are willing to take responsibility.

Adopt the 'T' Method to Sales Performance Improvement

What’s your approach to sales training? Do you have a process that defines which sales performance competency to train to and what impact it will have on selected performance silos if the training objective is successfully met? Or do you rely on ‘field feedback’ not associated with actual performance numbers and related ROI to decide where to put your training dollars? Here’s a simple blueprint to gain more revenue in less time while maintaining fiscal accountability to the ‘Top-floor’.

Pro-Active Techniques for Getting Referrals

The typical business turns over 20% of its customers every year because of errors, changes in customer’s buying influence or personnel, customers moving or going out of business, customers that are acquired and loose local purchasing authority or customers whose need becomes obsolescent. Prospecting new accounts is crucial to the survival and growth of businesses and many companies spend countless dollars on cold calling with direct sales people or telemarketing. Referrals are readily accepted but often not pro-actively solicited and, therefore, often not realized as an exceptionally good and rewarding source of new business.

Employee Management: How Do You Want To Be Treated?

Understanding how people want to be treated by their manager will help you become more affective as a leader. Here is a list of things all employees have in common when it comes to how they want to be treated.

How to Double your Sales Appointments in Half the Time; Part 1

Sales organizations live by growth. And Sales Growth is measured by sales revenue. If you want to know how to increase sales revenue there are only three ways to do it.

How to Develop a Master-Planned Sales Plan

If you stepped back with me for a minute and took a bird's eye view of your sales plan, would it be considered a Master-Planned Sales Plan? Let's imagine that your original sales plan was to support 550 core customers. The strategy was to develop a community of customers that would increase your bank account and capitalize on the capabilities of your business.

How to Create A Vision For Sales Success

When you are finished with this exercise, you will have a clear vision of sales growth mapped out for your sales team. Giving them a copy of what you drew and tell them what to look for provides the direction they need.

Sales Management and Cold Calling Programs

Most people who are in sales do not really like cold calling much and I suppose that makes sense, yet if you are very knowledgeable about the industry for which you are calling you should not worry much and actually come to enjoy talking to like minded business folks. Indeed you may find they actually enjoy talking with you.

Sales Management by the Numbers

Sales activity numbers are an important indicator of success and failure. The problem associated with calculating sales activity is that many salespeople and sales managers don’t keep track of the vital numbers to make the analysis.

Great Sales Managers Make Less than all their Sales People

Are you a great sales manager? Well if you really are a great sales manager then every single one of the sales people under you should be making more than your salary, unless your company is paying you an additional stipend on the total amount of sales on your team.

Is Business Formulaic?

This article describes the many benefits associated with using a formulaic approach to business process engineering.