In 2013, the sales rep can’t rely on anyone other than themselves. Making quota is the only option, even when cold call response rates & email response rates are down. Prospects are making it harder to do business, but Social Selling is making it much easier for sales reps. Sales reps need to learn LinkedIn Signal & Hootsuite. Forget marketing – list for your clients, prospects, keywords, competitors… it’s all there.
We’re approaching the end of sales kickoff season. Companies have brought their sales teams together, and have started planning new go-to-market strategies. They’ve added new product features, benefits, and new territory plans to their sales bags. With the best companies (unfortunately, most companies don’t do this enough), there is a new skills-based learning deployed at … Continue reading “Post-Sales Kickoff Prospecting Slump? Now What?”
I was in Nelson, British Columbia recently for an extreme skiing trip in the Selkirk Mountains. I had the opportunity to live on top of Baldface Mountain for a week with 46 other CEOs, and it was incredible to listen to the pitfalls, challenges, best practices, and opportunities in each of their businesses.
I’ve been fielding a lot of questions and calls over the last few weeks – and there’s no question that every Chief Revenue Officer is panicked. Outside of their annual referring revenue (the billings they need to protect from the core), there’s always a gap, and they all have to start at zero every year … Continue reading “Starting The Year at Zero: You’re Behind. Now What?”
Lately, we keep hearing time and again from customers that frontline sales managers are falling down at a pace that is clearly a four-alarm fire! I back what people have been saying on podcasts and webinars I’ve engaged with about a management crisis, and agree with them. There’s no question that frontline sales managers – … Continue reading “Management Crisis: Converting the Sales Manager Into a Coach”