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Pipeline Movement [Sales Management Tip]

A Sales Guy

The sales pipeline is the most important sales management tool there is. The sales pipeline is like the hard drive of a computer. Like your hard drive, if the pipeline gets messed up or filled with crap, everything slows down and in the case of sales that means revenue. Bad sales stages or poor sales process.

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Sales Managers, More Important than the Head of Sales?

A Sales Guy

They manage to the quotas. They sit next to, talk with and are closer to the sales people than any other person (role) in the company. Sales managers are the lynchpins to success in sales organizations. Sales managers are the key to a humming sales organization. They distribute the quotas.

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Blueberries, Sales and Sales Management

Anthony Cole Training

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Leadership Training (2). managing sales (4).

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The Sales Manager's Job

Anthony Cole Training

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Leadership Training (2). managing sales (4).

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10 Do's for Sales Management Success

Anthony Cole Training

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Leadership Training (2). managing sales (4).

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3 Things Sales Leaders Must do to Stay in Sync with Their Sales Team

A Sales Guy

You have a sales process in place, but the sales manager and sales people are using separate spread sheets with additional stages, because the current sales process doesn’t meet their needs. You’ve built a killer sales portal the sales team never seems to visit.

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There are Too Many Bad Sales Managers [Yeah, and Sales Leaders Too]

A Sales Guy

I’m a big fan of training, it’s true that most sales people wing it; they need structure and discipline in how to go about organizing their work. If management can’t be bothered to get their act together, can we really fault sales people/team? Sales structure, systems and discipline can help.

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