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The Best Thing Sales Leadership Can do in 2012

A Sales Guy

The beginning of the year in sales always starts with a number. Sales leadership spends a lot of time going through plans, setting quota, preparing for Q1, looking at the pipeline, etc. Sales leaders, pull out your 2012 sales strategy right now. Like a go to market strategy, critical analysis is paramount.

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

A Sales Guy

It’s a follow up to my post which, in a nutshell, I said sales people suck. ——————– “I agree sales people’s performance is not what it should be. If management can’t be bothered to get their act together, can we really fault sales people/team? Look at Blackberry.

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The 5 Key Components of a Healthy Sales Organization — No, It’s Not The Pipeline [Note to CEO's and VP Sales]

A Sales Guy

Sales is hard. In particular, running, leading and building sales teams is hard. As a sales leader, if you are diligent in understand these four areas; people, process, strategy, product and the market you’re doing OK. I believe this is the most poorly managed element of sales organization success.

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2014 The Year of Execution and Strategy – Why Most Sales Organizations will be Chewed Up and Spit Out

A Sales Guy

Last year I predicted that 2013 would be the year of hiring, that sales people would be on the move, freed from the downturn in the economy and feeling safe, I predicted sales people would start looking for new opportunities. I saw a lot of organizations trim their dead weight and build new and improved sales organizations.

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There are ONLY 4 Levers Sales Can Pull to Grow Revenue

A Sales Guy

It happens to all sales organizations at one time or another. This post is gonna lay the four areas CSO’s/Heads of Sales should be looking if their revenue is on the slide. When sales are down there are only 4 levers leadership can pull to improve sales. Strategy: What’s the go to market strategy?

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Prevent the Drought of Summer Sales

A Sales Guy

All of these demands and those on the sales front make it tough to make your number. How is your sales team looking? Are you struggling with implementing a social media strategy? Are you struggling with implementing a social media strategy? Is your content marketing strategy delivering qualified leads?

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Achieve Greater Sales Success in 2012

Anthony Cole Training

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