5 Sales Manager Tips for Onboarding New BDRs
Great news. You’ve got proof of concept, found your ICP, and gotten some funding. Now it’s time to build out your BDR team.
How to Find the Best Inside Sales Training Company
Are you looking for the best inside sales training company? With all of the noise out there and everyone claiming to be the best, how can you tell when a training vendor is truly great and different from the rest?
8 Tips to Show Executive Presence on Sales Calls
Congratulations! You got the big boss to attend your call. Now let’s make sure you’ve got enough executive presence to impress them.
How to Hire a Great Sales Manager
Raise your hand if you’ve promoted the wrong rep to sales manager before. Yeah, no sales leader in the world can keep both (or either of?) their hands down.
How to Keep Prospects on the Phone
Everyone loves to talk about how many calls it takes to get someone on the phone (me included), but not enough of us talk about how to KEEP them on the phone!
#1 Best Time Management Tip for Sales Managers
At 23, in my first sales management job, I was buried by everything my team needed and all the things I didn’t know how to help with. Sound familiar?
Tips for Enablement Leaders to Increase Sales Coaching Focus
I was just talking to an enablement leader friend who was really frustrated that they spent so many months building a robust training program – rolled it out beautifully – and…
4 Quick and Effective Sales Voicemail Scripts
Are you thinking, “Should I leave a voicemail? Nobody ever calls back! Am I doing something wrong? Why aren’t people calling me back? Can I leave a better voicemail?”
How to Budget for Sales Training
Employee development is a critical part of attracting and retaining sales talent, so you’ve got to budget for sales training each year. Unfortunately, a fraction of leaders include an annual development line item in budgets.
4 Steps to Asking Better Sales Discovery Call Questions
The key is to stop focusing on the benefits of your solution and start thinking about what motivates human beings. Because nobody likes change for change’s sake. We NEED motivation!
3 Quick and Easy Tips to Craft a Powerful Sales Pitch
IMPORTANT: Your Value Prop (aka Sales Pitch) and your Intro are very different things. If you’re using them together, take a stroll over to my post about the SWIIFT℠ Intro. You’re welcome. 😉
How to Close More Deals
Don’t like closing? You’re not alone. If you feel like you’re being too pushy when you close, here’s a whole new way to think about it.
How To Ramp Your Sales Team 10x Faster
Ramping new reps to hit quota faster is every sales leader’s dream, but it doesn’t have to stay a dream.
Sales Training Techniques: Telling vs. Teaching
When I first started as a sales manager, I used to think that telling my team was enough. I know what to do, so I could tell them what to do.
8 Sales Enablement Best Practices to Partner with Revenue Leaders
This one is for my sales enablement and training pros. Have you struggled to connect with your revenue leaders?