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Sales Management – Most Important Functions in the Sales Process
- July 8, 2007
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
As you can see, coaching, albeit different coaching , is required for each base. Motivation is most important for getting your salespeople to first base while pipeline management and accountability are crucial along the way.
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How Many Salespeople Must You Have Before You Hire a Sales Manager?
- June 7, 2007
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
That was the question posed to me yesterday while speaking at the Crystal Palace in Livingston NJ.
To effectively answer that question one must ask another question, that being, what is the largest number of salespeople a sales manager can manage?
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What Do Sales Managers Do with Their Time?
- May 12, 2007
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
If you’ve been reading my Blog for a while you’ve probably learned that sales managers should be spending about 85% of their time on Accountability, Coaching, Motivation, Growth and Recruiting. We mined some of our never ending data to see what sales managers actually spend their time on.
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Top 10 Factors for Getting Salespeople to Overachieve
- February 4, 2007
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
There isn’t a single key to overachieving, so I’ll list my top 10 factors for helping salespeople overachieve. I’m sure I’ve written about each of these topics at some point in the past, but I’ll put them all together here.
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Zig Ziglar Meets Dave Kurlan
- November 2, 2006
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Jeff invited Zig to say hello to our audience and it must have been a thrill for them. They paid to see me and they got Zig for free! I’ll stop here before I get carried away with the rhyme as I’m at the Dallas Airport and it’s boarding time.
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101 Ways to Improve Your Life Volume 2
- September 12, 2006
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
The great new book, 101 Ways to Improve Your Life – Volume 2, has just been released. While I am a contributing author to the book, there are also articles by 100 other experts including Jack Canfield. Volume 1 included contributions from Zig Ziglar, Dennis Waitley, Brian Tracy and Jim Rohn.
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New Salespeople – The Rules of Engagement
- September 11, 2006
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
We debriefed the trip and identified 43 lessons learned. Debriefing your coaching, accountability, motivational or recruiting events should always produce lessons learned or, as the doctor in our group would call it, morbidity and mortality rounds.
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What Can a Trip to Italy Teach You About Managing New Salespeople?
- September 11, 2006
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
We debriefed the trip and identified 43 lessons learned. I you strive for perfection, debriefing your coaching, accountability, motivational or recruiting events should always produce lessons learned or, as the doctor in our group would call it, morbidity and mortality rounds.
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Sales Complacency
- June 15, 2006
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
If you have observed complacency on your sales force you must do something about it so that it doesn’t become any more contagious than it already is. What to do?
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Sales Meetings – How Should They be Conducted?
- February 15, 2006
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Here’s what I suggest for a one-hour, concise, controlled, formatted, results-orientated sales meeting: