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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. The best thing sales leadership can do in 2012 is support the sales team. Then it moves to getting to the number.

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2013 The Year of the Lead!

A Sales Guy

These “lists” would be divvied up among the sales team to call. In most cases, that was the extent of the lead generation strategy of sales leadership. They were just lists of people or companies that fit some arbitrary profile, a profile that possibly lent itself to a sale.

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

A Sales Guy

That their team, their processes, strategy, etc. Sales leadership and management needs to more open and more humble. Lack Leadership – Most sales managers and sales leadership lacks the guts, the round, spherical objects it takes to be a leader today. Sales Leadership'

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There are ONLY 4 Levers Sales Can Pull to Grow Revenue

A Sales Guy

The best thing to do to keep this from happening is to break your sales team into manageable sections; strategy, structure, people, process. Each of these pillars represents the critical parts of sales and are the only focused areas sales leadership controls that can move the number.

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HSMAI Global launches Certified Hotel Sales Leader certification

Hotel Business

This new certification underscores our commitment to empowering hotel sales professionals with the vital skills and recognition they need to excel as successful commercial leaders.”

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Achieve Greater Sales Success in 2012

Anthony Cole Training

Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12). sales development (55). sales excuses (15). Sales Force (5). sales goals (29). sales improvement (22). Sales Jobs (5). sales leadership development (4). sales management (49). sales people (8).

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Hard Truths

A Sales Guy

The next week the head of sales went into the CEO’s office and told him he didn’t believe the partnership was going to work out and he felt they should look to different areas and consider a different go to market strategy. The head of sales ended up leaving shortly there after.

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