Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but a sales slump can, and will likely happen to every business at some point. One minute, your company sales are cruising along, only to be hit by stagnating or plummeting revenue. These speedbumps in growth can be caused by a variety…...
How to Motivate Your Sales Team
Motivation is the key to any successful business team, but for a sales team, motivation can determine how successful or unsuccessful a company is. As a small business owner, sales manager or director, motivating your sales team can be one of your most difficult ongoing tasks. Not only do you…...
Essential Tips for Effectively Managing a Sales Team
Working in sales is a roller coaster ride, and so is managing a sales team. But considering the pivotal role of sales in a company’s success, it’s essential to contrive measures to enhance the efficacy and performance of your sales department. Around 50% of sales representatives miss their targets every year. So,…...
How to manage a sales team?
Maintaining a sales team is no simple task, particularly if you respect the value of its position in your business progress. On top of meeting target metrics, you’re additionally in charge of taking the best people on the bus, teaching them, and supporting team spirit. Then how to manage a sales team? As…...
How to Increase Sales in a Virtual World
The world of virtual business, including virtual selling, is here to stay. It’s an adjustment, but there’s no doubt that it’s happening. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, corporations have seen the ongoing value of working from home (WFH), and 74 percent of CFOs have already indicated that WFH will become…...
5 Successful Sales Team Management Strategies That Boost Representative Performance
Sales team managers need to implement a number of strategies to boost the performance of their representatives. With a number of other business aspects to consistently monitor, deploying the top sales team management strategies can seem difficult. However, practicing the best strategies improves your employee morale, drives better results, and…...
The Sales Skills Required to Reach the Next Level of Success
Sales professionals are approaching the coming year with a sense of guarded optimism because the next months are an opportunity to return to normalcy. As a result, more sales teams are gaining the confidence to finally start making long-term plans again. For most, these plans include developing new selling skills to capitalizing…...
4 must-know strategies for building a killer remote sales team
You want your sales team to dominate their quotas and close deals. But there's a challenge: due to the COVID-19 crisis, all of a sudden your all-star sales team is now working and selling remotely from home. Now what? And to be frank: for a first time manager, managing a…...
Keep Your Sales Team Engaged During Crisis
As business slows down across industries, it’s likely that your team is facing thinner pipelines and longer sales cycles. But that’s no reason to sit idly. How can you help your sales team stay motivated through this crisis? Your management style is critical. Keeping your team engaged now ensures they’re…...
5 Sales Trends COVID-19 Has Accelerated That Are Here To Stay
When COVID-19 first hit the United States in March, many sales organizations thought the adjustments they had to make would be temporary. But as the crisis continues, it’s becoming increasingly clear that many of the changes brought on by the pandemic will be permanent. Mary Shea, Principal Analyst at Forrester, addressed this…...
4 Bad Sales Habits to Break for Better Performance
How many times has this happened to you? You firmly decide what you’re going to do — whether it’s going on a diet, calling that referral, or refraining from drinking that third glass of wine. But then you end up doing exactly the opposite. Binge watching “Orange Is the New…...
9 Critical Beliefs of a Confident Salesperson
One of the variables to success in sales is self-confidence. You create a sense of certainty for your clients when you are convicted about who you are, your ability to help produce better results, and the advice you provide them. When you are not confident, you create a sense of…...
Leverage Your Core Sales Skills During This Pandemic
While many states and countries are gradually in the process of re-opening, there remain restrictions and a need to navigate a new sales normal. Additionally, an economic crisis is clearly part of the COVID-19 fallout. All of this has created a business environment where sales can be achieved, but through…...
Stop Asking About Past Quota Attainment in Sales Interviews
If a salesperson hit quota at their last job, they’re much more likely to hit quota at your organization, right? Not so fast. According to statistics from our sales professional user base here at RepVue, only 46.7% of sales professionals globally are achieving quota. And it’s even fewer in software sales organizations.…...
How to Recruit and Select the Best Sales Talent
Is there a secret you need to know in order to recruit and select the best sales talent? It’s easy to think so since McKinsey analysts report that “superior talent is up to eight times more productive” than the rest of the employees on your team. These superior folks are…...
Key Skills Every Sales Manager Needs
Sales managers, do you feel like the most underappreciated employee in your organization? That may be because you are lacking the key skills every sales manager needs. How can you focus on developing these skills when you’re supposed to manage your reps? It’s not as hard as it sounds. …...