What type of sales manager are you? Are you a sales manager, sales manager (?) or sales person? Look at these three real life scenarios and find out. But first, the setting. You are a manager in a life insurance company on a three-day sales management retreat (conference, kick-off) somewhere out of town. The CEO
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You will struggle to successfully run a sales team by remote. I’ll explain why shortly. But first, what do I mean by managing a sales team remotely? Well. Think of how effective, though detached, a remote control is from the TV, and the comfort it offers the user. Now then, there are sales managers and
“Hips Don’t Lie” so says Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira; and in sales numbers don’t lie, either. Indeed, ‘sales is a game of numbers’ isn’t a cliché-it’s a fact. And numbers don’t lie. In fact, I remember a senior human resource manager, while preparing appraisals for the different departments in her organization, wished that she could make