SMM 29 | How To Motivate Your Salespeople Like A Caveman

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prehistoric man on laptopYou’re a sales manager who really likes his job…all except one: speaking in front of your salespeople.

Each month, you take out those old power point slides, with all the charts and graphs and go through the monthly sales reports, the stats, the call reporting……zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Im getting sleepy just writing this…

Imagine how your salespeople feel?

So what’s the solution?

You can spice things up with even more spiffy charts, graphs and stats using those wicked cool power point “animations” and clip art, right?

That just isn’t gonna cut it though.

Or you can mimic what the cavemen and cavewomen did for eons to pass along information handed down from generation to generation. Its the same technique your forefathers and foremothers used to get their point across for generations. Neither may have been trying to rally their de-motivated troops to sales stardom, but its the same thing.

That tried and true technique is to simply tell stories.

People remember stories much better than they do bars and graphs. Storytelling also naturally lowers our own innate defenses and make us more apt to learn.

Why? Most theorists believe its because its hard-wired into our genetic makeup…hence the cavemen example above.

The good things is that you can use this in one-on-one sales conversations with your salespeople as well. Its not just for public speaking only.

Find out exactly how you too can become more “caveman” and “cavewoman” here.

Now…if you or your company is seriously interested in learning “How to Motivate Your Sales Team, Get More Sales and Lead Your Sales Team to Sales Superstardom”, contact us directly at info@salesmanagementmastery.com for more information on our live sales management training seminars and workshops.

CLICK HERE to get immediate FREE access to your choice of sales management training at The Sales Management Mastery Academy. Get your own free sales manager training course – you can actually choose which one you want.

Courses include: “How to Motivate Your Sales Team to Peak Performance”, “How to Lead Your Sales Reps to Sales Stardom”, “How to Turn Around Your Underperformers in 30 Days” and “How To Hire A Sales Superstar”…plus you’ll get dozens of free tools and resources to turn sales managers into top-performing sales managers. Get it today.

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SMM 27 | How to Motivate Your Most Difficult Salesperson, Part 1

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annoyed salesmanYou got em.

We all got em.

Not every one of your salespeople is going to listen to you, willingly do what you ask them to do and go along with any of those silly corporate initiatives that usually waste everyone’s time…(let’s hope you don’t have too many of those by the way).

You know the one, it’s the difficult salesperson.

Yep, the one who questions EVERYTHING you and your company does, complains, seemingly always has negative things to say, challenges your authority and generally makes your life as a sales manager really difficult.

Why do we put up with it?

Its simple…its because they are usually (not always) your best salespeople.

So if they’re really difficult to deal with and don’t produce…then you need to do something about that.

I’m not talking about that one though. I’m talking about the ones that need power and need to be heard and are the most vocal ones in your sales team…but at the end of the day…they are good salespeople.

They may actually be your best salesperson.

So how do you harness their abilities without losing your marbles?

We teach you the first steps on how to motivate the most difficult power salesperson here.

Now…if you or your company is seriously interested in learning “How to Motivate Your Sales Team, Get More Sales and Lead Your Sales Team to Sales Superstardom”, contact us directly at info@salesmanagementmastery.com for more information on our live sales management training seminars and workshops.

CLICK HERE to get immediate FREE access to your choice of sales management training at The Sales Management Mastery Academy. Get your own free sales manager training course – you can actually choose which one you want.

Courses include: “How to Motivate Your Sales Team to Peak Performance”, “How to Lead Your Sales Reps to Sales Stardom”, “How to Turn Around Your Underperformers in 30 Days” and “How To Hire A Sales Superstar”…plus you’ll get dozens of free tools and resources to turn sales managers into top-performing sales managers. Get it today.

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SMM 26 | 6 Killer Tips To Get Promoted to Sales Management in 2011!

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the door to success !!!Wanna get promoted?

If you’re a salesperson, chances are pretty good that you do.

If you’re a sales manager, business owner or sales management executive, you probably have plenty of sales reps who want to move forward in their careers and join the ranks of management.

Of course, for many sales reps, being a sales manager looks easy.

All you do is just tell your reps what to do and you then sit back and wait for the cash to roll in, right?

Not exactly a realistic vision…

Let’s put it this way: if you want to get promoted into sales management, you need to do some homework first. And in this episode, we give you 6 killer tips to help you get there.

And if you’re NOT a salesperson, but have someone on your sales team bucking for a promotion, then this episode will be equally helpful for you as well.

Of course you first need to assess as to whether or not they are “management material”…but even so, if they’re not now, they could be with a little mentoring and coaching from you.

For both groups, we give you the first 6 steps here.

Now…if you or your company is seriously interested in learning “How to Motivate Your Sales Team, Get More Sales and Lead Your Sales Team to Sales Superstardom”, contact us directly at info@salesmanagementmastery.com for more information on our live sales management training seminars and workshops.

CLICK HERE to get immediate FREE access to your choice of sales management training at The Sales Management Mastery Academy. Get your own free sales manager training course – you can actually choose which one you want.

Courses include: “How to Motivate Your Sales Team to Peak Performance”, “How to Lead Your Sales Reps to Sales Stardom”, “How to Turn Around Your Underperformers in 30 Days” and “How To Hire A Sales Superstar”…plus you’ll get dozens of free tools and resources to turn sales managers into top-performing sales managers. Get it today.

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SMM 25 | 5 Proven Sales Rewards for 2011

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Gold medalsSales rewards stink.

Ok, I said it.

Sales contests stink even worse.

Why?

Its simple. Only a few of your sales reps actually care about all those sales contests you put together. And if you’ve been reading along for the past few months, then you know that each of your sales reps is motivated DIFFERENTLY…right?

Well, only 1-2 of your 10 sales reps is probably primarily motivated by contests, rewards and prizes…so if you do them all the time, you’re really only motivating about 10% of your total sales force.

Does that make sense?

You know these sales contest: these are the “sell 10 cars in the next week and win an iPod” kind of contests or “increase market share by 0.07% by January and win a Best Buy gift card”.

You know these?

If they’re not done right, they actually DE-motivate your sales force.

The good news is that there are a few kinds of rewards systems that actually DO work.

We give you those five sales rewards systems here.

Now…if you or your company is seriously interested in learning “How to Motivate Your Sales Team, Get More Sales and Lead Your Sales Team to Sales Superstardom” with our live seminars and workshops, contact us directly at info@salesmanagementmastery.com for more information on availability and pricing.

CLICK HERE to get immediate FREE access to your choice of sales management training at The Sales Management Mastery Academy. Get your own free sales manager training course – you can actually choose which one you want.

Courses include: “How to Lead Your Sales Reps to Sales Stardom”, “How to Turn Around Your Underperformers in 30 Days” and “How To Hire A Sales Superstar”…plus you’ll get dozens of free tools and resources to turn sales managers into top-performing sales managers. Get it today.

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SMM 23 | How To Be A Popular Sales Manager…The Right Way

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Businessman in dark suitCan a sales manager be popular and effective?

Most management “gurus” say categorically “NO”.

We disagree.

Of course, we’ve never really “gone with the grain” of conventional sales management wisdom…nor do we intend to do so anytime soon.

Why?

Because “conventional” sales management means conventional sales management results.

Was Mark Zuckerberg “conventional” when he started Facebook?

Were Sergey Brin and Larry Page “conventional” when they founded Google?

Was Steve Jobs “conventional” when he launched the iPad?

Hell no.

Not that we are comparing ourselves here at Sales Management Mastery to any of those brilliant entrepreneurs…no way.

However, the same can be learned from them as can be learned here. When you do things the way everyone always has done them, you end up with what everyone else gets.

And most people muddle in “the twilight of mediocrity”.

Not you though.

Check out how to do it here.

Also, if you want to figure out which of your sales reps have which profile, get it in the Sales Management Mastery Academy.

CLICK HERE to get immediate FREE access to your choice of sales management training at The Sales Management Mastery Academy. Get your own free sales manager training course – you can actually choose which one you want.

Courses include: “How to Lead Your Sales Reps to Sales Stardom”, “How to Turn Around Your Underperformers in 30 Days” and “How To Hire A Sales Superstar”…plus you’ll get dozens of free tools and resources to turn sales managers into top-performing sales managers. Get it today.

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