• Sales Management
• Sales Reps

Frontline Sales Managers

Alex Buckles

*Sales Preference:* How to Know When Someone is a Supporter, Opponent, or Neutral and Where to Concentrate

In the complex sale, generating group consensus is the name of the game. This means the goal should always be to definitively determine who’s in your corner and who’s not in your corner, so you’re taking the appropriate actions. A misdiagnosis here will almost certainly result in unwanted surprises down the road.  If someone’s in […]

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• Customer Success
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• Sales Reps

Frontline Sales Managers

Alex Buckles

*Frontline Sales Management:* How to Systematically Drive Sales Team Success

A frontline sales manager’s mission is to attain team quota, which is usually a large number that’s split by a team of individual sales reps. If all reps attain their individual quotas, the manager’s number is also met. Simple, right? Ha! It’s not as easy as it sounds.  Why? Because every single sales professional has […]

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• Sales Management
• Sales Reps

Frontline Sales Managers

Alex Buckles

The Differences Between Decision *Process and Paper Process in B2B Sales*

Many sales organizations leverage the MEDDPIC sales qualification methodology. For those that don’t, it’s: Metrics Economic Buyer Decision Criteria Decision Process Paper Process Identify Pain Champion The two areas we’re focusing on are Decision Process & Paper Process. Decision Process: Before walking through all of the contracting paperwork, someone within the buying organization must first […]

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• Sales Management
• Sales Reps

Frontline Sales Managers

Alex Buckles

*First-Line Sales Management:* How to Empower Your Reps With the Ability to Systematically Win More Business

First-line sales management isn’t for the faint of heart as it requires the management of all kinds of different personalities who all have their own unique ways they prospect, forecast, view the health of a deal, view partners, view the sales process, etc. Basically, everyone has their own unique style of selling. The first-line sales […]

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