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Mar 2019
19m 29s

Sales Management Advice for 2018

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Great sales managers are hard to come by. Sales managers have a very important job in the sales world. They manage a team of sales reps. They serve as a coach and a trainer. They monitor data and statistics, and a variety of other things. It can be challenging to know which aspect of sales management to focus on when trying to improve from an okay sales manager to a great sales manager. Kevin Davis, author of the Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness, has some concrete actions that you can take as a sales manager to improve as he sits down with host John Golden to share his insight.

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