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11 Ways on How to Show Appreciation to Your Sales Team

While most salespeople are self-motivated, it is nevertheless crucial to recognize their efforts. Proper appreciation is frequently what motivates your sales force to go far beyond. Apart from that, it’s just a lovely thing to do. It also contributes to the creation of a pleasant work atmosphere.

Different Ways to Motivate and Appreciate Your Sellers

Here are some excellent methods to thank or inspire your sales crew.

Give your sellers the necessary tools to succeed.

Sales professionals are frequently looking for tools to help them thrive independently. This can eat up critical sales time and resources. Providing sales teams with tools to help them succeed in sales, such as acquiring sales leads, is a beautiful method to inspire them.

Ways to Motivate and Appreciate Your Sellers

Encourage a level playing field.

What if the same member of the sales team continues receiving the rewards? This is a possibility, particularly with smaller businesses. It’s a good idea to establish a tiered reward system that supports varied skill levels to avoid any concerns. Junior sellers, for example, maybe in one subgroup and senior execs in another.

Congratulate your sales team for making successful sales.

Certainly, applaud your sales representatives on successful sales. It may be a long process with many peaks and troughs. Take the time to praise them on all sales, particularly tiny ones. While most of your B2B company’s revenue will most likely come from a few significant clients, modest transactions have worth and relevance. Small sales are a natural source of incentive. A seller will be motivated if they make a little transaction. They will feel appreciated and even driven to do it again if you congratulate them on short sales.

Ways to Motivate and Appreciate Your Sellers

Lunch on the house.

Who doesn’t enjoy getting free food? Food is always appreciated, whether you take your team out to lunch or order delivery. Snacks or sweets can be substituted for a complete meal if you don’t want to eat a full meal. If your company is now utilizing a remote setup owing to the epidemic, you might occasionally send free meals or even delightful sweets to your team members on their birthdays.

Organize an event for your team.

An event is a pleasant way to recognize your team’s accomplishments when they’ve been working very hard for you. It’s also a fantastic approach to foster teamwork. You may have a party at your workplace, a neighborhood restaurant, your house, or a rented venue.

Provide a flexible work schedule.

Don’t impose a rigorous timetable on your sellers as a sales rep. Instead, offer them the option of choosing their hours. Offering workers a flexible work schedule will drive them to achieve. They will value your confidence in them as their sales rep and go to great lengths to guarantee their success.

Allow for more vacation time.

While most businesses are unable to do so regularly, consider if you can offer members of your staff an additional day-off on occasion. Allow them to leave early on Fridays. Aside from feeling valued, an unexpected break is a great way to refresh and return to work feeling energized.

Motivate them with inspirational quotes.

Consider hanging banners or pictures with motivating slogans in the workplace of your B2B business. You don’t have to put them up on every single wall. Instead, post encouraging quotations in common areas of your office, such as the breakroom or meeting room. When your sales staff see these quotes, they’ll know you’re coming from a good place. This will assist them in remaining optimistic and maintaining a positive attitude in both good and bad situations.

Ways to Motivate and Appreciate Your Sellers

Incentivize.

Incentives are designed to encourage your team to achieve their objectives, including completing transactions and meeting sales targets. An incentive program may significantly improve their sales performance and bottom line, whether the incentive is cash, an expensive item, or a weekend trip.

Request feedback from your team.

Get feedback from your sellers to acquire insight into any issues or obstacles they face. A sales rep’s motivation may be harmed if they have met a difficulty they don’t disclose. You may fix and avoid problems by asking your sellers for input constantly, resulting in a highly driven sales force.

Show leadership.

Being a leader is perhaps the most crucial strategy for motivating your sales team. Sales staff can’t expect to succeed on their own. Instead, you must provide an example for others to follow for them to succeed. Put another way, demonstrate to your sales team what you demand of them by completing the same responsibilities.

It’s vital to have faith in yourself and your ability, too.  As the leader, your job is to hire, develop, teach, assist, and inspire sellers to perform better than you did in sales. Surround yourself with clever, driven sales reps if you want to be a great boss.

Conclusion

Boosting motivation and revenue is only the beginning. Successful motivational or appreciation programs may boost employee retention and recruit top talent. After all, they’re the ones in the trenches, answering phones, responding to internet inquiries, converting leads to sales, and assisting your business in achieving its goals. Showing your sales team some love and gratitude daily may go a long way toward keeping them motivated and on track to accomplish their sales goals.

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3 Ways to Effectively Consume Content Faster, Smarter And Better

Consume content

As a modern business professional—particularly a sales professional, you need to constantly consume content. Consuming content allows you to remain current and stay on top of industry trends so you can have insightful conversations with your buyers that will help them solve their challenges. You’ll be their expert and guide them in a consultative way to help them towards the best solution for them. All of this equals results!

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There Are 24 Hours In A Day, And You’re Only Selling For 2 Of Them?

Time ManagementI would never profess to be the greatest sales professional nor the greatest coach. But in all my years as a sales professional—from starting my career at Bank of Montreal at age 20, to my time in corporate real estate, to becoming a director of sales at two different SaaS companies, and finally starting my own consulting firm—I’ve learned that the biggest hindrance to sales success is this: time management.

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Conquering The Battle Of Productivity With Themed Days

Conquering the Battle of Productivity With Themed DaysWalt Disney said “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing” and Tim Ferriss, the bestselling author of the 4 Hour Workweek constantly says “focus on being productive instead of being busy.”

For those of us in sales this sounds great, but how in the world do you begin to implement this? And how do we get the most out of our workdays? When I read what the legends are doing, it inspires me but it always makes me wonder how do I get started?

While there isn’t one answer, I continue to try, fail, and augment on this repeated loop cycle. Like you, I’m looking to maximize my time to achieve the goals I’ve set out for myself.

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15 Apps For The Traveling Executive

Your phone is your office now. The IDC forecasts that by 2020 around three out of four US workers will be fully mobile. This is especially true for executives that travel numerous times a year for business.

Get comfortable inside your new office with some apps that make your life a breeze. We’ll start with the essentials and then move on to some massive productivity gainers. Before boarding for your next flight, make sure you’re well equipped with these lifesaving apps. Give them a try and enjoy yourself office on-the-go.

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Doing More With Less: Winning The Battle With Time Management

Sand ClockOne of the biggest challenges that we all have is time management. I’m not immune from this, either. Like you my days are getting longer, more scheduled, and sometimes it’s impossible to believe when they start.

Like all of my colleagues at Sales for Life, we are all laser focused on building a business that fulfills us on all levels (not just financially). But in this quest, I’ve lost all sense of time management in the last few months.

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10 Habits of Highly Effective Social Sellers

Hanging BulbJust a little over a quarter of a century ago, a little pamphlet called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People sold 25 million copies and introduced the world to the concept of the “paradigm shift” and the three stages of the “upward spiral,” which are Learn, Commit, Do.

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Time Is Money: 3 Easy Steps To Pay Yourself First

Pay Yourself First

Every morning I got to bed with a game plan for the morning. “OK, I’m going to get up at 5:30 a.m., finally drink my fruits and veggies, go for a 5 mile run, and be at my desk at 7:15 a.m. before anyone else!” Then the morning comes…. I have to fight off the “snooze monster” every day! But, once I finally get out of bed, I have a wicked routine that’s helped build my business.

Now on the PROFIT side of this story, I just finished reading a book by Mike Michalowicz called PROFIT FIRST. The premise is quite simple: we as business owners are terrible at creating a routine for allocating profit from our revenue. We pay bills, taxes, employees… everyone but ourselves properly. He’s developed an ingenious method for paying yourself first.

Avoiding Time Burglars

To the context of sales – sales professionals are rolling out of bed, grabbing their smartphones and CHECKING EMAILS! These emails are TIME BURGLARS! These are OTHER PEOPLE’S PRIORITIES!

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What’s on Your Bookshelf?

The Challenger SaleI’ll be the first one to admit that I’m not much of a reader.

I straddle between being of Gen X age and a Gen Y digester of media. I listen to books, watch videos on YouTube – I learn digitally.

BUT when I meet sales reps from all around the world, it always astonishes me how many are NOT INVESTING IN THEMSELVES.

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How to Use Pocket to Organize Your Content

PocketOne of the biggest challenges that sales professionals (and their marketing departments) face is FINDING CONTENT. It’s a nightmare for most sales professionals.

Tell me if this sounds familiar to you. You’ve come across a great article or blog post and want to read it later or share it with your social networks, but you haven’t had the time. How can you build a repository of amazing content that you can share with your buyers?