Inbound marketer with 14+ years of experience in enterprise and startup environments. Deep experience in lead generation, content marketing, landing page creation and optimization, and email marketing. Proven strength in increasing brand awareness through social media, event marketing, and partnership outreach.
Areas of expertise:
✔ Content marketing
✔ Data & web analytics
✔ Audience segmentation
✔ Email marketing
✔ A/B testing
✔ Lead generation
✔ Budget management
✔ Copywriting
✔ SEO
✔ Social media
✔ Landing page creation & optimization
✔ Google Analytics
✔ WordPress
I love building small businesses. I went to law school and business school, but I couldn't get excited about going to work for a big consulting or law firm. Small business growth is what I love. I get to do that every day at Infusionsoft... helping OUR business grow by helping tens of thousands of entrepreneurs grow their businesses using our marketing and sales software.
Specialties: All things related to small business growth.
Recovering Chemist Teaching Really Smart People How to LISTEN and Not Bombard Prospects with Product Knowledge | Sales & Leadership Therapist Focused on Developing Skills and Changing Behaviors to Empower Teams
People leave managers, not companies.
All the turnover you are experiencing on your sales teams is due to ineffective sales management.
Don’t have a lot of turnover? Even better. 60% of your salesforce is just cruising along. Flying under the radar.
You keep throwing money at the problem.
Your internal sales training and sales enablement programs are fantastic.
You teach new salespeople the product.
How to sell the product
And how to close the prospect
Sounds like a winning formula, right?
Wrong.
If you don’t teach your managers how to lead, no amount of training you ever do will be effective.
Ask yourself these questions:
What is the biggest complaint you hear in your exit interviews?
Why are only the top 30% actually hitting quota monthly?
Why does it take so long for a new rep to pay for themselves?
The answers to your questions all pint back to the same root cause – ineffective sales management.
Now before you go blast your managers and fire them.
Take a moment and think about how much has been invested in developing the manager.
If you are honest with yourself, they have not gotten consistent and comprehensive sales leadership training.
So, if they have not been developed, how do you expect to develop anyone else?
Research shows that investing in the development of your sales manager provides a 10x ROI and investing only in team training results in a 0.5x ROI. Yes. You lose money after just training the team.
So you can invest $30,000 in developing your sales manager and get a $300,000 return OR invest $30,000 in sales team training and get a $15,000 return.
That sounds fantastic, Wesleyne but how does it actually work.
Option A
So, you invest in developing your manager.
They learn how to lead better, and they work with all 10 people on their team to level up.
Each person closes 1 new deal for $30k within 60 days. ROI 10x
Option B
You stick your salespeople in a room for 8 hours and train them.
They leave excited. They try to implement what they learned, but their manager is pushing them to close everything, so they abandon their new techniques.
Your top performer finds a way to implement something they learned and closes a deal, but the other 9 people fall back in their old habits.
Do you want the one-to-many approach or the spray and hope model?
Stop putting a Band-Aid on your problem and fix the root cause.
Check out my guide for transforming sales managers into sales leaders. Give this to your managers so they can focus on themselves and not “fixing their teams.
https://go.transformedsales.com/leadership-guide
Senior Theatre Major, Entrepreneurship Minor at James Madison University
4th-year student at James Madison University. B.A. Candidate (Theatre Major, Entrepreneurship Minor) 3-time Dean's List recipient, 2-time President's List recipient.
Member of Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society.
Brother of Delta Upsilon International Fraternity.
Actor, Entrepreneur, Storyteller.
Experienced Affiliate Manager with a demonstrated history of working in digital fields and expanding affiliate channels. Skilled in Partner Relations and Campaigns, Digital Marketing Strategies, Microsoft and Google Suites, Team Management, and Data Reporting.
Beauty Industry Specialist with a diverse background that covers Product Marketing, Product Development, Project Management, and Digital Marketing. Passionate about exceeding goals, surpassing expectations, and working with mission-driven teams to create something that reimagines the future. Self-efficient problem solver who embraces challenges versus fighting them and strives to make a positive impact/difference in the industry!
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