Best Ways to Develop Your Team Now: OnPAR-Ep10
Changing work environments and new look teams can make it challenging for association leadership to provide meaningful and accessible professional development. In this OnPAR Video Short, top association executives from our PAR Leadership Advisory Board answer the question, “How can association professionals best develop their teams now?”
10 Ways to Close More Sales Deals, Faster
COVID-19 accelerated the changes to the association sales process that were already taking place prior to the pandemic’s arrival. As our business development teams work…
Revenue Renegades: Top Takeaways From Six Figure Engagement: Associations Share Their Approach
Top Takeaways from Six Figure Engagement: Associations Share Their Approach. Review key takeaways shared and learned during PAR Revenue Renegades meet-up.
This past Wednesday, revenue producers from the association industry came together to chat about how to engage with our biggest clients. Participants reviewed a checklist for big client engagement, and discussed how to keep partners involved year-round.
Revenue Renegades: Top Takeaways From What Your Sales Manager Wants to Know
Top Takeaways from What Your Sales Manager Wants to Know: Review key takeaways shared and learned during PAR Revenue Renegades meet-up.
This past Wednesday, revenue producers from the association industry came together to chat about the relationship a sales team has with their manager and what specific key points the sales manager wants to hear from their team on a regular basis. Participants discussed sales goals, measurements and more to conclude PAR’s May theme of great sales teams.
Characteristics of High Performing Sales Teams: OnPAR-Ep9
Despite the changes and challenges to our associations, high performing sales teams are able to find ways to continue to work towards revenue health. Watch this week’s OnPAR Video Short as Author Mary Byers, CAE shares her insight into how great sales teams worked to maintain stability in a time of uncertainty during the previous year.
Revenue Renegades: Top Takeaways From Leveraging Creative Conflict
Top Takeaways from Leveraging Creative Conflict: Review key takeaways shared and learned during PAR Revenue Renegades meet-up.
This past Wednesday, revenue producers from the association industry came together to chat about leveraging both internal and external conflict to continue PAR’s May theme of great sales teams. Participants discussed how team conflict can be productive, or limiting and how it’s important to understand common tension.
Association Leadership Tips the Scales for Sales
The way organizations sell has changed forever as a result of the pandemic. More members and clients are looking for sales teams to help guide them through a process while providing insight or challenging their held presumptions about your membership, subscriptions, events and partnerships.
Revenue Renegades: Top Takeaways From Sales Team Design: How Organizations Manage Sales
Top Takeaways from Sales Team Design: How Organizations Manage Sales: Review key takeaways shared and learned during PAR Revenue Renegades meet-up.
This past Wednesday, revenue producers from the association industry came together to chat about the way the sales teams in their organization are managed and structured. Participants discussed the three most common sales team structures and the benefits and drawbacks of each. In the month of May, PAR is focused on great sales teams and the concept of “everyone is in sales” and how it directly affects association revenue.
Poll: Time Management
Time management is a critical success factor for all business development personnel, but many associations include their BD teams in a large amount of non-sales activity.
4 Steps to Predicting Client Spending Following Covid-19
Predicting client spending has always been a challenge. But now, in a COVID-19 world, it’s not only challenging, but increasingly important. Even prior to the arrival of the pandemic, there were more buying options than ever before. Increased options in digital, social, marketing automation and even artificial intelligence…
How to Develop Meaningful Ideas in the Midst of a Changing Association Landscape
Whether change is intended or forced, it’s almost always difficult. In the association world, we like consistency and reliability. Change disrupts that. We operate with consistent models for years, even decades, that allow us to create repeatable operations and sales cycles. It can be easy to fall into a “Why Change?” mindset, pointing to past performance as a measure of success.
Managing Your Relationship with Your CRM
Customer relationship management (CRM) software is the hottest and fastest growing software on the market. By 2025, it’s expected to reach over $80 billion dollars in revenue. But bring up the term “CRM” to your colleagues and you will likely invoke a smile or a squirm — and often both.
Getting On-Board: How to Efficiently Bring a New Staff Member Up to Speed
You’ve made it through the hiring process and your new hire is ready to start contributing. Great! However, what happens next can be even more challenging than the hiring process itself. You’re ready for your newest employee to start delivering results quickly, while they are working toward familiarizing themselves with your company.