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Sales Ops Resolution: Build Market-Focused Territories in 2013

SBI Growth

Make a New Year’s resolution to build territories that are market-centric in 2013. Today’s post explores designing sales territories based on your customers and prospects. More importantly, did you design your territories based on your customers and prospects? Where are the prospects that look most like your Ideal Customer?

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How the Big Deal Review Will Rescue 2013

SBI Growth

If you missed Q1, you need a monster Q2 to save 2013. The benefit of performing a Big Deal Review is real. We perform dozens each quarter directly with the prospects. This offer expires on April 30 th , 2013. 41% of b2b sales organizations missed the Q1 revenue target. CEOs and sales leaders don't know why big deals push.

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Top 5 Sales Rep Behaviors to Change in 2013 – with HR’s Help

SBI Growth

Can you count on your current Sales Rep behaviors to “Make the Number” in 2013? Sign up for our Make the Number tour to learn more about how top performing companies will change Sales in 2013. These are the behaviors to change among Sales Reps for 2013 followed by actions HR should take to help make this happen. Call to Action.

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Will These 6 Tests Save 2013’s Sales Compensation Plan?

SBI Growth

Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. That would make 2013 worse than this year! Culture at another firm required Sales Reps to do their own prospecting and sales. Most sales were incremental or competitive displacement when prospects were in an active buying cycle.

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Direct Content Marketing is Born – Prepare for 2013

SBI Growth

The biggest impact to acquiring new customers in 2013 will be Direct Content Marketing. It’s about providing valuable content that prospects seek to solve a problem. Identify the pain and communicate the benefits of the solution. Only focusing on acquiring a prospect early is too limited. Direct Content Marketing is born.

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3 Key Must Have Sales Strategies for 2013

A Sales Guy

If you run or lead a sales team, there are a bazillion things your 2013 sales strategy can and should contain. That being said, there are three general or macro things your 2013 sales strategy MUST have to be complete; a social selling strategy, a content marketing strategy and deliberate learning plan. Take a look at your 2013 plan.

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Can HR Avoid a Pay War Between Sales and Marketing in 2013?

SBI Growth

Or the wealthy having to pay more taxes for the benefit of the 47%. Marketing’s fightin’ words : “We do this for Sales’ benefit, but they get all the credit. Sales Rep fightin’ words : “I can do my own prospecting.” Be involved with the 2013 sales compensation planning. Or, by spending less on external content producers.