Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

With all that, shouldn''t the quality of sales, sales management and sales leadership candidates be on the rise? The darker dotted line is the trend for the percentage of sales management candidates that were recommended by Objective Management Group for the same time period. Yes, it should.

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Sales Management Hiring Compensation Trends 288

SBI Growth

AUGUST 8, 2012

Marketing, do you have a sales quota tied to Lead Generation ? Sign up for our Make the Number Tour if you would like to see how your peers are allocating people, money and time in 2013. Over the last 12 months we: Surveyed over 10,000 sales representatives. Surveyed over 4,500 sales managers.

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Quota Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation 276

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Interviewed VP of Sales, Product Leaders, and Sales Manager to understand what they were seeing in the market. But what they are doing is gathering data from an inward-out perspective when they should be looking at the market from an outward-in perspective. Marketing is making the buying decision 90% of the time.

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Data Analysis Sales Operations Buying Cycle 267

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Most key leaders “grew up” in Operations. Sales executives, by contrast, are often viewed as wanting to take foolish risks. Ops says Sales doesn't understand the business. He had only been VP of Sales for 6 months. He rose from junior sales associate to become his division’s top rep. Do the VPs call him up?

Influencer 282

Influencer Strategy Policies Lead Gen 282

Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This years Top Sales Books to Read in 2013. They represent the freshest, most innovative thinking on sales currently on the market and take into consideration the changing sales climate and competitive realities every sales rep and sales leader is facing. Top Sales Books to Read in 2013.

Face-to-face 132

Face-to-face Top of Funnel Call-back Sales 132

Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 19, 2013

There are several GREAT speakers in the general sessions, but it is not a conference where you will find constant discussions about the art and science of selling or sales management. Whenever I hear a talk, a message or a point of view, I find myself automatically translating it to sales and sales management.

Hiring 198

Hiring Banking Survey Conference 198

SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2012

Are your sales resources properly aligned with growth opportunity ? The Sales Leader is about to receive the 2013 Revenue Number. He will rely on you, the Head of Sales Operations, for sales strategy advice. Have you conducted growth opportunity analyses in your market? What is wrong with this picture?

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Opportunity Strategy Banking Territories 316

SBI Growth

JANUARY 2, 2013

But you can excel in 2013 because of your shortcomings in 2012. And with these answers come chances for improvement in 2013. Talent Assessment of Sales Leadership and Sales Reps. Build specific competency and accountability based scorecards for Sales Leadership and Sales Reps. Lead Generation.

Lead Rank 267

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Gen 267

SBI Growth

AUGUST 17, 2012

That was a direct quote from one of our clients, referring to how sales looks at the leads his marketing department was generating. This is the classic battle between marketing and sales: Marketing generates leads of dubious quality and sales cherry picks only those leads they deem "qualified."

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Top of Funnel Leads 244

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

The third of four regional stops to nail down 2013 budgets for the Sales EVP and the CFO. Many marketing purists focus on the mechanics of segmentation work. Good segmentation will also give you the following: Exactly which customers have up-sell and cross-sell potential? What’s available in the market?

Segment 288

Segment Customer Territories Penetration 288

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. The review presents findings from SBI’s market research in 2013. Bottom-Up Quota Setting. Market Growth: Often the basis of quota-setting for rapidly growing markets or products. Follow @JPTMcCabe.

Quota 306

Quota Ideal Customer Profile Territories Demographics 306

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Congratulations, your organization is launching a new product in 2013! As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Focus on new product sales. Obtain market penetration projections.

Compensation 244

Compensation Incentives Incentive Penetration 244

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 4, 2012

A post for Sales and HR leaders to ensure success of 2013’s Sales compensation plan. Fast forward to April of 2013. A Chief Sales Officer is meeting with Sales VPs and the VP of Sales Operations. They are trying to decide between keeping and scrapping the recently-implemented Sales Comp Plans.

Compensation 292

Compensation Channels Fashion Construction 292

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 15, 2018

This is why a start-up company hired me to build their training department. The firm was targeting the senior market by offering solutions to keep these older people safe in their own homes rather than empty bank accounts to move into senior housing. But I wanted to do more than just offer live training and follow-up coaching.

Hiring 191

Hiring Lead Rank Face-to-face Banking 191

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Perhaps you’re beginning to roll out marketing automation or some form of company-wide communication program. Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Product Marketing.

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Eloqua Marketo Buyer Persona Collateral 316

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Here are 4 immediate and then 3 longer-term things the HR leader can do to help out: (Sign-up for the Make the Number Tour for more in-depth discussion). Immediate Help for Sales. Help the sales leader identify any reps that are at risk of leaving. Has any documented issues of “disconnect” with sales management.

Sales Talent 288

Sales Talent Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 27, 2014

They had to go door-to-door, sell an overpriced luxury item, in the same market, over a 3-day period. 5 people were placed on each team based on the following carefully selected scores from OMG''s Sales Candidate Assessment: 1 team had the best Sales DNA. Watch this 2-minute video on sales coaching here.

Case Study 288

Case Study Study Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan A very interesting article caught my attention on Inc. You must read the article in order to understand the following questions. In my experience, most companies that reach out for help have been able to shorten their sales cycles from 1/3 to 1/2 its original length. The introduction?

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Study Sales Cycle Follow-up Account 243

Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 16, 2013

The 2013 contributors line-up has been finalized over at Top Sales World , and these are the sales experts who will be working with TSW this year: They will be writing articles, providing tips, taking part in roundtables and interviews etc. Doing the interviews for Top Sales Hardtalk and Sales Management Issues series.

PointClear 55

PointClear Groups Twitter Survey 55

Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 16, 2013

Tweet REALITY QUESTION FOR SALES MANAGERS: Why would you, as a leader, take an improving salesperson who is having the best year of their career, and tell him or her they’re “not making enough calls”? You’re a micro manager with little or no current sales talent yourself. Successful sales leaders….

Cold Calling 261

Cold Calling Referrals Sales Leadership Sales Cycle 261

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 3, 2013

Salespeople tend to believe they need to spend more time with major accounts, while Marketing will always argue more time should be spent prospecting. Marketing, on the other hand, tends to be compensated more for business growth, and their belief tends to be that growth is more likely to come from new customers than from existing customers.

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Account Prospecting Guidelines Compensation 204

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 14, 2014

Some of them are marketers who, in order to push their applications, must convince you that marketing can handle both finding and closing sales - all via the internet. Others are from the big new inside sales industry. Image credit: rtimages / 123RF Stock Photo (c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' Register here.

Top of Funnel 250

Top of Funnel Inside Sales Conference Webinar Metrics 250

Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2015

Sales Process isn't even the only thing that inbound marketers say is dead. Let's start with my recent Google search for "Sales Process is Dead." That search turned up these articles on the first page of results: So who wrote all of these articles? April 29 2013. Are Top Salespeople Challengers? Februrary 19 2015.

Inbound 120

Inbound Inside Sales Sales Process Top of Funnel 120

Pointclear

JULY 17, 2013

To read an excerpt from her latest book, Smart Sales Manager , click here. Today’s “new normal” sales landscape has sales leaders scratching their heads, wondering about the best way to structure their sales organizations. Should they keep their expensive sales duo: inside sales AND field sales?

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Field Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 245

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 1, 2014

One-person sales consulting firms, self-appointed experts, telling, but not doing, what they say. If you were to read through each of the 1,150 articles I have posted on this blog since 2006, and organize, sort, create a flow and edit it all into a Sales Management Bible, we would have one enormous how-to guide.

Hiring 218

Hiring Webinar Metrics Channels Policies 218

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here are the others: Organic Sales Growth and Its Impact on Sales Architecture. Overlooked Conversation Between Sales Managers and Salespeople. Do Technical Salespeople Need Sales Training? Why Doesn''t Sales Methodology Get More Attention? Getting a Sales Organization to Buy-In to Sales Training.

Lead Rank 240

Lead Rank Sales Methodology Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 240

Pointclear

MAY 14, 2018

For salespeople and sales managers, few understand the Prime Directive of Sales Management: Enhance Sales Momentum (Never Interrupt It). Sales momentum isn’t about sales skills. It’s measured as a product of its mass and velocity of your sales efforts. Sales Lead Brownout.

Territories 124

Territories Quota Sports Compensation 124

SBI

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Social Selling and Big Data at the Upcoming Sales & Marketing 2.0 Next week, Sales Dot Two Inc., will host the Sales & Marketing 2.0 The focus is purported to be on the benefits of big data for B2B sales organizations with an emphasis on social technologies. Chris Jones, Chief Sales Officer, PROS.

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Conference Social Selling Data Marketing 131

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Among the things being debated are: The migration from outside to inside sales - yes it''s happening and it''s good; but it won''t happen in every company, to every salesperson or necessarily soon. The death of selling - yes, marketing people are predictably predicting this and no it''s not going to happen. 700,000 salespeople!

Inbound 209

Inbound Survey Lead Rank Lead Scoring 209

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 22, 2012

If you aren’t able to answer YES to all 3 questions then sign up today for our Q3 Tour Research: How your Peers are allocating People, Time and Money in 2013. His tool on measuring sales management impact can help you figure out where you stand. Market conditions, hot products, and blue bird deals.

Territories 316

Territories Follow-up Meeting Tools 316

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Here is their success story and an invitation to learn more best practices from SBI's “ Make the Number 2013 Tour.”. As the strategic HR partner to multiple sales leaders, Steve is responsible for recruiting and retaining top talent. Detail-oriented; able to manage multiple priorities. Follow @jdkenney. Beyond Hiring.

Hiring 306

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Oracle 306

Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2018

And his official bio reads as follows: “Finder of the elephant in the room, Keenan calls it as he sees it and lets nothing or no one go unnoticed.”. In a recent Twitter Q&A we hosted, a participant asked the following question: “Hi @Keenan and @Zoominfo ! Reason Number Five: He runs A Sales Guy U. and Forbes. Their tagline?

Journal 171

Journal Case Study Influencer Sports 171

Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

Pharmaceutical sales training faces several unique challenges that require tailored approaches and solutions. These challenges include: No insight into field activities Traditionally, it has been difficult for sales managers to gain visibility into the daily activities of their sales reps in the field.

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Pharmaceuticals Training Collateral Face-to-face 52

Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 12, 2012

As you wrap-up what I hope was a successful 2012 and begin preparation for 2013, I think you will find some great ideas about sales tools during two Webinars to register for. Minimize Your Workload and Maximize Your Sales with Web Tool Automation. 31 Must-Have Sales Tools in 2013.

Webinar Metrics 112

Webinar Metrics Sales Tools Tools Top of Funnel 112

Increase Sales

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Time is quickly running out for small business owners to sales managers and all those in between to meet those sales goals and revenue targets not too mention profits. The end of the year sales stampede to increase sales is gaining speed as it does every year from early November to late December.

Small Business 164

Small Business Small Business ACT Sales Goal 164

Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 5, 2014

Most companies sell products and services to a saturated market - companies and consumers that already buy "stuff" like that and the only thing a customer or prospect must determine is which company they will buy from this time. The other mail bag question was from a Sales VP who had his final 3 candidates lined up.

Hiring 130

Hiring Conference Coaching Up-Sell 130

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

She teaches sales and management courses at the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton Executive Development Center. The New Selling Landscape Calls for a New Sales Map. And the salesperson is intercepting in the sales process later, which is not a good thing.”.

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Video Journal Up-Sell Education 174