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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. For a step-by-step guide on how to do this, Download the Territory Design Whitepaper Here ! How Market Focused Are Your Territories?

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Sales VPs - Are 'A' Player Quotas Rising and Territories Shrinking?

SBI Growth

You are preparing for 2013. Subsequently, this leads to smaller territories. Will you have any chance of hitting the number in 2013? Determine potential by segmenting your customers and prospects. Determine potential by territory. Matching quotas to territory potential will maximize your best territories.

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2013 TOP SALES TRENDS

HeavyHitter Sales

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled “TOP TEN SALES TRENDS FOR 2013.”.   What are the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013? Because of the economy and relentless competition, 2013 will be the year that many companies have to re-discover the lost art of win-loss analysis.

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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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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.

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Build a Bold, Data Infused Sales Strategy for 2013

SBI Growth

Typically the focus is on blocking and tackling: basic execution of a compensation plan, sales dashboards, sales crediting, and territory/customer assignments. Typically this is something like, 30 additional prospects X average deal size = lift of $X in sales. Too often these questions are not being answered.

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2013 The Year of the Lead!

A Sales Guy

We celebrated the hunter for his or her prospecting skills. We still celebrate the killer hunter who takes over a territory and kills it, but now more than ever, sales and marketing leadership are the hunters. Continuing to rely on sales people to do all of the prospecting and hunting is an antiquated and faulty sales strategy.