Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Sales Compensation Planning for 2016. As sales leaders or executives everyone must be focused on exceeding the end of year sales quota’s and budgets-but alas- it is mid-November and December will be quickly on top of you. Once that step is taken, you can take a free sales compensation “assessment” on Acumen’s website.

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The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Most sales leaders know they should be coaching their reps more. But sales coaching is a broad idea—and its interpretation is often left to chance. According to the Sales Management Association , formal sales coaching strategies tend to be poorly executed or non-existent.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Sales Management and Discipline. I received a call from a former client that was concerned about the status of their sales team and VP of Sales-it seems that their revenue was off more than $2M over the previous year and below their growth goal! After that conversation I next interviewed the VP of Sales.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

Are sales managers really at fault? You don’t hear that phrase very often anymore, but account based sales reps still carry a bag. But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota. But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 7, 2017

CSO Insights’ 2017 Best Practices Study revealed that quota attainment—averaged across all geographies, industries, and company sizes—dropped from 63 percent of salespeople in 2012 to 53 percent in 2016. And I’m not pointing at the account based sales development reps. Revenue is a lagging indicator. Why Does Any of This Matter?

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 6, 2017

A Sales Manager’s Recipe: What’s Cooking in 2017? Last week after presenting a keynote program called Gourmet Living, an attendee came up to me afterwards and discussed her challenges as a sales manager. Become a Detective : In sales management workshops we always talk about inspect what you expect.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Attempts to get sales enablement right are on the rise , as organizations grapple with the idea that shorter product life cycles, a more informed customer base, and global competition make the way they sell just as important as what they are selling. Finding the right contact – and context – for sales outreach is time consuming.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I remember my first year as a salesperson, the only thing that changed for me on January 1 st was the date, my sales compensation plan, and the amount of revenue I was being asked to generate over the next twelve months. If you were thinking you were going to rely on what you didn’t close in 2016, you are a little late to the party.

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 27, 2016

New sales managers. You are now a sales manager. Even after some initial guidance from colleagues, most new sales managers find themselves struggling to figure out how to balance the requirements of the position. So, in reality, the answer is usually one of smart management not prevention.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2019

Companies and sales teams are missing out on the benefits that diversity brings. Repeatedly, studies are proving that more gender diversity corresponds to increased revenue and innovation. Top Groups for Women in Revenue. Women Sales Pros. Women in Sales. Utah Women in Sales. Women in Revenue.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 8, 2016

One of the best responses to this question that I have seen is from a somewhat dated (2015) article in Eyes On Sales in which the author asks: “How many callbacks do you get if you DON'T leave a voicemail?”. The following is from my favorite author (“New Sales. and “Sales Management. Simplified.”

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Increase Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

” The local search market is projected to nearly double from its revenue of $5.7B If you are a small business owner, in sales management, then now is the time to move your marketing to the world of mobility. For example, those who are searching for retail stores, 4 out of 10 are seeking “hours of business.”

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

We have found that many front-line sales managers have only a vague impression of how their sales reps are prioritizing their time. First, the sales managers isolate some of the best practices for optimizing the time spent on selling – that is what are the good folks doing on a good day. ©2016 Sales Momentum® LLC.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Seventy percent of companies using AI report that adoption has increased their marketing and sales revenue, while 28% say it’s decreased costs. A Look at the Numbers: Sales Industry Attitudes Toward AI We asked more than 1,350 sales reps and leaders how they’re using and thinking about generative AI in sales.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Yet, as the CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , I have seen firsthand that a growing number of world-class companies are seeking to hire top-performing B2B salespeople, especially in the last five years. Revenue won’t grow alongside those low levels of engagement. As sales jobs in some sectors decline, they are growing in new areas.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Sales managers can use these sales reports to see how their team is tracking towards quota attainment and review the number of closed deals. VPs and other organization leaders can also monitor the amount of revenue that's been generated. Automate forecasting for your sales performance.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 24, 2016

With that economic domino effect affecting us all as 2016 begins to wind down, ending the year on a high note will be more challenging than ever. More importantly, it’s when many management bonus systems take effect, rewarding executives for driving certain levels of pretax income to the bottom line or attaining their revenue targets.

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Gong.io

MARCH 17, 2021

We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you win more deals. Samantha and our sales manager sat down and dialed into the call. . It was the last day of Q1 2016, and they were going into battle on a closing call. . ” – Lori Richardson , President, Women Sales Pros.

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Groove.co

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Deloitte awarded Groove with this honor based on our record revenue growth from 2016 to 2019. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2016 to 2019.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 2, 2017

A friend of my recently wrote a blog on the “ One Person That Impacted My Life in 2016” I think it was a fabulous idea, today is a good day for you to reflect on that thought, name that person and thank them, make them aware of your feelings and then go make 2017 Your Best Year Ever! His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Nutshell

JANUARY 21, 2019

As a sales manager, you know your team’s strengths and weaknesses better than anyone. That being said, an effective sales manager doesn’t rely on intuition alone when deciding how to increase productivity. They analyze metrics over time in order to learn how to best support their team and fine-tune their sales process.

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DocSend

MARCH 16, 2018

In 2016, 60.7% It’s no secret that onboarding is one of the most important aspects of sales training, and improving sales training outcomes is one of the key goals of any sales enablement strategy. A high-quality sales training program needs to be reinforced through coaching. Revenue Goals Not Being Met.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

The transfer of information is sent and received in a nanosecond, the cost of goods can be sourced more competitively and being able to produce goods at half the cost means being able to sell it for less, and therefore increase our market share, but that impacts our revenue. As for future changes for the B2B salesperson and sales profession?

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The only thing that changed for me on January 1st was the date, my sales compensation plan, and the amount of revenue I was being asked to generate over the next twelve months! I had no proactive plan in place as to how I was going to generate the revenue that I was being tasked with generating. Download Ep.

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SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2019

With Rekener, Brainshark will provide cutting-edge visibility into sales team activities, behaviors and productivity, helping customers make real connections from improved readiness to increased revenue. The end result is better quota achievement and increased revenue production. Alex Laats, co-founder and CEO at Rekener.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

And our average account grows 60% between year one and year two when it comes to revenue. So our net revenue retention for current customers is 160%.’ Until 2016, I had already passed the mark where my net worth was above the threshold where I could invest. I got lucky in the first couple of years of AltiSales.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

She’s a sales leader with an accomplished background at several tech startups. She has won various awards such as Top Sales Leader, TAG One in a Millenial Awards 2016 and Power 30 Under 30 winner 2016. Trish Bertuzzi founded The Bridge Group to help B2B technology companies build world-class Inside Sales teams.

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

I have listed a few slices to chew on in 2016: Prospective clients have done their homework as to their issues and potential solutions via the internet or other relationships. This has caused the salesperson to alter their traditional sales approach. You can then leverage your clients during your prospecting and sales process.

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MJ Hoffman

APRIL 22, 2019

You’ll maintain a predictable revenue without leaving valuable money on the table. While a tactic or technique may have been very effective in 2010, 2012, or even 2016, technology, industries, jobs, and people change. I recommend that at any given time, 10-15% of the deals you’re working should be risky. That’s an issue.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 1, 2018

Meg Hewitt, Regional Sales Manager, Retail at Salesforce: Chuck Jones, Sales Manager, Americas at Deputy; Keith Jones, Revenue Operations Manager at Deputy. One panelist is sales ops, another panelist is sales – but they’re both from the same company, Deputy. Wednesday, 3/7 at 11:40 am.

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DocSend

MARCH 16, 2018

In 2016, 60.7% It’s no secret that onboarding is one of the most important aspects of sales training, and improving sales training outcomes is one of the key goals of any sales enablement strategy. A high-quality sales training program needs to be reinforced through coaching. Revenue Goals Not Being Met.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Sales coaching. When top sales managers are asked what advice they would give to someone wanting to improve their coaching, a pervasive answer is – stop trying to teach your sales team and start trying to help them learn. . As one sales manager put it, “ Effective coaches ask, listen, and then tell.”

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 23, 2017

Author: Monika Götzmann When businesses need to improve sales, they are most likely to focus on salespeople and account managers, according to CSO Insights' 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study, with 94.3 In addition, the same study found sales training was the most popular sales enablement service.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The percentage of engaged workers was also 34 percent in March 2016.). Stahl says he joined the Dallas-based company six years ago and built a telesales team of nearly 100 people to complement the company’s independent rep field sales team of more than 3,000. The company has a series of “Through the Eyes of the Sales Rep” surveys.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Sales training. Here’s the conundrum … You have a 250 person sales team. You are a new, first time Sales Training Director. You replaced a sales manager who did no sales training for a long time. To add urgency, revenue numbers have been stagnant for too long. ©2016 Sales Momentum® LLC. .

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SalesLoft

MARCH 9, 2016

Welcome to Day 2 Rainmaker 2016! The one and only conference 100% dedicated to sales development is well underway. In our organization, the Outbound SDR team reports to the Director of Sales Development, and the Inbound SDR team reports to the VP of Marketing and Demand Generation. But they hated micro-managing reps through CRM.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 25, 2019

Product and sales training: To successfully build a sales pipeline , sales reps need product knowledge and sales training that empowers them to capture qualified opportunities. See also: How to use a sales pipeline to boost revenue. Using projected sales data. Estimate future revenue.

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