Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In today’s competitive business landscape, having an effective sales strategy is more important than ever. Many companies manage their sales teams separately from other departments such as marketing, operations, and customer enablement. The goal of sales is getting to revenue.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 27, 2021

Much of the discussion is around improving alignment and collaboration across marketing, sales, customer experience. Much of the discussion is around improving alignment and collaboration across marketing, sales, customer experience. I’m really doubtful that organizational changes solve alignment and collaboration problems.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The piece got decent traction, was fun to write, and produced some interesting perspectives on both sides of the argument — so I figured it might be worth it to try the process again with another hot-button sales issue. Argue from the perspective of 'sales commissions are ineffective and should be done away with.'

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The Spiff Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

These functions often include sales, sales enablement, marketing, finance, and customer success teams. However, for a RevOps team to be effective, it must have a well-defined org chart or team structure in place. Having a well-defined revenue operations team structure has a number of benefits.

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Allego

JANUARY 18, 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of sales enablement , staying ahead of the curve is not just an advantage—it’s a necessity. The emergence of generative AI and the proliferation of GPTs has opened a new horizon for sales enablement managers, as it has for sales teams, promising greater efficiency, innovation, and revenue growth.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 1, 2021

Here, we'll take a closer look at what that term means, get a feel for how to prioritize them effectively, and see some examples of what they might look like in practice. Operational objectives are often confused with strategic objectives — longer-term, organizational goals that can guide an operations team's immediate plans and actions.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 22, 2022

As daunting as cold calling may be, it still has a place in today’s sales pipelines. In the age of COVID and increased remote work, sales development representatives (SDRs) and account executives (AEs) are finding that cold calling can be an effective means of reaching prospects — when handled correctly.

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Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2022

This data-driven guide to ABM will help ensure your program gets off on the right foot. By targeting good-fit accounts, marketers can be sure that only the best and most sales-ready buyers enter their pipeline. By targeting good-fit accounts, marketers can be sure that only the best and most sales-ready buyers enter their pipeline.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

Sales coaching is all about looking forward and developing your people. High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program. A survey of 330 U.S.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Motivating a Small Business Sales Team Motivating a small business (SMB) sales team is paramount for sales success. Achieving sales targets significantly depends on motivation. Secondly, let data guide your decisions. Firstly, recognition is incredibly potent.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

We continue to organize our sales and marketing initiatives around what makes us more efficient or old views of how customers buy. The work toward MQLs, turning them over to sales, hopefully as SALs, saying “Good luck and godspeed!, Likewise, sales shouldn’t be waiting for marketing to create awareness and demand.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Any company's sales leadership needs to keep a pulse on how its salespeople are performing, both individually and on a broader organizational level — getting there often starts by understanding the degree of effort reps are putting in. That's where performance indicators known as sales productivity metrics come in.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sales operations managers are the unsung heroes behind a high-performing sales team. They design sales processes, sift through sales data, and predict futures. Their role is to set up the sales team for success. What Does a Sales Operations Manager Do? To improve sales outcomes.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 2, 2020

Without the right approach and structure, sales and operations planning (S&OP) can quickly become more of a burden than an asset. We’ve put together seven tips to improve your sales and operations planning process so you can avoid common pitfalls, improve ROIs, and develop responsive solutions in real-time.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 21, 2020

But the need for sales organizations to change is nothing new; it’s just more urgent now. Define a Sales Methodology. A sales methodology is a framework that explains how your sellers should approach each phase of the sales process. Tools to effectively evaluate sales opportunities, situations and challenges.

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Showpad

JUNE 9, 2020

Should you centralize sales enablement? Driving sales enablement impact requires the right set-up: strategic, formal and charter-based. Driving sales enablement impact requires the right set-up: strategic, formal and charter-based. No matter your definition of sales enablement, the data is straight forward.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Having talented sales reps is often a result of investing in effective sales coaching. According to research conducted by ValueSelling Associates , over half of high-performing businesses that have had sales coaching programs in place for three years or more experience high growth. Collaborative. Results-oriented.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 10, 2020

Enter: the Chief Sales Officer. Ultimately, the Chief Sales Officer is in charge of all sales-related activities for your company. Before you run out and promote the first strong seller you see to the role of CSO, it is important to note that this individual is responsible for more than bringing in sales.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Every sales organization aims to close more deals and grow revenue. Of course, sales reps play a critical role in achieving these goals. But often, they’re ill-equipped to guide deals to the finish line. In other words, these sales reps attempt to “reinvent the wheel” each and every time. What is a sales playbook?

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Vengreso

JUNE 6, 2023

Top earners in sales use top sales strategies to attain their success. Brown , the CEO of CEO Sales Strategies and a Sales Revenue and Profit Growth Expert. Brown , the CEO of CEO Sales Strategies and a Sales Revenue and Profit Growth Expert. For this week’s episode, I am joined by Doug C.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Technology.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 Why Sales Performance Management Matters.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. NANCY: WHAT ARE THE TOP 3 WAYS YOUR SOLUTION CHANGES THE GAME FOR A SALES ORGANIZATION?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

It’s clear that sales and selling is changing, but I’m not sure we define it by a technology. The future of sales has to mirror the shifts in how customers buy, it has to help them be more effective in identifying and opportunities, problems, challenges to their ability to grow and achieve their goals.

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Apptivo

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What is sales productivity? Why is sales productivity important? Key Considerations in Choosing the Ideal Sales Tools Software 4. Top 10 Tools to Boost Sales Productivity The Sales sector in businesses is ever-shifting with the newest trends and tactics that raise new challenges annually.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Not only are they key to landing your go-to-market strategy for the upcoming year, but one of the few times your entire sales team will be together, making them valuable opportunities for camaraderie and connection. What are the best 2021 sales kickoff themes??. What Makes Sales Kickoff Training Effective?

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 24, 2022

Product-led growth (PLG), the process of putting the product at the center of the buying journey, has excellent benefits for organizations looking to easily set up their sales and product strategy. PLG by itself doesn’t effectively answer customer questions. This article is part of the Crunchbase Community Contributor Series.

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Xactly

JANUARY 17, 2019

A strategic sales plan is a portfolio of ideas, processes, and technology that guides a sales organization’s strategy and provides the resources and tactics for reaching sales goals. With goals in hand, sales leadership must then assess and determine the needs and means to achieve those goals. Territory design.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Finding effective leadership in sales is every bit as difficult as it is vital. You need someone with the authority and experience to set and maintain an effective course for your sales efforts. The term that best captures the nature of a sales executive's responsibilities is guidance.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 11, 2020

Now, the efficacy of your sales process is put to the test. It's a real "put up or shut up" moment for how you handle your sales efforts. But let's say you have no overarching structure, milestones, or reference points for converting that opportunity to a customer? Here, I'll offer some perspective on where to start.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 12, 2018

“To be effective, sales enablement must be seen as a strategic discipline that is set apart from other functions such as marketing and training, even though those functions contribute to enablement.”. — “Sales Enablement: A Master Framework to Engage, Equip and Empower a World-Class Sales Force”.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 11, 2020

Remote work is the new normal for many professionals, and salespeople are being tasked with meeting and exceeding their sales quotas while making a swift transition to working from home. Stellar sales work is possible outside of a traditional company office. Remote Sales Management Challenges. Here’s what they had to say.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 29, 2021

It’s hard to find a “better” example than in sales, where the annual turnover rate in the United States averages at 34%. Sales is one of those jobs where you sink or swim based on your efforts. All of that can lead to a lot of pressure and stress on sales teams. What is sales productivity? It means effectiveness.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every business needs to fill its sales funnel with qualified leads, convert those leads into customers, and retain paying customers for the long term. What makes the difference between a high-performing sales funnel and one that isn’t ready for the needs of a modern B2B sales motion?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The job of the sales leader is to maximize the performance of the organization. It’s the leader’s responsibility to make sense of the various pieces/parts that impact individual and organizational performance. We have nothing in which to ground our decisions, no framework, context or structure to guide us.

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Revegy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In an interview hosted by Revegy’s Anne Kimsey, VP of Product Management, SiriusDecisions’ Research Director of Sales Operations Strategies, Robert Muñoz, shared the critical ingredients of effective account plans and how to drive results through living account plans. Organizational alignment. Planning methodology.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

We’ve seen it happen time and again: firms are wowed by their top sales performers and all rational thought gets thrown to the wind. These are the salespeople who have little concept of quotas; they push and push until their numbers, placements, and billings are towering over the rest of your sales team. They get promoted.

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