Close.io

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The most common sales objections including detailed analysis and ways to counter each one. This is an article rich with great sales objection advice. READ THE FULL ARTICLE ?. B2B appointment setting: How to book more (and better quality) sales meetings. The anatomy of a good sales appointment.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my work with sales executives from corporations large and small, I repeatedly see that team rewards are easily overlooked in favor of individual incentives. And while individual incentives are critical to the success of any sales organization, most companies are not fully invested in supporting the team environment.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Although SPM strategy varies by company and industry, the most effective sales performance management strategies typically involve a combination of the same core pillars. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s no secret that there are many benefits to gamifying your sales process. Even if you don’t have a tool in place, it’s likely as a sales leader you’re already using it in some form. Ever organize a sales contest? Not only is gamification popular, it’s a proven and effective sales performance booster.

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Pipeliner

MAY 9, 2023

A well-functioning sales team can help a company generate revenue, acquire new customers, and stay ahead of the competition. Building a successful sales team requires the right talent, strategy, and leadership. This article details six strategies for building a successful sales team that can help you achieve your business goals.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

How should the top sales leader in the company utilize this limited time? Download the SBI Sales SVP New Year’s Guide here. It’s a concise guide to our best articles about managing this time of year. Let’s look at several ways sales leaders misallocate their year-end days. Do This Instead: Evaluate your Sales Process.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

In this article, I will discuss the challenges in the B2B SaaS customer experience and how to tackle these potential barriers upfront – rather than trying to do damage control months into the implementation when the customer is annoyed, disappointed, and on the path to churn. Too often, the initial implementation cycle takes too long.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It’s not intuitive, then, that these two functions often exist in silos, each having their own systems and processes. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Get on sales calls.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

When you can pinpoint dips in productivity and identify the elements that contribute to slower workflows, you can make the changes needed to support your sales team. This article puts the spotlight on what sales productivity means, why it’s crucial, and strategies you can employ to take your team’s productivity from 0 to 100 fast.

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 13, 2022

This article is part of the Crunchbase Community Contributor Series. Please note that the author is not employed by Crunchbase and the opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect official views or opinions of Crunchbase, Inc. Strong sales infrastructures prepare organizations to adjust to any economic climate.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Creating and maintaining an impactful sales coaching framework in the modern age isn’t as easy as one might think – but with the right mindset and the right tools, it’s not out of reach. In the article, Himanshu analyzes the six major things a next-gen, AI-supported approach to sales coaching can help your company accomplish better.

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

That said, developing and managing successful remote teams comes with several challenges and resolving them before setting up virtual sales teams is critical for success. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the main challenges in running remote sales teams and strategies for effectively handling them.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Could you be hands-off and still expect them to figure out your sales process? Sales excellence is often a measure of what a rep can do for your sales org beyond their immediate contributions. Prizes can be valuable incentives to motivate your sales rainmakers.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Last week I posted an article that linked to two additional articles I wrote for EcSell Institute and Top Sales World. Apparently there were issues with those links last week because I got dozens of emails letting me know that you couldn't get to those two articles.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 20, 2020

If you want to run the perfect sales contest, you’ll need to set specific, measurable goals. Maybe you’re trying to focus attention on a particular part of the sales process. Nail Down Incentives. A lot of sales orgs set aside budget for incentives, but they offer the same prizes week after week, quarter after quarter.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Creating and maintaining an impactful sales coaching framework in the modern age isn’t as easy as one might think – but with the right mindset and the right tools, it’s not out of reach. In the article, Himanshu analyzes the six major things a next-gen, AI-supported approach to sales coaching can help your company accomplish better.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 29, 2020

Align Your Incentives Together with Your Team's Future Success. Regardless of the industry, you’re in or the size of your sales team, there’s nothing more important to make sure you have future success than aligning incentives. Boost future sales and ensure that your salespeople are motivated to sell.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Offering too many features on the free plan can reduce the incentive for users to upgrade, so monitoring data usage and adjusting limitations can help create a value gap that encourages users to upgrade. Great article by Auren Hoffman on this topic below. Include a full-feature free trial.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2019

What’s the #1 incentive you can use with your reps? Align incentives. Translate data requirements into sales and buyer-centric language, and your adoption will increase ten-fold. You need to start aligning the CRM to the sales process , as opposed to data entry. Align Incentives. Help moving deals forward.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 9, 2022

The Sales Pod — an extension of the assembly line model where some combination of SDRs, AEs, and CSMs work together — with each salesperson fulfilling a specific responsibility that enables the level after them in the pod's sequence. Compensation is the most fundamental, powerful incentive for reps to perform.

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Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales reps need support to drive growth and increase likelihood of success, whether they’re going through initial onboarding, working through the buyer’s journey or collaborating with marketing. We’ll get into unique responsibilities of each later in this article. Managing sales tech stack. Optimizing sales processes.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well. These goals focus on personal development improvements and bettering the sales team through leadership. How to Create Sales Goals as a Sales Manager. Sales goals are often specific.

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Crunchbase

MAY 19, 2023

In this article, we’ll dive deep into eight of the top challenges of prospecting that salespeople face and discuss strategies you can use to overcome them. Creating an ICP streamlines your sales process by enabling you to focus on the most relevant leads. Luckily, sales automation software can help.

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Crunchbase

JULY 27, 2022

If you own a business, lead a sales team, or are otherwise interested in how best to create a solid sales ecosystem within your organization that is conducive to growth, this article on sales operations (sales ops) is for you. Performance and incentive program management. Data management and forecasting.

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Allego

AUGUST 7, 2019

This article originally appeared on hbr.org. Cespedes is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and author of “Aligning Strategy and Sales.” ” Christopher Wallace is the founder of Incite Sales and a managing director for GrowthPlay, a sales effectiveness firm. Authors: Frank V.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

From salesperson self-diagnosis to sales management one-on-ones, to executive funnel meetings, funnel management is the key to understanding the health of the business. Doing it well is a differentiator of high-performing sales organizations. In this article, I’d like to go over some of the principles I work on with my clients.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 31, 2023

I thought of myself as a helpful, well-intentioned sales professional. That ignited my life-long interest in influence and how decision-makers view sales professionals. This article summarizes what I learned about influence and how new sales professionals can shorten their learning curve.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

But just because the days of cold calling and big email blasts are mostly gone doesn’t mean that the outbound sales process is dead. Here are four great methods to boost your ROI when using outbound sales techniques. Methods to boost your outbound sales strategies. PandaDoc: your secret weapon for outbound sales docs.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2019

In this article, I’m going to explain how these tendencies are breaking your sales stack and a smart 4-step process for fixing any sales stack — no matter how broken you think it is. Why Fast Fixes to Your Sales Stack Never Work. People respond to incentives. Do we have ones we don’t need?

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

In the age of digital selling, content plays a critical role in the sales process–whether a prospect is actively pursuing a purchase or has gone cold after initially showing interest. 80% of business decision-makers prefer to get information from articles rather than an advertisement ( source ).

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

Also, inbound and marketing automation creates a larger pool of leads for a salesman, so the compensation should differ from that of an outbound new sales hunter who not only generates the lead but works it and closes it. The costs associated with sales incentive program administration. Hold up your end of the bargain.

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Xactly

MARCH 22, 2018

Most of the time when I speak about the middle performers, it is because I am trying to convince a sales leader that there is value in focusing on the middle performers rather than explaining the sales incentive tools available to increase their performance. where payouts are made quarterly against an annual goal).

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Highspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

This is where sales performance management(SPM) comes in. In this article, we’ll define just what SPM is, how you can use it to measure (and improve) performance, and how it can help your business not only to achieve, but to smash revenue and business goals. What Is Sales Performance Management? A Holistic Approach. Conclusion.

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OpenSymmetry

APRIL 8, 2016

In meeting this external change readiness challenge, businesses need to effectively manage internal changes to their organization, technology, and sales behavior. Sales Process – Agile response to the market through mobilization of predictive analytics. So, how best to meet the challenge? Understanding the Change Challenge.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this article, we help you navigate the intricacies of sales performance metrics, guiding you on which ones are pivotal and how best to measure them. What Is Sales Performance? Sales Performance vs. Sales Metrics Why Analyze Your Sales Performance? Why Analyze Your Sales Performance?

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The solution, in our experience, is modern training software that allows sales reps to find and review product information exactly when it’s needed by using techniques like just-in-time learning (reps can look up answers as needed) and microlearning (short lessons for improved knowledge retention). Imagine your sales leader out in the field.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 27, 2018

The articles below will help you create the perfect cold email: “16 B2B cold email templates that sales experts swear by” by Nutshell. 8 Tips to Turn Cold Calling into Warm Calling” by Inside Sales Box. Once you have the visitor’s info, you can add them to a lead nurturing process and move them through your sales funnel.

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