Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The best way to accomplish sales goals is to have the right salespeople on your team. To achieve your sales goals in 2022, there is one essential question you need to ask before you spend a dime on marketing. . Do we have the right sales team in place to achieve our sales goals in 2022? But that can be misleading.

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The Spiff Blog

MAY 18, 2023

For decades, perhaps longer, organizations of all sizes have struggled to effectively manage sales commission. In today’s blog post, we’re going to get to the bottom of this phenomenon and answer the following questions: Why has sales commission been such a persistent problem?

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

The Crunchbase 2023 Influential Women in Sales List is a submission-based list. They’re launching sales podcasts, YouTube channels and startups of their own. They’re creating safe spaces to empower female professionals and championing diversity in sales, both inside and outside their organizations.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“All sales problems are pipeline problems, and all pipeline problems are prospecting problems…… ” I was having a conversation with a really smart person. But I’m uncomfortable with this, I wish diagnosing sales performance issues could be that easy. Then there’s another way to look at this.

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

You may already have a sales enablement program, initiative or function at your organization. Or perhaps some of your colleagues want to talk to you about developing one. . If your enablement initiative drives sales results as expected, you don’t need to read this article. Probably not.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 7, 2020

There are different types of sales managers you run into during your time in sales. You can learn something from most of them, but leadership being as tricky as it is, it’s often easier to point to how you get things wrong than it is to elucidate what makes one effective. The deal manager isn’t going to lead you.

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Babette Ten Haken

MARCH 21, 2018

Are you treading water, feeling all alone, within an Us versus Them business model? This business model segregates employees within discipline-specific silos. As a result, each department’s territoriality can add up to organizational compromise, competitively. Subscribe to my blog. What are your next steps?

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Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

Meet Exceed sales goals. Pick any (or all) of the above, and you have the reason sales playbooks exist. A sales playbook serves as a guide or a model for capturing best practices for each and every potential sales situation. Best-in-class sales playbooks include: . Sales enablement materials.

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Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 15, 2020

Over time, as you do more of this activity, you do less of everything else, including the few more important things, like sales, growing the business, or leading your team. Sales Roles and Solving the Right Problem. Many pride themselves on this activity, because it makes them feel valuable. Leaders and Solving the Right Problem.

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Xvoyant

JULY 2, 2020

I’ve often used the analogy that B2B enterprise sales professionals are the Olympic athletes of the corporate world. That said, try putting them in a front line B2B sales role focused on the complex sale at the enterprise level and see how that works out for you. Oh, sure, we throw money at the sales department.

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Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 16, 2020

Over time, as you do more of this activity, you do less of everything else, including the few more important things, like sales, growing the business, or leading your team. Sales Roles and Solving the Right Problem. Many pride themselves on this activity, because it makes them feel valuable. Leaders and Solving the Right Problem.

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Apptivo

JUNE 21, 2021

While this scenario applies to employee cooperation, the fundamental pillars of an effective business are customers. Managing customer relationships is the starting point of an effective customer partnership which is a collaboration of shared beliefs, ideas, profits, and losses. Here, business and customers.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Building a new sales strategy in the face of a recovering economy is even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product or a slew of new features to give to your customers. You have the product in hand, but without a high-quality sales strategy, it won’t attain the success it was made for. What is a sales strategy?

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SalesLoft

MAY 13, 2016

Modern Account Based Sales Development enthusiast, and Sr. Director at Birst, Chris Pham is joining us on the Salesloft blog as part three of a five part series on trends in sales development. — Sales development traditionally came from a world focused on the process of optimizing a lead.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 8, 2021

They haven’t taken the time to understand what drives success in the role and to develop a competency model to use in the hiring/development process. With each sales hire, we are making a multi-million decision, it’s the manager’s responsibility to make sure they minimize the opportunity for a hiring error.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

CPQ Data Helps Finance Forecast Sales and Expenses. Revenue is mainly based on forecasted sales, and the expense number is mostly based on paying for the activities necessary to achieve the forecasted sales. CPQ data illuminates specific performance metrics related to individuals, departments, territories, products and options.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

With over 100,000 loyal corporate users globally, the CRM helps sales teams to excel at their work and convert more leads. Both mature SMBs and newly minted sales teams love Pipedrive for how newcomer-friendly the CRM is. CRMs have always been about managing your sales pipeline. And with Pipedrive, it’s as easy as it gets.

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OpenSymmetry

APRIL 8, 2016

Sales organizations face a constant challenge responding to changing selling techniques and markets. In meeting this external change readiness challenge, businesses need to effectively manage internal changes to their organization, technology, and sales behavior. Developing Change Capability.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 8, 2013

Key Account Executives Sales Training. In this post, we are focusing on companies who have a separate Key Account sales team. Over the years we have had the opportunity to design sales training initiatives for numerous companies having Key Account sales teams. One aspect of getting it right is sales training.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. 70/20/10 learning model. Can your sales reps wait that long?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. 70/20/10 learning model. Can your sales reps wait that long?

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The Spiff Blog

MAY 26, 2022

So, you’ve realized commission spreadsheets are actually evil, and that sales incentive software will vastly improve transparency, efficiency, and your personal sanity. There’s no shortage of sales commission software on the market, and when you factor in the massive operational differences, it’s a recipe for information overload.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Sales people often are promoted into sales manager positions – primarily based on their sales success. Sales Coaching. Just because a sales people excelled at face-to-face selling doesn’t mean they will excel as a sales manager. Sales managers responsibilities extend far beyond face-to-face selling.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 29, 2012

A Sales Training Connection Classic. The Hunter-Farmer framework has been used for a very long time to configure sales forces. The idea is to designate a group of sales people as Hunters – responsible for generating business in new accounts. The result is a lot of money is left on the table.

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OpenSymmetry

MAY 23, 2016

How critical to sales success is the right SPM technology? Sales Performance Management (SPM) solutions are a critical component of an organization’s core business, as it is the linkage between behavior and strategy. The answer is simple. The total market including all consulting and managed services is estimated to be worth $2.7bn.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 12, 2012

A Sales Training Connection Classic. Sales people often are promoted into sales manager positions – primarily based on their sales success. Sales managers responsibilities extend far beyond face-to-face selling. First, re-write the ground rules with your new and prior sales team. So, what happens?

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 24, 2011

Health care sales. This post addresses one used by companies across industries faced with a similar challenge: Put in place Key Account Executives (KAEs) who are responsible and accountable for the entire business development effort for the larger and more diverse set opportunities represented in the “new” hospital or hospital group.

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Vengreso

JUNE 10, 2022

Whether you’re a recent graduate, a newly-established freelancer who’s trying to generate leads, a job seeker in the market for a new job or position, or a seasoned sales professional, the strength of your LinkedIn profile can have a huge impact on your ability to attract and engage with the right audience. It just makes sense, right?

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LeadFuze

JULY 5, 2023

Understanding how to motivate your sales team is crucial for any business aiming to increase market share and achieve its sales goals. A motivated sales team can drive revenue, foster customer relationships, and contribute significantly towards the company’s mission. But what motivates sales teams?

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 11, 2013

Key Account Executives Sales Training. In this post, we are focusing on companies who have a separate Key Account sales team. Over the years we have had the opportunity to design sales training initiatives for numerous companies having Key Account sales teams. One aspect of getting it right is sales training.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Hang Black also talks about the future of sales enablement in one podcast and empathy leadership in another. In the future, RevOps will change how marketing and sales development work. It’ll also have a big impact on post-sales. Hiring more people in sales. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Closing more sales makes for a more successful business, but how can you figure out what kinds of sales suit your company best? We’ll explore inside vs. outside sales to show you what both entail and which kinds of companies need either one. What is inside sales? Let’s kick things off with a definition of inside sales.

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A short quiz for sales leaders – How much has the buying process changed in your market in the last five years? Question two – Have you taken a serious look at updating your new hire sales training to keep up with the changes? Here we are talking about sales skills training not product or welcome-to-the-company training.).

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

Sales Outsourcing Guide With 6 Dos & Donts for Choosing the Right Outsourced Sales Professionals. There are many ways that a sales leader or organization can gain scale, accelerate revenue, drive cost savings and augment their outsource sales team. Will your outsource sales team really affect the top and bottom line?

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 7, 2022

In today’s blog post we take a look at the four most popular tools organizations use for commission expensing and the functional requirements you should look for when comparing your options. But it also hasn’t changed much since it was first developed in the 1970’s. But which process is best? Manual tasks: .

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 25, 2011

Sales Hunters and Farmers. Companies have used the Hunter-Farmer framework for a very long time to configure their sales force. The idea is to designate a group of sales people as Hunters – responsible for generating business in new accounts. First, some reasons why change might be in order: .

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

You may think you work in sales or on a RevOps team. This gives you a unique opportunity to optimize your sales commission process like a supercharged engineering team, and gain a serious advantage over your competitors— who are still slogging through their spreadsheets, none the wiser. We know—this news probably comes as a shock.

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