Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 10, 2023

We are now seeing these events in sales organizations: Missed forecasts. The economic crisis of 2008-9, and the Covid lockdowns of 2020-2021 showed us that when companies focus on cost-cutting instead of growing revenue, revenue declines - sharply. Closing delays. Failure to hit quotas. Order cancellations. You add water.

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Revenue Cancellation Forecasting Quota 344

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Another “baseball is to sales” analogy shouldn’t surprise readers because I’ve already published more than 100 different articles over the past 19 years showing how selling is just like baseball. Quotas, pricing, margins, forecasts, conversions, quotes, close rates, meetings booked, average sale and more.

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Revenue Margin Sports Quota 193

Score More Sales

AUGUST 24, 2018

If the whole, entire company supported revenue generation, how strong would your customer care or customer service team be? If everyone supported revenue generation, how easily could we detect a disgruntled customer about to leave us? Would nothing ever slip through the cracks?

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Revenue Company Customer Service Customer 215

SBI Growth

MARCH 30, 2019

Today Meredith Kildow, Chief Revenue Officer of Consilio, joins us to discuss the ramifications of being a sales leader and how to design, manage and execute the integration effort when you combine multiple sales forces over time in a series.

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Revenue Company How To Sales 209

Force Management

APRIL 16, 2024

We recently hosted a live session on Driving a Revenue Mindset with our Managing Director and Facilitator Brian Walsh. He shared insights on what’s changing in sales, what remains critical, and what the most successful organizations are focusing on to maintain revenue momentum.

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Revenue Conversion Buyer Company 130

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. Is sales is making the most of their newfound time and resources?”

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 30, 2020

Sales-marketing alignment is a hot topic for most sales and marketing organizations and has been since the beginning of business. Here on the HubSpot blog, we’ve published several posts outlining ways sales and marketing organizations can work better together. Sales Cycle Time. Customer Lifetime Value.

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Revenue B2B Company Strategy 136

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 10, 2023

We are now seeing these events in sales organizations: Missed forecasts. The economic crisis of 2008-9, and the Covid lockdowns of 2020-2021 showed us that when companies focus on cost-cutting instead of growing revenue, revenue declines – sharply. Closing delays. Failure to hit quotas. Order cancellations.

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Revenue Hiring Decision Maker Cancellation 156

Force Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Today's leaders have an uphill battle to successfully tackle revenue growth goals. Internally, revenue organizations have to adapt and align their message in a way that communicates their value in today's dynamic selling environment. Strategies for growth and evolution should drive alignment across all your revenue teams.

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Revenue Strategy Face-to-face Buyer 144

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. As a reminder, consistent daily coaching increases revenue by 28% and when it is paired with effective coaching, revenue increases by 43%. Sales Managers don’t want to coach because it takes away from personal sales.

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Coaching Guidelines Margin Incentives 333

SBI Growth

JUNE 16, 2020

Any gap in alignment between the Sales and Marketing organization will endanger the commercial success of a company. The Revenue Marketing Strategy, when thoughtfully crafted, allows best-in-class marketing organizations to focus their energy on demonstrable revenue generation instead of debating.

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Revenue Marketing Strategy Energy 270

Force Management

JANUARY 16, 2024

There’s no doubt that the way sales organizations and their customers interact has shifted in the past few years. From a new remote-first approach to rapid digital technology advancement, the customer journey is new and requires active participation from more than just your sales team.

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Revenue Face-to-face Negotiation Company 151

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Author: Sabrina Ferraioli What makes a great company? Its sales expertise? While each component is essential, we need to look beyond individual elements to something all-encompassing that drives a company to achieve. A good company culture guides, supports and encourages a workforce to excel. Its products?

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Inside Sales Revenue Lead Rank How To 348

Force Management

DECEMBER 14, 2023

When executed well, your channel program will decrease the cost of a sale, improve reach into new markets, and grow overall seller capacity without increasing internal headcount. Increasing Channel Partner Productivity When it comes to channel sales, your ability to control the sales process is limited. What is our proof?

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Channels Revenue How To Case Study 137

Grant Cardone

MARCH 1, 2024

In 2023, Chipotle’s earnings exceeded all expectations… Here’s what that means for the future of the company. What The Chipotle Earnings Report Tells Us Despite other fast food franchises slowing down in foot traffic and revenue… Chipotle was able to not only keep their customers, but increase their sales.

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Company Report Revenue Customer 90

The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 27, 2023

As a business owner or sales leader, you understand how important your sales process is to the success of your company. But are you certain that your sales process is as effective as it can be? If so, a consulting organization such as The Center for Sales Strategy (CSS) may be able to help.

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Sales Process Revenue Sales Strategy 92

Tenbound

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We Talked About Revenue Alignment for 3 Years … nobody cared. The idea makes perfect sense: Revenue Alignment of the Marketing, SDR, Sales, RevOps, and Customer Success into a revenue machine creating predictable pipeline and sales for the company. In theory, it’s Revenue Nirvana.

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Revenue Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing Funnel 105

SBI Growth

MARCH 15, 2023

As a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), you are responsible for the growth of your company’s revenue, and this is no small task. The obstacles you face every day can be daunting, but if you succeed in leading the revenue function of your company, you will have a tremendous impact on its growth.

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Revenue Face-to-face Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 156

The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 15, 2023

In the fast-paced and competitive business landscape, an effective sales structure is crucial for organizations to achieve revenue targets and drive growth. However, many companies face challenges in designing a sales structure that aligns with their objectives and maximizes their sales potential.

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Maximizer Revenue Face-to-face Objections 104

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 6, 2020

What’s changed is that companies are now empowered to take a data-driven approach to doing so. Given everything we have learned from manufacturing, why haven’t companies taken a similarly unified and data-driven approach to other aspects of business, particularly today’s fragmented revenue process? . Not so much.

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Industry Revenue Engineering Fashion 279

SBI Growth

APRIL 15, 2021

What is your plan for achieving your revenue target in 2021? With new logo acquisitions increasingly scarce across industries, market-leading companies have had to reimagine how to go beyond the install base to optimize revenue generation. SBI hosts multiple client advisory.

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Revenue Marketing Industry Leads 227

Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 10, 2022

You may have read that the latest legislation out of Washington DC provides $80 billion for the hiring, arming and training of close to 80,000 new IRS (Internal Revenue Service is the US Tax Agency) agents to nearly double the size of the agency. Did you catch the part about arming IRS agents?

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2024

In previous discussions, I’ve emphasized the pressing need for investment in enablement to drive lasting revenue growth , especially in today’s volatile economy. Sellers shouldn’t waste time on non-revenue-generating activities, and the team shouldn’t rely solely on a few high-performers.

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Sales Enablement Revenue Quota Sports 64

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 3, 2021

Today on the show, we have Ryan Staley , the founder and CEO of Whale Boss, where he helps Founders, CEOs, and Revenue Leaders implement revenue by 7 and 8 Figure Sales Systems in less than 3 months. We go deep into how to sell to the enterprise and scale revenue through revenue sprints. powered by Sounder.

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Scale Revenue Hiring Company 98

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Gaining new customers isn’t the only way to improve your business — your existing clients are an underrated revenue source. Generally, the longer customers stay with your company, the more value they create (and larger order amounts). So let’s get into how CLV plays into sales and marketing campaigns and how to calculate it.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Revenue Customer 246

Force Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

For revenue team leaders, today’s decisions will help define where the company ends up in twelve months. Recent survey research examined the mindsets of B2B technology sales professionals, collecting data from across diverse roles, ages, and company sizes. With a new year comes a clean slate – our once-annual fresh start.

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Tools Revenue Survey Software 121

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It has little to do with staffing, pandemic-related revenue difficulties, or fluctuations in the market. Figure 1 : There is a noticeable dip in product launches for medium-sized companies. Looking further at the data, medium companies released almost 10% less new products as of September 2020 compared to 2019. Source: ZoomInfo.

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Company Face-to-face Enterprise Enterprise 246

Alice Heiman

MARCH 12, 2024

A recent conversation between Alice Heiman and Scott Gillum on the Sales Talk for CEOs podcast sheds light on this very issue, offering a blend of strategies, insights, and anecdotes that CEOs can’t afford to ignore. The key is to be strategic, authentic, and always aligned with the company’s values and goals.

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Social Media Media Revenue Top of Funnel 75

Zoominfo

MARCH 10, 2021

But how do you know what SaaS sales model is right for you? Just in case you were looking for a little guidance, we’ve compiled a ‘how-to’ on selecting your SaaS sales model. How To Pick A SaaS Sales Model. Below are three common SaaS sales models that you can choose from to help you plan your strategy.

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Company Hiring Enterprise Enterprise 162

The Center for Sales Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

Revenue performance in a sales organization is a crucial metric that measures the financial success and performance of the sales team in terms of the revenue generated from sales activities. It includes metrics such as total revenue, revenue growth, sales targets, quotas, and the percentage of sales goals achieved.

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Revenue Quota Competition Sales Goal 89