Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)? The VP of Sales. Great VPs of sales have gravitas and tact, command the room and hold their end of the table regardless of who is on the other side. Singular focus on sales. As the title would hint at, the VP of Sales should focus on sales.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sales Performance Improvement programs should be constructed in a way to better manage and channel the sales team to deliver higher levels of sales performance. In fact sales teams that go through a sales performance improvement program outperform sales teams in companies that don’t.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 25, 2018

The obvious answer is, “Duuugggh Dave, it’s Sales Enablement……” But if you think about it, sales enablement is about helping our sales people achieve the highest levels of performance/productivity in executing our business strategies in the face of the customer. So who else is involved?

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 20, 2013

Sales teams in professional service firms. Team selling does not guarantee sales success. This can be a particularly important competitive advantage in the professional service sale. This can be a particularly important competitive advantage in the professional service sale. ©2013 Sales Horizons, LLC.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Management by Objectives, aka MBOs, are goals set for employees to improve overall sales performance, as agreed up on by sales manager and rep. MBOs can be an extremely useful tool in addition to your sales commission structure because they give each rep individual goals to strengthen the overall sales organization.

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Allego

APRIL 2, 2019

Today’s sales training and enablement professionals can’t afford to be dismissive of ROI: if your sales training and coaching programs aren’t generating tangible results – in terms of higher revenues, faster ramp-up, shorter sales cycles, etc. – you need to find out why and apply the available fixes.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last week we explored gender bias in sales. Today, we’re continuing the conversation by celebrating a group of incredible women from a variety of sales organizations who have made their mark in the world of sales. In doing so, we hope to show the next generation of women that sales is a viable career path for women.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Taylor Montero, Sales Operations Analyst. Vincent Cifelli, Solutions Engineer. Billy has been in sales/sales management his entire career and previously spent five years at Capshare. Meg Summer, Director of Customer Success Management. Drew McGuire, Solutions Engineer.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. Who should be responsible for sales compensation planning?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Kathleen Roberge , Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Rocketrip. She’s great at managing people and incentivizing teams. How to excite your team (and incentive them along the way). Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. She’s so good, she gets results! What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Traditional product training for enterprise sales organizations and retail employees often includes hour-long training videos, reviewing lengthy recorded calls, reading through documentation, and a bunch of other time-intensive training processes that require your sales reps to absorb and, hopefully, retain product information.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 9, 2019

When managing large accounts, many sales teams struggle to access diverse stakeholders. Some sales teams rely on instinct when interacting with stakeholders in large accounts. These incentives help you achieve a larger goal in the future. Create a Charter Statement. Identifying your Coach and Anti-Sponsor.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Sales is a changing game. Driven by CPQ technology, especially the sales configurator, and business customization, the selling process is rapidly changing. In others, Sales is brought into the discussion much later in the selling cycle. CPQ is the vital link between the sales rep and the experts at corporate.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 27, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 3 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. Hire the right sales managers. This doesn’t happen by accident.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

Best Sales Podcasts. Sales Gravy. Linking Into Sales Podcast. The Sales Evangelist. Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast. Get in the Door: Sales Prospecting Strategies & Tactics. The Sales Babble Podcast. Sales Pipeline Radio. Make It Happen Mondays -- B2B Sales with John Barrows.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 2, 2021

What do Top Sellers Know on How to Close a Sales Deal. Negative comments can drag down the success of a sale, so it’s important to eliminate them. 7 Techniques on How to Close a Sales Deal. The assumptive close is a technique that assumes the sale and continues to go through the motions of completing it. Soft close.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 1, 2014

Teams now contribute in several ways – from participating in pre- and post- sales calls to being on a client site and identifying opportunities for growing existing business as well as new opportunities. Just team selling , however does not guarantee sales success. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Boosting sales performance is a critical aspect of almost any operational management strategy. But for many companies, the goal of making sales personnel more productive, increasing their output and personal efficiency and evaluating performance through traditional metrics has become something of an elusive process.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Boosting sales performance is a critical aspect of almost any operational management strategy. But for many companies, the goal of making sales personnel more productive, increasing their output and personal efficiency and evaluating performance through traditional metrics has become something of an elusive process.

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SBI

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Inside sales reps who engage prospects with a personalized pitch see better open rates, have longer conversations, and book more meetings. But migrating from a traditional cold calling model to one that requires a high-level of customization can be challenging, even for the most sophisticated inside sales environments.

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“We have a game-changing, disruptive technology, but the economic environment is slowing down our sales,” said a CEO recently. There needs to be more than technological innovation to ensure sales success. Companies with good sales strategies do. More than innovation is needed to ensure sales success.

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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 25, 2015

Sales Performance Management (SPM) has truly evolved over the last 10+ years from the days of having an on-premise solution that primarily automated the compensation calculation process with basic reporting, to a new dynamic frontier with extended capabilities.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 26, 2016

My last post inn this series was “ Super Hero Sales Managers.” ” I hesitated for a moment discussing this topic–sales compensation plans. I can barely scratch the surface on this topic, sales people, sales executives, and non sales executives invovled in compensation are likely to be unhappy.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Welcome back to our Sell Like a Girl series– where we’ve spent recent weeks unpacking gender bias in sales. Today we’re continuing this conversation by sharing a preview of our latest research on sales commission. The Current State of Gender Bias in Sales Before we take a look at our newest findings, let’s level-set.

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HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 1, 2011

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

So, today, we explore five ways to double down on Seller Experience to save money, bring in more revenue, and ultimately create an environment where sales professionals can thrive– even in the face of hardship. When sales reps are happy, engaged, and supported they’re able to provide prospects and customers with a better experience.

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Pipeliner

JULY 26, 2018

If I had a dollar each time I heard someone opine the chasm between their revenue results and sales forecast , I’d be spending twelve weeks every summer relaxing in a tony Montana lodge, fly fishing by day, and gazing at constellations at night. Trying to get sales forecasts to hit actual revenue bang-on is a fool’s errand. My invoice?

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LevelEleven

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

A sales representative who has achieved a President’s Club Title highlights their success and achievements regardless of their industry. With that being said, it is not a “cool kids club” and the goal is to create a motivational incentive. A President’s Club (PC) is synonymous with success. Establish a Timeframe.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Incentives (379). Outside Sales (81). Sales Process (1775). Engineering (791). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast? Topics Major Topics.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

Author: Liz Pulice In recent years, many companies have implemented remote work arrangements, driven by financial incentives, recruitment/retention initiatives and other factors. These conditions can present challenges for sales organizations, where in-person meetings and events are typically part of “business as usual.”

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Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Many of us grew up in a time when sales was considered a numbers game. Make more dials, get more sales, right? In the search for increased sales, profitability, and market differentiation, vendors are scrambling to become solution-oriented. To improve your sales rates, give your clients a road map to success.

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Allbound

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

After all, partnering up with other companies that share customer bases can be a huge asset in amplifying your sales and marketing. Sales / Support Partners. Marketo focuses their partner program around providing strong sales and marketing support. HubSpot’s Sales and Marketing Growth Stack.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Barrett Boston , Chief Revenue Officer at TriNet. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. Imagine similar spikes in your sales metrics and you’ll see the glaring imperative for setting goals. So yes — there are few things more important to you as sales manager than to set goals.

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