Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

One common perk of a career in sales is the ability to earn more based on your own hard work and selling success. With salary, commission, bonuses, and other incentives, sales professionals often have options and feel in control of the compensation they receive, which can be great for motivation and fulfillment.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

A sales process is crucial to any commercial organization looking to secure revenue and grow. However, since sales activities have been notoriously hard to measure in terms of performance, many business owners have adopted various commission structures to keep their sales reps motivated. Let’s dig in.

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Salesmate

JULY 9, 2020

Your sales pipeline covers every stage of the customer acquisition process from leads to after-sales support to repeat business. To be successful in sales, you need to track specific sales pipeline metrics. To be successful in sales, you need to track specific sales pipeline metrics. Sales Cycle Length.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The use of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to measure a sales team’s growth or contraction have been used for many years. Some examples include gross sales, net revenue, products sold, and others that demonstrate how a company has succeeded (or not) through a particular period (quarter or year). Gross margin. #

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 30, 2012

While it should be only on rare occasions, there are times when you will need to offer a discount and lower your price to close the sale. A well-orchestrated and properly timed price drop can indeed help close a sale. This is where most sales people blow it. What follows is a clear example of the process. Sales Person. “So,

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Apptivo

AUGUST 18, 2022

The best way to understand and determine the growth of the business is by calculating the return on sales ratio(ROS). The return on sales ratio is a financial ratio which presents you with the overall revenue (the profit) and how much is used to pay down the operating expenses. What is the return on sales?

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 5, 2022

Early in my sales career I was told that “Everybody loves a clown, but nobody buys from one.” That’s something I still agree with, but it does not mean you cannot have a sense of humor about sales. In this article, we look at the lighter side of sales. In this article, we look at the lighter side of sales.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Roughly 20 key performance metrics for sales person effectiveness. For example, for a sales person, while you can track and measure them on any number of the metrics outlined above, doing so on all the metrics can be confusing and misleading. I’ve seen sales people being measured on as many as 20 metrics.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 17, 2023

“You don’t understand what it’s like to sell building material supplies in this market,” a sales rep recently grumbled. ” the sales rep said. Whether you are selling lumber, shingles, or wire, this article explores how building material sales reps can improve their sales performance.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Sales compensation is one of the trickiest aspects of the sales organization to get right. How to create a good sales comp plan. Sales comp plan types. Sales contests and SPIFs. How sales compensation should work. A sales compensation plan operates from a basic principle: Money drives behavior.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales is rarely directionless. Every aspect of the practice requires established expectations and some degree of guidance — and in many cases, "expectations and guidance" amount to firm predictions of a sales org's performance. Sales budgets are often conflated with sales forecasts — and that kind of mix-up makes sense.

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Pointclear

MAY 17, 2018

A senior marketing executive once got so frustrated with his sales counterpart that he offered the following choices for spending $100,000 on a lead generation campaign: Option. Sales Qualified Leads. To the sales VP, a contact (you can buy 200,000 or more of them for $100,000) was undifferentiated from a sales qualified lead.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

AUGUST 12, 2019

Average sales cycle time. Example: The # of opportunities x average $ deal size x average closing rate% divided by average time to close. Look at a formula for a sales pro with a goal of $99,999 in gross profit. 100 deals x $10,000 = $1,000,000 x 25% = $250,000 divided by a 3-month sales cycle.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 26, 2018

Sales Promotion Ideas. Leverage Sales Promotions to Get Deals Moving Again. Sales promotions aren’t always necessary to close business. For sales leaders, promotions either make the customer’s decision easier or motivate the salesperson to work a little harder. So, are sales promotions necessary in 2018?

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 19, 2022

After all, isn’t qualifying a prospect a type of discovery? Qualifying prospects is an essential part of the sales process. While prequalifying research should reveal industry, company size, and revenue, qualifying questions are more about the sales organization. There are often more than prospects let on.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Knowing precisely the points at which a prospect is most likely to convert is vital, but identifying customers at the risk of churn could be the secret to surviving in this post-pandemic era. Two widely used churn rate formulas are gross churn and net churn. Customer churn happens when organizations fail to meet customer expectations.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 19, 2017

As a sales manager or leader, your problem probably isn’t too little data. From the percentage of reps using your CRM and cohort retention rate to average time to hire and sales velocity, there’s a nearly endless list of metrics, reports, and data points. The “right” metrics depend on your sales organization, industry, and company.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The use of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to measure a sales team’s growth or contraction have been used for many years. Some examples include gross sales, net revenue, products sold, and others that demonstrate how a company has succeeded (or not) through a particular period (quarter or year).

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Businesses are subject to increased fines and penalties if they do not take adequate measures to safeguard the personal information they have collected from sales prospects and customers. CCPA documentation goes on to provide specific examples of personal data. When does the CCPA go into effect?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Pressuring your prospect to buy before they’re ready is never wise, unless you want to lose their trust and potentially their business. Traditional selling advice suggests showing your prospect exactly how much they stand to gain by buying your product. Prospects often get skittish in the final stages of a deal.

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The Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

When your salespeople head into a new quarter or year with a solid sales business plan, they’re more likely to improve sales forecast accuracy, attain quota, and effectively support your organizational goals. Unfortunately, many sales reps fail to prioritize planning. Step 1: Take Measure of the Sales Target.

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Sales Management and Business Intelligence. For sales managers and marketing managers, these systems will likely include CRM and CPQ. Marketing and Sales will evaluate higher-level questions in pursuit of the knowledge that equips them to define tactical processes more effectively. But, having the data is still not enough.

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Nutshell

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I can speak from experience as I’ve made more embarrassing mistakes than I’d like to recognize, especially when sending automated email campaigns to potential clients or link-building prospects. Are you falling off your prospects’ radars? The best sales email is the one that gets read. THAT’S PRO. LEARN MORE. #3:

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In contrast, Vrbo, a vacation rental company owned by Expedia Group, “crushed” Airbnb when it came to searches that did not mention a brand (“vacation rentals in Chicago,” for example). Many B2B manufacturers still deploy a “catalog approach” to sales, with inside reps relying on frequent touches with prospects and customers to close deals.

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Allego

AUGUST 31, 2022

This article originally appeared on Sales Impact Academy. One of the most important problems an early-stage SaaS business needs to solve is how to drive a consistent and predictable flow of leads into the top of their sales funnel. There is no point in scaling your lead generation activities if your sales funnel is leaking.

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SalesLoft

JULY 31, 2018

The goal of social selling is to draw prospects in, not scare them away. That’s a gross oversimplification. Instead, apply the Golden Rule of Sales: don’t sell in a way you wouldn’t want to buy. Check out the full post for 5 steps (with examples!) Take it a step further by subscribing to LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 31, 2023

The world of sales is constantly evolving. One of the most important of these is prospecting. However, in a rapidly changing sales environment, seeking and obtaining new business is fraught with challenges. However, in a rapidly changing sales environment, seeking and obtaining new business is fraught with challenges.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 7, 2013

Lower cost of sales. Adding “ Thought Leadership ” to your vertical plan will create the gravity to keep your sales pipeline jammed with the right prospects. Second , create a coordinated sales and marketing plan where you become a “ member” not a vendor to your market. Plenty, in my experience. Better margins.

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Lessonly

JULY 10, 2020

The record-breaking show has taken the country by storm, with the Chicago showing alone having made more than $400 million in gross sales at the box office over its three-year run. But didn’t you bring me here to learn something about sales coaching models ?” George Washington, the performance champion.

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A Sales Guy

APRIL 3, 2013

An example of this is a mobile phone provider. For example, if you begin the year with 10 million dollars in cash and ended the year with 6 million dollars in cash, you are cash flow negative by 4 million dollars. That’s 23% of total revenue and 30% of gross profit. They are depreciated as an expense overtime.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of the most important decisions first-time entrepreneurs and sales leaders face is when and how to hire their first salesperson. Hiring too aggressively -- or not hiring for the right role -- can lead to accordion growth, and too much caution stunts sales and company growth. 5 Steps for Making Your First Sales Hire.

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The key to attracting and retaining top-performing sales reps is sales commission. A skilled sales rep needs recognition for his performance to stay motivated. Therefore, if you don’t want to lose your best sales reps, you need a strong sales commission structure. What is sales commission?

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LeadFuze

JULY 4, 2023

We will also discuss how providing value-added support like administrative assistance and sales enabling tools such as AI technology can boost agents’ earnings while differentiating your agency in the competitive real estate industry. One way to get ahead of the pack is by utilizing sales-enabling tools that give you an edge.

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Engage Selling

JANUARY 3, 2013

I have had it with tele-marketers calling my house who use terribly outdated, manipulative, boring, trite or insulting sales techniques. It’s especially maddening when their gross sales negligence happens in the opening line. Develop an honest sales technique to engage with prospects that is focused on VALUE not selling.

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Engage Selling

JANUARY 3, 2013

I have had it with tele-marketers calling my house who use terribly outdated, manipulative, boring, trite or insulting sales techniques. It’s especially maddening when their gross sales negligence happens in the opening line. Develop an honest sales technique to engage with prospects that is focused on VALUE not selling.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The funnel/pipeline is a fundamental tool for sales professionals and managers. For example, they say your pipeline needs to have three time coverage. The problem is, when our funnels start looking a little lean and managers start hammering on sales people for the right coverage model. Their sales cycle was 180-250 days.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to the European Payments Council, traditional cash transactions made up just 1% of Sweden's gross domestic product (GDP), and ATM cash withdrawals are steadily declining by 10% each year. Examples of mobile wallets and payment apps include: Apple Pay. Google Pay. Samsung Pay. Image Source.

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