The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Sales Managers Have the Hardest Job in Sales. As a sales manager, you owe it to yourself to pay close attention to Jeb’s keen insights on leadership. As a sales manager, you owe it to yourself to pay close attention to Jeb’s keen insights on leadership. Contact Mark. E-mail RSS.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 28, 2018

When we think of an effective sales manager we often think of someone who manages a sales team that consistently hits the sales goals and objectives set by their company. Here are six things that the best sales managers do differently. Drive Rep Accountability for Breakthrough Sales Performance.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 29, 2013

Sales leaders will not Make the Number if they fail to rapidly onboard new talent. The sales environment is uniquely suited to take advantage of an innovation called “ gamification.” This post is for HR and Sales leaders who ask, "How can we accelerate the productivity of our new hires?". Slow ramp time for new hires is lethal.

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Xactly

MAY 7, 2018

Sales compensation is one of the most important components of sales planning. Sales operations and compensation professionals must compile a team to piecing together metrics and goals, which carries an incredible amount of responsibility. I was hooked into the space of Sales Compensation, but I had moved on.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 7, 2018

Author: Bob Junke Recently, I had the honor of being asked by the Sales Enablement Society (SES) to offer my definition of sales enablement as an alternative to the one the SES Definition Working Group came up with. Defining sales enablement is important. Aligning buyer journeys with sales process and content is an imperative.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 27, 2020

While every team is uniquely impacted, sales teams are facing an urgent need to generate revenue to keep businesses in operation. Customer-facing teams are the eyes and ears of our operation — whether or not we’re in the midst of a global pandemic. COVID-19 has swept businesses into uncharted waters.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 21, 2021

It’s one of the most important components of sustained sales success over time. As a sales manager or director, you can only influence your team’s sales performance in two dimensions: Their skill set (what they can do) and their motivation (how repeatedly or passionately they do it). How do you want to be managed?

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

As the backbone of any business, the sales team needs to be efficient to meet targets and ensure the company remains profitable. Keeping an eye on your team’s sales productivity is one of the best ways to track performance and nip bottlenecks in the bud. Table of Contents What is sales productivity? What is sales productivity?

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Xactly

OCTOBER 10, 2018

As part of the effort to make plan design easier, here are a few thoughts on the process (and a few other sales plan ideas too): 1. You need to start pulling together internal data from your incentive compensation management system, data from your CRM, and finally, information from financial teams on profitability and product revenues.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

When sales performance starts slipping, it’s a call to action for a sales operations strategy makeover. Read on for practical tips to supercharge your sales ops and turn obstacles into opportunities for revenue growth. Shifting Customer Expectations Digitized selling has changed customer-business interactions.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In today’s world, where pay transparency and compensation fairness are increasingly in the spotlight, sales employees and high-quality job candidates want to know more than just “how” your sales reps are paid. What’s the difference between the “how” and the “why” of sales compensation?

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Apptivo

MARCH 9, 2023

3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more! Bye-bye manual tasks, hello sales automation! However, at times no matter how long one stretches, sales tasks eat up a lot of productive hours. 3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more! Reap more with automation 2.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Companies spend a tremendous amount of time, money and effort every year to improve the productivity of their sales teams. The intervention strategies range from sales training efforts to coaching initiatives to sales tools to marketing materials. Other studies have reported the figure to be a low as 10%. Substantial.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As a sales leader, it’s important to set goals that will motivate your sellers and ensure they know what’s expected of them. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at why sales goals are important to sales teams, how to set effective ones, examples of common sales goals, and steps you can take to track and achieve them.

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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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LevelEleven

JANUARY 2, 2020

Looking to kick off a sales contest in the new year? This is usually the primary reason for any sales contest; spiking behaviors that will lead to results. Not only do they help motivate your team, they can do a lot of good for your organization beyond the competition itself, for a variety of reasons. Create coaching opportunities.

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

Knowing how to set sales goals is a crucial skill for any business owner, sales manager or marketer. It not only drives revenue growth but also helps in managing customer churn and acquisition costs effectively. But setting effective sales goals involves more than just choosing an arbitrary number.

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 4, 2018

In this fourth post, we discuss how sales compensation administrators can streamline the incentives management process using SPM technology and in doing that transform their role from an administrative function to a business and analytical function. All of this leads to improved operational effectiveness and efficiency.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. Consider this: a recent survey ranked ‘sales account manager’ as one of the most stressful jobs in the US, with 73 percent of respondents rating the role as “highly stressful.” ” ( source ).

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

Modern media will have you believe sales motivation is best delivered in the form of an inspirational quote. But, while an inspirational quote can go a long way, it’s simply not going to fix any deep-rooted sales performance issues. That’s why we’ve created this sales performance checklist. Does your sales team trust you?

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Research has shown that there are huge benefits to gamifying your sales process, including better worker productivity and retention when it comes to learning new things. It’s one reason that interoffice sales games have become a go-to strategy in most major organizations. Let’s jump in! People love to play games.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 10, 2013

Motivating sales reps - the role of money. All sales managers face the challenge of motivating their sales teams. It’s one of the keys to sales success. Yet, talk with 10 sales managers and you’ll hear at least 10 different ideas on tackling the motivation challenge. Why so many differences?

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Zendesk Sell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But this shift towards relationships and away from mere transactions has also revealed one of the fundamental problems in how we think about sales and customer service. Sales teams are measured by: The number of calls made. Sales teams are incentivized to have conversations while support teams are incentivized to end conversations.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For years, marketing had to manually collect information about companies, contacts and product preferences from service reports, call logs and assorted survey questionnaires. They would also rely on third parties who offered contact lists for sale, but the quality of these lists was questionable. What issues does the customer face?

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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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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. Related: How to Build Effective Sales Compensation Plans for Any Customer Facing Role.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

There are plenty of ways to automate and utilize inbound methods, but having salespeople who take control of the deal and close new sales was the next level. Building sales compensation plans for them can be a difficult task. Who are you selling to, C-level prospects, vendor managers, or small, one-man shops? Because guess what?

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

We know that sales coaching is an important part of sales management. Studies have found that effective sales coaching programs can improve sales reps’ performance by up to 20%. But many managers actually don’t know how to coach well. This presents a few challenges for sales managers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Building Sales Ops. Performance.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan As promised for today, I'm revealing the single article, from among my former 999 blog articles which my readers voted "best", to be my 1,000th post. But from among the 15 for which you could vote, this was your choice: Exposed - Personality Tests Disguised as Sales Assessments. Measures.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 25, 2019

In today’s competitive market, sales organizations need more than just talented salespeople to generate qualified leads. Sales development teams need the right tools to communicate and grow pipelines. Software-defined radio (SDR) technology empowers sales teams to drive communications forward. Overview of SDR metrics.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. Consider this: a recent survey ranked ‘ sales account manager ’ as one of the most stressful jobs in the US, with 73 percent of respondents rating the role as “highly stressful.” Incentivize.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you consider sales training to be the first of several steps toward boosting profits, it’s easy to see why it’s such a crucial investment. Sales training lays the foundation for future revenues by increasing your team’s satisfaction, loyalty and competence, all of which improve their interaction with the customer.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Why are so many businesses using sales enablement? If you want to increase sales productivity for your team, close more deals, and hit your quota, then keep reading. We’re going to show you what sales enablement is, and how to make the most efficient use of sales enablement to grow your sales and your team.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

These are the luxuries afforded to the typical inside sales rep. But aside from the obvious environmental difference, there’s a lot more that separates inside from outside sales teams, and that’s what we’re going to explore here. What is inside sales? . Outside sales reps, by contrast, sell on the road.

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