Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

It may feel risky to select a new city for an important sales meeting or incentive event, but in an era in which you’re asking the sales and marketing professionals you count on to take a few risks in order to create some rewards, there may be no better time to practice what you preach.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Encourage sales reps to participate in live sales calls or meetings with their sales managers, followed by a debriefing session to discuss what worked and what could be improved. Feedback Mechanism: Establish a feedback mechanism for sales representatives to share insights, challenges, and success stories.

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

A CRM also simplifies your team’s sales activities. For example, you can use it to automate follow-ups, check in with prospects, and organize one-on-one sales meetings.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 20, 2012

What I really started to think about was about your sales people and how you cannot make them thirsty for success. But I'm not writing this today to talk about the buyer.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 6, 2019

Simply sending an email announcement of your next incentive to make the reps aware of the program will not maximize results. Effective incentives are more than awareness. Effective incentives are more than awareness. Sales managers are wise to use incentives to improve their results. Help reps emotionally engage.?Neuroscientist

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

One of my clients instituted a plan that gives a 5 percent commission to anyone in the company who makes referrals that lead to a sale. Now, that’s a real incentive from a company that understands the value of having a referral culture. Invite me to speak at your next sales meeting or sales training event.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

Align incentives. One of the biggest barriers to creating a truly high-velocity sales team is lack of alignment. Aligning incentives is the backbone of any successful sales management training initiative. Discovery meetings are those initial sales meetings that are in the calendar for that first introduction.

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Pipeliner

JULY 9, 2018

The company is overly reliant on the sales team to generate leads. The company offers limited sales skills training and sales mentoring is non-existent. The sales compensation plan does not incent the desired behavior. The sales message does not differentiate the company from the competition.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Why does Marketing or Operations get to choose the CRM but Sales has to live with it?”. Can you qualify the unqualified sales leads before you give them to me?”. “We We need sales meetings not sales beatings.”. I’d like it if the marketing manager would travel with me on sales calls!”. “I

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Read on for our top five tips on how to hold a sales team meeting that’s actually worth everyone’s time. Make the Meeting Convenient. The biggest hurdle when scheduling team sales meetings is finding a time that works for everyone. Pro tip: If you want to maximize attendance, offer incentives.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Sales reps don’t become trusted advisors without help and that means training. With that in mind, how is your SKO agenda training your salespeople to: Engage rather than repel buyer interest with sales messaging and approach? Conduct sales meetings using business acumen & insight vs. feature dumps & demos?

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

And, with data telling us that 60% of B2B sales professionals are able to generate higher volumes of qualified leads through referral programs – why wouldn’t you have one in place? Building in incentives for customers to refer their colleagues or business connections to you is an important part of consistently driving referrals.

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

And, with data telling us that 60% of B2B sales professionals are able to generate higher volumes of qualified leads through referral programs – why wouldn’t you have one in place? Building in incentives for customers to refer their colleagues or business connections to you is an important part of consistently driving referrals.

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 18, 2018

How to Uncover Buyer Needs with Sales Probing Questions. How to Create a Sales Meeting Agenda to Get More Done in Less Time [Template]. 17 Creative Sales Incentives (Other than Money) to Motivate Your Salespeople. What is the Difference Between Account Management and Sales?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The old way of doing business doesn’t work in the new normal, with buyers taking longer to make decisions, sales meetings happening mostly virtually, and the line between inside sellers and field sellers blurring. Sales force automation (SFA). With so much for sellers to navigate in this new landscape, it can seem daunting.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 11, 2018

Information hits sales managers from all sides on the subject of creating high-performance sales teams. Provide constant feedback, hire the right people, incentive programs, create compensation plans that drive behavior…the list goes on and on. Salespeople that know how to prospect enjoy prospecting and do it more often.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Typically, sales teams submit their exercises in video form each Wednesday, and the VP of sales enablement selects two or three to highlight in the next week’s sales meeting. The friendly competition among teams to produce a featured video provides an added incentive.

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ExecVision

MAY 29, 2018

Almost everyone on my sales team has a best friend at work. ? SPIFFs are loosely defined as Short Term Performance Incentives For Fun. ? There is a buzz on my sales floor that feel like a Wall Street trading floor. We have an annual or semi-annual incentive trip to a place like Playa del Carmen or the Dominican Republic.

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

To select the right KPIs for your sales organization, follow these rules of thumb: Less is More – It can be tempting to track every data point related to the sales department, but the most important information will likely be lost or unactionable if you try to track too much. Choose the right incentives.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The reality of Sales departments is that salespeople live quarter to quarter, and they have to hit a quota each quarter in order to stay in the good graces of their department. While this is a great incentive for keeping your sales team motivated to bring in revenue, that same incentive be counterproductive in the lead qualification process.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

For example, if your organization is shifting up market and wants to dedicate more time and resources going after enterprise accounts, you may decide to increase your minimum contract size— and therefore, no longer offer incentives for smaller deals that fall outside that range. Final Thoughts.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 13, 2012

If a sales person were to be measured or coached on their average deal size, the sales person would be compelled to put revenue in the CRM in order for it to be tracked. Create a time to close sales metric and track the results publicly. Make the bonus or spiff substantial and I promise you, deal size will make it into the CRM.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Take advantage of a number of sales competitions and incentives. However, make sure you don’t repeat the same sales contests — not only will the same people keep winning (causing everyone else to give up ultimately), but you’ll also turn the winners into natural targets. Have a common goal in mind.

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Xvoyant

JULY 2, 2020

We pay them well and provide incentive motivations and trips (Cancun, anyone?). Sales call planning. Sales meeting management. And, sometimes with various methodologies that aren’t even aligned. We throw bright, shiny SaaS software at them, often not integrated, creating workflow inefficiencies. Account planning.

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Sales Training Advice

OCTOBER 19, 2010

In addition, a contest encourages your sales reps to achieve new levels of personal production, taps into peer pressure and generates a positive synergism within the organization. A successful incentive program is a delicate balance of three key motivational factors; reward, recognition and peer pressure.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Inside sales processes are typically presented in the form of a pipeline that shows which stage each customer is at in the process and allows reps to prioritize activities. Inside sales salaries . As is in common in most sales roles, inside sales earnings are heavily commission-based. Inside sales quotas .

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 15, 2011

In the recent post, “The 3 Worst Practices For Conducting A Successful Sales Meeting,” I highlighted the three main DON’Ts for a successful sales meeting: DON’T. While this important “DO” seems obvious and easy, it’s usually not the case in most sales meetings. Intimidate. Illustrate.

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Xvoyant

JULY 16, 2020

It is easily the travel incentive I appreciate the most. Our Choice : Sales Leadership United. I share content for sales leaders to use immediately in their own organizations. Sales Meeting Ideas. But the emphasis is in providing deep insight on the craft of being a high-impact sales leader.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 6, 2013

This tactical program will provide insights and tools to help the Executive or Sales Manager easily increase the productively of their management meetings, sales meetings and sales training events. 2) a discussion of pertinent sales success indictors and how to use them for coaching. REGISTER: https://m360.salesassociation.org/event.aspx?

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The gamification gives sales reps incentives and encourages repeat winning sales behavior. The automation measures sales skills against attribution metrics to create customized coaching programs. Integrations with CRMs, sales platforms, and APIs. Price: Starts at $750 USD/month. G2 rating: 4.6.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

He may miss sales meetings or other gatherings, always with a last-minute excuse. All of the incentives kick in, bonus checks are written and the hero is headed off to Tahiti for the 100% club meeting. The sales manager gets a kiss, and the VP of sales is honored as well.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 12, 2020

He noticed that there were employees in the company who were rockstars in the sales department. Others, however, would invest in training, motivation, coaching, and incentives where they’d only improve a little bit. Umar saw how the problem wasn’t in the sales training, process, or strategy.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Chorus.ai’s analysis of more than 500,000 recent sales meetings conducted by more than 100 of our clients in 10 major industries. So, the first tip may seem obvious, even mundane, but it can’t be emphasized enough how much you need to prepare for a sales meeting to ensure you’re ready to engage with a CXO.

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 4, 2014

3 Ways To Drive Sales Coaching Knowledge Application: Install measurable accountability into the program. Requiring salespeople to publicly report back (in sales meetings, conference calls, etc.) how they’ve applied their managers’ coaching in real-world settings can be an amazing way to create value in sales coaching.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2019

This let her focus on her sales meetings and her productivity increased and close rates skyrocketed. RELATED: How to Motivate Sales Reps So They Won’t Quit. Extrinsically motivated sales reps work for the money. She admitted she didn’t enjoy prospecting and had a hard time sitting down to do it.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

I would add another disconnect that prevents sales training from achieving a positive return on investment is a lack of alignment between the organization’s strategies, structure, processes/operations, incentives and people. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 28, 2012

Several years ago, I was the guest speaker at the National Sales Meeting for a very large technology company. The theme they had selected for the meeting and the year was, “It’s how we put it together that sets us apart!” I could go on and on. all interrelate.

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