Miller Heiman Group

MAY 14, 2019

Sales managers influence what salespeople sell, where they sell, who they sell to and even how they sell. These factors make the sales manager role one of the most influential and demanding jobs in any company engaged in complex B2B sales. How many direct reports do sales managers have in your company?

Coaching 73

Coaching Sales Management Hiring Territories 73

A Sales Guy

MARCH 4, 2014

They influence and then bless the account plans. They manage to the quotas. They influence the deal strategies. They resolve territory disputes. They sit next to, talk with and are closer to the sales people than any other person (role) in the company. Sales managers are the key to a humming sales organization.

Sales Management 115

Sales Management Territories Influencer Sales Leadership 115

Hubspot Sales

JULY 14, 2020

Over the past decade, the rise of social media and the emerging field of influencer marketing has turned how companies advertise and sell their products upside down. Between 2014 and 2019, the increase in influencer marketing spend mirrored the decrease in print advertising spend. Let’s also take into account social media usage.

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Influencer Industry Hiring Social Media 82

OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 27, 2016

A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. The territory optimization and alignment element of salesforce effectiveness is vital for three reasons. Finally, deployment of an automated solution generates improved sales performance.

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Territories SalesForce Incentives Incentive 40

Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Barry Trailer from Sales Mastery Advisors highlights a goldmine of opportunity: diving deep into repeat and referral sales. Believe it or not, expanding within your existing customer base can yield better returns than braving new territories. 18:23] Slow progress in implementing artificial intelligence for sales. [20:08]

GoldMine 84

GoldMine Survey Territories Ideal Customer Profile 84

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The Sales Manager’s job is to provide an environment within which their sales people can succeed. Then viable territories and targets, the right levels of support, training and enablement tools, demand generation leadership, and remove internal roadblocks. What more could you possibly ask for?

Sales Management 86

Sales Management Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Territories 86

Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Sales managers are responsible for growing revenue. That means 1) providing sales reps with the guidance they need to continuously improve, 2) building a sales process that gives reps the best chance at closing each lead, and 3) understanding which efforts are moving the needle and which are a waste of energy.

Software 71

Software Software Tools Sales Management 71

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. Not to mention those chosen to lead the sales team actually take a pay cut -- often earning less than their direct reports. Tell me about yourself.

Sales Management 140

Sales Management Hiring Promotion Analysis 140

The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Here’s why: the sales quota is a key variable in many of the equations that dictate core business functions. These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure.

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Quota Revenue Lead Rank Territories 70

Pointclear

MAY 14, 2018

For salespeople and sales managers, few understand the Prime Directive of Sales Management: Enhance Sales Momentum (Never Interrupt It). Sales momentum isn’t about sales skills. It’s measured as a product of its mass and velocity of your sales efforts. Territory Adjustments. See item 5.

Territories 124

Territories Quota Sports Compensation 124

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

Without the incentive of commission or performance-based bonuses, salespeople may lack the motivation to go above and beyond in driving sales results. Sales managers will have to think of nonmonetary alternatives as motivators. As a result, the organization may lose the benefits of a united and collaborative sales team.

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Compensation Salary Commission Margin 118

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

This creates a new challenge for sales management: how do you train your sales team?—?including This is unexplored territory?—?and AI will not supplant selling skills; A-players will likely be better at using assistive intelligence than B-players. including the B- and C-players?—?to

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Training Penetration Government CRM 206

SalesFuel

APRIL 3, 2024

Understand they are a vital part of the process and something that goes with the territory,” she explains. The company you keep can ultimately influence you to act similarly. Photo by RDNE Stock project SalesFuel - Sales Credibility | Sales Research | Sales Hiring | Sales Management | Sales Enablement

Hiring 40

Hiring Face-to-face Territories Motivation 40

Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Here is what we believe it takes to compete with a strong solid sales team that closes the right deals with great sales velocity. Complicated commission plans or unwieldy territory rules and exceptions cause a half-baked sales team. Train and coach frontline sales leaders.

Hiring 247

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Territories Commission 247

Score More Sales

JANUARY 4, 2013

But I also had sales leaders who just raised the number by a percentage every year, not taking into consideration changes in the market or in opening up a new territory. Activity goals are goals that you typically come up with together with your sales manager targeting specific actions that you have a whole lot of control over.

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Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker Territories Outbound 224

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

We will use Sales Leader’s Q4 Critical Path Guide. During this session you will receive input on 3 critical path items: Your Number — How you can influence receiving a fair number from your boss. Your Talent — How to improve your sales manager’s performance. You are strategizing with Sales Managers and reps.

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Territories Compensation Buyer Google 308

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Impact : Sales Ops directly influences performance of the sales team. Well-designed sales dashboards for reps and leaders. Territories and quotas that maximize output. Competence : Sales ops teams have the right people to get the job done. Back up your Sales Ops leader and the insight they deliver.

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Company Hiring Buyer Persona Maximizer 296

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Since the world didn’t end, you still need to recruit Sales personnel. Q1 of 2013 is a busy time to refill empty Sales territories. Sales leaders want replacement Reps FAST. We advise that Sales have benches of qualified candidates ready to call upon. Not all Sales teams have followed this advice, however.

Hiring 275

Hiring Territories LinkedIn Groups 275

SalesforLife

JUNE 27, 2019

If you read our blog, you know that account executives are responsible for building TAM maps for their particular geographic territory. Best-in-class markets are using two key strategies: (1) They’re looking for executives that are new in their roles, connected by the sphere of influence to their existing customer base.

Campaigns 95

Campaigns Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Trade Show 95

Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. The question is, as a sales manager how should you structure your sales team’s expectations around prospecting?

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Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring Real Estate 92

Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

I also probe my team to think big by asking questions such as, “Can you think how we can help transform this specific industry/country/territory with the help of our technology solutions?” If the team can think big, they will believe in it and then will be able to achieve it, Follow a sales methodology.

Sales Leadership 80

Sales Leadership Coaching Hiring Decision Maker 80

Allego

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It has 850 million members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Look Me in the Eye by Julie Hansen , Founder and Sales Presentation Expert, Performance Sales and Training. Strategies for great virtual sales conversations. Learn how to achieve sales success without compromising your values.

LinkedIn 118

LinkedIn Hiring Sales Leadership B2B 118

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Guard your time – a bit of advice given to me years ago by a wise sales manager that I’ve always worked to remember. Because of everything you do in your sales career, time is the one thing you cannot recoup. That means that you are not watched every minute – and most of us in selling are not micro-managed.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Territories 227

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 28, 2014

Also in the June issue are the Top Sales Article and Top Blog Article for May. They announce who are the Top 50 Sales Influencers of 2014. For the last 6 years I have been coaching and/or managing youth baseball teams and personally coaching our son since he could stand. More on Baseball and Sales. See it here.

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Training Coaching Comparison Territories 246

Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2021

Sales forecasting methodologies. Traditionally, sales forecasting has been done through the Intuitive Forecasting method. Which works exactly like it sounds: sales managers ask their reps about their gut feeling on the likelihood of a deal closing. Historical sales forecast records and audit trails. Salesforce.

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Sales Forecasts Forecasting Tools Oracle 111

Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2022

Just ask Frank Cespedes , Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He has so much sales and management knowledge he could write a book on it — and, in fact, he’s written seven, including “Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing.”

Banking 83

Banking Face-to-face Revenue Territories 83

Anthony Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When presented with empirical and unassailable evidence to the contrary, namely a list of salespeople who are succeeding with the same pricing and the same competitors, they suggest those reps are lucky (a factor outside their control) or their territory is different (another factor outside of their control). You need to make sales.

Hiring 100

Hiring eBook ACT Influencer 100

Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2020

There can be hundreds of different factors that influence the success of a revenue team, but it’s rarely obvious which of them actually move the needle. Sales Reps: Just because your colleague is closing deals left and right doesn’t mean you should attempt to replicate his/her selling style.

Analytics 62

Analytics Scale Territories Sales Cycle 62

Hubspot Sales

JULY 12, 2021

One of the things we have learned over the last 14 months is that shaping the right attitude and mindset for effective selling — without the traditional office setting — can be uncharted territory for many sales professionals on the grind. Follow positive social media influencers. Look to follow positive influencers.

Energy 122

Energy Social Media Face-to-face Call-back 122

Close.io

DECEMBER 2, 2019

If you locate your prospects in high concentration in a territory, then cold canvassing will work well. Monroe Systems for Business built a personalized system using Smart Views in Close to look at their territory level data granularly. Travel costs - Does your territory require traveling by air or commuting by their cars?

Campaigns 80

Campaigns Cold Calling Territories Face-to-face 80

Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

Mary Shea VP Global Innovation Evangelist, Outreach Mary Shea produces thought-provoking research on the sales technology landscape, the future of buying and selling, and the importance of having diverse, equitable and inclusive B2B sales organizations.

Hiring 130

Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Enterprise 130

HeavyHitter Sales

DECEMBER 17, 2012

However, the decision to make a major purchase is also influenced by internal politics, how the decision-makers receive information along with individual biases and personal desires. Continued Migration from Field to Phone One final trend that bears mentioning is the accelerated move from field-based sales to phone-based internet sales.

Trends 153

Trends Decision Maker Territories Analysis 153

Xactly

OCTOBER 18, 2018

While multiple factors influence the effectiveness of your sales incentive compensation plans, 5 tips stand out: 1. That means their quotas and targets should specifically take into account the potential of their territory. This was an approach taken by many after Hurricane Katrina devastated Gulf-region territories.

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Incentives Incentive Compensation Webinar Metrics 78

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

When assessing your team’s performance, sales activities offer crucial metrics. That includes the number of sales calls, VP-level meetings, new qualified opportunities, and so on. With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results.

Revenue 118

Revenue Proposal SalesForce Lead Rank 118

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Stored in Appointments , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , execution. I was working with a group of sales managers earlier this week, including observing some pipeline reviews. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings.

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Pipeline Cold Calling Groups Lead Rank 218

Pipeliner

MAY 21, 2021

Units can represent sales territories, teams, or even subsidiary companies within a group. Another example might be “quota approved” that only a sales manager should be able to update. Pipeliner CRM analytics allow you to analyze, with KPIs, virtually any aspect of account management. Lookup and Rollup Fields.

Pipeline 98

Pipeline Account CRM Ideal Customer Profile 98

Xactly

JULY 4, 2018

You need your incentives to drive the right sales behaviors in order to achieve sales objectives. But, before you even begin planning your compensation, you need to ensure your sales territories are aligned and balanced. Any time spent shadow accounting is lost sales time. BUILD A PLAN.

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Compensation Incentives Incentive Commission 84