Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2024

Personally, I substitute Baseball for the middle topic because college baseball is in full swing and we’ve been traveling to watch our son, a college senior, play college baseball. Lately, when I talk with people, the most popular topics for discussion are Politics, March Madness, and the movies and TV shows they are streaming.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 31, 2021

Without a clear process, your sales managers will each adopt their own approach and ultimately achieve sub-optimal results. Systematic: Companies/sales managers that have well-defined steps to follow when choosing candidates will get better results. After each behavioral interview, the sales manager should rate each candidate.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

She also highlights the role of executives and managers in fostering collaboration and the potential costs of not prioritizing teamwork. Your sellers may have separate territories, but they’ve got to work with others across the company.” She explores the challenges of building effective collaboration within sales teams.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2021

This might not be all that mind-blowing to point out, but not all sales orgs are comfortably confined to their companies' corporate headquarters — operating under a group of managers that can come together to share stories over lunch every day. What does a territory sales manager do? What does a territory sales manager do?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2024

Some have run multi-billion sales organizations and companies, some are managing their own territories selling millions a year. As one person said, “Selling completes me… ” And this is what I think so many others miss about selling. They come from all parts of the world. We focus too much on shortcuts, hacks.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 23, 2013

When your territory is changed, it opens a lot of questions for Sales Reps. Good Managers can provide answers, but typically from the “big picture” perspective. To answer those questions, we built a Territory Evaluator. Account management time as required to maintain the business already established.

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Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2022

Accelerate speed-to-lead Kaseya , a company dedicated to IT platform management and monitoring solutions, recently went through a series of mergers and acquisitions. In an ideal world, B2B revenue teams would run with lightning-fast lead response times, streamlined operations, and an aligned sales and marketing team. Without a doubt.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In this post blog, we'll help you understand how to optimize your sales territory strategy to achieve bigger and better things this year. What is a sales territory strategy? Here's an example of what one might look like : It breaks down a physical territory, opportunities and their counts, and assignments to different reps.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 5, 2013

The more territory, the more accounts I get, the better I will do”. Yet often the opposite is true, more often than not, less is more in sales accounts and territories. When I asked them what can be done to hit their goals, all but one suggested that we add accounts to their territories that were homeless due to a recent departure.

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SBI Growth

MAY 18, 2013

Here’s an example: Top Territory Todd: Todd has exceeded quota the past 5 years. Yet he has 3x the average territory potential in his patch. His boss does not want to split his territory. But place him in an equal territory and watch him flounder. Ned was given the smallest territory and worst customers.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

They roll out the draft plans in November, have a few meetings, adjust the territories and quotas, roll it out to the field and run off to the next challenge.". Here’s the two step process to that Managers and Reps follow in the first month: Step One : Complete a Territory Account Plan. The January Two-Step. Or have they?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As adoption rates in Customer Relationship Management Software (CRMs) continue to rise, a (data-driven) gap in usefulness and effectiveness is very clear. Sales professionals — yes, even managers — on frontlines of business development. Let’s start with a reminder: CRMs have a purpose. It’s not just reps who suffer, either.

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Sales 2.0

JUNE 9, 2018

Congrats you have a brand-new “greenfield” sales territory! My suggestion when you’re dropped into the desert (sorry “greenfield territory”) look for some of those 22,500 people that are willing to help you. Most of the time business owners and marketing and sales managers define sales territories by classic demographics. “We

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Apptivo

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

ABCs of sales lead management 3. Sales Lead Management Process 4. Implementing a Lead Management Strategies to increase sales 5. However, inbound sales teams need a well-defined lead management system and the right tools to get the most value out of those leads.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 25, 2019

Close management of the sales team will be crucial. The data gathered through customer relationship management (CRM) solutions and web analytics along with service and usage information from networked machines help sales segment their customers by user profile. Sales will become too complex to stay a one-man show.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 2, 2012

In building a Top Performers Program, sales management needs to decide what they want to reward. For this to work effectively, quotas need to be set fairly against both large and small territories. Management needs to be able to understand opportunities and challenges in each territory when quota setting. What to do?

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it.”. _.

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Anthony Iannarino

JULY 2, 2020

The salesperson drove past the location every day for two and a half years, as he worked in his territory, without ever stepping foot inside the building. When forced to see every prospect in his territory as part of a growth plan, he summoned his courage , walked through the front door, and asked for the person who had fired his company.

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Hiring is one of the most important activities that a sales manager conducts. If they make the right decision they will improve the performance of the territory and elevate the performance of the entire team. The easy answer for a busy manager is to hire the sales rep that comes with all the experience.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Here’s what top producers have told us they look for: Territory with abundant opportunity. Take a look at each motivator: Abundant Territory Opportunity. Top producers demand a fair, equitable and coverable territory. A patchwork territory based on prior relationships raises a red flag. Avoid a Myopic Focus. Hot product.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

Through personalized outreach, BDRs can assess a prospect’s level of interest, budgetary constraints, and purchasing timeline. In B2B sales and marketing, companies employ various strategies to drive growth and expand their client base. One such strategy involves the use of Business Development Representatives (BDRs).

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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. What works for one company won’t necessarily work for another. In fact, with only 24.3% Let’s start with the pros.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 25, 2022

While Google BigQuery alleviates data infrastructure and workload challenges through a fully managed, serverless data warehouse with built-in analytics and data integration, the issue of incomplete, incorrect, and inconsistent customer data requires a comprehensive B2B data acquisition, cleansing, and enrichment solution.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

In reality, sales professionals and managers need to have access to the best available sales planning tools to help them boost sales productivity and close more and bigger deals. This tool allows sales managers to analyze the email productivity of their reps. Sales Productivity Tools. Pricing: Free. Pricing: Free. Pricing: $150/month.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 3, 2021

When it comes to delivering personalized customer experiences , companies need to integrate different platforms and technologies based on user data. Maptive for geoanalysis and sales territory management. The result is a powerful multifunctional software. What are the best SaaS tools to help you achieve this? Salesforce for CRM.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

When the plan is in alignment with execution, your territories remain optimized and sellers are focused on the best opportunities. Likewise, you can accurately calculate ramp for a new hire so that you keep expectations realistic for that person as well as for your revenue goals. What is the holdout for that sales rep?

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The Pipeline

JULY 16, 2012

The specific comment was that the rep was reluctant to ask prospects/clients for referrals “because what if the person or company they refer are out of my territory?” They are able to stay focused on their territory, while earning some incentive for asking one extra question.

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 20, 2020

You are a good person, and you are a better salesperson. Your territory isn’t as good as your neighbor’s territory. Your sales manager and the shady characters in your sales operations team want to make sure you are never a candidate for President’s Club. Your sales manager is trying to discourage you.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” There are surveys asking for the one area sales managers should focus on. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process. We have to do the whole job.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are lots of great books (including Sales Manager Survival Guide), there are a lot of great training programs (including those we offer), but somehow managers continue to struggle in both finding the time to coach and coaching in high impact ways. Their own managers aren’t great role models, as coaches.

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Nutshell

MARCH 5, 2024

For example, a sales rep who specializes in airline company clients would be the perfect person to manage an airline lead. This strategy is straightforward, but as lead volume increases, it becomes more difficult and time-consuming to manage. Why is lead distribution important? Why is lead distribution important?

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 2, 2021

Your quota isn’t getting any smaller, and your territory isn’t getting any bigger. So, how do you find more qualified leads in your territory, faster? Then, you have to do more research to find relevant information to use in your outreach, in addition to making sure each lead is the right person at the company to contact.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That’s why branching into new territory is more important than ever. Imagine you are the founder and manager of a company that once sold project management software to IT companies, but now, you’re expanding your focus to marketing agencies — specifically catering to internal marketing teams. Don’t worry.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The more mature a business gets, and the more complex the prospective customer’s needs are, the more challenging it is to maintain that speedy response and personalized touch. Lead Routing by Territory or Geography. Responding quickly to incoming leads can make or break a deal, particularly in highly competitive markets.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

These challenges include: No insight into field activities Traditionally, it has been difficult for sales managers to gain visibility into the daily activities of their sales reps in the field. Gone are the days of in-person onboarding and hours of snooze-worthy training videos.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2022

Solving your biggest lead-routing challenges requires taking a few steps back and looking at your data systems and how they are managed. Enrichment: Solve missing field issues with more complete data A missing industry code or an incorrect job title can cause major disruptions when you’re trying to segment and route leads to the right person.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Let’s also manage two sales people. Sales person 1 has a quota of $10M, she makes it by selling a balance of products A and B. Sales person 2 has the same quota but makes it just by selling his favorite product, product line A. Which sales person has done a better job? They hit their goals of $10M each!”

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