Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2023

At ZoomInfo, we tend to think of a successful customer retention and expansion strategy as having three key phases: planning, execution, and enablement. By setting clear and aligned goals, sales reps have a target to strive for and their activities remain closely tied to corporate objectives. Next up is enablement.

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Strategy Customer Hiring How To 130

Nutshell

JUNE 2, 2019

Coming from a sales management and real estate background, I understood our customers’ hustle. The problem that inspired my next steps was that renewals between 10 months and one year were dropping below 100% MRR retention. I came up with a way to define my goal for this experiment. Nutshell sells subscriptions.

Retention 107

Retention Scale Customer Churn 107

SBI

JUNE 4, 2014

Every two weeks, I interview an executive from a top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? It’s also based on a scientifically proven method of driving long-term retention we developed at Harvard Medical School. Nancy: What does Qstream do?

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Up-Sell Revenue Closing Decision Maker 139

Pointclear

MARCH 13, 2014

Nick Stein, Vision Critical, Youth Meets Experience in Sales Force. Click to start video at this point —The young people entering the sales force are changing the dynamic between managers and their reps. Not so long ago, managers and their sales team were in one centralized location. percent were quality.

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Inside Sales Social Selling Outbound Lead Rank 235

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The truth is that poor performance from sales reps can be linked directly to the training their sales managers have received. Answering yes to any of the following questions suggests that you need to step up the training of sales managers at your company. Why Sales Managers Don’t Get Properly Trained.

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Training Hiring How To Coaching 326

Closer's Coffee

JUNE 19, 2019

How to Choose the Right Sales Manager for Your Company. The sales manager is arguably the most critical person in the company. Hiring a leader for a sales organization is a decision that is more critical for a company. Many organizations “promote” their best seller to a sales management position.

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Hiring Sales Management Company How To 74

PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Let’s look at the elements that make up the sales velocity definition.

Lead Rank 52

Lead Rank Examples Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 52

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 6, 2020

Unfortunately, many organizations miss this opportunity: Brainshark’s State of Sales Kickoff Meetings survey found that 62% of companies do not deliver pre-work before sales kickoff meetings. This clearly illustrates the need for sales kickoffs to be viewed as an ongoing process, rather than a discrete point in time.

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Meeting Retention Sales Enablement Guidelines 177

Nutshell

MARCH 25, 2024

Regardless of your business type or industry, a well-thought-out and structured client onboarding process is the secret to long-term customer retention. They should also have the chance to ask questions and enlist your help to get them set up. DOWNLOAD Ready to become a better sales leader? Find out here.

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Positioning Customer Churn Face-to-face 127

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Author: Doug Bushée and Shayne Jackson Last March, sales leaders had to quickly shift from enabling in-person sellers to enabling virtual sellers. This shift to virtual selling required new technology, new skills and new ways of selling. Now, as we dive deeper into a new year, sales leaders are tackling another issue.

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Education Film Channels Cancellation 194

Miller Heiman Group

JULY 8, 2019

While that seems like good news, it’s a lagging indicator—and looking backward, rather than forward, won’t help sales leadership see their future. The 2018 Sales Talent Study found that two-thirds of sales organizations rely solely on lagging indicators. What does retention look like on your sales team?

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Revenue Hiring Sales Management Lead Rank 82

Sell Integrity

MARCH 18, 2021

Effective sales recruiting strategies start with a well-defined Sales Success Profile based on objective performance criteria. As a sales manager, it’s pretty frustrating when you spend a significant amount of time and energy coaching and developing someone only to discover in the end that, well, it’s not you, it’s them.

Lead Rank 118

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Strategy 118

Pointclear

MAY 1, 2013

Frank Donny is founder and CEO of Marseli , a marketing and sales analytics and performance software company. Frank''s remarkable 25-year career of driving marketing and sales operations divisions within Fortune 500 and start-up organizations is highlighted by his passion for business development and empowering others to succeed.

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Analytics Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Negotiation 216

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It seems that selling jobs, at all levels, are viewed as “temp” jobs. It’s an interesting phenomena, retention is not an “A” priority for most organizations. I seldom hear career pathing discussions from sales leadership. For a few, possibly sales management.

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Retention Engineering Coaching Face-to-face 113

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Now the economy is growing again and you are looking to hire more sales talent for your team. The bad news is your sales managers have maxed out their bandwidth with their current responsibilities and daily activities. This leaves you with a critical decision regarding how to ramp up the new sales hires.

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Outsourcing Services Hiring Training Harvest 117

Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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Hiring Retention B2C Demand Generation 95

Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In the highly competitive B2B tech space, it’s easy to market your offer with so many tools and channels available. In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. Or if you don’t wanna have a follow-up, you can let me know.

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How To Decision Maker Retention Referrals 86

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2023

And it was that motivation — paired with his empathy, intelligence, and creativity — that allowed him to play an instrumental role in building HubSpot’s sales department from the ground up as the company's first sales director and sixth employee. Always break down goals by revenue, new customers, and retention.

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Hubspot Ideal Customer Profile Scale Distribution 100

Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

We all know customer retention is more important than ever. Which is why it’s key to strengthen customer retention processes by automating them, keeping customers engaged, and detecting any signs of churn before they happen. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention. Educational sequences. Use Outreach?

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Churn Segment Retention Sales Automation 77

The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Considering the volatility that most companies faced throughout 2023, you’re probably pondering a lot of significant changes to the way you design, execute, and manage your sales comp programs over the course of the next year. Market data shows that the proportion of ARR earned from new business has decreased from 61.4%

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Compensation Incentives Incentive Commission 83

Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

DOWNLOAD Ready to become a better sales leader? Get 70+ expert strategies for sales management success in our Sales Manager’s Survival Guide. FREE DOWNLOAD Why is sales productivity important? In fact, technology is evolving at such a rapid pace that many sales teams struggle to keep up with the changes.

How To 71

How To Sales Qualified Lead CRM Face-to-face 71

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

VPs of Sales are asking the question “What have I done before?”. Market conditions 12 months ago were very different. VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. Sales training.

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Compensation Social Media Incentives Incentive 325

SBI

JUNE 3, 2014

Every two weeks, I interview an executive from a top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? It’s also based on a scientifically proven method of driving long-term retention we developed at Harvard Medical School. That’s Qstream.

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Up-Sell Revenue Closing Buying Cycle 57

Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

Good mentoring is one of the quickest ways to ramp up new employees. It’s true that most sales professionals improve with experience, but if you can provide feedback and personalized goals, it’s possible to accelerate the learning process and get your sellers engaging with prospects faster. What Are the Benefits of Sales Coaching?

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Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Analysis 130

BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Institutional knowledge holes arise as reps receive limited continuous training and coaching, especially when managers chase quotas rather than develop skills. Plus, the intricacies of scaling up a sales team to an enterprise-level size introduces entirely new categories of operational and management headaches unseen in smaller outfits.

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Scale Infusion Face-to-face Analysis 89

Allego

JULY 26, 2022

Now, sellers need up-to-the-minute, continual learning in the flow of work about your customers, market, and industry. Today’s Sales Teams Need a Learning Ecosystem. Sales teams need modern tools that deliver continuous learning, micro-learning, and learning in the flow of work. Sellers want to sell.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 2, 2020

With the average sales manager devoting just 9% of his or her time developing direct reports, there is a tendency for sales coaches to focus on training sellers on the ins and outs of the products or services they are selling. Even as professionals move up in an organization, managers are still getting coached.

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Lead Rank Account Based Marketing Customer Hiring 156

Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Embrace continuous learning and development to increase knowledge retention and empower your sales team in order to drive revenue and results. Providing ongoing training isn’t just crucial for performance but also for employee retention. So how can you promote ongoing learning for your sales team?

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How To Face-to-face Sales Enablement Retention 122

Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key. Every business needs to present what it’s selling as standing apart from the competition, but differentiating how you sell it is equally important. Learn by doing. Make it easy to understand.

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Training Scale How To Hiring 52

Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key. Every business needs to present what it’s selling as standing apart from the competition, but differentiating how you sell it is equally important. Learn by doing. Make it easy to understand.

Training 52

Training Scale How To Hiring 52

Highspot

JANUARY 2, 2023

Better customer retention? Where are our sales reps spending most of their time? How closely are we working with marketing on content creation? How can we enhance the sales content creation process to make everyone’s life a bit easier?”. Tackle and reduce ongoing sales challenges. More upsales?

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Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Buyer Persona Demographics 75

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 2, 2022

On the surface, it’s easy to see products as the center of your sales strategy. After all, products and services are the things you sell. Instead, even the best products need a sales strategy centered around the people who sell. Generally, happy products sell as much as unhappy products. They embody what they sell.

Strategy 117

Strategy Incentives Incentive Coaching 117

MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I received an email last week from Trevor Borrows who is a newly appointed National Sales Manager in charge of a team of Account Managers. Here’s what Trevor asked: “Hi Sean, being a new National Sales Manager I need to understand how to develop account strategies. – Sell to anyone.

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Account Retention Discount Consultative Selling 120

Mindtickle

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We recently teamed up with Heinz Marketing to create The New Sales Enablement Standard: How Today’s Sales Leaders Grow Revenue With a Sales Readiness Approach. In it, we look at how sales leaders can empower their teams to achieve revenue goals through customized readiness programs.

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Revenue Training Customer Quota 97

Gong.io

JULY 5, 2022

They represent the stages salespeople go through from lead to sale. Pipelines aren‘t a rough representation of the ideal customer journey, they are actual representations of the sales process, and there‘s no skipping stages (that‘s a sales manager no-no). Awareness is the very first step in the B2B sales funnel.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Examples B2B 133

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 3, 2017

But the ability to gather information from different places around the web gives B2B marketers a much fuller view of a company’s profile. Though 78 percent of B2B companies already invest in analytics, many sales managers encounter their fair share of hurdles in using the findings to the best of their abilities.

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B2C B2B Ideal Customer Profile Hiring 168

Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

Be sure to avoid diving in with a hard sell each time you communicate with your prospective customers. The hard sell strategy may just have the opposite effect, scaring them off before they’re ready to take the next step. DOWNLOAD Ready to become a better sales leader? Download it today and start heating up your cold leads!

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Lead Nurturing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 71