Xactly

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In today’s post, I’ll talk about territory planning. Territory planning represents the foundation of sales performance management (SPM). You must have the right territory design in place to accurately allocate quotas. Is Your Territory Planning Still Stuck in the Dark Ages? Download Guide. The result?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 29, 2020

You’ve moved from being an individual contributor to managing a team. How do you transition from being a great sales person into being a great sales manager. The job of sales manager is different. As manager, it’s not your responsibility to manage the deals, to make the numbers.

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Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to make sure your team has everything they need to succeed. The answer is resource management skills—a crucial but often overlooked skill in the sales manager’s toolkit. Table of Contents What is resource management for sales?

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Xactly

AUGUST 2, 2018

The sales territory is a geographical area that is managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by sales potential, history, geography, or a combination of the above. The objective is to make sure sales territories are balanced to help increase revenues. .

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

Mostly, if managers are coaching performance at all, it’s tactically oriented; how do we win this deal, how do we fill the pipeline, what are you doing in this next call… ? We have to have a plan, with our people, to grow them and maximize their performance. What is your “territory plan” for your team?

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The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 28, 2021

In conjunction, the 2020 Media Sales Report found that nearly 1 out of every 3 (31%) of salespeople spend 20-25% of their time in discovery meetings. Sales managers try various things to hit their targets: hiring more reps, reassigning territories, changing compensation plans… and more.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 12, 2018

You’ve just been awarded a sales territory by your sales leadership team. Now it’s up to you to properly nurture and grow that area to drive sales.

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Xactly

JULY 18, 2018

In order to manage your sales performance, you need effective sales territory mapping. Sales territory design must be a thoughtful process that involves data and a balancing act to ensure every sales rep has adequate sales potential within their territory. Download Guide.

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Xactly

JUNE 13, 2018

Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning. Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. Ultimately, if your sales territories aren’t optimized, you hinder sales reps’ motivation and performance.

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Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Start your sales planning efforts with account segmentation to fill your territories with fruitful opportunities and increase your sellers’ ability to hit quotas. Consider leveraging predictive analytics to further identify buying patterns and buyer propensity to further maximize your sellers’ efforts. Territory profiles .

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Xactly

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sure, you know you need ICM to handle accurate and timely payments, but do you really need automated sales territory planning as well? Although automating technology for territory design can increase your sales up to 20 percent, territory planning is often categorized as a luxury in SPM—instead of as the necessity it is.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 20, 2022

First, congratulations, your first job as a sales manager is a huge step forward in your career. Now, don’t screw it up—you’ll get a lot of managers who will immediately congratulate you, shake your hand, smile then say, “What have you done for me lately?”. Before I go on, let’s backtrack a little bit.

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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. In order to maximize performace at the 100m, athletes train and diet – you will find that some do it through drugs, but that is like lying to the customer. New Concepts Driving Greater Performance .

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2014

As with the prior articles, I get huge numbers of requests from sales manager to help Hack their jobs. “What are the short cuts?” ” “How do I manage my time better?” Having said that, here’s a few of my favorite hacks to sales management. I’ll stop here.

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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. ” If sales management and selling were that easy… The problem is, these are false choices.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2014

I’m not sure anyone looks forward to the Sales Management Review (sometimes these are called QBR’s, but there are other reviews). It’s unfortunate, because there’s a huge amount of value in the review process–both for sales people and managers. No value to the sales person.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Changes in territories or assignments notwithstanding, reps who have been in their territories for longer than a year would welcome the chance to compete against themselves. For an outside sales rep, it might be three months. The (BIG) bad news about a minimum qualifier is that it may exclude certain territories or reps.

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Let’s explore the key success factors for manufacturers to maximize sales through indirect channels. While indirect channel partners purchase your product from you, they are not your product’s end-user, a distinction some manufacturers struggle to understand in relationship management. Clearly Define Your Channels.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We observed this troubling phenomenon while conducting research for our book Cracking the Sales Management Code. Without a common understanding of the term " sales process ," sales managers can’t coach or communicate with their sellers as effectively. Account Management. Territory Management.

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CommercialTribe

JUNE 23, 2020

With June nearly over and the initial shock of the COVID-19 crisis behind us, sales management teams are focusing on building a plan to come out stronger on the other side. We recommend three main areas of focus for sales leaders: WHO they focus sales manager coaching effort against.

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Allego

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In this episode, sales strategists Ken and Nick Valla, co-founders of The Valla Group, discuss how their firm helps B2B sellers maximize performance. Learn why organizations must transform their training approach in a hybrid work environment , what sales leaders should do differently, and the key skills sellers need today.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 15, 2021

There are all sorts of things for us to think about: We can give them more responsibility and bigger territories. We need to retain and develop these top performers, creating jobs where they are challenged and maximize their contribution. Over the years, we developed as sales people. Others could remain individual contributors.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2020

What maximizes the success of a Global Account Manager in hunting in her account will be different from that which is most effective for territory managers. How a SDR applies the selling process in their role will be slightly different from the work of a product specialist, and different from an account manager.

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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. How much time are they spending, with their people, meeting with customers?

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2020

Our jobs, as sales people and managers, are complex and multifaceted. Managers often avoid coaching and development because it may involve difficult conversations with their people. The problem is, we have to do the whole job if we are to be successful, maximizing our performance and contribution to our organizations.

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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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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2016

The responsibilities of a sales manager are very broad. Frontline managers have to work to make sure each person on the team is performing at the highest levels possible. At the same time, there’s the “business management” aspect of the job: Are we going to make our numbers? Mistakes New Managers Make.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2016

Unless you are a sales manager with your own territory (which is an untenable position), you don’t produce revenue. It’s an important point that too many in sales management don’t understand. The only way to make your numbers is through maximizing the performance of each person on your team.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I read an article about the key productivity metrics managers are tracking. According to the survey of over 1000 sales managers, the five most popular metrics were: CRM utilization, Calls made, Emails sent, Conversations, Use of sales tools. Have you developed and are you executing plan to maximize our share of account?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Ongoing prospecting, finding/qualifying deals, moving them through the buying/selling process, building healthy funnels/pipelines, forecasting, account/territory planning, call planning, creating value for our customers, developing competitive strategies, and on and on. We engage with customers in meetings/calls.

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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.

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Pipeliner

JULY 14, 2023

Your 2023 H1 dream takes you back to January and that SWOT analysis you conducted on your territory – that dreary process that assesses those four well-known categories: Strengths : The internal characteristics, providing you with a clear advantage. Take the time to build a practical, action-focused framework for your territory for H2.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

As a result, sales people spent all their time finding and pursuing those, and were completely missing the large deals. It turned out, the structure and the territory assignments of the sales people in these organizations, was a problem. Each sales person, had about 1000 customers in their territories.

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