Steven Rosen

JUNE 5, 2023

How BOLD Sales Leaders Are Needed in a Changing Economy Welcome to the new era of sales leadership, where the winds of change are blowing stronger than ever. The post-COVID landscape has reshaped the business world, thrusting sales leaders into uncharted territory.

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criteria for success

JANUARY 17, 2019

How do you create a sales territory plan? If you are trying to help your team better plan their selling activity within their territories, use the Client Evolution Model. It’s not as hard as you think! appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 15, 2021

They own their business plan and must demonstrate that they have a strong understanding of their territory’s challenges and opportunities. My expectation is they come prepared with a plan of action to address the challenges and the opportunities in their territory/business. Focus Forward.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Your sellers may have separate territories, but they’ve got to work with others across the company.” Helen supports extending collaboration beyond the sales team, emphasizing its importance in engaging with other departments dedicated to growth, development, finance, and customer success. She states, “Selling is a team sport.

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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. Related: The New Growth Formula: Customer Success + Predictive Sales. Consider new territory rules that reflect changes in the market (and your business).

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Lead Rank Territories Lead Scoring Quota 97

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. Because of this, Todd isn’t extremely competent on relevant sales skills. But place him in an equal territory and watch him flounder.

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Territories Hiring Quota Sales Leadership 303

Steven Rosen

JULY 15, 2020

This is a call to action for all sales leaders! Focused Territory Plans. Most sales teams try to do too much. As the leader, you need to help your team identify and align on the 3 things that are going to have the most significant impact on sales. The next 6 months are purely about excellent execution. Not this year!

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The Pipeline

JUNE 5, 2013

Ever wonder why some companies can generate as much revenues with less sales people than others with more? I think it has to do with the hoarder mentality that permeates sales thinking. “The The more territory, the more accounts I get, the better I will do”. A lot less than you think you need to have on that head.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 4, 2021

By moving greater decision-making into the regions and territories, the ability of sales managers and sales reps to make strategic business decisions becomes even more important. With fewer reps calling on physicians, the allocation of sales calls and marketing resources must be rationalized.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. They say you can’t shrink your way to success, but perhaps there are situations in sales where you can. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

RELATED: 5 Signs Your Star Salesperson Will Make a Terrible Sales Manager. Their sales territory loses proper coverage since the rep is now focusing on the transition into management. The post Sales Leadership: 4 Keys to Successfully Promote a Rep to Sales Manager appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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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?” There are number of answers or solutions to this common challenge, the fact that it still persists speaks more to attitude and quality of leadership.

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criteria for success

JANUARY 26, 2022

Consider Modifying Territories. Many organizations seem to view sales territories as if they are carved in stone. But when necessary, territories can be adjusted to improve your sales budget. Look at how much you’re spending in each territory compared to the sales you’re getting. Listen Now.

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Hiring Territories Lead Rank Lead Scoring 103

SBI

MAY 10, 2018

OpsPanda considers the numerous variables that affect overall capacity/yield/coverage of the sales team such as tenure, ramp, attrition, and productivity levels, etc. Also understanding what to expect from sales reps and when enables meaningful manager/rep conversations about development and performance.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Hiring Territories 139

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

These bullets, by the way, are great indicators for Sales Management to step in when first known in order to take Reps out of this risk category. If an HR leader is on top of this, their proactivity in approaching Sales Leadership will be well received. Determine if the leaving Sales Rep is worth keeping.

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Sales Talent Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If companies with more women on their sales team generate more sales, why are there fewer women in sales? The main reason for the imbalance is the lack of women in sales leadership roles. Since men represent the majority of sales leaders, they tend to favor hiring sales reps, who are like them.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It has 850 million members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Sales Leadership Newsletter by Steven Rosen , Sales Leadership Coach, STAR Results. Sales leadership insights for smart and hungry sales leaders looking to achieve growth in the new post-Covid world.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

You blame your lack of success on your territory and how you would be more successful if you had a better territory. Blog Cold-Calling Consultative Selling leadership Professional Selling Skills Sales Motivation Sales Training sales leadership sales motivation'

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 11, 2014

Sales Team Turnover. Sales leaders spend a fair amount of time and effort reviewing issues related to the cost of sale. The issues can vary from travel policies and territory designs to compensation structures and bonuses. An issue that is receiving increased attention is the cost of turnover.

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Sales Leadership Compensation Report Pivotal 110

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Within your sphere of influence, you can deliver results for sales leadership. Don’t do a territory redesign project without knowing exactly who you’re targeting. Revising the comp plan without aligning it to a defined sales strategy won’t work. Stay focused on those situations you can control.

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

By taking the time to do a SWOT analysis, you can objectively look at your territory/region. Have you/your salespeople identified their Key Success Factors ? What I have observed with most salespeople is that they try to do too much. The goal of the SWOT analysis is to identify the two or three things that you need to do to be successful.

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Consumer Analysis Territories Account 374

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In the end I think it comes down to a lack of conviction on the part of sales leadership. While they always talk about quality over quantity, when it comes to hiring, they seem to favour quantity over quality, preferring to have a body in a territory vs. the patience to wait for the right body.

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Hiring Wireless Sports Territories 254

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2020

But here’s the rub: sales organizations are not all the same. They have differing metrics for success, compensation models (including incentives and bonuses), go-to-market strategies, territories and target markets, different types of customers, products and services, and on and on. Sales Takes the Lead.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Scale Compensation 284

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 16, 2012

A similar scenario faced hundreds of sales leadership executives. I reviewed the 2012 Sales Performance Management Report, published by the Aberdeen Group and gleened some interesting statistics. 21% want a better sales hiring process. 16% want to achieve more balanced territories. 15% want to reduce turnover.

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Hiring Territories Compensation Forecasting 188

Lessonly

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Last year we talked with 18 sales enablement training gurus about the most essential skills for salespeople to succeed, and they came up with fifteen. Develop your territory. Lessonly is powerfully simple sales enablement software that helps teams ramp new reps fast and keep global sales orgs aligned and growing (and closing) together.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 2, 2012

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. By using percentage to quota they give smaller less developed territories a distinct advantage in rising to the top.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 2, 2012

Sales Leadership: Gaining Insight and Accountability. Most sales leaders have a lot of confidence-which is good, but many have never experienced what many CEO’s have, that is an insights and help from other CEO’s. Also many organizations never gain real insights from their customers or even help from their customers.

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Sales Leadership Account Face-to-face Groups 67

Xactly

JANUARY 17, 2019

Sales planning starts with executive and senior leadership working with sales to set goals and define where your organization wants to end up in the next year. With goals in hand, sales leadership must then assess and determine the needs and means to achieve those goals. Territory design. Coverage model.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 21, 2013

Second, is a territory that flourished under the rep in question, now sits vacant while the “new manager is replaced”, risking customer satisfaction and retention. You hear about leaders in the dressing room, there is room for leaders in the sales room. Sales managemment Sales Process Sales Success Tibor Shanto'

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sports Promotion 317

Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

Optimize Your Sales Plan. Your sales plan identifies how the sales team will reach the company’s goals. It identifies your capacity needs, quota allocations, and sales territory design. Optimized territories then ensure reps have the opportunities they need to reach quota.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 8, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Communication , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Interactive Selling , Proactive , Proactivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , Sell Better , Shorter sales cycle , execution. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Tool.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

What it also highlights is that savvy buyers will usually put more stock in the company they deal with than the person parked in the territory at the time of the deal. Sales Process Sales Success Tibor Shanto' What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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Crunchbase

MAY 18, 2023

Today it can take RevOps teams weeks to analyze results, build scoring models and distribute accounts or territories based on both firmographic and proprietary data (i.e. Previously, Ahlering held multiple positions in sales leadership at ACTIVE Network where she helped grow the company to more than $500 million in revenue and achieve an IPO.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In instances where this happens, it is sometimes worse that no help at all; what happens if the current sales leaders went through the same pattern of evolution, they just perpetuate the model; and the model is one of cloning. Hire someone who can lead a sales process, who can lead people to execute, the how is secondary.

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Hiring Lead Rank Sales Management Lead Scoring 296

Allego

OCTOBER 12, 2021

He approaches each organization with a combination of strategic, personalized sales consulting, custom training programs and modern learning to develop and activate big ideas into tangible results that produce revenue faster. How’s your sales and marketing organization going to be designed? How do you set territories up?

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Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics Google Territories 118

The Pipeline

JUNE 12, 2014

I asked what expectations are set either in terms of activities, pipeline coverage, or territory contact/coverage/penetration. This would seem OK if they were blowing their numbers away, but that’s not why I was there. Apparently, they don’t like to exceed quota either. Tibor Shanto . sell better Tibor Shanto'

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Penetration Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Coaching 267

A Sales Guy

MAY 7, 2013

You have a sales team evaluation process for identifying talent and coaching yet your sales managers don’t have a clue what the strengths and weaknesses of their team are. You’ve implemented Chatter, while your sales team has been using and continues to use Yammer. How do you know the new territories are working?

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Top of Funnel Sales Leadership Territories B2B 128