Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 7, 2014

Sales Planning: Sales Leadership and Sales Execution. At this time of year all the planning, budgets and compensation plans are done or should be. This plan is used to ensure the salesperson and sales management can accurately begin to predict. Acumen Management Group Ltd. Like a sample? 3f4qb8v9ge.

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Forecasting Quota Compensation System 73

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The Key to Powerful Sales Conversations. SALES MANAGEMENT. The Monumental Effort Required to Grow Sales in 2014. SALES LEADERSHIP. Opinion - Why Sales Win Rates Have Reached an All-Time Low - this article led to quite a discussion on some of the other sites where it was republished.

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Decision Maker Compensation Consultative Selling Call-back 204

SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

However, we frequently see Sales VPs still stuck in the sales manager mindset. An ill-prepared sales manager damages his region. A Sales VP focused on the wrong things can ruin the entire company. They cross collaborate with manager peers, their reps, and the VP. He helps the new reps ramp up quickly.

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Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation 334

SBI Growth

AUGUST 4, 2013

Converting to Agile Performance Reviews will help you Make the Number in 2014. Unfortunately, none of these apply to a modern sales organization. Meanwhile, Agile is spreading everywhere in Sales - to onboarding , sales management, and sales training. Sales contests and bonuses. Author: John Kenney.

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Territories Lead Rank Lead Scoring Demand Generation 282

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 20, 2014

Two of the results pointed to an article of mine from earlier in 2014 that answered the question, " How Many Sales Candidates are Worthy of Being Hired? ". Companies that use OMG for sales selection enjoy incredible consistencies, reduce their turnover, improve their on boarding time, and significantly increase their success rate.

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Hiring Real Estate Incentives Incentive 240

SBI Growth

AUGUST 31, 2013

This post lists some attributes of high-performance sales cultures. A Culture Creation tool is available by signing up for the SBI Making the 2014 Number tour. It lists 11 traits of high performance sales cultures. Sales Turnover - A Symptom of a Low Performing Sales Culture. Revised sales territories.

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Hiring Transportation Follow-up Lead Rank 310

Sales Training Connection

JULY 11, 2014

What are the implications for how we train , manage and coach , and compensate salespeople? If you found this post helpful, you might want to join the conversation and subscribe to the Sales Training Connection. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Motivation Compensation Study Coaching 103

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

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 18, 2015

Check out Richard’s advice for sales leadership: “Sales managers have a tendency not to focus on their top performers. There are many reasons: Top sales performers don’t demand as much from their sales managers, and sales managers believe their superstars can handle whatever on their own.

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Hiring Scale Cold Calling Compensation 120

Sales Training Connection

JUNE 9, 2014

Developing sales talent. Sales managers, like many other managers, have a tendency not to focus on their top performers. Yet when we ask those same sales managers, “What’s your reaction when you find out that one of your superstars is moving on?” How can you minimize this happening on your sales team?

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Sales Talent Hiring Sales Leadership Compensation 112

SBI

MAY 6, 2014

Announcing the Top 40 Sales Tools of 2014 - a multi-media guide that brings you up to speed on the best tools to increase sale productivity. See which tools we chose for: Contract Management and eSigning. Performance and Compensation. Pipeline Management & Deal Flow. Sales & Marketing Content.

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Sales Tools Tools Revenue InsideSales 57

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. More attention to sales training and development is a great first step.

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Sales Leadership Compensation Report Pivotal 110

SBI

MAY 6, 2014

Announcing the Top 40 Sales Tools of 2014 - a multi-media guide that brings you up to speed on the best tools to increase sale productivity. See which tools we chose for: Contract Management and eSigning. Performance and Compensation. Pipeline Management & Deal Flow. Sales & Marketing Content.

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Sales Tools Tools Revenue InsideSales 50

Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

This tool allows sales managers to analyze the email productivity of their reps. Anaplan provides several cloud-based planning tools for sales: territory and quota planning, incentive compensation planning, sales forecasting, configure price quote optimization, and trade promotion planning. EmailAnalytics.

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Tools Closing Territories Hubspot 113

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Hiring, Onboarding, and Compensation. Developing a list of criteria and attributes for sales managers to screen for when interviewing candidates is essential to recruiting and retaining top talent. With an IPO in 2014, HubSpot is now valued at over $6.5 Hire the right people according to repeatable evaluation criteria.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Hiring Hubspot 118

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They’ll all be participating in this year’s Dreamforce 2014 event at the Mosconi Center in San Francisco. Sales managers love ClearSlide for the insight it offers into their team’s activities, and sales people love the automatic activity logging. That’s me with Sassy. Bloomfire ToolSkool. CallidusCloud.

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Vendor Twitter InsideView InsideSales 139

Sales Training Connection

MAY 12, 2014

Senior sales leadership spends a great deal of time thinking about how to improve sales productivity. They invest in sales training . They change compensation systems and territorial designs. Although this idea will probably lead to more over all sales people, each group is spending time on what they do best.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Funnel Inside Sales 112

Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Second, if one went looking for that same level of research in regard to compensation frameworks, CRM systems, or needs assessments the same lack of data would be the outcome – that is sales has some good company. Business Case for Sales Training. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Training Quota Study Report 108

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Sales Effectiveness/Sales Efficiency. Incentives/Compensation. This is my prognostication, these will be the critical issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2016. Those were the issues I saw a year ago, talking about the key issues for 2014. Analytics/Big Data. Gamification. Social Selling/Social Media.

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Fashion Face-to-face Analytics Social Media 89

Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This post lists some attributes of high-performance sales cultures. A Culture Creation tool is available by signing up for the SBI Making the 2014 Number tour. It lists 11 traits of high performance sales cultures. Dani, the VP of North America Sales, is frustrated. Modified the sales compensation and quotas.

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Training Hiring Transportation Territories 53

Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

The most startling revelation however comes from the statistic that just under 2 out of 3 sales Compensation/Commission plans did not motivate people not to discount. B2B Sales Insights Delivered Straight To Your Inbox We don''t send out canned marketing emails every day or week asking you to buy something.

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Company Revelation Survey Report 46

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Winning By Design Blueprint Series offers helpful insights for how to run a successful SaaS modern sales organization. Reps were hired, trained and compensated to perform as an individual to hit a quota. The Sales Development Rep is responsible for making initial contact with potential clients through email and phone calls.

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Hiring Lead Rank Scale How To 52

Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

We went public in 2014. Joined IBM as a sales rep, and then it was a sales manager, sales executive. Ended up running global database sales, global big data and analytics sales. Had about a 12-year career at IBM and it really was my formal schooling, if you will, on sales and sales management.

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SalesForce Video Call-back LinkedIn 78

SBI

APRIL 28, 2014

We enable organizations to accelerate and maximize their lead to money process by identifying the right leads, ensuring proper territory and quota distribution, enabling sales forces, automating quote and proposal generation, and streamlining sales compensation. Nancy can be reached at 916-596-3035.

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Up-Sell Closing Lead Generation Revenue 54

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28]. AJ Bruno: QuotaPath is a dead simple sales compensation tool for sales teams, for ops, for finance, anyone that’s ever struggled with comp plans, struggled with the ins and outs, explaining it, what if I close these deals, we built a tool for you. Total dog s**t.

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Call-back Scale Compensation Ideal Customer Profile 74