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How One Entrepreneur Leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to Build His Business

Sales Gravy

Then between 2013 and 2015, I moved into more of a pure sales role where I was cold calling. Jeb: On Entrepreneurial Journeys I remember when I first started Sales Gravy 13 years ago, we were in the middle of the Great Recession and I had to make a pivot in my career. Our training was basically watching a guy do it for two days.

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The Criticality of SPM Technology

OpenSymmetry

While, incentive compensation administration is still a main piece, the broader SPM technology concept is expanding more holistically to include other key aspects which directly impacts how a sales team might perform, including talent development, sales enablement, and territory and quota management. The answer is simple.

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Growth Is a Team Sport: Why You Should Be Team Selling Today

Hubspot Sales

people in 2015, to 6.8 Once you’re answered that pivotal question, these steps will help get your started: Align activities with incentives — Make sure everyone has skin in the game and by skin in the game I mean pay everyone involved when their efforts lead to net new revenue. people in 2017.

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Sales managers – a new pathway to leadership

Sales Training Connection

Would-be leaders must learn to pivot – it is more about doing something different rather than just the same thing better. There are powerful incentives and protocols pushing everyone to do what they do well. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC. Being stuck in outdated mindsets or ways of doing things will not lead to success.

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How to write a monthly sales report to improve sales performance

PandaDoc

Sharing ways to improve or pivot your current business strategy makes for a great conversation starter. It also serves as an incentive to continue doing business with you. Originally published April 1, 2015, updated August 22, 2019. Free eBook. 8 mistakes that stop your team from closing the sale. Download now.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. And at that time, our business was growing, and then 2015 we closed our Series C funding of about 23 million.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

What do you think the key inflection points, the key changes, the pivotal moments over the course of that journey were? So the inflection point was 2014, 2015… 2014, we did 750,000 and S in ARR. And then 2015, we did 4.7 In 2015, we did 12 and a half, and then 25 million. That’s the other side of it.