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2018 Sales Operations Predictions

InsightSquared

In the six or seven years I’ve worked in sales operations, every year seems to have brought bigger and bigger changes, and I have no doubt that 2018 will be no different. I took some time to hear from fellow sales operators about the biggest new trends and predictions for 2018 — here’s what they had to say.

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Sales Operations Is the Missing Link in Creating a World-Class Coverage Plan

SBI Growth

Sales operation needs to be in lock-step with your sales leader on your coverage plan exercise? Many sales operations leaders are stuck in tactical and daily activities. How can you elevate your sales operations team to think strategically? Sales operations.

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How to perfect sales operations: part 6 of Predictable Revenue’s outbound sales learnings from 2018

Predictable Revenue

We'll discuss how the obsession with perfecting the Marketing Qualified Lead and the inside sales model has led to CQL(Conversation Qualified Leads), and to Drift using bots instead of traditional SDR's. We'll also cover the three main principles for governing day to day sales operations and Zendesk's sales stages!

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Measuring Success in Sales Operations

InsightSquared

Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. In sales operations, we do a lot. A sales team typically has a quota so their success is easily measurable, but how do you measure your success? This also has a deadline of Q1 2018. Report Requests: Tie Into Sales Metrics.

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Help your sales team succeed in 2018: Hire sales ops

InsightSquared

To alleviate some of the pressure of the new year, Lemkin offered a list of ideas you can implement to help your sales team succeed in 2018. Hire dedicated sales ops. Lemkin argues, “ Many of you will have little to no dedicated help in sales operations. His first tip? Getting routing the right leads?

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New Study: Finding the Growth Potential for Sales Operations and Technology

Miller Heiman Group

In “ Finding an Extra Gear: The 2 nd Annual CSO Insights Sales Operations and Technology Study ,” researchers from Miller Heiman Group lay out the sales operations best practices that companies need to pursue to grow this critical sales function. The Broad and Diverse Focus of Sales Operations.

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Exploring the Sales Operations and Systems Track at Rainmaker 2018

SalesLoft

We’ve been highlighting some of the breakout session tracks at Rainmaker and already previewed both the Sales Leadership and Strategy track and the Sales Mastery and Methodology track. Today we’ll look deeper at the Sales Operations and Systems track. Eeny Meeny Miney Mo: So Much Sales Tech, How Do You Choose?