Openview

DECEMBER 19, 2018

January is the month we, as sales reps, start anew. The beginning of the year is typically a time where you either get a new territory or simply start from scratch with your current one. How do you best take action on your territory plan? Make sure your territory plan has action items that are time sensitive.

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Territories How To Intent Guarantee 89

Xactly

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

One of the best things you can do to positively impact your company’s mission is to get your sales and finance leaders in a room together. In the webinar, “ CXO Fireside Chat: 5 Ways Data Can Elevate Sales Performance Management in 2019 ,” the two execs provided a behind-the-scenes look at how they’ve led Xactly to success.

Webinar Metrics 80

Webinar Metrics Compensation Incentives Incentive 80

SBI

AUGUST 27, 2019

It’s 2019, Still Segmenting and Planning in Excel? When things click, we find our growth spurt and focus on the repeatability of the sales process. The interesting thing is, these companies have grown, the fledgling sales team has grown, and so has the supporting ops team. The sales team operates in CRM.

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Segment Ideal Customer Profile Account Demographics 94

Xactly

JANUARY 3, 2019

Sales statistics are a variety of metrics that provide insight into your sales organization’s health. Industry and planning-specific statistics also help guide sales planning and incentive compensation. We did some research and compiled some valuable sales stats that are important for all salespeople to be aware of.

Handbook 99

Handbook Territories Compensation Incentives 99

SBI Growth

AUGUST 29, 2018

It’s December 25th, 2018. You are sitting around the Christmas tree with your wife, two kids and black lab—Duffers. You hear the crackle of the fireplace as another log gets added to the fire. The kids are smiling from ear.

Territories 184

Territories Compensation Revenue Industry 184

Xactly

JANUARY 7, 2019

The start of a new year comes with a new sales plan—and that means you must reassess your sales capacity needs , align and balance sales territories , and create a sales incentive plan that drives sales performance. Enter sales compensation planning. The Importance of Sales Compensation Planning.

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Compensation Incentives Incentive Commission 90

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 19, 2019

A creative sales team name can help unite your team, foster collaboration, and help individuals learn, grow, and reach personal and team goals. For sales managers, a positive and productive team dynamic is crucial to your team's success. Creative Sales Team Names. Benefits of Sales Team Names. Sales Team Name Examples.

Promotion 93

Promotion Territories Hubspot Sports 93

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

The sales operations professional is like the coxswain for salespeople. Patrick Kelly, who led Xerox’s first Sales Operations group, describes the role as “all the nasty number things that you don’t want to do but need to do to make a great sales force.”. Download Our Free Sales Conversion Rate Calculator and Guide.

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Sales Operations Hiring Lead Rank Territories 95

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 24, 2019

Compensation is an important factor in attracting and retaining employees, especially in sales. Imagine if almost half of your sales team left the company because of a poorly designed compensation plan. Luckily, I've compiled some resources for you to determine the best sales commission structure for your sales team or yourself.

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Commission Salary Compensation Territories 122

SBI

JANUARY 31, 2020

TechTarget Priority Engine Email Alerts Help Sales Teams Take Immediate Action on the Best Opportunities in Their Territory. Priority Engine Email Alerts provide reps with quicker and easier access to this powerful intelligence and is the latest in a series of releases aimed at vastly increasing sales productivity and effectiveness.

Engineering 74

Engineering Territories Opportunity Intent 74

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The Data-Driven Sales Manager. The average tenure of a sales VP these days is just 19 months, according to Xactly CEO Chris Cabrera, who expects that number to drop lower as businesses become increasingly data reliant. Here’s how he sees data changing sales management. Use data to show sales reps their commissions in real time.

Sales Enablement 85

Sales Enablement Data Hiring Decision Maker 85

InsightSquared

MAY 7, 2019

Sales is the Growth Engine. Sales is the engine driving SaaS company value. Top and bottom line performance are totally dependent on the sales organization and its performance. And sales expense is typically the largest expense item on a growth SaaS company’s income statement. Typical SaaS Sales Metrics.

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Sales Cycle Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 102

SBI Growth

AUGUST 3, 2018

Your sales organization has just missed plan for a third straight month. It is approaching the end of September. And based on current performance, your organization will narrowly miss its year-end revenue targets. You hope it’s only a narrow miss.

Compensation 159

Compensation Revenue Sales Territories 159

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The remote sales force and customer service team is officially here. Sales and customer service teams are not immune to these larger trends. Benefits of Remote Sales and Customer Service Teams. The breakout growth of remote sales and customer service roles is happening for a multitude of reasons. Coordination.

Customer Service 64

Customer Service Lead Rank Lead Scoring Guidelines 64

The Pipeline

JANUARY 8, 2019

The best sales calls have clear elements of “performance,” mostly as a means of facilitating conversation and information exchange. Unfortunately, and I can mostly speak from a sales perspective, many confuse the need to elevate the experience by introducing some theatre, with overloading to the whole thing with drama.

Face-to-face 223

Face-to-face ACT Quota Territories 223

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

“Hello 2019, we’ll be right with you!”. Most of my clients have been in non-stop planning meetings since mid-August and earlier. Long days of adjusting and readjusting budgets and expectations. New tools make the process easier, however the resource allocation decisions.

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Revenue Resources Meeting Tools 228

Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Need to improve your sales team’s results? That’s the advice from a recent Harvard Business Review article that concluded, women are the future of B2B sales. If you are skeptical, ask yourself this: Which do you think is more likely to have a positive impact on your sales results next year — more women on your sales team or less?

Hiring 118

Hiring Travel Promotion Sales Leadership 118

SBI

MAY 29, 2019

High-Velocity Field Sales with Multi-Objective Route Optimization. Managing a field sales team that visits customers at appropriate intervals, doesn’t cost too much, and actually meets revenue and customer satisfaction goals, is a high art! And when it comes to measuring field sales success, using antiquated KPIs and SLAs, forget it.

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Field Sales Objections Transportation Face-to-face 72

Miller Heiman Group

JULY 21, 2020

But the need for sales organizations to change is nothing new; it’s just more urgent now. Define a Sales Methodology. A sales methodology is a framework that explains how your sellers should approach each phase of the sales process. Tools to effectively evaluate sales opportunities, situations and challenges.

Lead Rank 100

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Sales Methodology 100

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Sales has others. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Reporting structure/org charts (Sales loves).

Ideal Customer Profile 202

Ideal Customer Profile Data Scale Marketing 202

SalesforLife

JANUARY 14, 2019

There are endless “priorities” for the year, but only a few can highly influence sales objectives, and ultimately change your business outcomes. I see sales leaders spend time with compensation plans, territory models, new technology integrations, etc. You just got the troops back into the office for another big year.

Territories 64

Territories Compensation Influencer Objections 64

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In 2019, conferences and tradeshows represented a significant percentage of our lead generation outcomes. Still, virtual events were unchartered territory. We predict that people will be hesitant to travel like they did in 2019, at least until vaccinations have reached a certain penetration of the global population.

Webinar Metrics 177

Webinar Metrics Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cancellation 177

Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Sales organizations face a paradox: although many continue to increase hiring, attrition is on the rise, according to our 2018-2019 Sales Performance Report , creating a major pain point. Poor hiring practices prove costly to sales organizations in many ways. How Sales Organizations Can Improve Hiring Decisions.

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Hiring Sales Management SAP Sales Talent 97

Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years. I have the worse territory in the country.”

Sales Management 82

Sales Management Hiring Territories Coaching 82

SalesforLife

JULY 28, 2019

Honestly, it’s crazy to think that in 2019 and going into the 2020s, some companies aren’t thinking holistically as a selling unit about how to target key accounts , geographic territories, or verticals. This round table should include a representative of every sales function that touches the customer: The top of funnel with SDRs.

Pipeline 93

Pipeline Case Study Top of Funnel Territories 93

Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

According to CSO Insights’ 2018-2019 Sales Performance Study , only 54 percent of salespeople are making or exceeding quota. With organizations generally targeting a 70 percent quota attainment goal, this represents a major challenge to sales effectiveness. Quotas are a vital part of the annual sales plan.

Strategy 71

Strategy Territories Quota Proposal 71

Repsly

AUGUST 14, 2019

Store visits are an extremely important part of any team’s retail execution strategy. They provide an opportunity to collect important data insights about performance on the shelf, strengthen relationships with key retailers, and interact with potential buyers directly at the point of purchase.

Retail 95

Retail Buyer Data Strategy 95

Allego

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

According to a 2019 J.D. This impact crosses corporate functions, but is especially concerning for sales teams. Every sales organization has its top performers—the standout sellers who beat their quotas month after month, quarter after quarter, year after year. Preserving Institutional Knowledge. Preparing for a New Era.

Harvest 118

Harvest Hiring Scale Face-to-face 118

SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. To say that sales managers have their work cut out for them would be a massive understatement. This is where great sales managers come in.

Sales Management 136

Sales Management Scale Top of Funnel Hiring 136

Pipeliner

MAY 9, 2020

Many people are curious about what the future of sales will look like with the addition of artificial intelligence (AI), and other AI-based tools. Some people fear that it will be an absolute armageddon and the end of all sales careers. On average, only about 53% of salespeople met their quota in 2019.

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Trends SalesForce Territories Influencer 90

Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In the past few years, three waves of change have rocked the sales industry: Sellers often play a smaller role in the buying cycle, as buyers wait later in the sales cycle to engage them. Sales organizations undergo constant change initiatives. Overloaded sales managers often struggle to find time for coaching.

Trends 65

Trends Study Hiring Sales Management 65

Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

Motivating your sales reps is one of the key factors of sales success. In most sales organizations, the sales commission plan is the best way to do this. Your sales commission plan is a portion of your sales compensation plan. Data is the most important and useful tool for any part of a strategic sales plan.

Commission 81

Commission Incentives Incentive Compensation 81

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Working in the sales performance domain is coming up with answers to the question: How well is everyone in your organization able to build, sell, and price customer value. I use the term buyer enablement (walking the customer through their journey, a value-centric take on sales) domain. Good Sales Culture.

Hiring 67

Hiring Discount Forecasting Compensation 67

Allego

MARCH 6, 2019

Sales coaching is a hot topic these days. Everyone wants to coach–and do it well–but Allego’s “State of Coaching 2019” survey uncovered a major disconnect between how sales managers and reps view the quality and impact sales coaching. I wanted to get to the next level of my evolution as a sales professional.

Coaching 54

Coaching Webinar Metrics Territories Survey 54

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They’re researching business products and services online, purchasing via websites as much as they can, and foregoing interactions with sales representatives whenever possible. Of course, the shift to digital sales tactics has been underway for years. What sales investments should you focus on in 2022? Sales engagement.

Top of Funnel 89

Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Forecasting 89

Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Your organization’s future depends on the quality and performance of your sales talent. Buyers agree with this dismal appraisal of sales talent: less than a quarter of buyers see sellers as an important resource to help them solve their business problems. The Sales Talent Problems that Cost You Most. Register for the Webinar.

Hiring 50

Hiring Webinar Metrics Sales Talent Ideal Customer Profile 50

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2018

Inside vs. Outside Sales. Inside sales reps often sell remotely, from an office base, while outside sales reps travel, brokering face-to-face deals. 47% of all salespeople work in inside sales, with 53% representing outside sales. Outside or inside sales? are inside sales professionals. Out of the 5.7

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Outside Sales Hiring Face-to-face Inside Sales 126