Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan An interesting article, Secrets to Developing Successful Sales Managers , by Xactly's CEO, Christopher Cabrera, was posted on Selling Power's 2/19/13 blog. I suggest that you read it first, returning to this article for the analysis. So, what are the correct competencies?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A post for Sales and HR Leaders to find root causes of Sales Manager (SM) vacancies. The Sales Manager position is the fulcrum between sales leadership strategy and sales force execution. Teams without effective sales managers lack morale and discipline. Weak sales strategy.

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Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

As you lean back in your chair, proud of your team’s sales accomplishments the prior year, It’s the beginning of a new year, you are looking at a map of the United States hanging on the wall of your office.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 2, 2018

The job of a sales manager is to provide a succeeding environment for salespeople. Beyond that, it’s providing viable territories and targets, proper support levels, tools for training and enablement, demand generation leadership, and the removal of internal roadblocks. But he was not able to provide me with a viable territory.

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Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. How comfortable are you with data analysis? Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. With this in mind, sales leaders need unique sales manager interview questions.

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Barry Trailer from Sales Mastery Advisors highlights a goldmine of opportunity: diving deep into repeat and referral sales. Believe it or not, expanding within your existing customer base can yield better returns than braving new territories. 18:23] Slow progress in implementing artificial intelligence for sales. [20:08]

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Off the Cuff Instant Interview Question: “What are some tips for doing practical market, territory and account planning?”. While those of us in sales are usually viewed as not the best of planners, my experience is that we welcome practical, streamlined planning that helps win business. Download a free trial now.

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. The problem facing sales managers is finding the time and expertise to do this in a meaningful and productive way. After-sale support.

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. The problem facing sales managers is finding the time and expertise to do this in a meaningful and productive way. After-sale support.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The Sales Manager’s job is to provide an environment within which their sales people can succeed. Then viable territories and targets, the right levels of support, training and enablement tools, demand generation leadership, and remove internal roadblocks. What more could you possibly ask for?

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Sales Management Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Territories 86

Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2022

Standardizing your data formatting makes this analysis significantly easier. director” and misspellings such as “dirrector,” your analysis could be way off. Two prospects who have the same job responsibilities might fill out the form differently, where one enters “Sales Manager” and another uses “Manager, Sales.”

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

As a sales rep, it’s important to understand how upper management views quota setting. Understanding their perspective will go a long way towards your analysis and case. Top-Down Quota Setting: Metrics that mean the most to Upper Management and Owners. These include Territory Vacancy Rate and Talent Level (sales rep).

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

She also highlights the role of executives and managers in fostering collaboration and the potential costs of not prioritizing teamwork. She explores the challenges of building effective collaboration within sales teams. She emphasizes the need for teamwork in selling and highlights the critical role of trust in B2B sales.

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CommercialTribe

JUNE 23, 2020

With June nearly over and the initial shock of the COVID-19 crisis behind us, sales management teams are focusing on building a plan to come out stronger on the other side. We recommend three main areas of focus for sales leaders: WHO they focus sales manager coaching effort against.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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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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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Resource allocation is critical to success for sales. You might have the best propeller-heads available performing segmentation analysis. The word has come down - sales costs need to remain flat next year. Data analysis and propeller-heads won’t deliver revenue. The sales team on the street delivers the revenue.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 3, 2018

Author: Tim Houlihan Dispensing with sales manager myths. What’s your sales manager mythology? In a recent conversation with a sales vice president, he noted that leadership is not about being engaged, it’s about the willingness to take risks. He was talking about his sales managers. What you can do.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Here’s why: the sales quota is a key variable in many of the equations that dictate core business functions. These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2016

The responsibilities of a sales manager are very broad. Frontline managers have to work to make sure each person on the team is performing at the highest levels possible. At the same time, there’s the “business management” aspect of the job: Are we going to make our numbers? Mistakes New Managers Make.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Over 42% of all Sales Managers don’t make their yearly number. A VP of Sales first thought is to terminate those Sales Managers. Who needs a Sales Manager if they can’t make their number?”. You need to ask yourself: How are you measuring your sales managers? Are you thinking the same?

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

While your planning incentives, consider bringing in sales managers and top reps to review the plan and get their feedback from the perspective of the sales team. Optimize Your Sales Plan. Your sales plan identifies how the sales team will reach the company’s goals.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

but when we actually did the analysis, the average deal was in the $350-500K range. Each of these organizations had reasonably performing sales people. As a result, sales people spent all their time finding and pursuing those, and were completely missing the large deals. The client changed territory assignments.

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Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation Account 91

Apptivo

MARCH 9, 2023

Omar Periu said- “Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits on a daily basis.” However, at times no matter how long one stretches, sales tasks eat up a lot of productive hours. 3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more! Bye-bye manual tasks, hello sales automation!

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

Typically the focus is on blocking and tackling: basic execution of a compensation plan, sales dashboards, sales crediting, and territory/customer assignments. What separates most organizations from those that are “World-Class” is the existence of bold insights that drive sales strategy. Develop Knowledge of the Buyer.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 11, 2019

Enter, the sales operations manager. Sales operations exists to help the team use technology effectively, implement training exercises, align sales and marketing, set territories, evaluate compensation plans, and more. Sales Operations Analyst Job Description. Director of Sales Operations Job Description.

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

At this time of year I would introduce get my sales team to start building plans for a strong start in the upcoming year. Far too many companies will spend the first quarter answering questions to senior management as to why sales aren’t coming in rather than focusing executing on their business plans.

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Pipeliner

JULY 14, 2023

But your sales optimism tells you that there’s plenty of time left before the ball drops on 2023. Take the time to build a practical, action-focused framework for your territory for H2. Time to accelerate. Time to close strong. Time to hit your numbers. Yes, there’s still time. Your prioritized track to run on.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

That’s why it’s critical to overcome indecision and move quickly when recruiting sales talent. In this article, we’re going to help you do just that by showing you 5 ways you can overcome analysis paralysis and get the right talent where and when it’s needed. Examine what factors are causing open territories in the first place.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 24, 2022

For example, if you’re doing a sales forecast for next month, you’re asking (and answering): “How much revenue can we expect to see from future sales?”. Sales forecasts are not guesses, however. Sales managers use forecasts for territory planning as well. Who is responsible for sales forecasting? .

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InsightSquared

MAY 3, 2019

Even if you have the in-house expertise and work with a business intelligence team to diagnose your forecast, getting your hands on that analysis in the moment, on demand, is hard. For a sales manager, director or head of sales, it’s difficult to understand what is happening to their forecast in real-time.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. To have a sales strategy you can execute, it must follow a structured path. Phase 4 - Sales Infrastructure - Create optimal performance conditions.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 11, 2011

High-Performance Sales Management. Building a strategic and effective sales management system is just like building anything else: It takes time, refinement and follow-through. Sales concepts get recycled, too. Sales managers must direct and mobilize their teams to achieve desired results.

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HeavyHitter Sales

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Win-Loss Analysis Studies All companies and their salespeople are well versed on the logical arguments for selecting their product. Unfortunately many companies don’t perform any type of win-loss analysis so they don't understand their customers in these regards.

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