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New Study: 2020 Trends in Sales Management

Miller Heiman Group

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. But it’s not too late to transform. Driving Technology Adoption.

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How Realistic is your 2014 Sales Quota?

SBI Growth

Download our Quota Validation Guide for Sales to see which metrics align to realistic quotas. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. The review presents findings from SBI’s market research in 2013. These include Territory Vacancy Rate and Talent Level (sales rep).

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Doing The Whole Job

Partners in Excellence

Our jobs, as sales people and managers, are complex and multifaceted. As sales people, if we don’t prospect, our pipelines empty. If we don’t invest time in territory or account planning, we aren’t optimizing our prospecting. To simplify it, we tend to divide what we do into a lot of different pieces.

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The Sales Jigsaw Puzzle

Partners in Excellence

Ongoing prospecting, finding/qualifying deals, moving them through the buying/selling process, building healthy funnels/pipelines, forecasting, account/territory planning, call planning, creating value for our customers, developing competitive strategies, and on and on. We engage with customers in meetings/calls.

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5 Considerations When Deploying a Sales Engagement Platform

SalesLoft

Originally designed to help sales development functions manage high call and email volumes, companies in this segment can now deliver sizable productivity gains to entire revenue teams… — Laura Ramos and Mary Shea, Forrester Research, Now Tech: Sales Enablement Automation Q2 2020 , May 2020.

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If We Fixed Sales Execution, Would We Fix Sales?

Partners in Excellence

Imagine we’ve solved all the problems of sales execution. Sales people know how to prospect and find the right opportunities. They know how to qualify, they know how to move the customer efficiently through their buying cycles, they know how to create value in the buying process. But there’s a problem.

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“All Sales Problems Are Pipeline Problems….”

Partners in Excellence

Let me unpack the issues–at least my experience: The funnel or pipeline is where we first start seeing systemic sales performance issues. We generally look at pipeline coverage and sales management mythology is “everything is great if we have 3 times coverage.”