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20 Sales Planning Tools to Boost Sales Productivity and Close More Deals

Hubspot Sales

But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. In reality, sales professionals and managers need to have access to the best available sales planning tools to help them boost sales productivity and close more and bigger deals.

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Doing The Whole Job

Partners in Excellence

For example, as sales people, we may look at territory or account management, prospecting, managing opportunities through the buying cycle, call planning/meeting management, pipeline management/forecasting, administrative functions, time management, training/learning and so forth. Many avoid prospecting.

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“All Sales Problems Are Pipeline Problems….”

Partners in Excellence

“All sales problems are pipeline problems, and all pipeline problems are prospecting problems…… ” I was having a conversation with a really smart person. They don’t even look at refining the initial engagement approach in prospecting, they just demand more.

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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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Will These 6 Tests Save 2013’s Sales Compensation Plan?

SBI Growth

Also, you’ll get many tools including a list of Sales Effectiveness Drivers to test your plan against. Culture at another firm required Sales Reps to do their own prospecting and sales. Most sales were incremental or competitive displacement when prospects were in an active buying cycle. Call to Action.

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Why Are You Trying To Kill Me?

The Pipeline

You know I have never read an article or a post that was written by an advocate of cold calling, suggesting that social selling is bad, ridiculing people who use the practice to engage with prospects, suggest that it is inadequate, or about to die. These are people who of their own volition initiated a buying cycle.

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Size Matters: Digging in to Employee Counts and Social Media Discrepancies

DiscoverOrg Sales

It is a crucial data point for many common sales and marketing activities: segmentation, lead routing, outbound outreach, territory planning, and more. Size is also important because companies of certain sizes need certain tools. The larger the company, the larger the budget (usually). But a company with 300 certainly does.