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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

Bottom-Up Quota Setting: Validating quota from a Sales Rep & Sales Management perspective. Territory Potential: Growth rates for newer territories will rapidly outpace more mature markets. Territory potential can vary widely based on demographic trends and Ideal Customer Profile saturation.

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

Hubspot Sales

This tool allows sales managers to analyze the email productivity of their reps. Anaplan provides several cloud-based planning tools for sales: territory and quota planning, incentive compensation planning, sales forecasting, configure price quote optimization, and trade promotion planning. EmailAnalytics.

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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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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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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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“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.”