The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But this overly dramatized theme is rooted in a real-world truth: a sales leaderboard is an incredibly effective motivator. You’ll learn why in today’s blog post, as we explore the underlying psychology of sales motivation that makes the sales leaderboard a successful sales management tactic.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

You can then brief your sales reps on their own performance goals, which are there to help your company as a whole meet the wider goals of your new sales strategy. The kinds of metrics that can serve as performance targets include: Cold calling rate: How many cold calls are your reps executing per week?

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. The Status Quo and Do Nothing are more megalithic than ever with budgets slashed on razor thin margins. Let me make my case.

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Jonathan Farrington

JUNE 10, 2012

Lack of Direction : Far too frequently, competent salespeople are expected to channel their own activities into the areas that will produce the quickest wins. The details of what goes wrong differs for each individual salesperson but the net result is always the same, a discouraged sales force, diminished sales efficiency (i.e.

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Crunchbase

MAY 5, 2022

For example, let’s say you’ve reached the end of Q3, and you ask your sales manager to provide forecasts for the upcoming quarter. Based purely on the anecdotal evidence of this model, the company predicts that it’ll experience an increased sales volume of 10 percent. So, how will it work in practice? Lead-driven forecasting.

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Close.io

MAY 20, 2019

And the customizable leaderboard helps sales reps stay focused on activities that generate results. Whether you’re a sales manager trying to get the most out of your team or a rep gunning for the top spot, you need to understand which sales KPIs and metrics to track, why they matter to your company, and how you’re going to use them.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 21, 2023

Business Development Representative (BDR) A Business Development Representative (BDR) is a sales professional responsible for prospecting, qualifying, and generating new business opportunities for a company. It involves the sale of products, services, or information directly to end-users or customers for their personal use or consumption.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Management and Operations. Sales Manager Survival Guide. The Ultimate Sales Machine. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Sales Management. They never return your calls. It’s time to stop making endless cold calls or waiting for the phone to ring. Smart Calling.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The prospect initiates the contact, and that could be as simple as submitting their email for a free ebook, and then later an inbound sales person might email or call them. We’ll spend the rest of the article describing those situations to you to point you to the strategy that will be the best growth channel for your business.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It depends on the size of the company: In one study, it was found that more than 70% of companies with a sales force of over 50 people had a dedicated sales enablement person. However, only 39% of companies with less than 25 sales reps had one. But as a busy sales manager, you hardly want to add more tasks to your plate.

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Close.io

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Once you’ve identified the sales metrics you want to monitor, you need to uncover where this data currently resides. This could be your sales CRM , an Excel doc, Google Sheets, customer service software, or some other sales management tool. Create a quick list of all your sales metrics and their source to work off of.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

They had this position called international management trainee. What it really was, was cold call sales in the Philadelphia office. I will never forget the managing director, who was Swedish. He sat down and he goes, “AJ, you know nothing about sales.” It seemed like a really cool culture.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Understanding how various decisions impact the company’s margin (e.g. Melissa Murillo is an award-winning and highly skilled sales leader with over a decade of experience in marketing and business development specializing in the IT channel. She has a passion for mentoring women and helping them find their love of sales.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

Just reading Jonathan Farrington's statistic that, 'the average quota attainment in B2B sales is below 60%,' prompts me to lay out a blueprint on how to fix it. Build out a YouTube channel of customer testimonials. There's never been more data on your customers readily available in social channels. Don't you be the one.

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