Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been involved in a number of conversations with colleagues and sales execs. Inevitably, we touch on the sad state of affairs on sales talent. The data on churn (voluntary and involuntary) is horrible! We need to break out of this thinking that churn is unavoidable!

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In the early days, you’ve got time to coach, and you obsess over it. Sales leaders live to onboard their first hires. Discovery is one of your favorite things to coach - and - “the most important part of the process!” But why does coaching on discovery calls work so well? See How Your Team Stacks Up.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Sales ramp-up time can be costly, considering how much training and coaching is required to get new reps up to speed. Map your sales coaching strategy to your top business priorities. Sales coaching plays a huge role in how well-equipped sales reps are to hit their targets.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Here’s how you can set SMART sales objectives: Specific. The first part of SMART goal setting is to set a specific sales goal. Simply saying that you want to “capture more market share” or “reduce your churn rate” won’t cut it. While these are important sales KPIs, you’ll have to be more specific to create a SMART goal.

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2023

By setting clear and aligned goals, sales reps have a target to strive for and their activities remain closely tied to corporate objectives. Custom sales manager reports can provide valuable insights into the team’s progress toward sales goals. Enabling reps is also all about proper coaching. Measuring progress.

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Nutshell

MAY 16, 2019

Do you dream of leaving your sales associate desk behind and stepping up to a sales management position? The arrangements may vary from company to company, but in general, most sales professionals would jump at the chance to assume a leadership role. Are you Sure You Want to Become a Sales Manager?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It’s well known that sales coaching can improve revenue growth — by a whopping 16.7%. . Imagine what could happen if you baked coaching into your day-to-day, creating a coaching culture that steadily improves performance and profits. . Read on to learn: What is a coaching culture. Coaching culture emphasizes .

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Increase Sales

MAY 4, 2017

With the turnover (churn) of salespeople as well as those in sales management, there appears to be some miss steps happening. Top Misstep #1 – Ignoring the Wisdom of Existing Sales Team. Sales managers fail to ask the rest of the sales team as to what type of salesperson is needed.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 18, 2024

First off, what is sales analytics? According to Gartner , sales analytics is “used in identifying, modeling, understanding and predicting sales trends and outcomes while aiding sales management in understanding where salespeople can improve.” Sales planning In the world of sales, planning is key.

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 23, 2017

Sales Tips: Reducing Churn with SaaS Renewals. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 11, 2018

The words combative and hyper-competitive often describe athletic coaches. “Rutgers coach Mike Rice’s fiery style has been on public display before.” ” Mike Rice was the University’s basketball coach until 2013, when ESPN aired footage of his abusive conduct at a team practice. It’s your choice.”.

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ExecVision

DECEMBER 4, 2019

How, by providing the basis for coaching them into sales heroes. Why Would You Use Lead Qualification as the Basis for Sales Coaching? Many other data sources could provide insights to coach salespeople too, after all, right? So, let me show you how to use the lead qualification to coach salespeople better.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

From sales activity prioritization to enhanced lead-scoring capabilities, machine learning can significantly impact sales effectiveness and efficiency. . Conversation intelligence helps sales managers identify the techniques, word tracks, and tactics that separate high performers from the rest. Sales forecasting .

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I was an inexperienced sales coach who got promoted young and used “being too busy” as an excuse. Here’s how I fixed it, and how to coach your team to incredible success even when you’re crazy busy. What Terrible Sales Coaches Do & How to Fix It. At the time, I didn’t notice that I wasn’t a great sales coach.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The idiots at that company just churn and burn people!". This post offers solutions to Sales and HR leaders who ask this question: “How do we respond to demographic trends and retain top sales talent?” Included in this post is the Millennial Coaching Planner. The challenge for sales is unique. But it isn’t.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Identify Opportunities You can uncover hidden gems by monitoring your sales performance metrics. Also, understanding churn rates can help pinpoint areas where customer retention efforts need improvement. Analyzing sales forecasts and sales performance data can pave the way for fresh revenue streams.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However, seeing some common, real-life examples of sales goals can be a great way to get the ideas flowing. Here are a few sales goals examples. An example of a sales quota achievement goal is: “80% of sellers in the Northeast region will achieve 80% of their sales quota in Q3.”

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 18, 2021

Find the right way to break a few sales call rules, and you can fast-track your company to a hefty market advantage. We can already see your carefully-honed management sensibilities bristling. Sales managers tend to train sales reps to avoid mentioning pricing on an initial approach call !

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We have an entire alphabet soup of metrics, including MQL, SQL, ARR, ACV, TCV, NPS, MRR, LTV, CAC, Churn, and XYZ (OK, I made that up—I think). So the best course of action is to coach her in developing the 2.5X That was an easy, obvious answer–but it usually is with great sales people. She only needs a 2.5X

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Gong.io

AUGUST 23, 2021

Question 2: What’s the best way for sales managers to coach using call recordings? Most people think that coaching with call recordings goes like this: 1. Play the calls with reps during coaching sessions. The sales coaching software does the heavy lifting for you. Reps can self-coach!

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I read an interesting article in the Guardian last Friday about how young Dutch footballer’s skills are perfected by their coach. This got me thinking about the best sales people I’ve come across over the years and the best sales teams. In terms of the top performing sales managers…. Managing Director.

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Gong.io

MARCH 11, 2021

Gong Gives Genesys Sales Managers The Ability to “Ride Shotgun” With Any Deal. Shopify Creates a Learning Environment for Their Sales Team. Our platform helps CS teams: Streamline customer interactions, including better handoffs from sales to CS as well as cross-team collaboration. Reason #2: Reduce Churn.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

All focus was on maximizing growth, and frontline sales managers were most worried about what to do if their reps were regularly exceeding quota. It’s altered so much of the context surrounding sales, from the kinds of companies able to buy to the language that wins deals. What Are Sales Best Practices?

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

That’s all it takes for a sales rep to jump ship and take their skills elsewhere. This article will show you how the right commission plan execution can retain your employees, reduce customer churn and increase trust between internal teams. . Individual reps, team leads, sales managers, everyone? That’s pretty incredible.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The Bigtincan Hub Sales Enablement Automation Platform redefines sales, marketing, and service processes by meeting the demands of the mobile worker and automatically providing the best and most relevant content right to their feed to ultimately “learn faster, sell smarter, and win more.”. How many customer advocates do you have?

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BrainShark

MAY 31, 2023

That’s where everboarding or continuing learning and coaching comes in. In most cases, effectively measuring a more holistic metric like time to competency and scaling your onboarding process requires sales enablement tools. You can also speak to one of our experts about your sales training challenges and how to overcome them.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 18, 2012

The objective is building a strategy that both maximizes the value we create, our differentiation, our ability to win, and compresses the sales cycle. Managers should be biasing their time toward coaching deals in these parts of the sales cycle, yet in most cases, they spend their time where they can have the least impact.

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We have already discussed in our last post how managing a large sales team creates hurdles at tracking performance, analyzing sales data, providing personalized coaching, etc. By implementing AI-powered analytics and assistive technology, sales leaders can easily monitor team performance. Take Atrium for example.

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Mindtickle

MAY 25, 2021

Sales readiness and enablement are now an essential part of the sales ecosystem, influencing selling skills before, during and after buyer interactions to accelerate win rates and optimize the sales cycle as a whole. Coach the coach” based on data that shows the greatest areas of need.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 18, 2021

Mention Pricing on Cold Calls Talk About the Competition Prepare for the Discount Talk Master the Sales Call Monologue Bring in Your Customer Success Specialists Early Forecast Using Data, Not Instincts Find the right way to break a few sales call rules, and you can fast-track your company to a hefty market advantage.

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Allego

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Instead of a rolling twelve- or eighteen-month plan, organizations must launch new products , implement pricing changes, or introduce new messaging in weeks and get thousands of people up to speed to capitalize on that window and avoid churn or dissatisfaction. Companies Must Embrace Deficit Learning.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2022

We look at Lifetime Customer Value of long term customers as being far greater and more profitable than those who churn. Customer and revenue churn, Customer engagement/NPS scores, Months to recover CAC, our ability to generate marketing traffic/leads and to attract new customers. Sales Person Churn?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 9, 2015

Are you coaching your sales team, or leaving them to fend for themselves? “ You need to understand that I’m not just another number on your sales team. If you’re leading an underperforming sales team, your reps might not be speaking up, but I guarantee they’re thinking these thoughts. That’s not coaching.

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SBI

MAY 12, 2020

However, if you do focus just on the sellers, you need to focus on the fundamentals: Enable sales managers to be tremendous coaches. Train them on critical sales skills. Bigtincan goes far further, by also focusing upon content personalization, training, coaching, and much more. Buyers pay the price.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s when the CEO has a vision that is tangible, proven, and clearly understood by customer success, marketing, and sales. [12:39] 12:39] I would describe churn as the devil. [14:16] His primary focus is human effectiveness in sales, management, leadership, and personal and professional transformation.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 131

Gong.io

MARCH 15, 2022

As Alex Ball, VP of Mid-Market & Velocity Sales and Genesys said, “Gong is a ground point for where a rep thinks a deal is and where it actually is.”. Sales leaders used to say AI/ML would “never work” for coaching. Coaching is impossible to quantify. This machine learning can be used to forecast: .

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Tracking those types of metrics in sales performance dashboards gives you data-driven insights regarding: How your team is performing. How to pivot, strategize, and coach. Read: A Sales Coach’s Tactical Guide on Setting the Right Goals for Sales Reps. Metrics to measure in a sales manager dashboard.

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