Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We have all sorts of pipeline metrics, activity metrics, prospecting metrics, account, territory, retention, renewal, mix, margin, and endless other metrics. 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). Both have $10M pipelines.

Churn 110

Churn Marketing Qualified Lead Territories Pipeline 110

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

When the plan is in alignment with execution, your territories remain optimized and sellers are focused on the best opportunities. When RevOps teams set automated rules of engagement for common GTM activities, like lead routing or holdouts, everything automatically stays in sync when territory or account changes occur.

Hiring 83

Hiring Policies Territories Commission 83

Mereo

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From win rates and deal sizes to market size and average churn, a number of KPIs, metrics and assumptions can give you insight into your risks and opportunities in meeting your revenue plan and achieving sustainable performance. Headcount Turnover Are you appropriately covering your market territory? We’ll show you how.

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Revenue Ideal Customer Profile Churn Territories 41

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 2, 2019

Highlights include a contracting tech stack, increased emphasis on customer experience , and renewed focus on preventing churn. When paired with a target account list or territory, Intent Data shows organizations who is most ready to buy – and who they should reach out to now.

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Data Intent Data Intent Customer 196

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Before we look at the data, it’s important to understand what exactly sales reps expect on the job and what will keep them from having a negative outlook and a desire to churn. According to Forrester, the costs of unwanted voluntary turnover hide themselves in the form of uncovered sales territories and lost sales productivity.

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Retention Sales Coaching Coaching Scale 98

The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This article will show you how the right commission plan execution can retain your employees, reduce customer churn and increase trust between internal teams. . But remember that while the execs are driven by revenue and low customer churn, your sales reps are driven by their incentive compensation plans. What’s the cut-off date?

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Commission Compensation Churn Incentives 75

Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

But, just as the first wave of agricultural society gave way to the second wave of industrial society, so too Learning Paths transitioned to more situational, Territory Plan-based learning and enablement. The Second Wave: Territory Plans. Then you can identify the “land and expanders” you need to help grow existing accounts.

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Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Territories Top of Funnel 52

Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mobile-ready A mobile-friendly delivery of content and training for reps to complete as they commute across their territories. Ensure this platform supports offline browsing so that reps can access training and content even in remote areas or while commuting across their territory.

Pharmaceuticals 52

Pharmaceuticals Training Collateral Face-to-face 52

Salesmate

JULY 9, 2020

Maybe they’re targeting potential customers in the wrong industry or trying to sell in a territory that is a captive market for another brand. Customer Churn. Churn rate is a particularly useful metric for businesses who take recurring payments at regular intervals, such as those that use a subscription model.

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Pipeline Sales Qualified Lead Churn Lead Rank 121

InsightSquared

MAY 7, 2019

Customer churn or retention rates. Are certain types of customers, or certain geographies and sales territories meeting or beating the benchmark, or underperforming? The average sales cycle can be extended because the data includes new hires and new territories as well as established sales resources.

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Sales Cycle Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 102

SBI Growth

JUNE 26, 2013

Sales VP churn isn’t getting any better. Territory Design / Structure Process. “Right now, yeah, I want to stay.” replies Dave. “OK, OK, then, you need a plan when they bring the new guy in. What''s the plan?” The question was greeted with the barely audible hum of static on the line. The fear of the unknown is worse than the known.

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Hiring Lead Rank Compensation Guidelines 319

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The idiots at that company just churn and burn people!". When new territories and quotas are assigned, other pastures look temptingly green. Also known as Gen-Y , they have different career aspirations than their older counterparts. They change jobs after just 2-3 years. Nearly tanked my career.

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Sales Talent Conversion Survey Salary 300

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 6, 2015

So for 120 months, at the very best, there has been someone “productive” in the territory for 49 months! Over the space of 10 years in this territory, they are losing millions of dollars in direct opportunity, and untold millions from the customers telling everyone else about their experiences with this vendor.

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Churn Hiring Territories Ideal Customer Profile 48

The Bridge Group

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But if you churn 5 reps in the year, that becomes 15. Option 3: Reduce the quit rate There are entire books and mountains of posts written on this topic but excluding company culture, compensation plans, inbound leads, territory splits and 50 factors that could influence your attrition rate, I'll focus on one.

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Hiring Lead Rank Promotion Churn 49

The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As we start planning for 2023, the only thing we’re certain of is that we’re in rocky territory– some organizations more precariously positioned than others. Companies with high churn aren’t sustainable.”. They should cover things like account ownership, territories, SLA’s, and who gets credit for opportunities.

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Groups Conversion Commission Lead Rank 67

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 1, 2021

Or we churn our people, firing people that aren’t hitting their targets, replacing them with someone else. Too often, we hire them, take them through some level of training, then say, “Here’s your territory/accounts, here’s your quota, go off and conquer.”

Hiring 81

Hiring Churn System Coaching 81

Gong.io

JULY 27, 2022

Territory plans. Identify churn signals and growth & upsell opportunities. For instance, clients that indicate some discontent may be a risk for churn , and this is a great opportunity for success reps to jump in before the question gets asked. Expansion opportunities. focused on goal alignment).

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Examples How To Churn Lead Rank 62

A Sales Guy

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

A key metric in SaaS is churn. The key, keep churn as low as possible. But, with that said, some churn is better than others. Whatever the reason, they are at risk to churn. When this group starts to shrink and churn starts to increase, you have a problem. This is not fertile selling territory.

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Maximizer Revenue Churn Customer 114

SalesLoft

MARCH 20, 2020

We all know that expansion revenue and low churn are paramount for businesses to thrive and grow at scale. This is uncharted territory for us all. For now, I’ll be spending 100% of my business effort on helping and supporting my current clients and the greater community. And that means you, perhaps. Here’s why. So, be kind.

Scale 131

Scale Gatekeeper Churn Quota 131

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Track your recurring revenue, upgrades, downgrades, and churn. This feature is designed to predict which sales leads are more likely to convert, churn risk, lifetime value, delayed payment, and more trends and patterns that managers can use to inform decisions. Competitors, sales goals and territory management. Sales playbooks.

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Enterprise Enterprise CRM NetSuite 84

Emissary

APRIL 20, 2023

Add in increased employee churn (both on the sell side and the buy side), and the buying process is a thorny labyrinth these days. Only then can they piece together a reasonable perspective on markets, territories, and accounts. Regardless of economic factors, B2B buying has been getting more complex for years.

Hiring 52

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Banking Territories 52

The Brooks Group

JUNE 3, 2020

Interestingly, in fact, history tells us that this type of recession-driven churn can actually be beneficial for companies. More with Less: In some cases, your company may have pulled back as well – and may need sales professionals to take on a larger territory or a more varied role.

Hiring 52

Hiring Face-to-face Territories Churn 52

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 25, 2018

How Fast Are Salespeople Churning in 2018? Why are salespeople churning at such alarming rates? Lack of promotion might also be a reason reps churn quickly. Key behaviors : Developing a territory plan including a comprehensive list of prospective customers. Why Are Reps Actually Leaving? Job satisfaction is low.

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Hiring Churn Survey Promotion 111

Chorus.ai

APRIL 11, 2022

In addition to strategic alignment, the people charged with RevOps are often responsible for budgets, territory management, campaign management, and lead generation. Where do customer success teams stand with renewal rates and churn? For example, does sales have the pipeline it needs to deliver on revenue goals for the quarter?

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Cost per Acquisition Revenue Cost per Lead Lead Rank 117

Mereo

APRIL 2, 2020

With this in place, uniting your leadership and teams, go-to-market activities become more streamlined and successful, pursuing new territory or different markets becomes achievable. With too many salespeople assigned to a territory, you set your team up for missed individual quotas and an inundated market.

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Sales Operations Revenue Territories Compensation 45

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Customers don’t stop buying just because you might have an open position or open territory. Now layer on top of this sales person churn. They just buy from your competition. Customer don’t buy from sales people that aren’t competent, so the wrong person, has is actually costing you business.

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Hiring Retention Salary Churn 79

Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 15, 2020

You solve the problem of incremental growth , which requires net new revenue after making up any churn in clients. A sales leader’s second most crucial difficulty is the same as the salesperson’s first, opportunity creation to ensure they reach their goals.

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Hiring Lead Rank eBook Churn 113

Xactly

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In many cases, companies miss targets for execution or managerial reasons —like when the sales team underperforms due to insufficient training, or a top account churns unexpectedly due to customer satisfaction issues. Your team needs to be able to set and customize hiring profiles across territories to identify the resources you need.

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Data Hiring Enterprise Enterprise 82

Sales Training Connection

MARCH 14, 2012

What happens when a sales territory is left uncovered for several months? How will the customer’s perception change as there is sales rep “churn” in serving the account? How fair is the sales goal setting process and does it take into account territorial differences? Compensation package.

Hiring 117

Hiring Territories Compensation Churn 117

Crunchbase

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

How often do we start analyzing sales and end up in the wrong financial or market territory? This should give you a pretty good overview but also fresh ideas for changes that would make your workplace or job more efficient. Forecasting starts with one line of data at a time. Data is great, but it is too easy to drown in a pool of KPIs.

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Data Forecasting Ideal Customer Profile ACT 98

Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 16, 2020

You solve the problem of incremental growth , which requires net new revenue after making up any churn in clients. A sales leader’s second most crucial difficulty is the same as the salesperson’s first, opportunity creation to ensure they reach their goals.

Hiring 102

Hiring Lead Rank eBook Churn 102

Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

By the end of a successful persona build, you should have a very clear picture of your ideal customer(s): their ages, lifestyle attributes, territories, and pain points. Churn rate target: Are you keeping your churn rate at or below 1%? Step 4: Collate your info and define your buyer personas.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Strategy Buyer Persona 113

Partners in Excellence

JULY 18, 2019

The sales person’s territory is open for 3 months. Buyers are still buying, we may have someone trying to cover the territory, but they were already fully occupied in their own territories. [So On average, it takes 3 months to find, interview, and recruit someone. It takes longer for managerial jobs.

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Hiring Territories Buying Cycle Sales 76

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 17, 2017

In the long-term, gift-giving can increase customer retention , improve ROI, reduce churn, and boost brand reputation. Corporate Gift Giving Best Practices Whether you’re in charge of choosing the company gift or just looking for a way to thank your team, corporate gift giving is tricky territory. What’s appropriate? Is this weird?

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Guidelines Policies Handbook Government 130

Smooth Sale

JANUARY 3, 2020

Not every cross-selling opportunity churns profit. Developing rapport with new clients includes: Mapping the territories. Instead, devise a process to analyze opportunities. A study from D. Shah and V. Kumar, Georgia University , concludes that 20% of cross-selling clients are unprofitable. Understanding the market.

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Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Lead Rank 88

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Sales Territories and Distribution Channels Definition of sales territories and distribution channels. Churn Rate: Percentage of customers lost over a given period. Sales Forecast Prediction of sales performance over a specific period. Revenue projections, taking into account market conditions and other relevant factors.

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing 52

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Sales Territories and Distribution Channels Definition of sales territories and distribution channels. Churn Rate: Percentage of customers lost over a given period. Sales Forecast Prediction of sales performance over a specific period. Revenue projections, taking into account market conditions and other relevant factors.

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing 52