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Beware of The Player-Coach

Engage Selling

A huge mistake growing businesses make is assigning an individual as a “player-coach.” ” That is, assigning a role that is both coaching and managing a team while also having their own territory or clients that they manage on their own. Why … Read More »

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The Pros and Cons of BDRs in B2B Sales and Marketing

Janek Performance Group

Managing a BDR team entails additional overhead in supervision, coaching, and performance evaluation. This includes lead handoff criteria, territory ownership, and commission structures, which can undermine collaboration and cohesion. In general, they note: 75% of BDR organizations have grown or maintained their size.

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7 Ways To Reduce The Potential Cost Of Losing A Salesperson

MTD Sales Training

The overall cost of advertising, screening, hiring, training and coaching a new salesperson can run into many thousands of pounds. If your competitors get wind of a territory not being covered by your company, it’s likely they will use that opportunity to put more effort into covering your existing customers.

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Introducing “The Customer Loyalty Ladder”

Jonathan Farrington

This leads me to conclude that 80% of sales coaching, training, mentoring etc. This is what I refer to as “only me” territory, and is much more safe (if we can ever be totally safe) than residing mid-ladder in “me too” land. cannot coach their teams effectively. is also focused there.

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Onboarding Sales Talent The Right Way: The Sales Manager’s Perspective

Janek Performance Group

In addition to regular training sessions, coaching, and job shadowing, you should teach every salesperson how to leverage technology and use it as a tool to keep track of data and accelerate the sales process. 5) Develop realistic goals Assess their sales territory and lay out the best course of action for each district or demographic.

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Evaluating Your Business Development Strategy

Janek Performance Group

This can reveal areas that need improvement and suggest potential remedies, like sales training and coaching. A high retention rate signifies customer satisfaction and loyalty. Analyze trends over time and segment data by customer or territories. The value of a customer is not only the amount an account brings in.

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Time to competency: the new essential metric in sales onboarding

BrainShark

Using a more holistic or arbitrary metric such as time to competency naturally compensates for variables across organizations such as territory, products, and customer base (enterprise vs. mid-market,etc.). That’s where everboarding or continuing learning and coaching comes in.

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