Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In the HubSpot Blog's recent survey of over 500 sales professionals, we tried to see what sales leaders hope to achieve when training reps and the top sales coaching tactics they use to get there — and our survey produced some interesting insight on both fronts. Sales Leaders' Primary Coaching Goals.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Survey 116

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

Retention 98

Retention Sales Coaching Coaching Scale 98

Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. Gamifier makes sales performance fun.

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Tools Closing Territories Hubspot 111

Steven Rosen

MAY 31, 2021

Hiring Sales Stars . Whether you are starting a new sales force or hiring a new rep to fill a vacancy, the four principles of the STAR Process will help you select top sales performers. Without a clear process, your sales managers will each adopt their own approach and ultimately achieve sub-optimal results. R – Rigors.

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Hiring Territories Energy Sales 386

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

In B2B sales and marketing, companies employ various strategies to drive growth and expand their client base. Here, we’ll explore the role of BDRs, the pros and cons, and best practices to utilize them effectively: The Role of BDRs Typically, BDR is an entry-level position in larger, more complex sales organizations.

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Outsourcing Services B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 118

Sell Integrity

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Effective sales coaching yields results, and sales leaders intuitively seem to understand this. You don’t have to look far to find another article or blog post talking about the importance of coaching in the workplace. Forecasts, spreadsheets, CRM reports and territory reviews always seem to dominate their calendars.

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Coaching Sales Coaching Survey Motivation 88

Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

CEOs, do you want to unlock the secret to sky-high sales? Barry Trailer from Sales Mastery Advisors highlights a goldmine of opportunity: diving deep into repeat and referral sales. Believe it or not, expanding within your existing customer base can yield better returns than braving new territories. Want to dive deeper?

GoldMine 84

GoldMine Survey Territories Ideal Customer Profile 84

Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

Mostly, if managers are coaching performance at all, it’s tactically oriented; how do we win this deal, how do we fill the pipeline, what are you doing in this next call… ? It would be unacceptable for them not to have territory plans, maximizing the growth within their territories. So think about it.

Territories 163

Territories Maximizer Compensation Account 163

The Pipeline

JANUARY 25, 2022

The driving question being how do I take a territory from a 20% margin base, to 25%? There are several ways to slice this, but it needs to be surfaced in coaching and quota discussions more often. A focus on margins requires a different sales culture. Too many tools without reason leads to sales disablement.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 14, 2019

Sales managers influence what salespeople sell, where they sell, who they sell to and even how they sell. These factors make the sales manager role one of the most influential and demanding jobs in any company engaged in complex B2B sales. How many direct reports do sales managers have in your company? Maybe more?

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Coaching Sales Management Hiring Territories 73

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

For HR leaders, a recent Harvard Business Review blog post provides a stark reminder of the difficult challenge of supporting Sales leaders in recruiting top talent. HR can help the Sales leader to improve recruiting results and play a vital role in making the sales number in 2013. Avoid a Myopic Focus. Top Performers’ Top 5.

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Sales Talent Territories Compensation Quota 312

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2017

For most organizations, the answer is to gain visibility into the activities of individual sales reps. Nor can they make smart investments in improving sales capability. In the past decade, attention has shifted from seller activity to sales manager activity as a key driver of performance. And their lackluster sales managers.

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Sales Management Quota Territories CRM 205

VuVan

DECEMBER 31, 2013

As a sales manager, one of the top priorities is to help your team set and achieve goals they set for themselves. These goals are not only sales goals but also include goals of action items individuals on your team wants to accomplish to help them build the territory and the business. In coaching my […].

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Sales Coaching Coaching Tools Territories 54

Highspot

MAY 8, 2020

From delivering winning doses of inspiration to transforming rookies into all-stars, coaches are a key component of any winning team — and not just in sports. In the world of business-to-business sales, coaches are just as essential to ensuring reps have the skills they need to close deals with confidence.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Remedy 78

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members.

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Hiring Sales Talent Compensation Lead Rank 62

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If you ask most executives if they have a sales process , they’ll immediately say yes. But when you ask them to describe their sales process, their descriptions vary wildly. To some, a sales process means milestones in their sales pipeline. Having clear definitions for your sales process matters a lot.

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Sales Process Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Territories 126

BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

Salespeople need to retain a lot of information and master the right sales skills to consistently hit their numbers. An effective sales readiness strategy is essential to their success. Here are 17 sales skills every rep needs and tips for helping your teams develop them. Essential Sales Skills Every Rep Should Have.

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Social Media Territories Face-to-face Negotiation 62

The Pipeline

MAY 26, 2016

One of the great things in what I do is the opportunity to meet a range of thinkers and doers involved in sales and helping others sell better. Brock writes a book on a critical subject like sales management, it is an opportunity to learn and share with others in my circle. This clearly leads to a focus on coaching.

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Sales Management Coaching Sports Promotion 180

A Sales Guy

MAY 9, 2014

Sales coaching is the most valuable element of a sales team. This post is about getting the most out of coaching your people to become the best they can be. If coaching is one of those things that just seems to get in the way, then you are NOT going to like this post. Most sales leaders aren’t good coaches.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Pipeline Guarantee 124

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 27, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan This kind of story doesn''t happen every day. They were assessed with OMG''s tools, and assembled into 5 teams, all selling the exact same product. Sales DNA is a score that represents the power of the selling strengths possessed by an individual.

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Case Study Study Lead Rank Lead Scoring 289

Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Working in or leading medical device sales teams is not for the faint of heart. Here are 7 medical device sales tips that help top reps stand apart from their competition. It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.” – Bear Bryant, Legendary head coach, University of Alabama. . Planning.

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Hiring Territories Networking Microsoft 105

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

From sales force training and compensation to investments in sales processes and technology, organizations relentlessly seek to pull the right levers that will drive revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. There is a direct and compelling link between frontline sales manager effectiveness and topline revenue performance.

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Sales Management Hiring Compensation Scale 218

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

There has been lots written about the common mistake companies make in selecting new sales managers; specifically the habit of promoting some of their best sales people to the management ranks, whether they are suitable or not. Most sales people know what they have to do, the challenge is getting them to do it.

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Hiring Lead Rank Sales Management Lead Scoring 296

Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

To win in sales you, and your company, need a recipe for success. The ingredients to win in sales must be pure and of high quality to create a great, high-end, finished product. Here is what we believe it takes to compete with a strong solid sales team that closes the right deals with great sales velocity.

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BrainShark

MAY 31, 2023

While employee cutbacks and attrition are widespread across sectors and roles at the moment, these numbers are especially concerning for sales— a department with historically high turnover at the best of times. What is time to competency in sales onboarding? Because of quota attainment,” said Zines. “If

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Hiring Sales Talent Scale Sales Enablement 62

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve been an SDR , an SDR director, and now run a sales team at a startup. Typically, SDRs work from one of two territory models: Static territories based on geography or vertical or business segment. Why the old models hurt your sales team’s attainment. Related: The Top KPIs for Sales and How to Choose Them.

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Account Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Territories 77

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

There seem to be no end of articles on who and how managers should invest their time in coaching. Clearly, if we have only 2 people to manage, that makes sense, but then one wonders, why not coach both? Yeah, we want to ignore them, they are such a pain to work with and coach.) The average span of control is 8-14 people.

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Coaching Territories Maximizer Sports 48

SBI Growth

MAY 15, 2013

"Should we hire an external Sales Manager or promote from within?". Open Sales Management positions are bad for sales organizations. Having the wrong Sales Manager (SM) is worse. This post helps you decide between hiring an internal or external Sales Manager. For example, is it all direct sales? It depends.

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Hiring Sales Management Forecasting Inside Sales 300

SBI Growth

JANUARY 5, 2014

Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ‘A’ players on the team. Every sales manager is time starved. Sales Managers should be spending 75% of their time coaching their team. POST-SALES SUPPORT. I am a big advocate of face-to-face coaching.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Decision Maker Travel 310

Miller Heiman Group

JULY 21, 2020

But the need for sales organizations to change is nothing new; it’s just more urgent now. Define a Sales Methodology. A sales methodology is a framework that explains how your sellers should approach each phase of the sales process. Tools to effectively evaluate sales opportunities, situations and challenges.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Sales Methodology 100

Allego

DECEMBER 14, 2021

At a recent Allego webinar, Josh Bersin , global HR industry analyst, and Kathi Enderes , Vice President Research at The Josh Bersin Company, and I discussed the findings from a recent report: The Sales Employee Experience: Driving Collaboration, Community, and Outcomes. The Power of Sales Enablement in Employee Experience.

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Face-to-face Scale Hiring Survey 145

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Looking at prospecting and conducting sales calls–sellers are spending 33% of their time engaging with customers/prospects. For example, some of this time might be training–learning more about how to sell, developing business acumen, learning new tools to help us become more productive. It actually seemed pretty good to me.

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Territories Examples Negotiation Meeting 81

Keith Rosen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

While many managers are conceptually aware of best leadership practices, they often fail at coaching their sales teams. Discover why it’s such a challenge for managers to make the long term, fundamental shift from salesperson to sales coach and what you can do to truly evolve and sustain positive change.

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Coaching Hiring Sales Coaching Territories 130

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As if the looming year end wasn’t pressure enough for a sales leader trying to meet sales quota, will the loss of top sales reps pile on? The HR Leader can take some concrete steps to stop the exit of sales reps and therefore the loss of revenue. Immediate Help for Sales.

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Sales Talent Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

There is nothing more stressful than Q4 for a VP of Sales. We will use Sales Leader’s Q4 Critical Path Guide. Your Talent — How to improve your sales manager’s performance. You are strategizing with Sales Managers and reps. Always easier to fire the coach than replace all the players. You feel like a human yo-yo.

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Territories Compensation Buyer Google 308

Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales operations (sales ops) and sales enablement are terms used often within an organization. But how do they contribute to sales productivity and overall business performance? Sales Enablement versus Sales Operations. Sales Operations Roles and Responsibilities. Setting territory structure.

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Sales Operations Sales Enablement Hiring Compensation 100

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Entering 2014, Sales and HR leaders face new trends causing turnover with top talent. 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.

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Sales Talent Conversion Survey Salary 300