Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many companies tend to underestimate the importance of guidance, training, and support for their new hires, and that tends to be detrimental. If they’re an amazing candidate in every other respect, at least take the time to uncover the reasons for the short-lived positions with other companies. Avoid bringing bad hires on board.

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Crunchbase

JULY 27, 2022

To set up your company to scale in any meaningful way, sales operations—sometimes referred to as business operations or sales support—need to be in full swing, laying the groundwork for and supporting your sales team’s efforts. Parsing out territories. Team management made easy. Sales team advocacy.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 28, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Before we discuss how to improve sales training, a quick promo for the latest and greatest taking place over at the ever improving Top Sales World. If we translate all of that baseball to selling, the only two things that change are the activity and the age of the people being coached and trained.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

Why are Sales Compensation Plans Important. A company is nothing if it doesn’t have sales. Building sales compensation plans for them can be a difficult task. The first considerations are if your company is a startup or an established business? 4 Types of Sales Compensation Plans. Because guess what?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 27, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 3 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. Establish a Company Way for sales management. This doesn’t happen by accident.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2020

Finding and hiring the right kind of people with the right mix of skills, developing a compensation plan, identifying training needs and aligning everyone with business goals can all be daunting. . . Do they want to do something bigger or broader in the merged company or just make their big salary elsewhere?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Author: Brad Wilsted Companies pour enormous resources into growth. 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.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2019

The reality is that most companies offer sales incentives — we at HubSpot do, too. But we put the customer first, and we compensate our reps for doing the same. But this takes time, a thoughtful approach, and the support of your entire company. As he rebuilt his team, Baker experimented with different compensation techniques.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 30, 2018

According to Gartner, companies will miss at least that amount in “lost opportunity” revenue. This is dollars left on the table due to ineffective processes for “defining, assigning, and managing territories, quotas, and incentives and compensation plans.”. For example, strive to pay on no more than 3 metrics.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. High-performing sales teams are twice as likely to provide ongoing training to reps than low performing teams. Performance-based compensation.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 29, 2018

With continuous sales performance analysis, companies can avoid reacting to performance issues, and rather, plan proactively to achieve sales and revenue goals. This ultimately allows for better sales, territory, and compensation planning; thus, a stronger sales organization as a whole. . Sales Territory Mapping and Design.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Most companies are in the heart of their planning process for 2014. Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. Get the sales team trained on how to sell socially. Your compensation plan must align to your strategy. Get LinkedIn upgrades.

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 27, 2016

All companies are seeking the perfect combination of elements to deliver the highest salesforce effectiveness. A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. Poor or excessive customer coverage if territories are too small, leading to missed revenue.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. It seems that every week we are being told that sales training is not working in a very high percentage of cases – 85-90% was one statistic I read just yesterday. JF Corporation.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

To win in sales you, and your company, need a recipe for success. Complicated commission plans or unwieldy territory rules and exceptions cause a half-baked sales team. Keep it Nimble – as a mid-market company, are you getting so big that you can’t be flexible? Don’t act like an enterprise company that is immovable.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

You know if the company will make or miss the number. If company goals weren’t reached this year, what might you have done differently? Training: Have you given your team the right training? Some people just need the right information and training to become more productive. How has Sales Operations done this year?

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Xactly

JULY 19, 2018

Commissions play a key role in your sales compensation plans, driving sales behaviors and motivating reps to hit their quota. It is generally used to get sales reps through times of sales uncertainty, where they may experience decreased cash flow due to inexperience within a particular territory or product as they ramp up.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Maybe your company is a start-up working in the customer acquisition phase and pounding the pavement hard. 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 are you trying to achieve with this compensation plan?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Territory design, quotas and compensation plans. Steve is a VP of The Americas of a large enterprise software company. Change the compensation plan to incent new logo growth by adding an accelerator. Sales training. These are the common tweaks companies deploy. Compensation plans come last not first.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

25% Increase in Sales Training ROI – Sales eXchange – 115. Some aspects of sales training are easy to measure others not so, but it is a fair question when I am asked what they can expect from an ROI standpoint. Companies have shown selectivity with other training or development programs. Given that, why train them?

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OpenSymmetry

AUGUST 3, 2016

The role of a salesperson is very clear: sell the company’s products or services to new and existing customers. Each salesperson is assigned a territory, a quota, and they “go forth and sell”, right? The Strategic Account Manager is included in this group and is amongst the most difficult roles to compensate in sales organizations.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The top reasons reps voluntarily leave a company (in order) are: Conflicts with Management (or management style). Compensation. Throughout our history with the company, we performed multiple projects- Sales Process, Sales Structure, and Channel Management. We have a one hour training session every week. They’re not dogs.”

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

If you’re caught totally unprepared, the territories are vacant for months. Internal Candidates : Find hidden talent at the company. Start training them two to three months prior to year end. Replant these seedlings in a ripe territory when necessary. He doesn’t care about vacancies. He just wants more revenue.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

A Sales VP focused on the wrong things can ruin the entire company. However, the majority of internal company time is within their department. He’s looking at compensation analysis, territory design, and sales structure. Skills Training: Unless directed, the sales manager takes an ad-hoc approach to skills.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 16, 2012

The report's goal was to show that the practices of the best in class companies were different, even better, than both the average and the below average companies and it achieved that goal. 17% want their reps to better understand their compensation plan. 16% want to achieve more balanced territories.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 11, 2019

In fact, HubSpot research shows 72% of companies with less than 50 new opps were unable to meet their goals. That number shrank to just 4% with companies earning 101 or more opportunities each month. Your sales team is working harder than ever to differentiate your product or service and close new business.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Within each of these groups, there is often further segmentation – based on account size, industry, and territory. While most companies do this and it is commonly accepted, one important element seems to ignore the different segments – sales training. New technologies are more convenient for training.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Within each of these groups, there is often further segmentation – based on account size, industry, and territory. While most companies do this and it is commonly accepted, one important element seems to ignore the different segments – sales training. New technologies are more convenient for training.

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Hiring Training Scale Segment 52

Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 11, 2021

When companies do a sales review of their current sales team, they typically look at one number—revenue. That’s what most companies do. Other times, one rep might have a better territory which is contributing to the sales numbers. Too many companies do not have a formal sales process they require their reps to follow every time.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 4, 2016

Sales Training Investment. How much money are companies spending on sales training? Companies spend a hefty amount of money – so yes, it is worth worrying about. ” There are several avenues to attack the question: How do you optimize your sales training investment? This, as they say, is the easy part.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 17, 2013

Participate and learn what top companies are doing to make the number in 2014. He has over 25 years’ experience with multinational technology companies. define our ideal customer profile (ICP) and the potential by territory. The cost of mis-hire is 6-8X the base compensation. Are they trained, equipped and motivated?

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We obviously as a company are deeply passionate about F tech, and believe that every category and vendor out there has something valuable to offer to its users. But then you also have sales, onboarding, and training. And then you also have pricing territory compensation management, the list simply goes on.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Imagine a time when you can work totally on the go with your mobile device – phone or tablet – to create business, follow-up with customers, train your team, assess your pipeline, and work a smooth system. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies. Efficiency instead of volume.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 26, 2012

Even best-in-class companies are lucky when fewer than 80% of their salespeople make quota. There are a number of possible reasons for this widespread mediocrity and failure and, depending on the company, some or all of them may apply. In some sectors, fewer than 25% of all salespeople will make quota in 2012.

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Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

While enablement typically comes into play from the beginning, working with marketing to assist sales professionals through learning and prospect interactions, operations teams up with sales leaders to establish methodologies and stepping in for final negotiations and deal compensation. Setting territory structure.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

If you are in sales and your mandate is to sell to companies within your geographical territory, you have probably faced a scenario similar to the one that follows. Your company’s products and related services are utilized by companies of all types and sizes, Fortune 50 to mom and pop basement operations.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2012

Others focus on the importance of a rewarding and competitive compensation package. Every top performer has experienced the dreaded year-end “opportunity drop,” which from the rep’s point of view includes: The most rewarding territories are “re-balanced’ (split up). Management changes – another new boss to train.

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