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Territory Managers: A Look at Their Role, Skills, and Compensation

Hubspot Sales

This might not be all that mind-blowing to point out, but not all sales orgs are comfortably confined to their companies' corporate headquarters — operating under a group of managers that can come together to share stories over lunch every day. What does a territory sales manager do? They train reps across their territory.

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Apple Fritters and the 10 Keys to a Successful Sales Transformation

Understanding the Sales Force

Even worse, some of these ineffective salespeople lead their sales teams in revenue because they inherited the biggest and best accounts, well-established large territories, have years in their industry and/or territory and are viewed as an expert. Their customers continue to buy from them because they are happy.

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Is Your Compensation Plan Evolving with the Company?

SBI Growth

This post is for Small Company CSOs and VPs of Sales. Despite this luxury, the small company sales compensation plan is usually left on the backburner. To drive the right behavior and hit your targets, your sales compensation must evolve at the same pace as your company. They are also your ad-hoc customer service team.

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Why Sales People Fail (When the Company is to Blame)

A Sales Guy

Today, I’m breaking down why sales people fail because of the company. Sales people fail because their company fails them. The only difference between when sales people fail themselves vs when sales people fail because of their company — the company rarely gets blamed. Shitty territory development.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.

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Avoid a Career Mistake Before It's Too Late

SBI Growth

It can be self-generated, come from your company or the marketplace. Total compensation, benefits, company financials and market position, for example. Great companies build a bedrock of success that enables their sales teams. The company is making significant changes to your compensation plan. Those are important.

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Why You Need to Implement Lead Routing [+ How to Do It]

Hubspot Sales

At its most fundamental, lead routing is the process of automatically assigning leads across a sales team, or through the proper sales model if your company has more than one sales approach, like self-serve, transactional, and enterprise. Lead Routing by Territory or Geography. Lead Routing by Value.

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