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Unleashing the Power of Frontline Sales Management

Sales and Marketing Management

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. These results were due entirely to sales manager skills, independent of the skills of their salespeople.

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How to Optimize Sale Territories for a Strategic Advantage

Xactly

Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning. Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. Ultimately, if your sales territories aren’t optimized, you hinder sales reps’ motivation and performance.

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The Key to Sales Territory Mapping

Xactly

In order to manage your sales performance, you need effective sales territory mapping. Sales territory design must be a thoughtful process that involves data and a balancing act to ensure every sales rep has adequate sales potential within their territory. Download Guide.

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

Janek Performance Group

This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. It’s expensive and time-consuming to onboard a new employee. Simulations help fill in the knowledge gap for the hiring manager. Don’t ignore the signs.

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Six Steps Toward Building a Successful Sales Force

Pointclear

Building a successful sales force is not easy. Most sales managers will tell you it involves three fundamental steps: Hire the best-qualified candidates; train them; and compensate for results. Let’s take a closer look: Deploying sales resources: Should the sales team be deployed by geographical territories?

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The Pipeline ? Shrink Your Way To Success

The Pipeline

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. They say you can’t shrink your way to success, but perhaps there are situations in sales where you can. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense.

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5 Sales Quota Setting Methodologies Proven to Generate Revenue

The Spiff Blog

Here’s why: the sales quota is a key variable in many of the equations that dictate core business functions. These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure.

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