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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Xactly

JULY 5, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? Sales managers and their reporting reps will have responsibilities unique to their roles, which means your compensation plans should be tailored to different roles. Things to Consider in Compensation for Sales Management: Find your Leaders.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 27, 2019

They must know how to motivate people and hold them accountable, how to coach and develop sales reps, how to structure territories and match them to a rep’s skill sets, and how to leverage data and use it to drive performance. Provide meaningful training. Implement a cadence of coaching and feedback for sales managers.

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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. Very few had formal, repeated sales manager training programs.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Furthermore, the average sales professional turnover rate is 35% — a dramatic number compared to the average turnover rate of all industries, which is just 13%. 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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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

Essentially, achieving your goals is only possible with a full roster of sales reps who know their territories and are ramped to full productivity. Examine what factors are causing open territories in the first place. Is the territory just not capable of achieving that quota? Is compensation too low?

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Xactly

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This ultimately allows for better sales, territory, and compensation planning; thus, a stronger sales organization as a whole. . The amount of time it takes your reps to get up and running is a reflection of their training. First and foremost you need the right amount of sales reps to cover territories and close deals.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

If you’re caught totally unprepared, the territories are vacant for months. Start training them two to three months prior to year end. Replant these seedlings in a ripe territory when necessary. Lack of Compensation: Great talent doesn’t give substantial effort in exchange for status quo pay. He just wants more revenue.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Complicated commission plans or unwieldy territory rules and exceptions cause a half-baked sales team. They need to track their buyers and clients through social platforms or by aggregated content specific to their industry niche, geographic territory, or through named accounts. Train and coach frontline sales leaders.

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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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Score More Sales

JULY 22, 2014

Understand the industry your buyer is in, and who their customers are. Find ways that differentiate you from others in your industry and sell against the dreaded state of “status quo”. Also set up alerts for key words in your industry, region, or sector. What challenges and successes are there? Are there any new executives?

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SBI Growth

JUNE 26, 2013

Compensation – Overview of compensation models and exception handling. Include attainment distribution, payout averages, ranges by role, industry benchmarks and cost verses budget. Territory Design / Structure Process. On-Boarding – Summary of process for onboarding, training modules, technology set-up, etc.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 4, 2016

Sales Training Investment. How much money are companies spending on sales training? As reported in a research report by Sales Performance International – “In the United States alone, industry estimates for corporate expenditures on sales training and performance improvement are more than 5 billion dollars annually.”

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 26, 2012

Sales Management is a common reason and it transcends industries and sizes. Whether it's a result of poor selection, lack of training, ineffective coaching or lack of practice, the causes vary by company and salesperson. We can even add a reluctance to invest in outside resources like assessments, training, consulting and coaching.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 17, 2013

define our ideal customer profile (ICP) and the potential by territory. The cost of mis-hire is 6-8X the base compensation. Marketing is rewarded by compensation plans tied to initiative objectives. Are they trained, equipped and motivated? Here are five. 5 Key Areas: What game are we playing? Hire slow, fire fast.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 1, 2016

Sales Training – 2026. As a way of exploring the future of sales training, let’s time travel to the year 2026 and examine the major trends of the day. A number of the authors writing back in 2016 suggested that sales training was at an inflection point. Let’s tune in and listen to what Dr. Beckett has to say.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2019

But we put the customer first, and we compensate our reps for doing the same. And its sales compensation structure includes no commission, no bonuses, no incentives, and no monthly SPIFs — their salesforce is paid a set annual salary like every other department. Switching to a 100% salary-based compensation plan wasn't easy.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 1, 2016

Sales Training Investment. The strategic “it” in this case is the decision about whether you should make an investment in sales training. The sales training discussion needs to be updated and reframed. What is the right question for determining if a sales training investment is appropriate? New product.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The whole ecosystem of a business – independent of industry or operational model – and its sustainability relies on sales, the proverbial (money) rainmaking machine. Crowded Territories. Staff misallocation may occur if the sales team grows too fast, that’s when you end up with crowded territories.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Are we assigning effective territories? Our goal was to give our sales leaders the same in-depth look at Xactly’s sales performance across our sales team and companies in our industry as our customers. In a world so focused on incentive compensation, Xactly Insights gives us a lot to think about.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

An integral piece in your sales performance management process is developing a compensation plan that is data-based and results-driven. Your compensation plan affects everyone and everything in your company. What’s your background and experience with sales compensation and planning? View Webinar. Marc: I agree.

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BrainShark

MAY 31, 2023

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.). There will be a trial and error period before you can establish standard benchmarks for time to competency at your company.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 17, 2011

Sales managers have six basic jobs—hire, compensate, train, deploy, monitor and manage, and coach and counsel—and they generally fail at the last three. If hiring, training and compensating are the science behind sales management, then deployment, monitoring and managing, and coaching and counseling are the art.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 30, 2014

If you know that you have a “more probable” prospective customer – a potential buyer who is in the market niche where your company does its best work, and there are industry peers of your prospect company already working with you – it’s upon you to follow up and make connections in this company.

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Emissary

JUNE 26, 2023

Deploy final training. Although Summer vacations in the northern hemisphere can be a hurdle, Q3 is realistically your last shot at broad rollouts of training. This can involve redistributing planning tools, holding refresher training and assigning field coaches. Training moves into the informal realm in Q4. Prep for BOY.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Their sales territory loses proper coverage since the rep is now focusing on the transition into management. Worse still — and this is the biggest problem — the newly promoted sales manager may not have had any practical training on how to manage a sales team. The top producer is no longer selling, which means profits drop.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Marketing content can be used to train employees, or provide them with the information they need. Sales training and certification is a good idea. You have to design and administer incentive plans, decide how the territory is divided up among your employees and plan for growth in order keep pushing performance over time.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 24, 2020

No one wags a shaming finger at former industry executives whose sales strategies created that ugly archetype. The result of saturating territories with dealerships and forcing the owners to accept quotas of slow-selling vehicles to get the hot selling ones. Most sales forces have variable compensation based on revenue attainment.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2011

One way would be to adopt a practice that is usually embraced by certain industries, that is Continuing Education. Sales Compensation. Sales Training. Territory Alignment. Dave Kahle – Sales Training. From The Heart Sales Training Blog. TopLine Sales Compensation Solutions. Reputation 2.0. Sales Tool.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

Training and learning is an everyday thing for the best salespeople in the world. Matt Heinz brings more than 12 years of marketing, business development and sales experience from a variety of organizations, vertical industries and company sizes. Sales Compensation. Sales Training. Territory Alignment. Sales Cycle.

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 16, 2020

For the past few years, when the sales industry discusses sales technology trends, artificial intelligence (AI) rises to the top, although it has yet to take a foothold in the industry. These concerns may explain why the industry has shown so much reluctance to embrace AI.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

That means you need to hire (and train and ramp) an extra 25 per year just to stay afloat. It’s the responsibility of managers to design and implement quotas, incentives, territories, roles and responsibilities. A company in the Financial Services or Banking industry. They’re easy to replace. See the pattern here?

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