Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2021

Here, we'll take a closer look at what a territory manager does, the skills they're expected to have, how they're compensated, and the emerging practice of online territory management. The extent of a territory sales manager's influence leans heavily on the nature of their business, size of their teams, and structure of their sales orgs.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 5, 2013

Your Sales Management Guru Blog Author on “Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers” List . Speaker, consultant, and author Ken Thoreson’s updated Sales Manager’s Tool Kit now available . New tools include a quarterly business review, cross-selling and up-selling plans, and many more. KNOXVILLE, Tenn.,

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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. On the surface, the logical solution to a sales problem is to fix sellers or to fix the tools and processes around those sellers.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A leading global financial technology (FinTech) client recently reached out with a big request: They wanted to completely overhaul their go-to-market organizational structure, roles and relationships. There are a number of factors that should tip off sales and go-to-market leaders to rethink their organizational approach.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 25, 2014

It is critical to get products to market in a timely manner – which currently means sooner than ever before launched. Mid-market company leaders (and leaders of SMB’s) need to create an atmosphere of continuous improvement. The post Collaboration for Mid-Market Sales Growth appeared first on Score More Sales.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

With increasing focus on grit and many claims of meritocracies in organizations across the country, why does variable pay compensation even exist? On top of that, why are sales people some of the few employees subject to variable compensation structures? What is Variable Pay Compensation Anyway? Step 2: Set Metrics.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Creating a Sales Compensation Plan for 2017. Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. In short, sales compensation should be not just a tactical focus for your organization, but a strategic one as well. Sizing It Up.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement. Creating the perfect sales compensation plan isn’t easy. Research sales compensation benchmarks to ensure your rates are comparable.

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Score More Sales

MAY 30, 2013

The annual “State of Marketing” Global Survey of Marketers has again been completed, and results were announced at the Smarter Commerce Global Summit last week. You can download the complete results from the IBM State of Marketing 2013 Global Survey. Top marketers act on insights and create a system of engagement.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 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. Frontline sales managers coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis. all of which seem to make sense.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Sales Compensation Planning for 2016. Once that exercise is completed then all budgets, marketing plans and sales compensation planning can begin. This is because based upon where your planned revenue is coming from, every aspect of marketing and sales could be impacted. It takes time to get it right.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. Have you adjusted your plan based on this continued shift of power and influence yet? There’s solid evidence that your Marketing counterparts are responding. 58% have increased their content marketing budget.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

The purpose of every incentive compensation plan is to influence the actions of sales reps. The post offers tools to make longer-lasting corrections, too. The post offers tools to make longer-lasting corrections, too. HR leaders should act now to align the compensation plan with the customer's interests.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 26, 2016

” I hesitated for a moment discussing this topic–sales compensation plans. I can barely scratch the surface on this topic, sales people, sales executives, and non sales executives invovled in compensation are likely to be unhappy. The compensation program is just one element of a performance management system.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

We will talk more about all the tools you need to get started in social selling. Who currently have job openings for marketing help. But this definition from a marketing expert made it easy for me: Social selling is about using social media to build a brand that customers and peers alike, grow to trust and respect. Experiment.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 25, 2014

Last week, a list on Forbes contained my name as one of the top 30 social selling influencers in the world. I am very humbled, and quite honored, since it seems that quite a process was put into place and many different tools to measure reach was used to take a list of 500 influencers down to the top 30.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

From a sales tools perspective, I have seen productivity gains as well as losses. It seems that there are so many tools to help professional sellers and marketers. What I don’t see is cohesiveness, and maximizing time through better management of all of the tools.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

How to fix it: Work with marketing to create templates that are rich in value messaging, and which force customization to the specific client and the state of your relationship. Start with decision-makers who have influence over the next phase of your relationship. Look at the compensation approaches for your service and CSM teams.

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

Knowing how to set sales goals is a crucial skill for any business owner, sales manager or marketer. We’ll also look at how technology can aid in managing your sales targets efficiently with tools like ClickUp’s Goals software and lead management systems. Look ahead and consider any upcoming changes in your company.

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SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

More than 1400 sessions, more than 350 exhibitors, 18 keynotes, 20 parties, 2 rock concerts, and 5 opportunities to help charities on site, there is perhaps no bigger event for sales and marketers. Act-On’s streamlined user interface puts first-rate marketing tools at your fingertips, making campaigns and programs easier and faster.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 28, 2014

We know that according to eMarketer, “more than 59% of B2B purchase decision makers and influencers use their smart phones to gather information when purchasing products or services”. I did an unscientific survey of webinar tool sites as if I was evaluating and making a purchase from my smart phone. Others are helpful and engaging.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Three major takeaways from the study include: How CxOs are opening up to customer influence. Since there will be lots of interpretations of this data I am going to focus on just a few things that really stood out – specifically: Influence. The C-suite has the most influence in a company – we all know that.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 26, 2014

94% of digital marketing professionals surveyed agreed that personalization is “critical to current and future success” according to an eConsultancy study. Many of our clients don’t take advantage of these tools yet though. Finally, start measuring this information (see tools above). But where to start?

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Get the help needed to influence those you can’t fully control. Within your sphere of influence, you can deliver results for sales leadership. Sales, Finance, Marketing and Customer Service need this alignment. After evaluating your team and their tools, you might ask “Where do I start?” The sequence you take is critical.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In today's Sales Brief we cover a variety of articles including the smartest way to approach content marketing , sales compensation plans that'll motivate your team , Zoom's rocketing success , and much more. Content marketing can be a powerful tool to attract and drive potential customers to your business. That's insane.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

It fuels the continued operation of a small business, yielding significant results, and clinching the company’s position in a fiercely competitive market. In the digital marketing sphere, where salespeople primarily sell to small and local businesses, motivation can be a game-changer. Secondly, let data guide your decisions.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Last month, IBM announced IBM ® Watson™ Analytics , a natural language-based cognitive service that can provide instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses. As soon as Monday, you (yes, you and your mid-market or SMB company) can sign up for the Beta offering of IBM ® Watson™ Analytics.

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Score More Sales

MAY 15, 2014

I had a chance to catch up with best-selling author and modern marketing expert Jay Baer who has been the host of the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2014 Tampa this week. JB: In their zeal to embrace content marketing, many brands are creating content that is wholly self-referential.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The things we once predicted futuristically are coming to fruition thanks to new tools and strategies to help convert data into insights, improve sales rep on-boarding and give a new twist to getting and staying connected to those you’re collaborating with in business. Throughput instead of “just get it done”. Efficiency instead of volume.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 31, 2013

” Yeah, Yeah, we all know that, but here’s the real issue, “Are we measuring and compensating them to do the things we WANT them to do?” Sales job is to execute the company strategy in it’s chosen markets and with customers. ” That’s where things start falling apart.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

We called her Mimi, and I’ve written about her over the years because she was such a big influence on me in business. Although I write about new trends and social platforms – and really love what I’m seeing with technology reaching mid-market and SMB companies – it’s important to realize that selling socially is not a new concept.

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 17, 2020

Many buyers are risk-averse and hypervigilant given the uncertainty of their market, which may cause them to revert to a “freeze” state, where they’re unlikely to make any decisions. When a buying influence is in a freeze state, a seller’s job is to figure out how to move them from emotional to rational thinking.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The improved analytical capabilities provided by Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) software will help in the modelling and review of existing plans. As often as companies and sales leaders state that their sales compensation plans are simple, there is rarely a plan that is truly that simple ; there is always some layer of complexity.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Guest Post , Lead Management , Marketing , Reputation 2.0 , execution. Marketing and Sales become unified around one process, instead of each focusing only on their respective ends of the revenue pipeline. March 2008. February 2008.

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Brands mastered this first, and now even some reluctant CEOs and marketers in small mid-market companies are getting on the bandwagon. Spend time searching and listening for what is happening in your market, with your competitors, with your customers, and with your strategic partners. 3. Engage. They KNOW who you are.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 30, 2013

There are SMB and mid-market sales organizations who have not embraced a cloud-based, customer relationship management system, better known as CRM or SCRM. Many CRM tools are set up in a complicated way so a rep spends too much time learning them and then using them. A tool is nothing but a tool without a process.

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Score More Sales

JULY 30, 2014

I have been meeting more and more leaders in mid-market companies who are simply confused about the value of having their sales reps focused on social selling because they don’t see the payoff. There are hundreds of strategies for success incorporating some social tools into your business. Did you know that social tools could do that?

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