Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 31, 2020

In Eat Their Lunch: Winning Customers Away from Your Competition , I wrote about salespeople who struggle because they try to leverage things like their company’s history, and their leadership team, to create a competitive advantage in B2B sales. Win customers away from your competition. Check out Eat Their Lunch.

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Xactly

JULY 18, 2018

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. Use Data-driven Intelligence to Map Territories. Download Guide.

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Xactly

JUNE 13, 2018

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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InsideSales.com

JULY 1, 2020

In this article; Review the Company Sales Strategy. Sales Territories. Review the Company Sales Strategy. It is vital that your company is continuously sustaining its competitive edge in its target market. Sales Territories. Merging or dividing up sales territories can increase sales. Sales Bonus.

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SBI Growth

JULY 14, 2013

Overall strategy, go-to-market model and product suite are essential. Territories : The field of play. Are territories designed to maximize growth balanced with efficiency? Are you holding back performance based on territory design and assignment? Is it competitive and geared to keep your very best? Crazy, right?

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Off the Cuff Instant Interview Question: “What are some tips for doing practical market, territory and account planning?”. Competition: Footprint, incumbency, strategies, distribution, pricing, etc. Specific account tactics and strategies are then identified and implemented via the KARE profiles.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

Whether it’s territory planning, account planning, deal planning or sales call planning, YOU create the strategies and the plan. I’m highly competitive, with myself as well as against customers’ alternatives to me. Plan your work and work your plan” as someone said a long time ago. It isn’t prescribed for you. I HATE to lose!

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

In B2B sales and marketing, companies employ various strategies to drive growth and expand their client base. One such strategy involves the use of Business Development Representatives (BDRs). Our recent webinar Turbocharging Business Development Strategies noted the importance of BDRs.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Regardless of your revenue goals, if you can be faster and more effective at your sales planning practices, you will give your sellers a competitive advantage. Start your sales planning efforts with account segmentation to fill your territories with fruitful opportunities and increase your sellers’ ability to hit quotas.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

So, let’s dive into how Salesforce Sync helps enable sales reps by supporting the foundation of any sales process: Territory Management. ZoomInfo Salesforce Sync for Territory Management. But what if reps and managers could identify accounts owned by specific reps or that are unowned, yet a part of particular territory?

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SalesforLife

JUNE 27, 2019

In fact, because they have a defined timeline and a distinct call to action, events are one of the ways that create the greatest triggers (referrals, insights, and competitive intelligence). If you read our blog, you know that account executives are responsible for building TAM maps for their particular geographic territory.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 11, 2017

Not much differentiates one company from another these days – in fact, not a lot separates products, but we all know that the differentiating factor lies in the individual salesperson, their leadership and the strategies employed to gain the high ground. We also know there is a cost to preparedness as well as a cost to lack of preparedness.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 25, 2019

With increased competition, the rapidly expanding role of technology in the sales process, and factors such as digitalization impacting every step of the process, we expect things will be significantly different from the way they are today. Different users need different sales strategies. Customized responses will become essential.

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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 16, 2016

The Territory & Quota Management Revolution – New Incentive Compensation Platforms Blazing the Trails to Greater Efficiencies. This shift if critically important for three key reasons: Improved flexibility in defining and modeling of Territory and Channel structures. Territory Definition and Modeling.

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Xactly

DECEMBER 10, 2018

To help you kickstart and improve your compensation planning, here are five steps to a competitive sales incentive plan. Set all executive priorities so they create an aligned strategy that contributes to the overarching corporate goals. Take all of the priorities and start narrowing down to the most important. Designing the Details.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

When sales teams adapt lead intelligence to selling strategies, they gain better perspectives of ideal target customers. Also known as competitive intelligence, market intelligence refers to data that give insights into market trends. That’s where market intelligence comes in. How Can I Optimize Intelligence in the Sales Cycle?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 27, 2012

I learned to believe, “It’s my God-given right to 100% share of customer and 100% share of territory!” In my accounts and territory, I constantly looked for opportunities. I analyzed my accounts and territory to figure out where I should be. Do I have 100% share of customer and territory? How Do We Win?

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LeadFuze

JULY 14, 2023

Sales Manager Duties Digging deeper into their duties reveals an intricate tapestry woven with tasks like hiring top-notch talent for the sales department, training them to become stellar performers, assigning territories strategically, and setting challenging but realistic targets. It’s like rearranging the furniture for success.

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Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2022

A sales funnel powered by volume and velocity is vital to stay competitive in today’s market. Account-based territory lead routing capabilities, along with parent-child relationship mapping, are critical to its revenue strategy. But can all of that be possible at the same time? Without a doubt.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To survive in a competitive market, brands must be agile. It’s in delivering that third element that distribution strategy comes in. An optimized distribution strategy, then, has never been more critical to businesses. Read on to find out: What a distribution strategy is. Which types of strategy exist.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Despite their power, many brands aren’t utilizing storytelling techniques in their sales strategy. We’re going to explore how storytelling techniques can imbue your sales strategy with that crucial human touch. Today’s business environment is highly competitive. Always consider the needs of your brand and customers.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

It can also foster a more collaborative and supportive team environment since there is no direct competition based on individual sales performance. If a sales rep’s entire compensation is directly tied to their individual effort, they could compete against each other for prospects or territories.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 24, 2018

But this conventional approach, and the premises underlying it, raise a crucial performance question: What does it really have to do with helping a company’s business strategy, responding to shifting market demands, and intervening to fix acute, emergent needs when they arise? The main challenge when it comes to these situations?

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 4, 2012

Craft sales strategy. They also recognize that in major accounts strategy is constantly a work in progress; hence, they are constantly readdressing strategic questions such as: Who are the players in the decision process and what role are they playing? What is the competitive picture looking like? ©2012 Sales Horizons, LLC.

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Shari Levitin

MARCH 9, 2023

They demonstrate strategies to adapt to the surroundings and develop the characteristics needed to survive and thrive in the most competitive environment on earth. It’s easy to put off sending emails, cold calling and stalking new territories, but like the leopard, this is the lifeblood of your business.

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SMEI

JANUARY 5, 2024

In today’s highly competitive job market, particularly in the dynamic fields of sales and marketing, standing out to prospective employers is more crucial than ever. This is where professional certification comes into play, serving as a significant differentiator that can set you apart from the competition.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 18, 2012

You’ve had average results recently because your territory is a real dog. Market innovation within your company has slipped as a priority, eroding your competitive edge. Here’s what you should find out: Sales Territory Design : Are both existing customers and prospects considered when territory structures are built?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Responding quickly to incoming leads can make or break a deal, particularly in highly competitive markets. That’s what makes lead routing a critical component to any scaling sales strategy. Lead Routing by Territory or Geography. What is lead routing? Lead Routing by Use Case or Specialization.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 10, 2014

Sit down with your team and pay attention to these areas: Understanding the link between the company strategy and new quota. The impact to the individual sellers and their territories. Rebalancing of any territories due to the new quota. Gamification - Rollout a competition to the team focused on getting off to a strong start.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

But, just as the first wave of agricultural society gave way to the second wave of industrial society, so too Learning Paths transitioned to more situational, Territory Plan-based learning and enablement. The Second Wave: Territory Plans. Then you can identify the “land and expanders” you need to help grow existing accounts.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

There was no Sales Territory Design in place. Regarding the client mentioned earlier, we approached the problem by focusing on one of the four problems we saw in the field: Territory Design. The analysis of the Territory Design data in our example yielded results, but we needed a reference point. What was the competition doing?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 27, 2022

Competitive pricing is a fact of life for most businesses. But what happens when pricing low turns from competitive to malicious? Let's say a major retailer sells mattresses in a specific territory. That said, there's no guarantee that the strategy pan out that conveniently. How Predatory Pricing Works.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In this article, we’ll cover what a trigger event is, why they’re important and provide examples you can apply to your own sales strategy. If you contact a prospect right after they buy an expensive competitive product, they're not going to bite. Think of trigger events as an opportunity to do just that.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Not all sales people have the same skills.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

This automated note-taking process also guides the conversation by providing the playbook on the screen while the call is happening, aligning reps with brand messaging and providing structure to their qualification strategies the entire time. You can also monitor call performance and integrate with your CRM. Pricing: $150/month.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It enables companies to understand their market position, competitive landscape, and customer needs. Here are the key differences between a sales plan and a marketing plan: Focus and Objectives Sales Plan: Primarily focuses on the activities and strategies to drive direct revenue generation.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It enables companies to understand their market position, competitive landscape, and customer needs. Here are the key differences between a sales plan and a marketing plan: Focus and Objectives Sales Plan: Primarily focuses on the activities and strategies to drive direct revenue generation.

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