Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 9, 2022

Even the most seasoned, effective salespeople can struggle when hashing out how to lead a sales team. Taking the reins doesn't come naturally to everyone, and even born leaders might need a little guidance when transitioning into a sales management role. Let's dive in. Be thorough and thoughtful when hiring.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. Let’s talk about why your organization needs to implement a sales performance management strategy. Helps predict future sales trends.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

These sessions are where theoretical knowledge is transformed into practical sales skills. Performance Evaluation Use metrics and data to assess how well the sales reps have absorbed and are applying the training. This feedback informs continuous improvement of the sales team and the training program.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. AI is no longer a construct of the future. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. Prospect Outreach AI alleviates one of the most time-consuming tasks in sales: prospecting.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sales Performance Improvement programs should be constructed in a way to better manage and channel the sales team to deliver higher levels of sales performance. In fact sales teams that go through a sales performance improvement program outperform sales teams in companies that don’t.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Neil Ringers: Our product evolved out of integration to email and calendar, pulls data from those sources of truth, and puts it into Salesforce. That’s important because where we start is data, and data flows downstream Salesforce. Sam Jacobs: I’m always interested in how incentives drive behavior.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 7, 2020

Guest post by Scott Leese, CEO & founder of Scott Leese Consulting , and founder of The Surf and Sales Summit. It’s never been harder to retain your best performers, and the data backs it up. . According to Gong.io , the average tenure of a VP Sales was just 19 months as of 2018! Provide monetary incentive.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

The old-fashioned model — outbound sales — is centered on the actions of a seller. It eschews automated data handling and keeps approaches to sales and marketing separate. With sales now oriented primarily around a company website, this kind of approach can be unwieldy and impractical. Step 1: Find your data.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 21, 2019

As marketing receives input (feedback) from sales, the output (marketing strategies) improves. Common language is used, marketing materials match sales needs, and the customer journey is no longer fractured. Which sales touch points receive the most objections? Also, provide shared access to customer data.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 21, 2019

After you’ve brushed up on monthly sales report criteria, you can take your reporting software a step further. Sales performance data from any time period can be an extremely powerful reporting tool. How to write a monthly sales report for clients. It also serves as an incentive to continue doing business with you.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Unattainable or irrelevant goals: In sales, reps live and die by their quotas. Yet, quota setting is one of the areas that comes most difficult to sales managers. In fact, 61% of sales managers cite quota setting as their biggest challenge ( source ). This poses a huge issue in sales departments.

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Xactly

JULY 4, 2018

Creating sales compensation plans is a challenging task—it’s all about balance, but sometimes the perfect balance can be hard to strike. You need your incentives to drive the right sales behaviors in order to achieve sales objectives. Creating a Sales Incentive Compensation Plan.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Of course, managers use it to gauge performance. They can use this data to find leads gone bad or deals gone south. Much of this stems from the expectations of a sales career. And sales, with its emphasis on incentives and bonuses, provides that opportunity. Sales teams. Sales organizations.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

A sales QBR: isn’t a status update meeting. isn’t fact-checking data in sales reports. QBR goals: Sales managers could use these meetings to show the last quarter’s results of their team to leadership, project the forecasts, plan for future quarters and gain critical leadership buy-in. isn’t criticism.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Compensation is the ultimate incentive. A rapidly growing sales team comes with a hefty share of administrative requirements, and if you overlook them, you'll wind up wasting your reps' precious selling time on data entry and other tedious, menial tasks. Using Out-of-Date Compensation Plans. Ignoring Role Pollution.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Whether we like it or not, you have to agree: The development of improved AI and forecasting means sales is no longer an “artform” but a “science” The question is how to hire sales reps whose qualities match the trends seen in data and keep them on to continue building relationships with clients at scale.

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Showpad

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Successful Sales is a combination of art and science. Modern analytics platforms provide data at a breakneck pace that can galvanize the Sales process. But Sales is still about the perfection of communication, at its essence. That’s why Sales coaching is so important. .

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Highspot

MARCH 9, 2022

In this post, we’ll dig into the nuances of sales leadership and show you what you need to know and do to become one, answering questions including: What is a sales leader? Why is sales leadership important? Sales leadership vs. sales management. How to become a sales leader. Sales Managers.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 16, 2018

They cannot thrive nor stay in sales for very long. Under challenging situations, professionals with low emotional intelligence will likely lack the incentive to rise above the situation. For the most part, brands are — at their core — emotional constructs. Data bears this out. You Can’t Take the Emotion Out of Sales.

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