The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

We have all witnessed situations where an outstanding sales rep is “rewarded” with a promotion to sales management, leading to two compounding problems. Damage on the other members of the team who now lack a leader, this will manifest in either lower revenues or mass departures, sometimes both.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

If you’re unsure about whether or how to create sales training, here are our top benefits of implementing either in-person or online sales training: 1. Increased revenue Improving your sales and management teams can increase revenue for your company by helping everybody to make more thoughtful work choices.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Sales incentive contents can be a positive force to help motivate your sales people to new levels of productivity and loyalty. Alternatively, poorly constructed or inequitable sales challenges can result in anti-productive activity, resentment and rebellion. Beat the Boss. Lead By Example.

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

When it comes to designing sales compensation plans , there are many factors that can affect the success of your plan. To help ensure you set your sales team up for success, here are six steps to setup a commission plan. Data is the most important and useful tool for any part of a strategic sales plan. Optimize Your Sales Plan.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Achieving revenue targets can be tricky, and it’s tempting to overlook training. A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. It addresses all of sales, from product knowledge to customer relationship building.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Having a sales performance management process in place is crucial for your team’s overall success. 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. Helps predict future sales trends.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Increases sales capacity and productivity Sales coaching is integral to increasing your sales capacity (what your sales team is actually capable of achieving within a given period) and making quota consistently despite fluctuating headcount or market conditions. Revenue At the end of the day sales coaching delivers ROI.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. powered by Sounder.

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Year after year, hiring consistently shows up as one of the biggest challenges for sales managers. This is true even in organizations with competitive salary and benefits packages, because those are not the only factors potential sales professionals consider when evaluating a job offer. Here are 5 reasons why.

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Pipeliner

JULY 3, 2023

If we look at quote to cash vs. order to cash we will be able to understand how it enhances a sales professional’s effectiveness in driving revenue and customer satisfaction. In such instances, hiring top sales talent requires putting their needs first and showcasing them throughout recruitment.

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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. Tools enable companies to understand their pipeline and revenue at a deeper level.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

What is a sales strategy? A sales strategy is an actionable plan for the growth of existing accounts and the acquisition of new accounts for your business. It’s fundamental to driving revenue and giving sales reps information that’s key to targeting the right customers and closing deals. Step 1: Set clear goals.

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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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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. We will dive into how sales managers can leverage performance reports that help them analyze and improve their sales team’s performance.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2019

Either way, you need to separate sales performance from forecasting performance and deliver constructive feedback on each skill individually. If there’s absolutely no budget to support accuracy incentives, you’ve got another issue. As a sales manager or leader, what are you doing about it?

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Apptivo

AUGUST 11, 2022

What are the types of sales motivation? Mastering the act of motivation requires more than just offering bonus, incentives and commission. The motivation strategies can bring effective results from the sales team. Financial Incentives. Non-financial incentives. Provide Incentives.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

A QBR is an executive business review of the previous quarter’s sales and a strategic planning session to build playbooks and forecasts for the upcoming quarter. It is also a crucial sit down between stakeholders to address issues slowing revenue growth. A sales QBR: isn’t a status update meeting. isn’t criticism. isn’t ad-hoc.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Sam Jacobs: But I’ve gotten the same set of constructive criticism/weaknesses/things that I’m not good at for 20 years. And of course, government policy can play a huge role in creating that profitability through government incentives, tax breaks, things of that nature, which I’m a huge proponent of.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Compensation is the ultimate incentive. Those kinds of hires are cost-effective ways to free up your sales reps to do what they do best, alleviate unnecessary stress, and make your growing team's operations more efficient. If you don't, you're selling your sales organization and individual contributors short.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Yesterday, I met with a longtime client who, in his previous company, used OMG's assessments to identify what needed to change in order to double revenue from $30 million to $60 million. In his new company, which is already about twelve times that size, he wants to double revenue again. Whether sales management is effective.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Sales experience matters, but there are other qualities we look for in a sales candidate: Coachability: You’re the seasoned sales veteran ready to lead your troops to victory. Hire sales reps open to constructive criticism and able to adjust and improve-then deliver it to them!

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Showpad

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The best way to approach the need for coaching among your Sales teams is to deliver it through a combination of methods. But as a Sales manager, you’ll benefit greatly from balancing that with training visualizations and other exercises that staff can complete on their own.

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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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