The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well. Sales goals are often specific.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 16, 2017

They’ve been through it so many times they can rattle off the typical objections from customers and prospects: “I don’t have time to hear this pitch”. Storytelling is vital at every point in the sales cycle. That line of storytelling works well to help close a solar installer, but might be lost on a construction company.

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Cincom Smart Selling

AUGUST 19, 2021

For many insurers, the approach toward IT budget construction and the measurement of IT value remains rooted in a traditional approach of centrally planned budgets and top-down portfolio metrics that can mask where IT value is really being delivered. Impact on IT. But integration is often the top issue when implementing new applications.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 22, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. A significant portion of the B2B prospecting calls you make will end up going to voicemail — making the sales voicemail techniques you leverage and how well you can execute them absolutely crucial to your sales efforts.

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Apptivo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What is Outbound Sales? What is an Outbound Sales tool? Why use Outbound Sales CRM? Advantages of Outbound Sales 5. How to find the best CRM for Outbound Sales? So, why not take a technologically smart approach to their sales outreach, thereby decreasing their sales cycles? What is Outbound Sales?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 5, 2023

Scenario 1: You sell ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software to Fortune 100 companies. Scenario 2: You sell POS (Point of Sale) systems to individual franchises. It’s crucial to construct a clear, written definition of what a duplicate is before moving forward. What types of objects you’re working with (standard or custom).

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Highspot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Sales is the engine that powers your company. But what’s powering your sales? By now it’s universally known that sales and sales team practices have undergone a tectonic shift in recent years. And, even more alarmingly, buyer needs and behaviors seem to be moving way ahead of the sales learning curve.

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Allego

AUGUST 21, 2023

Frontline sales managers are the powerhouse behind every high-performing sales team. However, many frontline sales managers struggle because they don’t receive proper enablement and coaching. In many cases, frontline sales managers get promoted to that role because they’re a top-performing sales rep.

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Apptivo

AUGUST 24, 2023

Instead of being restricted to a traditional office environment, mobile CRM applications allow sales, marketing, and customer support staff to engage with customers, update information, and manage tasks from anywhere. They have a sales team responsible for selling these machines to various industries.

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SBI

APRIL 6, 2021

Sales Training: Why You May be Struggling to Deliver. Before we explore that point in more detail, we need to take a step back in time to the origins of sales training to understand where we are today. As long ago as the 1870s, there was formal sales training.” It began more as sales coaching than training.

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CloserIQ

JULY 1, 2019

And the same is true of sales. An effective process is essential to consistent sales revenue. It doesn’t matter if you have the best sales reps in the world and a value proposition that turns your competitors green with envy. So, here’s how to create a winning sales process in seven steps. . Assess new leads.

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Lessonly

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Role playing is a powerful sales readiness method built into most b2b sales training programs. It allows reps to practice applying new concepts that they’ve learned to lifelike sales situations. Choose the learning environment that fits your team and specific set of sales training topics.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Turnover is a fierce headwind for leaders of Sales and HR. a provider of software to simplify and improve business operations and customer communications. a provider of software to simplify and improve business operations and customer communications. Too often sales leaders want to hire “somebody like me.”

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Salesmate

MAY 8, 2020

As a sales leader, you are no different from a chess player. Like a chess player, even you have pieces (sales reps) with different capabilities. Effective sales leaders are in full control of the sales game. 5 habits that successful sales leaders possess. Those few become great sales leaders.

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Mereo

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For example, Mereo recently had the opportunity to work with a $100+ million software as a service (SaaS) company that wanted to grow at least 20% in 2024, a healthy up-tick on previous trends and also an objective following a recent infusion of capital and energy from new ownership.

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Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This blog will answer this question along with some other topics about CRM ROI, namely how to calculate the ROI, some basic sales and marketing KPIs to consider, and three effective ways to maximize your CRM return. The data above shows that Pipeline CRM’s clients experienced positive changes in their sales books. million annually.

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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. At the very least, you’ll stay up-to-date on trends in sales.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Revenue At the end of the day sales coaching delivers ROI.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. If you're in a hurry, skip to the script , or download free sales call templates.) Cold calling is most effective when paired with strategies such as prospecting and sales qualification. You have your list of names and phone numbers.

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Apptivo

JULY 11, 2023

What is a sales forecast? Why are sales forecasting essential for a business? How to create a sales forecast? Benefits of having an accurate sales forecast like Apptivo 5. Sales forecasting software and tools 6. What is a sales forecast? Why are sales forecasting essential for a business?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

So how do you maximize the investment you’re making in sales new hires? But the payoff is salespeople who understand your business, your customer, and your sales methodology -- a wicked combination that leads to bigger returns, faster. Onboarding Checklist for Sales New Hires. Provide a sales process overview.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. In this piece, we’ll take a top down approach and start by designing a sales manager compensation plan. Plan Components.

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Xactly

JULY 5, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. In this piece, we’ll take a top down approach and start by designing the Sales Manager compensation plan.

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LeadFuze

JULY 8, 2021

Without an effective sales hiring process, you’re going to churn through rep after rep. The actual hiring of your reps should fit into your entire sales hiring strategy, which in turn, should fall into the larger concept of building a great sales team. That’s the bad news in sales recruitment. Assessment Test.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Managing a dispersed sales team is a unique challenge. The secret is modern sales enablement. Today’s winners are mastering virtual selling with an up-to-date approach to content, tools, and knowledge to help their sales teams succeed. To find out more, I sat down with Allego’s Sales Enablement Director Mary Charles.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Not only should you track your financial, sales, and production data to track the progress of your company, but you need to track employee progress too. Timesheet software for UK businesses is a highly effective way of tracking your employees’ hours accurately so you know exactly what hours they are working and breaks taken.

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Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2023

year-on-year (YoY) growth of CRM adoption According to Gartner, at the end of 2017, the revenue of CRM overtook the place of database management systems (DMBSs), making CRM the largest software market in the world. Then, in 2018, with 16% growth, CRM easily became one of the fastest-growing software and leads the market until today (2023).

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Have you ever faced a problem, business-related or otherwise, and needed an objective perspective to help solve it? For example, let’s say you were hired to assess a sales team’s performance. Upon initial assessment, you recommend a new sales strategy and training plan. Sales Consulting. Financial Strategy Consulting.

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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. Download Guide.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 7, 2020

At the same time, your sales time is not feeling the effects of their efforts and are spending more time prospecting when they should be closing. In many organizations, a disconnect happens between marketing and sales: The sales team says that leads coming in are unqualified. Marketing says the sales team just can't close.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In the modern-day classic movie, “The Devil Wears Prada,” the main character’s first day on the job is a great example of how not to conduct sales onboarding. . And sales trainers only get a short period of time during in-person boot camp to shepherding these folks through everything they’ll need to do to prepare for success in the field.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Building a new sales strategy in the face of a recovering economy is even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product or a slew of new features to give to your customers. You have the product in hand, but without a high-quality sales strategy, it won’t attain the success it was made for. What is a sales strategy?

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CommercialTribe

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Welcome to the final chapter in our series on data-driven sales coaching, aimed at arming sales leaders with the advice they need to effectively direct coaching efforts and realize a strong ROI. After all, he’s a competitive and motivated sales professional with potential. Increasing Sales Coaching Quality. asks Kelly.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 4, 2023

For instance, what was your main objective? For example, I recently worked with a software company to [Achievement 1] and [Achievement 2]. We had a constructive discussion, and ultimately, we were able to come up with [Final Solution] that incorporated both our ideas. Task: Next, describe the task or challenge at hand.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 21, 2017

This post is based on a webinar on the secret to building a sales enablement powerhouse. Procore is the world’s most widely used construction project management software. Three challenges triggered Procore’s need for sales enablement. Aligning their core messaging and sales process in a period of hyper-growth.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 21, 2017

This post is based on a webinar on the secret to building a sales enablement powerhouse. Procore is the world’s most widely used construction project management software. Three challenges triggered Procore’s need for sales enablement. Aligning their core messaging and sales process in a period of hyper-growth.

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