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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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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LeadFuze

JULY 14, 2023

How to be a good sales manager is an inquiry that many professionals in the field often ponder. The role of a sales manager extends beyond just overseeing a team; it’s about fostering growth, driving performance, and achieving targets. A sales manager position, that’s your answer.

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

Motivating your sales reps is one of the key factors of sales success. In most sales organizations, the sales commission plan is the best way to do this. Your sales commission plan is a portion of your sales compensation plan. Data is the most important and useful tool for any part of a strategic sales plan.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 14, 2020

I don't know if you've ever thought about this before, but sales and professional wrestling don't have very much in common. Sales and professional wrestling can both be cutthroat. As you can assume, sales gimmicks are quite a bit different. Lowering prices in some way, shape, or form is the basis for a variety of sales gimmicks.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

These short phases of well-constructed words, can bring clarity and have a lasting effect on both vision and motivation. But the quote reminds me of the necessity to be selective and prioritize the most critical objectives. “Leaders are readers” has always been a mantra I firmly believed in.

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A Sales Guy

MAY 7, 2013

You have a sales process in place, but the sales manager and sales people are using separate spread sheets with additional stages, because the current sales process doesn’t meet their needs. You’ve built a killer sales portal the sales team never seems to visit. They expect it will be GOOD.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 5, 2019

As all sales managers know, there are tons of reasons why sales reps tend to avoid it like the plague. “I Of course, this isn’t true of all sales reps but even with the availability of electronic tools and apps to streamline the process, many still view planning as a waste of time. Pre-call planning. I’m good!”. I’m good!”.

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Highspot

JUNE 11, 2020

Regardless of the root cause, overcoming sales and marketing misalignment is necessary to securing long-term success. In this guide, we’ll be breaking down the keys to achieving — and maintaining — real sales and marketing alignment: What is sales and marketing alignment? What does marketing do for sales?

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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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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 15, 2014

New hire sales training. A short quiz for sales leaders – How much has the buying process changed in your market in the last five years? Question two – Have you taken a serious look at updating your new hire sales training to keep up with the changes? The larger the number of new hires on boarded, the greater the impact.

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A short quiz for sales leaders – How much has the buying process changed in your market in the last five years? Question two – Have you taken a serious look at updating your new hire sales training to keep up with the changes? Here we are talking about sales skills training not product or welcome-to-the-company training.).

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 24, 2018

According to research from CSO Insights, “organizations with successful sales enablement programs see 67% quota attainment, compared to only 42% for companies that admit their enablement programs fall short of expectations”. This points us to two potential takeaways: There’s a problem with how sales training is done today.

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LeadFuze

MARCH 10, 2021

How to Collect Prospects Before Making Sales Calls. LeadFuze is a software solution that helps you build lists of accurate leads automatically while integrating with sales outreach tools to allow you to contact those freshly verified leads. 5 Tips on How to Start a Sales Call Over the Phone. They’d usually ask “How’s it going?”.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 24, 2018

According to research from CSO Insights, “organizations with successful sales enablement programs see 67% quota attainment, compared to only 42% for companies that admit their enablement programs fall short of expectations”. This points us to two potential takeaways: There’s a problem with how sales training is done today.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It’s even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product, or a slew of new features, and you need to develop and launch a brand new sales strategy that will take your product to the top spot it was made for. There are an unlimited number of angles from which you can attack a sales strategy. What is a sales strategy?

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? Making the leap from sales practitioner to sales manager doesn’t have as much to do with being a rockstar that boasts the highest close rate on your team—as it’s concerned with your ability to motivate, lead and elevate others to achieve more. Overseeing the organization’s sales training.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2021

More salespeople equals more sales, right? Scaling your sales team is crucial to growing a healthy business. Take a strategic approach to scaling your sales team, and make smart hiring decisions that will benefit your organization for years to come. Check out these 12 mistakes to avoid when scaling your sales organization.

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In recent years, however, the business community has come to regard the sales call as an expenditure for which there are substitutes. For many companies telemarketing, video conferencing and direct e-mail, have made the sales call a choice, not an inevitability. Customer Focus Creates Competitive Advantage.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

If you’re a sales compensation manager, we’re sure you’re familiar with this sort of AI-driven anxiety. Read on to learn about the power of AI for sales comp managers– and the limitations of AI that prove why your (human) skills and experience are still absolutely essential to your business. Eliminate the learning curve.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

This is where a Sales QBR or ‘Quarterly Business Review’ comes into play. What is a Sales QBR? 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. Related: How to Prepare for a Sales Development QBR. isn’t ad-hoc.

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Keith Rosen

MAY 13, 2009

Because the truth is, you just may be running so fast in an attempt to catch up on your sales numbers, that you didn’t recognize the blinders you’ve developed which are obstructing your view of the fuller picture; the landscape you’re trying to farm and manage when it comes to selling and driving the right sales activity.

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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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Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2021

When it comes to sales, numbers are key, but they don't always give you a comprehensive picture of your org's performance and potential — particularly in the context of forecasting. There's no denying that numbers are a crucial part of any sales forecast — you should never try to put one together without them. Let's jump in!

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LeadFuze

JULY 5, 2023

Understanding how to motivate your sales team is crucial for any business aiming to increase market share and achieve its sales goals. A motivated sales team can drive revenue, foster customer relationships, and contribute significantly towards the company’s mission. But what motivates sales teams?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2019

In sales, you only go as far as your team will take you. This makes sales hiring one of the most critical pieces of building a high-performing revenue machine. So, how do you think about what kind of sales team you want to build? I think about building sales teams in very much the same way. Clarity on territories.

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 14, 2020

Now go ahead and put your salesperson hat back on so we can talk about what it means to be a sales industry influencer. Wonder what it takes to become a sales industry influencer? Though there are influential salespeople who are at different points in their careers, they all have a love for sales and a deep sense of industry knowledge.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

You may think you work in sales or on a RevOps team. This gives you a unique opportunity to optimize your sales commission process like a supercharged engineering team, and gain a serious advantage over your competitors— who are still slogging through their spreadsheets, none the wiser. We know—this news probably comes as a shock.

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Bigtincan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Sales teams use Highspot primarily for three reasons: sales enablement, sales coaching , and content management. Highspot has been around for nine years and has many loyal customers, but there are also many Highspot competitors in the sales enablement space. This article was written for them. Mindtickle. On SharePoint.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

“I remember the first time I got my own CRM system, nearly 10 years ago” recounts author and sales coach Adam Metz. ” There are two main reasons CRM adoption fails for sales teams trying to increase their performance. As companies and sales teams grow 65% of businesses adopt a CRM within their first 5 years.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

“I remember the first time I got my own CRM for sales, nearly 10 years ago” recounts author and sales coach Adam Metz. ” There are two main reasons sales CRM adoption fails for sales teams trying to increase their performance. Jump ahead to: What is a sales CRM and why use it?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Driving diversity at the sales executive level [1:00]. October is Women in Sales Month. To celebrate, we are highlighting some of the best moments and insights shared on this podcast by female sales leaders who are elevating the entire sales profession. We’re on iTunes.

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