Janek Performance Group

APRIL 2, 2024

A pillar of success for any sales organization is an effective business development strategy. Of course, changes in the sales landscape and marketplace have a profound effect on your business development strategy. However, a Janek survey revealed 18% of sales leaders do not have set prospecting metrics.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 24, 2024

Dating back to 1977, my entire career was as a B2B sales rep or I was managing a B2B sales team. Today we have electronic tools. Of course, things can get complicated when you are juggling 100’s of clients, prospects, and active deals. Where are we with sales forecasts? Let’s first start with a little background.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Quickly growing businesses require more sophisticated automation to ensure operational efficiency, proper distribution of leads among their sales team, and to make sure no leads slip through cracks. That’s what makes lead routing a critical component to any scaling sales strategy. Lead Routing by Territory or Geography.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 9, 2013

Sales Leaders may want to look for some help outside of Sales. This post discusses what Sales might want in an HR Business Partner. The downloadable tool includes a profile of a highly successful HR business partner to sales. Earlier posts talked about how HR Business Partners can provide value to Sales.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

Salespeople need to retain a lot of information and master the right sales skills to consistently hit their numbers. An effective sales readiness strategy is essential to their success. The answer, of course, varies based on role, industry, and the buyers you’re targeting. Essential Sales Skills Every Rep Should Have.

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BrainShark

MAY 31, 2023

While employee cutbacks and attrition are widespread across sectors and roles at the moment, these numbers are especially concerning for sales— a department with historically high turnover at the best of times. What is time to competency in sales onboarding? Because of quota attainment,” said Zines. “If

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In the HubSpot Blog's recent survey of over 500 sales professionals, we tried to see what sales leaders hope to achieve when training reps and the top sales coaching tactics they use to get there — and our survey produced some interesting insight on both fronts. Sales Leaders' Primary Coaching Goals. Let's dive in.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In it, our team of experts shares tips on how you can use the tools in your tech stack with one another to improve seller productivity. Just imagine the tech stack you already have in a go-to-market organization today, especially on the sales side. You have, of course, your CRM. Unlock the Videos Transcription Hi, everyone.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It’s the one aspect of sales that just never changes. As we’ve all experienced, sales essentially boils down to two things: Numbers. Truth is, sales is changing -- quickly. As the sales conversations grows even more buyer-focused, sales reps have begun developing his or her own hack, own technique, own process.

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Alice Heiman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Setting an overall sales goal for a company is relatively easy. The leadership team decides how much growth is needed in real dollars as a percentage over last year’s sale. Will be new sales to existing clients? . Will be new sales to new clients? . What were our sales last year? . How much: . Who sold it? .

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sales professionals — yes, even managers — on frontlines of business development. Because, let’s face it, even in a perfect world, CRMs benefit company leadership more than the quota-carrying sales rep. Because like most sales and marketing technologies, CRMs are only as good as the data stored within its database.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You can attribute sales success to many factors. A diverse sales team that acknowledges the importance of appreciating the differences in people can take a business to the next level. Let’s discuss the connection between diversity and sales in more detail. Develop Inclusive Sales Solutions. Attract More Loyal Customers.

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The Pipeline

MAY 15, 2017

In sales, many often confuse activity with moving the sale forward or execution, bringing to mind the saying about the deck chairs on the Titanic. An overall corporate sales strategy, territory and account strategies, and then a strategy for every encounter with a laser focus on logical next steps.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. To say that sales managers have their work cut out for them would be a massive understatement. This is where great sales managers come in.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Scott Barton, Varicent’s VP of Industry Solutions & 20-year sales compensation industry pro, attended WorldatWork’s 2022 Sales Compensation Conference. Despite these advances, few industry pros currently use predictive or prescriptive analytics for determining sales compensation plan effectiveness. Is change in the air?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 4, 2013

Most HR and Sales leaders who just completed this mid-year chore would agree. It does not answer the question that is top of mind with Sales and HR leaders, “How can we improve the performance of our sales team?” A more Agile way of assessing sales talent has emerged. Changes to Territory coverage.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are lots of great books (including Sales Manager Survival Guide), there are a lot of great training programs (including those we offer), but somehow managers continue to struggle in both finding the time to coach and coaching in high impact ways. Coaching managers is not that much different than coaching individual contributors.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Enablement has been hard at work helping organizations and their sales teams accomplish change for a while now, but never at the pace we’ve seen over the past few months. Yes, enablement — along with operations — has facilitated the change needed so newly digital-first sales teams can continue with business as usual.

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BuzzBoard

JANUARY 23, 2024

There’s a persistent fear that AI might replace the human workforce, including sales teams, rendering them redundant. AI, with its ability to process vast amounts of data and perform complex tasks, is a powerful sales tool, no doubt. Yet, its true strength lies in its partnership with human expertise.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. This is the 10th article in a January series on the Architecture of the Sales Force. Here are the others: Organic Sales Growth and Its Impact on Sales Architecture. Overlooked Conversation Between Sales Managers and Salespeople. Who are they? Where can they be found?

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 27, 2013

In the first two posts in this series we talked about gaining visibility to grow sales as well as putting a plan in place. If it is a new plan, or new territory – find the upside to it and see how you can make it work for you. What projects are you going to commit to get done which will lead you to more sales in the coming year?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

There are many moving parts in a successful sales organization. If you know that you love strategizing to increase sales but don’t want to be an account executive, sales operations may be the right place for you. What is Sales Operations? Why do we need Sales Operations? Average sales cycle duration.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They’re researching business products and services online, purchasing via websites as much as they can, and foregoing interactions with sales representatives whenever possible. Of course, the shift to digital sales tactics has been underway for years. What sales investments should you focus on in 2022? Sales engagement.

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SalesforLife

JUNE 27, 2019

If you read our blog, you know that account executives are responsible for building TAM maps for their particular geographic territory. You need to engage using tools that help you understand buying intent. These events could be localized events, sporting events, experiential events, conferences, trade shows, or user conferences.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

When assessing your team’s performance, sales activities offer crucial metrics. That includes the number of sales calls, VP-level meetings, new qualified opportunities, and so on. With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results. Get started with this three-step process.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Timing is everything in sales. 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. Broadly speaking, any industry change can be considered a trigger event and indicate a channel for making a sale. So what do sales trigger events look like?

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InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Insurance sales rep. Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses. I didn’t hear of sales ops until years after entering the workforce.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

The sales operations professional is like the coxswain for salespeople. Patrick Kelly, who led Xerox’s first Sales Operations group, describes the role as “all the nasty number things that you don’t want to do but need to do to make a great sales force.”. Download Our Free Sales Conversion Rate Calculator and Guide.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Vice President of Sales at ZoomInfo, Steve Bryerton, shares his thoughts on how to implement a Team Lead within your organization. Picture this: You’re a sales leader, currently responsible for a team of nearly 10+ sales development reps. But we have to warn you, there are sales leaders who will advise otherwise.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 16, 2021

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year” for most of us, but for sales enablement professionals around the world, December and January usually mean one thing — sales kickoff planning season. Whether your 2022 sales kickoff will be in person, virtual, or a hybrid, thoughtful and strategic planning is critical to success. .

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 30, 2020

It listed information for all the prospects in my California territory including the company name, revenue figures, address, telephone number and — of course — the decision maker’s name and title. The training program, called "Professional Selling Skills," took a then-new consultative approach to sales. Here they are.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 18, 2020

When sales teams struggle , I like to investigate three critical aspects of their sales strategy. . Understanding your market position is powerful because it helps you understand where to focus your sales and marketing efforts, and what language to use. Market Position. Ideal Customer Profile . Value Proposition. The market.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This month, Pipeliner is introducing an unparalleled sales forecasting approach: the Pipeliner Revenue Intelligence Loop! Of course, uncertainty is the main worry for anyone trying to analyze or forecast the future. To succeed in this new competitive environment, every company needs to revolutionize its sales function management.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 19, 2022

According to the survey of over 1000 sales managers, the five most popular metrics were: CRM utilization, Calls made, Emails sent, Conversations, Use of sales tools. Measuring a sales person’s CRM utilization is absolutely meaningless. CRM is a critical tool to help improve seller productivity.

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LeadFuze

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Ever felt like you’re sailing in the rough seas of sales, struggling to keep your boat steady against unpredictable winds? Navigate these waters with ease – join us as we chart out a course through the vast ocean of best sales training podcasts. What is the podcast about sales prospecting? Ready to set sail?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Which means things shaking up in the B2B world — holiday emails are being blasted, sales deals are being closed, and 2021 recruitment strategies are finishing up. And to get there, you have to ramp up your visibility and engagement with your best sales, marketing, and recruiting teams. Read more: Cold Call Sales Voicemail Scripts.

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