Xactly

AUGUST 2, 2018

The sales territory is a geographical area that is managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by sales potential, history, geography, or a combination of the above. The objective is to make sure sales territories are balanced to help increase revenues. .

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Territories Demographics Travel Distribution 68

Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to make sure your team has everything they need to succeed. The answer is resource management skills—a crucial but often overlooked skill in the sales manager’s toolkit. Table of Contents What is resource management for sales?

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Resources Sales Management Forecasting Distribution 62

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. Wing was able to lean on ZoomInfo’s Chorus conversation intelligence solution and its SalesOS platform to analyze successful deals and perform lightning-fast research on her new territory and team. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Analysis Territories Scale SalesForce 130

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. by Howard Brown, CEO of ringDNA.

Sales Management 136

Sales Management Scale Top of Funnel Hiring 136

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the amount of data you have? Look inside any distribution ERP system and you’ll find thousands of customers, product SKUs, sales transactions and more. What do you do with all that data and where do you even start to gain insights? They can create their own dashboards and uncover new insights.

Distribution 52

Distribution Benefit Data Trends 52

Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Barry Trailer from Sales Mastery Advisors highlights a goldmine of opportunity: diving deep into repeat and referral sales. Believe it or not, expanding within your existing customer base can yield better returns than braving new territories. Furthermore, while data is crucial, it’s quality over quantity.

GoldMine 84

GoldMine Survey Territories Ideal Customer Profile 84

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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Territories Travel Hiring Guidelines 45

Xactly

JUNE 13, 2018

Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning. Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. Ultimately, if your sales territories aren’t optimized, you hinder sales reps’ motivation and performance.

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Territories Travel Webinar Metrics How To 49

Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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Territories Software Software Benefit 45

Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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Territories Demographics Travel Distribution 50

SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Technology plays a pivotal role in this dynamic, especially for sales teams. Apart from high-performing devices, such as laptops and reliable internet connection, a good way of empowering remote sales teams is through CRM implementation. How can CRM deployment help remote sales teams ?

CRM 26

CRM Top of Funnel Face-to-face Analytics 26

InsightSquared

MARCH 5, 2021

Fact: Your sales reps, regardless of how great they are, will never deliver the level of hygiene required to give you confidence in your CRM data. For the better part of my career as a CRO, I was frustrated with the quality of my CRM data. Neither the quantity nor the quality. Not the depth nor the breadth.

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Forecasting Data Revenue Analytics 62

SugarCRM

MARCH 9, 2023

Your sales reps need the right tools to better plan and manage their workload. Sometimes, this can come as sales automation software, other times, like CRM tools, but regardless of the platform, they’ll need the insights a geo-mapping software can offer. Such software takes location-based data and uses it to create a map.

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Software Software CRM Territories 26

Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. All of this data can offer potential value to those who are inclined to dig around, extract, analyze and interpret it. After-sale support.

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Software Software Sales Management Proposal 81

Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. All of this data can offer potential value to those who are inclined to dig around, extract, analyze and interpret it. After-sale support.

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Software Software Sales Management Proposal 81

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

that is, subjected to a set of data that allows it to make correlations that are then compared to predetermined “correct” and “incorrect” answers. So, the first thing an artificial intelligence application needs is data. For example, sales applications should draw on a focused set of data?—?from Additional data sources.

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Training Penetration Government CRM 206

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Because prediction secures company investments and decisions, based on past data. It is, therefore, crucial that historical data be accurately analyzed. Importance of Historical Data. In order to analyze historical data, a company must possess it to begin with. Using KPIs to Set Goals. New Expanded Target Feature.

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Pipeline Revenue Forecasting Quota 97

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. How comfortable are you with data analysis? Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. With this in mind, sales leaders need unique sales manager interview questions.

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Sales Management Hiring Promotion Analysis 140

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As adoption rates in Customer Relationship Management Software (CRMs) continue to rise, a (data-driven) gap in usefulness and effectiveness is very clear. Let’s start with a reminder: CRMs have a purpose. Because like most sales and marketing technologies, CRMs are only as good as the data stored within its database.

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SalesForce Territories Intent Signal Buyer Persona 100

LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

You collect a lot of data from your sales team, but are you really getting the most out of it? Does the data help you make better decisions for your business and can those decisions be tracked to see how they affect future performance? The key is to collect clean data and then use it for insights. Sales rep or sales team.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel CRM Sales Process Lead Rank 52

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 7, 2018

KPIs for Sales Managers. Sales Volume by Location. Sales managers -- and particularly field sales managers -- can often feel like they are trapped in a fog. This is the metric that managers most consistently monitor. The most qualified leads in your CRM? New Leads/Opportunities.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Management Scale 143

Nutshell

MARCH 5, 2024

The simplest round robin approach is assigning each lead to a random sales rep without considering factors like industry, territory, or company type. This random approach may work well for companies where all leads are similar and all sales reps have similar skills. From there, Nutshell will assign leads automatically.

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Distribution Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 77

Pipeliner

MARCH 21, 2018

Before, salespeople armed with price structure, territory and targets did fine as long as they managed their territory and produced results. Sales management provided oversight, bridged with corporate and could be hands-off. 25 percent goes to reporting, administrative and CRM-related tasks. Not today!

Sales Management 43

Sales Management Territories Study Report 43

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We observed this troubling phenomenon while conducting research for our book Cracking the Sales Management Code. Without a common understanding of the term " sales process ," sales managers can’t coach or communicate with their sellers as effectively. Territory Management. Deal Management.

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Sales Process Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Territories 124

Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

The HubSpot Sales Platform gives sales professionals the tools they need to sell more deals faster in one integrated suite. With the CRM and Sales combo, you can track contacts, deals, companies, and tasks; schedule meetings easily; learn more about your prospects; and monitor your team's progress with intuitive reporting.

Tools 108

Tools Closing Territories Hubspot 108

Accent Technologies

APRIL 17, 2019

In the early 2000’s, CRM SaaS offerings began to gain traction with Salesfore.com leading the charge. Now, nearly 20 years later, CRM systems have transitioned from a “nice-to-have” to an essential element of any enterprise sales tech stack. and the sales engagements that transpired with each of those prospects.

Ideal Customer Profile 40

Ideal Customer Profile Data Closing Lead Rank 40

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

Do you have sales development reps who generate leads and then distribute those leads to account executives? Or are your field sales reps handling deals from start to finish within their assigned territories? Once you've mapped out the structure of your sales team, define the critical activities for each role.

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Revenue Proposal SalesForce Lead Rank 118

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

I allow myself to get sucked into discussions about CRM systems. Basically the arguments are sales people versus management. CRM has been around for decades, one would think these discussions are a thing of the past. We know managers often do terribly dumb and mindless things. I’m so stupid.

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System CRM Revelation Territories 92

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

With all the data potentially at your disposal, it’s easy to get bogged down in the minutia. Is the segmentation based on data that predicts revenue opportunity? Has the prospect data source been carefully selected to ensure reliable output? Data analysis and propeller-heads won’t deliver revenue. Make it Pay Off.

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Segment Customer Territories Penetration 288

Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

But, just as the first wave of agricultural society gave way to the second wave of industrial society, so too Learning Paths transitioned to more situational, Territory Plan-based learning and enablement. The Second Wave: Territory Plans. Then you can identify the “land and expanders” you need to help grow existing accounts.

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Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Territories Top of Funnel 105

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. They say you can’t shrink your way to success, but perhaps there are situations in sales where you can. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense.

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Pipeline Territories Harvest Cold Calling 212

Hubspot Sales

JULY 11, 2019

Enter, the sales operations manager. Sales operations exists to help the team use technology effectively, implement training exercises, align sales and marketing, set territories, evaluate compensation plans, and more. A common phrase you’ll see in sales ops positions, regardless of title, will be, “.

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Hiring Salary Commission Sales Operations 108

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

This quote, from marketing guru Seth Godin, sums up the importance of good data in making better decisions. Did you use data to inform that decision? In fact, the 2018 Global Data Management Benchmark Report found that 52% of the organizations surveyed said data and analytics would be a key source of opportunity in the coming years.

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Examples Hiring Report Hubspot 105

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

With over 100,000 loyal corporate users globally, the CRM helps sales teams to excel at their work and convert more leads. However, Pipedrive is frequently chided for failing to deliver on more advanced features like email marketing, project management, and automation. Our approach to sourcing data. Among these are: G2.com

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Lead Rank SalesForce Hubspot Lead Scoring 52

SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

She does great work in recruiting and hiring of Sales Reps. She even ensures Sales Managers are getting the new hires onboarded effectively. Any virtual benches that the Sales Managers had have long ago been used up. The HR partner to sales will probably need help getting indicator data.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Margin Commission 312

Apptivo

MARCH 9, 2023

Omar Periu said- “Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits on a daily basis.” However, at times no matter how long one stretches, sales tasks eat up a lot of productive hours. 3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more!

Sales Automation 64

Sales Automation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Campaigns 64

Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

CRM systems provide a place for contact, customer and activity reporting. Sales reps that don’t use CRM need to understand that this is not acceptable any more. More companies are adopting a policy that if something isn’t in CRM, it isn’t real. CRM and CPQ systems remember things exactly the way they were entered.

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CRM System Policies Incentives 59