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. Use Data-driven Intelligence to Map Territories. Download Guide.

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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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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

There are meetings to develop and execute strategies to respond to specific customer and prospect issues. For example, an issue in 100% of the clients I work with is CRM compliance. CRM has been in place for at least 30 years, and it’s stunning to see that CRM compliance is still a dominant issue.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Prospecting Attention Deficit Disorder: How to Avoid the Shiny Object Syndrome. And you competently juggle your frenetic schedule, apportioning just the right amount of time for office work, prospecting, sales calls, follow-up, travel, and communication. It is aptly referred to as the Shiny Object Syndrome.

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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. The Right Data for Customer Segmentation.

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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. The Right Data for Customer Segmentation.

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Pipeliner

JULY 23, 2022

The more critical and complex type of navigation is developing the skill for exploring unknown territory. Navigation is also made more complex if the route to reach the objective is not known or not clear—it’s common today to have a destination with many ways to achieve it, none of them necessarily ideal.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

During the planning stage, salespeople should have clarity around the following questions: What is the objective of the sales call? What objections do you expect to encounter? Territory Management. It certainly helps to have a world-class CRM help us map out our month and surface up leads that are most likely to convert.”.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Here are 10 ways you can improve your sales process optimization process by utilizing data from the CRM system. CRM is changing, and it’s going to be a big focuses in the future. Sales region / territory. Then work with these metrics across your CRM data to find trends. Introhive reports that CRM users spend 5.5

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 2, 2024

And this often begins with prospecting. However, a Janek survey revealed 18% of sales leaders do not have set prospecting metrics. In addition, 32% don’t know how much time reps prospect. Analyze trends over time and segment data by customer or territories. This is a missed opportunity. Use these to measure key metrics.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 20, 2018

Here are a few tips: Divide your territory in a way that makes sense. One of the first steps to effective territory management is to have a concrete view of current customers, potential customers, competitors’ activity, and the location of all of these. Some examples are: ‘Friends’ within the customer/prospect.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2023

Related: Sales Cycle Management: Definition, Stages, and Strategies Listen to your AE’s calls The leads that you pick from the above CRM report might have call recordings associated with them. You can get this information by studying CRM deal links and speaking to the AEs you have worked with. Get to know your CRM in and out.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 21, 2013

He gets protective of “gray area prospects” who stretch across several regions. Every time there’s a territory rezoning he bellyaches. Or If you chop up my territory, I’ll look somewhere else. Because of this, prospects and existing customers don’t get the same level of service. CRM adoption? He is spread too thin.

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Any change to the business — whether its a simple change to your product’s pricing or packaging, or an acquisition requiring the integration of new CRM data with your existing data — means your system needs to be adapted. Here’s what we’re going to cover: Salesforce objects. Here’s what we’re going to cover: Salesforce objects.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore? Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. Are you territory based or open territories?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Typically, SDRs work from one of two territory models: Static territories based on geography or vertical or business segment. A Wild West-style free-for-all where reps prospect into an addressable market wherever they’d like. A dynamic book management model actually does away with the concept of static territories entirely.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. Set a schedule to call all the prospects that went to no decision over the last 12 months.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success. The question is: What should one’s sales prospecting strategy be?

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The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them. Objection Handling. Prospecting.

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The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

Prospecting With E-Mail. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Tool , Sell Better , Success , Video , e-mail , execution. Last week we looked at means of leveraging voice mail in prospecting. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Tibor Shanto.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

Prospecting. Objection Handling. Territory Management. Prospecting. Unfortunately, we’ve all experienced poor sales prospecting. To be effective, salespeople need to develop a strategic approach to prospecting and work on it daily to identify new business opportunities better. Objection Handling.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). What Is Prospecting? What's the difference between leads and prospects? Sales Prospecting Techniques.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. In fact, we’ve coached clients through a number of simple steps that have helped them double or triple their prospecting email response rates virtually overnight. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

They learn how to use HubSpot’s CRM , Marketing , and Sales tools. Train them on how to use your CRM. Teach your reps how to use your CRM, and include hands-on, project-based training (like how to enter new contacts, set reminders, and log communication). When appropriate, have them take a CRM certification exam.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

2) Don’t Ignore the Candidate’s Red Flags Perhaps your prospective sales rep has an impressive resume, one which lists a series of excellent sales positions with an exciting range of duties, goals, and accomplishments. Ask questions like, “How would you handle a customer’s price objections?” Will they be good at the job, or not?

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Not all sales people have the same skills.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results. Or are your field sales reps handling deals from start to finish within their assigned territories? Two salespeople might contact the same number of prospects. It’s a long-standing CRM that handles large workforces with complex needs.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

Sales objectives In this example of a sales plan, the sales objectives could be to simultaneously increase sales by 25% and to acquire 10 new customers in the first year of operation. This can include training on product features and benefits, sales techniques, objection handling, and customer relationship management.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This plan serves as a roadmap, outlining clear objectives, targeted customer segments, and actionable tactics to drive sales and promote brand awareness. It addresses how sales representatives engage with prospects, close deals, and meet revenue targets.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This plan serves as a roadmap, outlining clear objectives, targeted customer segments, and actionable tactics to drive sales and promote brand awareness. It addresses how sales representatives engage with prospects, close deals, and meet revenue targets.

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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. It’s much easier now to find out what you need to know about a prospect or a client. Use your CRM system — that’s what it’s for.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

This means some territories are not producing to expected or potential revenues. Increase in Sales rep LinkedIn activity not related to prospects or customers. Look for profile updates and network connections that are not customer or prospect oriented. However, HR will have some of the data, too. This one is obvious.

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SugarCRM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Few projects can have as big of an impact on your company as a successful Customer Relationship Management (CRM) implementation. And as you might suspect, planning a CRM project takes a combination of skills that go beyond most other IT projects. Maybe your CRM project is simply about increasing your product usage by unhappy customers.

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SugarCRM

MARCH 5, 2019

Few projects can have as big of an impact on your company as a successful Customer Relationship Management (CRM) implementation. And as you might suspect, planning a CRM project takes a combination of skills that go beyond most other IT projects. This is a tall order because CRM projects are truly unique amongst all other IT projects.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

Think about this way, if you don’t make prospecting a daily habit and only focus on the deals at hand, how will you meet your goals next month or the month after that? If prospecting becomes part of your day-to-day routine, each call becomes less stressful and the stakes are lowered. Look for a better CRM. Hire new talent.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into Buyers. Prospecting is a term that’s been around for a long time. Your business strategies are the same as the gold-miners, except instead of digging for ore, you’re digging for customers, with your mind focused on this: you want to find the right prospects—the serious buyers.

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