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

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

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results. In this post, you’ll learn tips for managing your team’s sales activity and about the software that can help along the way. Or are your field sales reps handling deals from start to finish within their assigned territories?

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Revenue Proposal SalesForce Lead Rank 118

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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Government SalesForce Objections Lead Rank 58

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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Sales Process Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Territories 124

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

from CRM, sales performance management solutions, sales enablement, CPQ and other sales-related applications. If mere access to data was the key to sales results, the widespread use of CRM should have had a “rising tide lifts all boats” effect on sales. This is unexplored territory?—?and Additional data sources.

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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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SalesForce Territories Intent Signal Buyer Persona 100

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 2, 2024

Key Metrics for Measuring Effectiveness Measuring the effectiveness of your business development strategy starts with identifying your goals and objectives. When measuring yours, consider the following: Quantitative analysis Qualitative feedback ROI analysis Competitive benchmarks Quantitative data is information from your CRM.

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Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy Analysis 62

PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

Target market A company that specializes in customized software solutions for small to medium-sized businesses might create a sales plan to target businesses in major US metropolitan areas working in the technology, retail, and healthcare industries — with annual revenues of $1 million to $20 million. Why did you start your business?

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Prospecting Attention Deficit Disorder: How to Avoid the Shiny Object Syndrome. All of these results-focused activities and all of your seemingly unlimited energies are directed at a highly targeted end-goal: generating the maximum amount of revenue from your territory. It is aptly referred to as the Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Ideal Customer Profile Objections Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead 125

Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

Material resources Material resources include everything from computers and software to pens and notebooks. For example, by assessing territory assignments for sales reps, a manager might find that some territories have too many reps assigned to them. Explore our guide to managing a sales team.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

Objection Handling. Territory Management. Objection Handling. Sales objections are a fact of life for reps. An objection managed poorly, however, can derail an otherwise good conversation. Territory Management. Ensure your sales reps are engaged in the right messaging based on their territories.

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Social Media Territories Face-to-face Negotiation 62

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. For the sake of example, we're going to follow the sales process of a rep from an educational curriculum and scheduling software company.

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Sales Process Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead 137

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

Whether it’s pool supplies or software, it’s important to train them on how to administer, use, and see the value of your product or service. They learn how to use HubSpot’s CRM , Marketing , and Sales tools. Train them on how to use your CRM. When appropriate, have them take a CRM certification exam.

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Hiring Training Hubspot Inbound 119

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. Read this article to better understand the pros and cons that other CRMs have when compared to Pipedrive. Both mature SMBs and newly minted sales teams love Pipedrive for how newcomer-friendly the CRM is.

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Lead Rank SalesForce Hubspot Lead Scoring 52

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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CRM Scale Lead Rank Lead Scoring 47

Gong.io

AUGUST 24, 2022

Sales managers use forecasts for territory planning as well. If you know that next quarter, you’ve got an expected $250k in revenue from one territory and only $100k in expected revenue from a second; you can more appropriately allocate resources to the more lucrative geography. Sales forecasts: responsibilities, objectives, and uses

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution. We at Software Advice typically focus on sales force automation software , but we decided to broaden our focuse and see what is available on mobile devices to match the needs of a mobile sales force.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

As you'll read below, sales operations includes everything from lead management, sales strategy, and territory structuring and alignment to process optimization, compensation plans, sales automation, training, and data analytics and reporting. Territory Definition. Download Our Free Sales Conversion Rate Calculator and Guide.

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Sales Operations Hiring Lead Rank Territories 95

The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

As a sales leader, you must coach your sellers to quickly and objectively evaluate whether a prospect is truly qualified, so no time is wasted chasing a deal that will never happen. Make sure your salespeople are regularly updating your CRM, and check in to see that they have a solid system for organizing emails.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Sales Cycle CRM 63

Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

The focus is on things like reporting, territory management and later stage tasks such as contract negotiations and finance approvals. This can be categorized into four business objectives. Ability to work in Salesforce, Excel, Visio, Anaplan and other tools including familiarity with marketing software like Marketo. Operations.

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Sales Operations Top of Funnel Lead Rank Hiring 60

Showpad

JANUARY 8, 2021

According to HubSpot, the pre-work onboarding period can include everything from “shadowing,” in which new hires follow established reps as they go about their daily routine, to learning about whatever software and other tools they’ll be regularly using.

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Hiring Training Sales Enablement Case Study 52

The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2012

I had a call from Bob, a director of sales with software company. This frees up a lot of bandwidth in the old cranium, allowing you to focus much more on the client, their objectives, and how you can help them, and your company achieve their objectives. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Book Notice.

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Pipeline Cancellation Sales Cycle Cold Calling 224

Zendesk Sell

MARCH 28, 2019

Summary objective. Disruptive strength in the enormous $36 billion CRM / SFA marketplace. Working knowledge of the CRM industry. Zendesk Sell began when we were frustrated by our own experience with CRM and was founded in 2009 based on a strong internal belief that businesses deserve better, smarter software.

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Hiring How To Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 77

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Either way, ensure these and all of your loss reasons are clearly defined so that Sales Ops can understand the why behind the dreaded "Closed-Lost" notification in the CRM. Ian Byrne , Enterprise Territory Manager for HubSpot, says the key point in all aspects of closing a deal is to not make assumptions. "If Categorize Deal Stages.

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Hubspot Decision Maker How To Follow-up 124

Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

By the end of a successful persona build, you should have a very clear picture of your ideal customer(s): their ages, lifestyle attributes, territories, and pain points. Start with your customer relationship management (CRM) software. Determine: Is your CRM optimized for your team’s uses? Step 1: Set clear goals.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Strategy Buyer Persona 113

SBI

AUGUST 28, 2012

And while timing has always been important in sales (think monthly and quarterly objectives) the most important thing is to beat the revenue objective before the final buzzer goes off. Velocity, as a word, is a “measurement of the rate and direction-of-motion of an object.” And a whole lot more.

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Revenue eBook Objections Territories 111

Cincom Smart Selling

MAY 24, 2018

Configure Price and Quotation (CPQ) software is front and center in the digitalization of the selling and buying processes. Additionally, CRM systems and order management systems contain customer data that include, not only the choices they made within CPQ, install dates and locations, but also their marketing demographic data.

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Revelation Engineering Collateral Demographics 48

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Putting out reactive fires, supporting reps, managing territories, reporting, building new functionality and processes in the CRM, and much more. JIRA is my favorite but other software such as Service Cloud works well too. Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. In sales operations, we do a lot.

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Sales Operations Report SalesForce Survey 79

The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

Dave is the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc., He is internationally known for his ground breaking work in evaluating sales people, he is the developer of a tool for evaluating sales forces, and the co-developer of several software and web applications that help sales managers coach and hold their salespeople accountable.

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Pipeline Conference Cold Calling Hiring 255

SBI

MAY 8, 2012

Over time, and if left unattended, the inevitable accumulation of ‘stuff’, the clutter that permeates, penetrates and defines your motivation and attitude, will distract you from your objectives, will keep you from focusing on the right activities, and will undermine the vital integrity you have so carefully nurtured with your customers.

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Tools Territories Webinar Metrics Report 82

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A variation on the familiar “oh no, it is not the hardware, it’s a software issue” ya right. I guess he does not have access to their CRM, he just “listens to social comments” This exchange led to no joy. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen.

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Pipeline Customer Demand Generation Agencies Hiring 227

Apptivo

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A proper sales plan helps businesses achieve their goals and objectives. Sales plan is a periodic forecast that is based on the overall objective of the organization, arrived at by analyzing trends, and predicting opportunities. It plans for various tasks to be carried out over the period to achieve the above objective.

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Top of Funnel Incentives Incentive Objections 19

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A sales pipeline software is a digital tool for structuring your selling process so you can close deals quicker and expand your firm faster. These details are particularly helpful when you’re striving to meet your sales objectives. How to pick a good sales pipeline software. Sales pipelines are just one feature of a strong CRM.

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Pipeline Software Software CRM 52

OpenSymmetry

JULY 15, 2015

Sales Processes and Process Tools like CRM and CPQ. Territory and Quota Management. At OpenSymmetry, we have a variety of strategic service offerings tailored to help organizations identify the right requirements and solutions to meet their business objectives based on their current pain points and future vision.

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Vendor Territories Compensation SalesForce 40

Jonathan Farrington

OCTOBER 5, 2012

All of these results-focused activities and all of your seemingly unlimited energies are directed at a highly targeted end-goal: generating the maximum amount of revenue from your territory. It is aptly referred to as the Shiny Object Syndrome. Can you tell where the Shiny Objects are in the following?

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Ideal Customer Profile Objections Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead 34