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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Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2022

A modern routing strategy that’s built for revenue growth includes three main elements: Integrated account-based selling tools The ability to route any object (e.g. Traits, actions, demographic information, and prospect criteria are used to determine how likely a lead is to buy. The higher the possibility, the higher the lead score.

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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. Marketing Plan Template: The Essential Components An effective marketing plan outlines a business’s strategies and tactics to achieve its marketing objectives.

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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. Marketing Plan Template: The Essential Components An effective marketing plan outlines a business’s strategies and tactics to achieve its marketing objectives.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure. In fact, optimizing territory design can increase sales by 2 to 7% each year ( source ).

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Ask questions like, “How would you handle a customer’s price objections?” Simulations add some much-needed objectivity to the interview process. That mock presentation will reveal how persuasive they are, how effective their delivery style is, and—again—how they counter objections. Will they be good at the job, or not?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

It includes a thorough analysis of the customer segments , including their demographics, psychographics, and buying behavior. 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.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

A sales plan lays out your objectives, high-level tactics, target audience, and potential obstacles. Whether you’re writing your first sales plan or your fifteenth, knowing your target demographic is crucial. Make sure your objective is realistic, otherwise your entire sales plan will be largely useless. What’s a sales plan?

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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. I sat staring at the Dun & Bradstreet printout. A lot has changed since then — or has it? Qualification. Preparation.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2019

Are they in the industry or territory you're targeting? Do they fit the demographics of the target persona? Tire kickers often come up with budget objections, which can be an indicator that they're not actually interested in purchasing your product or service. Here are a few questions to consider when determining a good fit.

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Another question is if the sales person has been assigned to the right territory or accounts and if the salesperson is coached by their managers. Survey demographics. This domain is all about how effective customer facing professionals are at each stage of the sales cycle. It’s a bit more complex. Regularly and consistently.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Whether it’s demographic or behavior scoring, the scoring model you have today doesn’t have to change. Since most sales folks live inside the CRM all day long, a great way to implement the MQL threshold is as a custom object in your CRM — or if you have some type of territory carve custom object already, you can easily add it to that.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

My territory / opportunities are too small. The objectives are unrealistic. However, question their judgement only if no one else, or very few outliers have achieved those objectives. Consider also whether economic shifts have influenced other buyer demographics into finally considering your solutions.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MAY 24, 2018

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. List customers in territory with revenue in excess of $100 million per year. Use CPQ to Identify Prospects. Here’s an example.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

My territory is too small, and I dont have enough opportunities. However, only if no one else is reaching those objectives or very few people are achieving them should you consider this as an excuse. If there are any economic shifts, then consider how that affects other demographics to purchase what youre selling.

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OpenSymmetry

JULY 20, 2016

Tactics may have changed, but for the most part these sales teams still run on a commission or quota based metric determined by well-planned territories. Even with these big hurdles, re-writing current comp plans, adjusting physician relationship tactics, and mapping even more detailed territories isn’t unheard of.

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OpenSymmetry

JULY 20, 2016

Tactics may have changed, but for the most part these sales teams still run on a commission or quota based metric determined by well-planned territories. Even with these big hurdles, re-writing current comp plans, adjusting physician relationship tactics, and mapping even more detailed territories isn’t unheard of.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 26, 2011

There may be a need to purchase resources differently if the customer needs to enter new markets and cater to new demographics. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Ian had to rethink the tools he was purchasing to ensure that he could match the growth for which the CEO was looking. Is the market the customer is in ideal?

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Objective: The Sales Development Representative is responsible for booking qualified leads so that the account executives can reach their quotas. It’s important to make sure your request is processed for the territories of all account executives. Segment Accounts.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

You need to base your personas on more than general demographic information. 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. When creating your CTA, remember that your objective is to inspire.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Objection: A prospect’s challenge leading to opposing a product or service, i.e. budget, time constraints. This type of qualification is based solely on demographics. Does the prospect fall within my territory? Time constraints and budget limitations are often the biggest objections we receive from prospects. Constraints.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Does the buyer match the demographics of a given persona? Questions you should ask at this stage include: Is the prospect in your territory? What objections to this purchase do you anticipate encountering? This is the most basic level of qualification, and doesn’t tell you much other than whether you should do more research.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

First, set your business objective(s). Next, make a note of what questions arise from your objective. Now your sales team should know which specific sales metrics to leverage as you work to meet your objective. Over time, as your objectives change, you may need to add or remove various data points based on need.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 17, 2023

This allowed for objective and interlocked sales targets. Pro tip: Create a list of prospects with shared characteristics like buyer intent and demographics. Here you can practice sales pitches, demos, nailing presentations, and handling objections. The platform also comes with tools for sales territory planning.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 31, 2018

Granted, ABM enables us to narrow the focus more, but we can target our messages by industry group, by persona within industry group, by organizational demographics within those industry groups, by functions within those organizations. In reality, an account is just a different form of territory.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Projecting sales (and revenue) helps business leaders make informed decisions about business operations and track their progress toward long-term goals and objectives. Sales goals are measurable objectives that guide sales teams through their day-to-day sales activities and help them make strategic business decisions.

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Tire-kickers frequently engage with the sales teams, asking questions and raising objections, prolonging the sales process without committing to a deal. Here are a few questions you can ask yourself while qualifying your new leads: Are they in the industry or territory that you’re targeting? They don’t have the budget. Geoffrey James.

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Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2018

Tools like CRM or marketing automation or project management software provide no clear vision for enabling disparate departments in busy companies to work in concert toward the main objectives—being efficient about increasing revenue.

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Salesmate

MARCH 17, 2020

Or maybe you are planning to expand your startup and are gearing up to explore the unknown territory. Your sales process is a template that guides you towards achieving your sales objectives. Handling Objections. Well, I never said you won’t face objections, did I! Okay, you have overcome the objections of your prospects.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Use Freshsales to upgrade your contact management, lead scoring, email tracking, and territory management process. By analyzing your team’s calls and notes in real-time, Dooly feeds your team the stories and competitor intel they need to wow prospective customers and weave through objections with ease.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I saw an instance for myself once where I took over a sales territory from someone else, and a company had not let us bid on a huge project because they didn’t like the rep. And the other advantage to having diversity inclusion on a sales team of all types is that you have different answers to problems. The rep was a guy.

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