John Barrows

APRIL 10, 2019

For many of us, April marks the start of a new quarter, fresh targets and quota and new opportunities to focus on. Discounts right away. It’s easy for me to say never discount, but I understand the reality of discounting and how sometimes it’s necessary to get the deal over the finish line. If you are going to discount.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 10, 2023

Failure to hit quotas. Instead of discounting, get better at selling value. High interest rates. Massive layoffs. Stock Market down. Cost-cutting. We are now seeing these events in sales organizations: Missed forecasts. Closing delays. Order cancellations. We know what doesn’t work in a recession.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The others are 80% plus the same; the winner has better salespeople or deeper discounts. Not being nasty, but why not have a bake-off with a couple of copier reps, or call me for the name of a SaaS rep who offered me a discount on the first intro call. Like any other asset, garbage in garbage out!

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

You can think of training and enablement programs as similar waves along a continuum. The first wave in training and enablement is represented by traditional Learning Paths , the original development programs. Programs in this wave are based on the sales managers’ decisions about what their teams and territories need to make quota.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 10, 2024

Hitting your sales targets early in the year is vital as Q2 fast approaches and applies to each monthly quota. One proven way to avoid a sales mishap is to train your sales department and work with them to achieve common goals. Therefore, consider providing them with the requisite training and equipment to help increase sales.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Quota and OTE. Setting quota. Reduce discounting frequency. Reduce average discount size. After they’ve hit quota, they’ll probably relax instead of pushing for the next deal. Salespeople are demotivated to do anything but sell, so good luck asking them to attend meetings, log notes, go to training, etc.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 7, 2019

Maybe they're a new rep who's close to hitting their quota but is just shy each month. Clearly identifying these areas for improvement in the performance review will provide points to work on during any coaching or training after the performance review. Relies too heavily on discounts, resulting in lower margins.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

price discount. The line items you throw in may differ depending on your offering – but the price discount should always be last. When people are asking for discounts, Wernke says, they’re asking if what they’re buying is going to be successful. So any discounts should be last. additional product and services.

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Closing B2B Decision Maker Discount 286

Engage Selling

JULY 5, 2019

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Ensuring that goals and sales targets are ambitious but reachable, taking broad business growth goals and distilling them down to a sales quota for every rep of every level, and mentoring and coaching sales reps throughout their tenure with your company are all just part of the job. Managing a sales team is a lot of work, too.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

We have our goals and quotas to make. Their training focuses on how to sell and product knowledge. We invest millions in training and tools, yet we don’t know how to have a conversation with the customer about their businesses, about their problems, about their goals and aspirations? But, what about us–the sellers?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

As a team, they generated $120k, exceeding the established quota of $100k. It is designed to prevent sales representatives from using discounts too often, as the commission is tied to the final cost. See also 10 Sales training techniques every manager should know Why is a commission structure so crucial to your business?

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Vengreso

JANUARY 9, 2019

Both are important, but it’s the Eulogy Virtues that are of greatest value when it comes to hiring and training effective sales teams. You May Be Missing Quota Because Your Sales Process Is Not Human Enough. Look below for a discount code for the event. You may miss your #sales quota because your process is not human enough.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 3, 2020

Billions are spent on training of all sorts. Sales performance numbers continue to decline (for example % of sales people making quota). Perhaps, it’s for those reasons that we tend to overlook or discount it. We tend to overcomplicate things, particularly selling and leadership. Each emphasizes certain things.

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 13, 2022

I hear what you are thinking, “Nick, come on, if we hit our numbers and are always ahead of quota, of course, selling would be fun. Worse, they likely offered discounts or crazy incentives to squeeze every deal out of their sales funnel. Runners that don’t train for marathons fail at the finish line. You have a few options.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 19, 2019

When they were individual quota-carriers, it was relatively easy to assess their sales pipeline. What’s your historical discounting rate throughout the year? It’s rare that reps use consistent discounting to close deals. Discounts are generally tethered to other things. Maybe you didn’t prospect enough.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 24, 2023

Keep in mind that offering a discount should never be your first play. Maybe it's the last day of the month and you need this one final deal to make your quota. Working backward from that date and accounting for installation and training, the salesperson can pinpoint the ideal contract sign date. Will they sign today?

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SBI

JANUARY 28, 2020

Their bosses are raising their team quotas all the time, and they cannot understand how anyone could struggle to sell your product or solution. Not enough leads from marketing — no support from engineering – finance is pushing back on the discounts needed to sell the product. Train often. That’s right. Demo skills.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

You can think of training and enablement programs as similar waves along a continuum. The first wave in training and enablement is represented by traditional Learning Paths , the original development programs. Programs in this wave are based on the sales managers’ decisions about what their teams and territories need to make quota.

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Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Territories Top of Funnel 52

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

If I happened to leave a message for someone who just finished meeting discussion their training plans for Q1 2020, sure they may react with a callback. One out of ten does qualify for hope, but not much for quota. The problem is buyers are jaded and discount much of what sellers say. It’s not 10, not five, usually one.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 15, 2013

Sales Training Article: 8 Words to Avoid When Selling. Discount" Let''s leave this tired old term back in the world where "But, wait! But offering a "discount"? Quota" On what planet does a customer care whether you make your numbers? When you''re selling, your quota should be the farthest thing from your mind.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Average sales skills encourage reps to think, “This is good enough,” and discount the need for improvement. Sales tactics are the minimum level of sales skill development and discount the customer’s view of the entire sale process. Don’t attend sales training. The status quo generates complacency.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Based on our experience hiring and working closely with sales leaders around the world, here are some clear signals that it’s time to fire a sales leader: Your sales reps are always discounting your product. If all of your clients are on discounted packages, your bottom line will feel it and your projections won’t be as accurate.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

7 Signs Your Sales Rep Should Be Promoted: Making the Number Properly : Ultimately, fulfilling your sales job description is exceeding your quota. For example, making the number by discounting heavily hits your goals. Training, piloting or even taking on extra responsibility (i.e. That’s profitable and good business.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

“Our numbers are off substantially,” he said over lunch some time ago, “but our individual salespeople are making quota for the most part. Six months into the situation three new reps had been hired; two were in the field only a month and one was finishing training. Training took about four weeks even with experienced salespeople.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 6, 2012

It’s the start of a new year, and for most salespeople, it means the start of a new quota. Sales Training Tip #266: Target 10% a Month. discounting. sales training. sales training tip. training tip. discounting. sales training. sales training tip. training tip. Client Login.

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Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

It might not come as a surprise that 57% of sales reps are expected to miss their quotas in 2021. Your sales managers need the ability to identify why deals are lost and how they can train and coach reps to win today’s deal — and every deal in the future. It’s also important that they avoid resorting to discounting.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

At many companies, reps may not have control over pricing and discounting policies. Do you have a training plan to develop other leaders as you grow? Set the Quota. Questions to consider when managing your sales quota include the following: Should managers have a quota that is over-assigned (i.e.,

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Why are your sales reps not making quota? You likely see this impact every day with more of your deals stalling at "no decision", your sales cycles getting longer and more discounting just to get the deal. v=-SYijObaHYw&index=8&list=PL_4QFEox8W_QZv1bJV_zJ0NwY88yfjs3W View the SlideShare: [link].

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 26, 2014

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Sellers are under monthly, quarterly and annual quota pressure. Discounts offered to get decisions made for a given month or quarter can result in three (3) outcomes: Sellers get transactions and lower revenue.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 15, 2020

This does not mean you can’t ensure your sales reps have the knowledge they need to sell and meet quotas successfully. Relying on modern learning management systems (LMS) allows your sales organization to go beyond one-time training and onboarding by using incremental education created to better prepare sellers for sales interactions.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

Executive Level Careers in Sales If you have significant sales experience, there are several roles you may want to apply to: Director of sales work with sales managers to set goals, meet quotas, hire new salespeople, and implement new sales strategies. This position has an average of $199,000 salary a year.

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Allego

JUNE 28, 2022

While it’s important to track whether your sales reps achieve quota and the team hits its revenue goal, you have many more metrics at your disposal to monitor and improve sellers’ performance. The tool can also identify top-performing conversations that you can add to your sales training library for other sales reps to access and learn from.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

Since a SaaS product is typically more complex to use than a physical product, prospects need a lot more education and training from sales reps before they feel prepared to buy. You can also identify which sales reps could use more coaching and training so they can increase their win rate and meet their quotas. Annual Discounts.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Let’s have a look at what you can do to prepare and empower your team to avoid them so you can start beating that quota. To ensure the right people are involved in the conversation at the correct times, you need to provide your employees with the right materials, training, and guidance. Not involving the decision-maker.

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SBI

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Sales leaders have been well trained over the past decade to believe that when it comes to data, more is better. Over a period of several months, metrics like win rate and quota attainment can offer a general picture of your reps’ sales performance. You can bring in other data, too, like average discounts or deal size.

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Xactly

JULY 5, 2018

At many companies, reps may not have control over pricing and discounting policies. Do you have a training plan to develop other leaders as you grow? Set the Quota. Questions to consider when managing your sales quota include the following: Should managers have a quota that is over-assigned (i.e.,

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