Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Sales organizations face a paradox: although many continue to increase hiring, attrition is on the rise, according to our 2018-2019 Sales Performance Report , creating a major pain point. Poor hiring practices prove costly to sales organizations in many ways. How Sales Organizations Can Improve Hiring Decisions.

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Xactly

MAY 30, 2018

Earlier this year, we teamed up with the Sales Management Association (SMA) to conduct a survey on sales territory design. More than 100 organizations participated in the survey and provided insights into how they design and plan their sales territories. Download Guide.

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Territories Research Travel Survey 61

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. Sales professionals — yes, even managers — on frontlines of business development. ZoomInfo Salesforce Sync for Territory Management. Think about it.

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SalesForce Territories Intent Signal Buyer Persona 219

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. A few years back, someone in Wing’s position might have faced a long slog full of trial and error and manual research. But she also knew she needed to get up to speed very quickly. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Analysis Territories Scale SalesForce 130

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. Download our free report here to learn the top 3 metrics ranked by sales professionals. New Leads/Opportunities. Client Acquisition Rates.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Management Scale 143

Partners in Excellence

MAY 20, 2022

First, congratulations, your first job as a sales manager is a huge step forward in your career. Now, don’t screw it up—you’ll get a lot of managers who will immediately congratulate you, shake your hand, smile then say, “What have you done for me lately?”. Before I go on, let’s backtrack a little bit.

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Sales Management Hiring Promotion Coaching 73

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2017

Typically dispersed across territories far and wide, and always on the go, face-to-face communication is often overridden by email, voicemail and text. This means sales teams need more than a website to gather product and pricing information. Here are some tips for communicating effectively with sales teams.

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Face-to-face Automotive Webinar Metrics Conference 197

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Most organizations believe that their most successful sales people will make great sales managers. A recent study by the ASTD found that only 11% of companies train their managers. If you are a new manager, you are asking, “What do I do now?”. As a newly promoted manager, you need a guide so you do not thrash.

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Promotion Sales Management Hiring Face-to-face 120

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members.

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Hiring Sales Talent Compensation Lead Rank 62

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 30, 2022

Recently, I was speaking to the leadership team of a sales organization. People were going through the motions of developing their account plans, they would review them with management, then they went back to doing their jobs in the way they had always done them. We prospect, qualify, and pursue opportunities within our territories.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

There are countless data reporting tools available to sellers and managers. One of the biggest issues I encounter in speaking with managers is understanding, “What’s causing these to happen?” An example I often use is, “Pete and Dave have $5M quotas, $10M pipelines, similar average deal sizes and sales cycles.

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Face-to-face Sales Cycle Pipeline Territories 82

Highspot

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Trying to build a high-impact sales team? Heads up: Your team will only ever be as good as its manager. In fact, a reported 69% of sellers who exceed annual quota consider their sales managers as being “above average” at their jobs. But here’s the problem: A good candidate for sales management is hard to find.

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Training Sales Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Let’s dissect what good and bad revenue looks like: First, it’s sales responsibility to execute the company strategy in the face of the customer. Stated differently, sales has to sell the entire product portfolio, not just their favorite products. Let’s also manage two sales people.

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Revenue Territories Face-to-face Quota 94

Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

With those unique circumstances in mind, the importance of effective sales training cannot be overstated. In this blog post, we’ll outline the unique challenges faced in pharmaceutical sales training and provide practical solutions. What are some challenges in pharmaceutical sales training?

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CommercialTribe

JUNE 23, 2020

With June nearly over and the initial shock of the COVID-19 crisis behind us, sales management teams are focusing on building a plan to come out stronger on the other side. According to research conducted by LinkedIn, 55% of sales professionals now expect a decrease in quota attainment this year. Where Do You Start?

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Top of Funnel Hiring Sales Management Face-to-face 40

Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Crafting a sales strategy is a key to success – especially when selling into major accounts. While front-line sales managers agree, we often hear comments like, “I don’t have the time” and “My territory is spread out and I don’t see my people face-to-face”. A Classic - '63 Corvette.

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Strategy Face-to-face Coaching Call-back 96

Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Sales managers are responsible for growing revenue. That means 1) providing sales reps with the guidance they need to continuously improve, 2) building a sales process that gives reps the best chance at closing each lead, and 3) understanding which efforts are moving the needle and which are a waste of energy.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 11, 2017

Not much differentiates one company from another these days – in fact, not a lot separates products, but we all know that the differentiating factor lies in the individual salesperson, their leadership and the strategies employed to gain the high ground. We also know there is a cost to preparedness as well as a cost to lack of preparedness.

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Strategy How To Competition Energy 150

OpenSymmetry

MARCH 16, 2016

The Territory & Quota Management Revolution – New Incentive Compensation Platforms Blazing the Trails to Greater Efficiencies. Gone are the simplistic days of sales reps simply “having a patch” to cover for selling their goods and services. Territory Definition and Modeling.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Strategy Review Session. Crafting a sales strategy is a key to success – especially when selling into major accounts. While front-line sales managers agree, we often hear comments like, “I don’t have the time” and “My territory is spread out and I don’t see my people face-to-face”. .

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Strategy Face-to-face Coaching Call-back 100

Anthony Iannarino

MAY 21, 2020

You would provide them with a territory , having them continue to work from home. There is a transfer of knowledge between salespeople when they are in the same place, call it a bullpen, that doesn’t happen over web-meetings, and especially not the sales-manager-led calls where salespeople report in on their progress.

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Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Territories Travel 131

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. Sales professionals — yes, even managers — on frontlines of business development. Let’s start with a reminder: CRMs have a purpose. Think about it.

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SalesForce Territories Intent Signal Buyer Persona 100

Mindtickle

JULY 31, 2023

In the highly competitive financial services industry, effective sales training is a game-changer. Sales reps are crucial in promoting and selling financial products and services to a diverse customer base. Let’s consider some stats.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are lots of great books (including Sales Manager Survival Guide), there are a lot of great training programs (including those we offer), but somehow managers continue to struggle in both finding the time to coach and coaching in high impact ways. If there are problem performers, what is their plan for dealing with them?

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Coaching Lead Rank Territories Face-to-face 62

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2014

As with the prior articles, I get huge numbers of requests from sales manager to help Hack their jobs. “What are the short cuts?” ” “How do I manage my time better?” Having said that, here’s a few of my favorite hacks to sales management.

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Sales Management Hiring Top of Funnel Maximizer 93

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 19, 2012

My VP of Sales wants me to research trends in inside sales and conduct account segmentation. The sales managers are yelling for updated dashboards and territories. Oh, and Marketing wants to discuss sales enablement improvements. Same goes for sales organizations. Sales Strategy.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2016

The responsibilities of a sales manager are very broad. Frontline managers have to work to make sure each person on the team is performing at the highest levels possible. At the same time, there’s the “business management” aspect of the job: Are we going to make our numbers? What’s the forecast?

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Coaching Sales Management Face-to-face Analysis 48

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2020

” We realized, the organization had gone through so many changes, the sales enablement programs had become disconnected with “jobs” of the sales people. I think many sales enablement programs may face the same challenge. Related Posts: What If Sales Enablement Is A "Rotational Assignment?"

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Sales Enablement Territories Face-to-face Maximizer 88

Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2016

Unless you are a sales manager with your own territory (which is an untenable position), you don’t produce revenue. It’s an important point that too many in sales management don’t understand. It’s their jobs to find the deals, qualify them, and manage them to closure.

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Revenue Sales Management Face-to-face Maximizer 49

Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 14, 2013

Sales managers. A year ago, we published a post on the importance of sales managers to assess their prior year’s performance and to incorporate the results of that self-assessment into their plans for the new year. Good managers are always asking themselves and others about what they could do better or differently.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Coaching Construction 114

Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

There’s no doubt about it: as a new year dawns and the troubles of the past are put firmly behind us, building a strategy for the future feels incredibly exciting. You have the product in hand, but without a high-quality sales strategy, it won’t attain the success it was made for. What is a sales strategy?

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Strategy Buyer Persona 113

Sales Training Connection

JUNE 19, 2013

Medical device sales and sales managers. The medical device market faces transformational market challenges – decision criteria shifting from clinical to economic, decision-making moving from local hospitals to IDNs, the rise of GPOs, and the dramatic impact of new governmental regulations.

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Pivotal Health Care Hiring Sales Management 100

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 17, 2020

I was working with a team of frustrated sales people. They had a past sales manager that micromanaged them terribly. The manager would get involved in too many deals. The entire focus of the manager’s micromanagement was on him and his ability to achieve his goals. He would constantly dictate next steps.

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Face-to-face Intent Coaching Territories 93

Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 17, 2020

You can determine what you believe , and you can manage your reaction. Being confident doesn’t require that you pretend nothing is wrong in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Instead, it is the belief that you are going to succeed despite the challenges you face. Take Back Your Power. Build Your Plan of Action.

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eBook Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring 138

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

. “But we’re not IBM” Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , Communication Strategy , Guest Post , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Social Selling. Copiers as an example, you may refer to document management at one end, and sell copiers to the other end.

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Pipeline Social Media Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile 226

Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2022

Sales is not an easy topic for academics to teach. Just ask Frank Cespedes , Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. There are important relationships that exist between sales, marketing, and finance professionals. People still mistakenly use gut instinct to inform sales strategy.

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Banking Face-to-face Revenue Territories 83

Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

But how do they contribute to sales productivity and overall business performance? Sales reps need support to drive growth and increase likelihood of success, whether they’re going through initial onboarding, working through the buyer’s journey or collaborating with marketing. Sales Enablement versus Sales Operations.

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