Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

Here’s a list of the best lead generation tools on the market today. These solutions range from CRM tools to exit-intentlead capture to sales management tools to marketing software and beyond. We’ve broken down the best lead generation tools into four distinct categories. 1) Outreach.io

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

In reality, sales professionals and managers need to have access to the best available sales planning tools to help them boost sales productivity and close more and bigger deals. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. With this tool, you can schedule emails directly from your Gmail.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In this article, we discuss how sales and marketing collaboration makes a difference and provide tips and tools for making this collaboration more efficient. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Customers pick up on disparities in how the brand is presented or inconsistencies in responses from both teams.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Make sure you define what retention, up-selling, and cross-selling look like for your organization in specific and measurable terms. Recommended reading : How to Develop a Winning Sales Compensation Philosophy Compensation Transformation Tip #3: Personalize your sales incentive programs.

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 29, 2024

So, we’ve rounded up this nice little checklist for you to empower your sales team to step outside the norm, get uncomfortable, and then obliterate their sales goals this year. Item 1: Set realistic goals First and foremost, setting clear, realistic goals is crucial for your sales team. Now, let’s talk incentives.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

Virtual sales teams allow organizations to optimize costs, hire the best sales talent worldwide, and engage with prospects in different time zones. That said, developing and managing successful remote teams comes with several challenges and resolving them before setting up virtual sales teams is critical for success.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

A LinkedIn report shows that 58% of sales ops professionals have a difficult time finding accurate, up-to-date data due to data silos. Source: LinkedIn Keeping Up With Evolving Sales Technology The rapid advancement of tech challenges sales operations to remain current.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

We’ll also explore some of the challenges sales reps face that impact their productivity, detail how to calculate your team’s sales productivity, and discuss the best tools to help you increase it. Table of Contents What is sales productivity? Why is sales productivity important? Let’s consider the alternative.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 20, 2020

If you’re managing a remote team, now is not the time to sell your sales contests short. Why Sales Contests? Sales contests are a tried-and-true tool in most sales managers’ arsenals and for good reason. Unfortunately, way too often, sales contests aren’t strategic or goal-oriented. Get Buy-In.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

But wait – this new incentive compensation plan could flop. Take the time to test your new Sales comp plan for compatibility – compatibility with culture and other drivers. Sign up for the SBI Make the Number tour to learn how peers are building sales comp plans. Are tools in place to support the new IC Plan?

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

In most sales organizations, the sales commission plan is the best way to do this. Your sales commission plan is a portion of your sales compensation plan. Often, it includes a pay mix , made up of a base salary and variable commission pay. sales commission structures , bonus plans, pay mix, etc.)

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

When crafting a sales training program , you should understand your team’s current skill set and identify areas for improvement. Follow these seven steps to develop your sales training program: 1. Practical advice: Pair up less experienced sales reps with seasoned veterans for a period of shadow learning.

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

After 90 days, the call center found that employees who made referrals typically didn’t remember that they were owed a bonus and most didn’t even notice when it showed up in their paycheck. Though we won’t go as far as comparing sales management to dog training, it’s an easy analogy that illustrates the same idea.

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SBI

JULY 24, 2018

In fact, who doesn’t love a good forecast session with their sales manager? Not only that, sales reps see tremendous value in the information reported back to them from the CRM. Sales reps do not love their CRM and see little value in it. IT HASN’T AUTOMATED THE SALES PROCESS, SO WHAT? A HISTORY LESSON.

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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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LevelEleven

MAY 17, 2018

Q & A with Derek Wong, Geopointe Sales Development Supervisor. Many modern sales teams are implementing a Sales Management System that integrates with their CRM in order to motivate, engage, and coach their teams around the behaviors that support their business goals. We’re in sales and salespeople like incentives.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

Because sales is often commission-based and money-driven, stress and pressure run rampant. Although it’s easier said than done, as a sales rep or sales leader, it’s important to shift your focus to the activities that lead up to a sale. There’s no way around it, stress drives activity and sales managers know this.

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

Knowing how to set sales goals is a crucial skill for any business owner, sales manager or marketer. It not only drives revenue growth but also helps in managing customer churn and acquisition costs effectively. But setting effective sales goals involves more than just choosing an arbitrary number.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Whether you’re skeptical, curious, or fully on board, it’s important to educate yourself about how sales reps are using AI. At the very least, you’ll stay up-to-date on trends in sales. 74% report using AI in some form in their role, and 60% say they believe AI tools are important to their overall strategy.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. To have a sales strategy you can execute, it must follow a structured path. Sign up for SBI''s free onsite research session here. By doing so, you will receive: A copy of a Sales Strategy Blueprint. Sales training.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

The Center for Sales Strategy found that CEOs can help their sales team bring in more revenue by implementing coaching. You’ll find the do’s, do nots, customer examples, and actionable tools and templates for implementing and improving sales coaching in this guide. Problems with sales coaching aka what NOT to do 1.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Maybe your company is a start-up working in the customer acquisition phase and pounding the pavement hard. But remember that while the execs are driven by revenue and low customer churn, your sales reps are driven by their incentive compensation plans. Prioritize a positive sales culture. Who is the plan structured for?

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SBI Growth

MARCH 4, 2013

This post is to help discover the root cause of Sales Rep turnover. It is for HR Business Partners working with Sales Leaders. Included is a tool that helps pinpoint your root cause of turnover. $25 Here’s a sales rep turnover example. The first couple months do not live up to those promises. 25 Million a year!

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Apptivo

MARCH 9, 2023

However, at times no matter how long one stretches, sales tasks eat up a lot of productive hours. So, whether you’re a sales manager or a sales representative, keep reading to find out how sales automation can boost your sales process! 3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more!

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

Word-of-mouth recommendations can be a powerful tool for reaching prospects. You can get creative with how you share your business through referral programs to offer advocates incentives for promoting your business to others. Social media can be an excellent tool for generating leads. Invest in sales management software.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 29, 2013

The 4 primary characteristics that make it an accelerant to onboarding include: Competitive Environment: Top sales people are highly competitive. Incentive Compensation: Sales people are “coin-operated.” Remoteness: Field sales people are spread across wide geographies. Compare their integrated CRM tools.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 8, 2013

People get into sales because it’s got the potential for great financial rewards. Give them the tools to sell with. Invest in the best support tools money can buy. Sales wars (battles between sales and production, administration and credit) end up killing the customer. Instill pride for sales.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 17, 2019

Now, look at his advice: To become a sales manager, you essentially need to become an extension of your HR team — something every employee can do to make a positive impact on the organization. Of course, I also wanted feedback from industry veterans — the folks who are training & coaching sales management teams around the globe.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Key takeaways Sales gamification can improve performance by drawing attention to specific metrics, sales targets, and KPIs. Employee engagement increases when the incentives are worth the effort required to do well. Manage your sales activities twice as fast Increase your close rate by 36% wuth PandaDoc.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 12, 2013

You’ve worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we’ve rounded up sales productivity stats from the leading research firms and vendors in the sales enablement space to put together stats bucked into a few different categories: customer experience; rep time management; sales managers; sales enablement; and technology usage.

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SBI Growth

MAY 27, 2013

This creates a huge headache for every sales manager. One sales leader we know named Phil took a different approach. When compared to historical deals, an accurate opportunity forecast was applied following each interaction. He removed incentives based on win rate. One day, he sat down and opened up his browser.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Inside sales (sometimes called remote sales or remote selling) is often the primary sales model for B2B, SaaS, tech, and certain high-ticket B2C sales teams. Let’s say you’re looking to implement a new email marketing campaign , and you need an email automation platform to set it up. AMs (Account Managers).

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

When your sales reps are building the skills they need to feel prepared and successful in their roles, they are more likely to report job satisfaction and feeling valued by their employer — factors that make them less likely to jump ship. Looking to set your sales team up for this kind of success? Performance-based compensation.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

With a defined and clear structure, staff can make useful decisions without the constant supervision of their manager. It can also offer insight into automating sales processes to free up more of your team’s time. What type of training is required for a sales manager?

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