Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Has your sales department ever calculated the cost of sales reps with average sales skills? However, upon deeper reflection, it’s unequivocal that top sales reps are exponentially more productive than average reps. This article explores the pitfalls of average sales skills and the path to high performance.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 23, 2020

The sales person was reviewing the deals expected to close by the end of the quarter. Fewer than 10% of the deals won required a discount (outside of normal volume discounts or quarter end incentive programs). I went back to the sales person, “I’m confused, why do all your deals need discounts? ” I asked.

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The Brooks Group

AUGUST 12, 2014

In the face of a rapidly shifting marketplace, companies - and sales teams - are having to change focus.fast. Oftentimes, the reason for such a shift involves a "go to" market going away. This often means moving your focus into a new, untapped market. . How to Get Salespeople to Sell into a New Market.

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The Sales Developers

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Sales teams have everything needed for outbound prospecting activities. big databases, low cost researchers, in-house manual scraping) and tools that make sales activities more efficient than ever. There are more vendors in sales acceleration every day and ever expanding budgets fueled by venture capital and other forces.

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LeadFuze

JULY 13, 2021

Worrying about how to handle sales rejection? For now, let’s first talk about what sales rejection is. . What is a Sales Rejection? No matter how thick your skin is, if you’re not prepared for the inevitability of sales rejection, then it will be hard to overcome. Sales professionals eat rejection every day!

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It turns out that we aren’t done fixing sales processes. Sales process work was all the rage 10 years ago. But sales processes usually are, driven by a need to be a forecasting framework rather than selling guidance. Check out Sales Enablement PRO for the recordings from the annual Sales Enablement Soiree.

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 27, 2014

At any rate, while not that frightening, this short story can provide good food for thought as you think through the structure of your sales compensation plan. The Scary Tale of a Broken Sales Compensation Plan. The organization’s sales had flattened, profits dissipated and layoffs were imminent. And that’s what they did.

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Groove.co

JANUARY 14, 2021

The motivating properties of these organic materials have been debated for centuries, but unless your new sales hire is a dog, she is more likely to be interested in an attractive incentive plan. And that’s where it gets tricky - what’s the best way to compensate a new sales hire while they’re still getting up to speed?

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

Regardless of the industry you serve or the products and services you supply, how to motivate sales people can be the difference between thriving and surviving. Whilst money via compensation or commission plans is the obvious way to motivate sales people, does this really work? . Imagine a sales person as a knife.

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Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 14, 2012

When I am asked to diagnose why an individual – or even an entire sales team - are not performing at optimum levels, I usually ask just four very straightforward questions: • Are they visiting/talking to enough clients/prospects? This really means – how strong are their selling skills?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sales success isn’t so much about selling skills, techniques and approaches. While all these things are important and necessary to our success as sales professionals and leaders, fundamentally, success in sales is about caring. Sales and sales leadership are very difficult.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Marketing (6398). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Selling Skills (528). Incentives (379). Outside Sales (81). Sales Process (1775). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

This is where a Sales QBR or ‘Quarterly Business Review’ comes into play. What is a Sales QBR? A QBR is an executive business review of the previous quarter’s sales and a strategic planning session to build playbooks and forecasts for the upcoming quarter. Related: How to Prepare for a Sales Development QBR. isn’t ad-hoc.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

What is a Sales Manager. A sales manager is a person that’s responsible for building, leading, and managing a sales team within an organization. . A sales manager will work closely with managers of other departments, as well as communicate with prospects and customers on a regular or semi-regular basis. Don’t freak out.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In all honestly, managing sales reps can be a challenge. Sales reps may share one common goal—closing deals—but managers need to understand different personalities, adapt to unique learning styles, and provide the tools each rep needs to hit (and ideally, exceed) their quotas. The best sales teams are led by the best sales managers.

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Accent Technologies

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Many sales reps are apprehensive about learning and using a CRM, and some organizations are therefore reluctant to invest in a platform that their reps “won’t use.”. Here are 20 CRM myths that hinder businesses and salespeople from achieving their highest sales potential. Myth 2: Entering CRM data takes time away from sales activity.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Your organization needs an effective sales hiring strategy to survive. The average annual turnover for sales teams is around 27% , meaning that if you have 10 reps, you could lose three of them within the year. The only way to maintain — and, ideally, to increase — sales performance is to hire often and well.

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InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn how to use predictive analytics and big data to improve your team’s inside sales skills. Follow these sales best practices to improve your sales reps’ selling skills and turn regular salespeople into sales superstars. Selling Is a Competitive Sport. I agree with them.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Seismic , the market leader for sales enablement platforms, today announced the acquisition of Percolate, a leading marketing campaign orchestration and content management platform. Due to rapid changes in buyer behavior and expectations, non-personalized content is now an unacceptable marketing practice.

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