Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2019

Author: TIM HOULIHAN Sales managers are a rare breed. Most organizations employ one sales manager for every six to 10 sales reps. Making it to the sales management ranks indicates you occupy a spot that roughly 90% of your peers have not. So can sales managers. Congratulations.

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Xactly

AUGUST 2, 2018

The sales territory is a geographical area that is managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by sales potential, history, geography, or a combination of the above. The objective is to make sure sales territories are balanced to help increase revenues. .

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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. Download Guide.

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JUNE 13, 2018

Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning. Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. Ultimately, if your sales territories aren’t optimized, you hinder sales reps’ motivation and performance.

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Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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LeadFuze

JULY 14, 2023

How to be a good sales manager is an inquiry that many professionals in the field often ponder. The role of a sales manager extends beyond just overseeing a team; it’s about fostering growth, driving performance, and achieving targets. A sales manager position, that’s your answer.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

So, let’s dive into how Salesforce Sync helps enable sales reps by supporting the foundation of any sales process: Territory Management. ZoomInfo Salesforce Sync for Territory Management. But what if there’s more information within Salesforce that needs to be referenced, like recent activity, or notes?

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Forecast management needs to be overhauled A third area ripe for AI is forecast management. “In In my experience a lot of sales managers are keeping deals in their heads and they spend a lot of time discussing what they think is going to close and why. Paul agrees that some companies have too many sales tools.

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JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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InsideSales.com

JULY 3, 2020

For a Sales Representative, climbing the corporate ladder begins with a promotion to Sales Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to be recognized by senior management and develop your career options. Below we have outlined 6 of the pitfalls and benefits of a good Sales Manager. How Sales Manager Succeed.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. Wing was able to lean on ZoomInfo’s Chorus conversation intelligence solution and its SalesOS platform to analyze successful deals and perform lightning-fast research on her new territory and team. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 14, 2019

Sales managers influence what salespeople sell, where they sell, who they sell to and even how they sell. These factors make the sales manager role one of the most influential and demanding jobs in any company engaged in complex B2B sales. How many direct reports do sales managers have in your company?

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Sales organizations undergo constant change initiatives. Managers sit squarely at the intersection of these trends, yet for most organizations, sales management strategies have hardly changed. In fact, the changes that have occurred in the managerial ranks have intensified managers’ internal and administrative focus.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Sales leaders often evaluate prospects and existing customers based on readily available information — order history, and firmographic data (company location, size, industry, etc). This information can be helpful. Related: The New Growth Formula: Customer Success + Predictive Sales. Territory profiles .

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. What made you successful as a sales rep? How will your processes inform how you manage your team? Sales Manager Interview Questions.

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Barry Trailer from Sales Mastery Advisors highlights a goldmine of opportunity: diving deep into repeat and referral sales. Believe it or not, expanding within your existing customer base can yield better returns than braving new territories. All the riveting details await in this informative episode. Want to dive deeper?

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Closer's Coffee

JUNE 19, 2019

How to Choose the Right Sales Manager for Your Company. The sales manager is arguably the most critical person in the company. Hiring a leader for a sales organization is a decision that is more critical for a company. Many organizations “promote” their best seller to a sales management position.

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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. This is the metric that managers most consistently monitor. New Leads/Opportunities. Client Acquisition Rates. Competitor Pricing.

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A Sales Guy

MARCH 4, 2014

They resolve territory disputes. They sit next to, talk with and are closer to the sales people than any other person (role) in the company. Sales managers are the lynchpins to success in sales organizations. Sales managers are the key to a humming sales organization.

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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. Territory Definition and Crediting.

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. The problem facing sales managers is finding the time and expertise to do this in a meaningful and productive way. After-sale support.

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. The problem facing sales managers is finding the time and expertise to do this in a meaningful and productive way. After-sale support.

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Hiring is one of the most important activities that a sales manager conducts. If they make the right decision they will improve the performance of the territory and elevate the performance of the entire team. He works with sales executives to develop high performance sales organizations. To find out more go to www.52SalesManagementTips.com.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 2, 2012

In building a Top Performers Program, sales management needs to decide what they want to reward. Many companies I work with tie their program to sales vs. objectives. For this to work effectively, quotas need to be set fairly against both large and small territories. What to do? To find out more go to [link].

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Pipeliner

MAY 12, 2018

It’s Monday morning and Jennifer in Sales Management needs to provide feedback about sales performance and attitude to Joe, a team member. As a result, he leads a comfortable life and continues to produce status quo sales results, which creates a status quo sales culture. Improve your sales-management skills.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” There are surveys asking for the one area sales managers should focus on. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process. ” If sales management and selling were that easy… The problem is, these are false choices.

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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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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bottom-Up Quota Setting: Validating quota from a Sales Rep & Sales Management perspective. Territory Potential: Growth rates for newer territories will rapidly outpace more mature markets. Territory potential can vary widely based on demographic trends and Ideal Customer Profile saturation.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2014

I’m not sure anyone looks forward to the Sales Management Review (sometimes these are called QBR’s, but there are other reviews). It’s unfortunate, because there’s a huge amount of value in the review process–both for sales people and managers. No value to the sales person.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 4, 2014

Sales manager with a new sales team. As most in sales leadership would share – the front-line sales manager is the pivotal job for building and sustaining sales success. And, perhaps the most critical time for any sales manager is when first taking over a new sales team.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

So, let’s dive into how Salesforce Sync helps enable sales reps by supporting the foundation of any sales process: Territory Management. But what if reps and managers could identify accounts owned by specific reps or that are unowned, yet a part of particular territory? It’s not just reps who suffer, either.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2017

Target marketing dollars in their territory to generate more leads and give them a boost. Every experienced sales manager has made a bad hiring mistake. Great sales managers recognize their mistake faster, and take decisive action to rectify the situation. For more information visit TopLine Leadership, Inc.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Here’s why: the sales quota is a key variable in many of the equations that dictate core business functions. 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.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

The post The Three Waves of Sales Enablement by Tim Riesterer appeared first on Corporate Visions. In Alvin Toffler’s book, “ The Third Wave ,” he talks about society’s transition from the Industrial Age (Second Wave) to the Information Age (Third Wave). The Second Wave: Territory Plans.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Rather than looking at a specific metric, I’ll spend a little time talking about the differing points of view on metrics—the sales person/individual contributor’s view and sales management’s view. Sales people resist metrics because management uses them as a club on performance.

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