Sales Benchmark Index

OCTOBER 12, 2018

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Sales Benchmark Index

AUGUST 17, 2017

Article Sales Strategy b2b sales custom sales process low margin deals sales leader sales process VP of Sales Why Your Deals are Bleeding Margin

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A Sales Guy

JUNE 26, 2013

I talked about the profit and loss statement in an earlier post, but wanted to tackle gross margin today. Gross margin is a part of the P&L statement and if you’re in sales it’s important to understand for both YOU and YOUR customers and prospects. Simply put, gross margin is the difference between the revenue a product or service creates and the cost of creating that product or service. The higher the gross margin the better the business.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 17, 2014

If you’re like me, you’ve relied on a calculator to determine a selling price or figure a margin. Blog pricing Professional Selling Skills discount discounting margin margins price

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This did not eliminate the usual objections, but it marginalized a big hurdle, and allowed the conversation to move past it easily, and allow it to unfold in more familiar ground. I have helped (provide example) increase margins by 6%, – or – increase turnover by 8%”, etc.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 7, 2015

We often talk about the selling skills required to deal with today’s complex and competitive market place. Those skills normally revolve around the abilities of salespeople to achieve specific sales. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Sales Benchmark Index

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If you opened this blog post looking for the perfect answer to setting pricing KPIs… I hate to tell you that the perfect answer is: There is no answer.  However, I do have some guidance for you.  Let’s think of pricing.

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RAIN Group

MARCH 15, 2017

With increased product and service commoditization, sellers in almost every industry complain about price pressure and shrinking margins.

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Sales Benchmark Index

JULY 25, 2012

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Sales Benchmark Index

OCTOBER 11, 2018

You’re Blind and You Have a Problem. When you sell entirely through indirect channels you are blind to the street price and how your products or service is valued by the end customer. The gap between the price you sell to.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Consider that a 1% reduction on the expense line shows up as a 4% increase in margin on the profit line. Let’s look at several sales tools and see how they impact the profit margin for a given sale. The post Boosting Margin with Sales Tools appeared first on Cincom Blog. Even with the most advanced sales tools available, it’s expensive to sell stuff. You must pony up bucks in advance to get bucks from the proceeds of a product sale.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 25, 2016

UK entrepreneur, James Caan, CBE, isolates three areas where profit margin can be addressed. But what about margin? CPQ also has a positive impact on margin by increasing the velocity of the sale, reducing the pricing and configuration errors made during a selling cycle and with reduced likelihood of manufacturing defects. This is tied directly to overhead expenses or cost base in Caan’s triumvirate of margin factors. These are margin killers.

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The Sales Heretic

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

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Sales Benchmark Index

JANUARY 10, 2019

“To increase the value of our business by 2-3.5x all we need to do is convert to a SaaS based pricing model? Let’s do it!” ” I hope your CFO does not believe it is that simple. Unfortunately, we hear from.

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Sales Benchmark Index

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Channel conflict occurs when companies try to reach end customers through multiple routes forcing components of the sales ecosystem to compete against each other rather than working together. It is inherently wasteful and can be lethal to customer experience, sales.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Sales Training Article: Why Are Your Deals Bleeding Margin? Why Stan Lost His Deal Margin Stan and his sales team followed their buyer-centric selling process. It isn’t perfect, but it can preserve the most precious part of the deal – the profit margin.

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Sales Result

MARCH 2, 2018

Many CEOs come to us looking for answers. When sales are stagnant or taking a dive—especially with older companies that have been around for a while—it usually can be traced to two root reasons. Sales Strategy

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Sales Benchmark Index

DECEMBER 21, 2018

“But wait…there’s more!” ” We’ve all heard the infomercials with the two for the price of one special. Or the five accessories we theoretically should never need since the first one is supposedly indestructible. All of this for only $19.99 plus shipping.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 25, 2014

Secondly, the only positive thing to come out of our short relationship - I learned to defend margin. For clarification, what I mean by defending margin is to fight for every single percentage point of profit, and give absolutely nothing away without getting something in return. Add just one per cent of profit/gross margin to every deal and you will discover that it’s a lot of $ that you have left on the table, isn’t it?

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Cincom Smart Selling

AUGUST 3, 2016

Ultimately, margin is what it’s all about. If you can show that you are moving the needle in a positive way regarding margin, you are going to have a lot of friends in the executive suite. Market share and customer satisfaction are important, but only margin equals money in the bank. Margin is the goal. Sales Enablement Metrics and Their Potential Impact on Margin. The post Sales Enablement, Part 1: Margins, Metrics and Management appeared first on Cincom Blog.

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Sales Benchmark Index

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The best sales organizations align their interests with those of their sales reps and in the manner in which customers want to buy – may sounds simple, but few organizations “run through the tape” to fully align and address.

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Sales Benchmark Index

JUNE 10, 2018

Article Revenue Growth Assessment Revenue Growth Methodology Sales Strategy cco Chief Customer Officer eric bauer executive team gross revenue per customer margins retention rate revenue growthThe Chief Customer Officer is one of the newest roles to join the C-Suite in the past few years.

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Sales Benchmark Index

AUGUST 17, 2018

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The Sales Heretic

MAY 17, 2017

Sales attitude business cheap managers margin owner profits salespeople sell valueWhen sales managers and business owners hire salespeople, they’re typically looking for sales experience. Frequently, industry knowledge. And sometimes—although not often enough—attitude.

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Smart Selling Tools

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Customer-Specific Prices: The Silent Source of Margin Leakage. Thus, the proliferation and under management of these agreements have become a significant source of margin leakage.

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Sales Benchmark Index

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Article Pricing Strategy best practices clients comp compensation Doug Bartels GTM indicators indirect channel indirect sales influence key kpi margin packaging performance products reps resp RGM sale sales sales people tool total transactionsHow do you influence sales people when you don’t directly impact their compensation? This is an age-old struggle many firms have had with the indirect channel…. The key we have found is to understand two key factors important to indirect.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 10, 2012

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The Sales Heretic

JANUARY 12, 2012

Sales business CEO closing cusotmer Facebook LinkedIn margin negotiating networking owner. By now you’ve probably already broken your New Year’s resolutions, so let’s replace them with some new ones. Specifically, with some resolutions that will enable you to sell more this year than you did last year. Set sales goals If you’ve never set sales goals for yourself or your salespeople, now’s the time to start. Begin [.].

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SalesGravy

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Why do salespeople or sales managers never share with me the long-term outcome of such “price reduction” strategy? Because it never works out the way the salesperson or the sales manager initially believes it will

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 1, 2017

Manage your deals and margins better by using custom fields for deals. The latest update has three main features: Calculate the margin based on Cost (Deal amount, Deal margin & Deal cost). Show the margin of your deal using the cost.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

And it can be the difference between selling at a low margin short-term and selling at a high-margin long-term. Too many salespeople are what I refer to as tactical salespeople. Opportunity, however, lies in being a strategic salesperson. I believe the difference is huge!

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 16, 2013

Blog pricing discount discounting price profit profit margin sales discount sales discountingYou are about to close and then the customer asks for a price discount. Sure, you’re tempted. But don’t do it!

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The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

In these times of shrinking margins and diminishing returns, Mark’s insights will change the way you think about discounting, price, negotiating, and, above all, the all-important concept of value. Home About The Pipeline. Contest. Free Resources. Search. 0 Subscribers.

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The Sales Leader

JANUARY 19, 2016

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Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 27, 2012

Secondly, the only positive thing to come out of our short relationship – I learnt to defend margin. For clarification, what I mean by defending margin, is to fight for every single percentage point of profit, and give absolutely nothing away without getting something in return.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 17, 2010

Most sales gurus, including Dave Kurlan, will tell you that selling at "C" level is the MOST productive way to sell more business, more quickly at higher margins.

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Sales Benchmark Index

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Price pressure kills margins. A sales executive recently told me, “There’s margin in the mystery.” As products and services mature, they become commodities. ” When special features become table stakes, buyers are not willing to pay a premium.

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Sales Benchmark Index

AUGUST 30, 2014

His sales team had been missing the revenue and margin targets. Operating margin was shrinking drastically. This week I spoke with Pat, a Sales Ops director with a lot on his plate. Cost of Sales was at an all-time high. Under their current model, they could not win.

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The Sales Heretic

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Selling on price guarantees you a razor-thin profit margin. In sales, the single worst factor you can compete on is price. As well as constant customer turnover, because price buyers are notorious for having no loyalty—they’ll switch as soon as someone else offers a lower price.

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Sales Benchmark Index

JULY 14, 2018

Taking the above conclusion at face value, it forces a hard choice – drop the price and hurt margin, or maintain the price and sacrifice sales. Rock, meet Hard Place. That sort of choice can stymie decision-making, causing you to.

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