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. That’s 100 deals.

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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 Management Forecasting Top of Funnel Sales Cycle 90

Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

The post The Three Waves of Sales Enablement by Tim Riesterer appeared first on Corporate Visions. But, just as the first wave of agricultural society gave way to the second wave of industrial society, so too Learning Paths transitioned to more situational, Territory Plan-based learning and enablement. The Second Wave: Territory Plans.

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Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Territories Top of Funnel 105

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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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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SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

“Do we have a sales turnover problem that needs to be fixed now?". HR is busy filling open Sales Rep positions. This post helps HR and Sales decide if it’s time to fix the underlying cause. She is the HR business partner to sales. She does great work in recruiting and hiring of Sales Reps. This one is obvious.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

As a Sales VP, putting the best people in the correct positions is critical. Making your number next year means promoting, keeping and terminating certain sales reps. Download our Sales Rep Promotability Scale. But selling value allows not just revenue but margin to be considered. open territory) is met in stride.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. They say you can’t shrink your way to success, but perhaps there are situations in sales where you can. Shrink Your Way To Success.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In many ways, managing multiple sales channels is like climbing that mountain—it looks easy until you really get into the process, and then the challenges and difficulties become all too apparent. You Need Channel Management. But, managing multi-channels is a strategic process that requires a strategic-level outlook and plan.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 16, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The weather, with temperatures reaching the high 80's, was completely unfavorable for the runners entered in the 2012 Boston Marathon. A similar scenario faced hundreds of sales leadership executives. 32% reported that their sales cycle is too long. 15% want to reduce turnover.

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Hiring Territories Compensation Forecasting 188

Close.io

JANUARY 23, 2020

For example, if a sales rep sells a product at $1,000 and the flat rate commission per sale is 5%, they get an extra $50 in their paycheck. All sales, regardless of size, are rewarded with the same commission, so it can affect volume, which in turn, may affect your bottom line. The advantage of this structure is its simplicity.

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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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The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Win The Sale Without Compromising on Price. Stored in Attitude , Book Notice , Price , Proactive , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Technique , execution. All sales aren’t created equal. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. EDGE Sales Process.

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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. But, just as the first wave of agricultural society gave way to the second wave of industrial society, so too Learning Paths transitioned to more situational, Territory Plan-based learning and enablement. The Second Wave: Territory Plans.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We measure a lot of stuff in sales. We have all sorts of pipeline metrics, activity metrics, prospecting metrics, account, territory, retention, renewal, mix, margin, and endless other metrics. Let’s imagine we have two sales people with very similar territories. Jim’s a terrible sales person.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While there's no definitive standard for segmenting salespeople, there are some archetypes that sales professionals tend to fall into — categories that can help reps better understand how they sell and what they should work on. Here are the four primary selling styles that most sales reps fall into. Selling styles aren't set in stone.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 10, 2014

With many of my clients we have the each member of the sales team prepare a six month Business Plan and then a shorter Quarterly Action Plan is created and as I was preparing a client audit today I realized it was time to begin to have this client’s sales team evaluate their performance. What revenue/margin goals that need a focus.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2019

Too often, as executives look to improve sales performance, they look to doing something new or different. Any of these can improve sales performance, but the come with their costs. Since these represent major changes, the change management process and time involved in solidifying changes can be very long.

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The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Sales Performance Management (SPM) is a structured approach to hiring, managing, and incentivizing your sales force to drive optimal performance. As no surprise, sales teams that implement SPM outperform sales teams in organizations that don’t. . What Sales Performance Management is – and What it Isn’t.

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Xactly

AUGUST 30, 2018

Sales team management plays a big role in the success of an organization. As the bridge between executives and sales reps, managers communicate corporate goals with their teams and keep reps on track to hit their quota. It’s important for sales leaders to manage their teams effectively.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 27, 2020

So, how do you know if you’re doing the right things as a leader to make your sales culture an asset, rather than a liability? As a head of sales and senior leader, these are questions I get asked a lot. Let’s look at how you can begin crafting your sales culture to transform your results and make your sales team that much sharper.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 26, 2012

There is a fascinating debate going on in one of our favorite LinkedIn Groups, Sales and Marketing Executives hosted by our good friend, Eric Blumthal. There are many great sales questions in this group and recommend you join. It must be tied to the compensation as a percentage of gross margin.

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A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The 4th quarter is the most critical quarter for sales. Head of sales, (EVP’s, SVP’s or VP’s) have two responsibilities in Q4. In Q4 head of sales is responsible for closing out the year successfully AND making sure the organization is prepared for next year. margin/margin growth. revenue growth.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 10, 2018

As part of the effort to make plan design easier, here are a few thoughts on the process (and a few other sales plan ideas too): 1. Watch the webinar, "Put the Darts Away: The Importance of Benchmarking Data in Sales Planning," to discover the importance of current benchmarking data for effective compensation plan design.

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Compensation Incentives Incentive Webinar Metrics 79

Xactly

APRIL 11, 2018

When it comes to revisiting your sales plans for the year, the question of whether or not you should change anything inevitably comes up. These sales planning concerns took center stage in the recent AA-ISP webinar 5 Critical Steps for Sales Planning Success. For compensation, this might mean more than a sales VP.

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Compensation Webinar Metrics Decision Maker Motivation 54

Salesmate

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The key to attracting and retaining top-performing sales reps is sales commission. A skilled sales rep needs recognition for his performance to stay motivated. Therefore, if you don’t want to lose your best sales reps, you need a strong sales commission structure. What is sales commission?

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2018

Business people, particularly sales, are obsessed with numbers. They don’t tell us why we may or may not be making our revenue/quota/margin goals, why we aren’t having enough customer meetings, why our activity levels are not where they should be, or whether the activities are producing what we expect them to be producing. .”

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Proposal Marketing Qualified Lead Margin Hiring 48

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The use of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to measure a sales team’s growth or contraction have been used for many years. Some examples include gross sales, net revenue, products sold, and others that demonstrate how a company has succeeded (or not) through a particular period (quarter or year). Sales Performance Insights.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 28, 2014

Sometimes, we give them special developmental opportunities, exposure to execs, special projects–but they deserve it, and it helps build them as sales and business professionals. It’s frustrating and draining both for managers and the sales person. Poor performers will suck the marginal performers down with them.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 10, 2016

After working in a VAR partner organization for 8 years as a Sales Manager, leading an entire channel focused company for 8 years as a VP of Sales and spending the last 19 years consulting with vendors, distributors and VARs, dealers, resellers, partners all focused on channel based strategies, I believe I can say: I have seen it all.

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Channels Lead Rank Lead Scoring Strategy 40

Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Building a new sales strategy in the face of a recovering economy is even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product or a slew of new features to give to your customers. 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

Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Hiring High Performance Sales Teams. Follow this formula to hire sales superstars. Second installment of a two-part article on sales recruiting). “ Selecting sales personnel is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, challenge of any organization. Test your top sales representatives. Define the Ideal Profile.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Time is the enemy in sales. This has been dogging management consultants, thinkers like W. Very little has been written about proactive sales management but it's an important science to understand from rep level all the way to the corner office. You could research the perfect business case to high heaven!

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The Pipeline

MARCH 2, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Negotiations , Price , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , execution. Given that, I ask why sales people choose to focus on price, when there are clearly other factors buyers rank higher than price.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 8, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Similarly in the market world, you have to entice a clientele base by promoting heavily without really striving for a high profit margin. Promote sales, throw out freebies, offer free shipping for certain orders. Battle Reparation Tactics Meet Marketplace Strategies [link] #news #sales.

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Pipeline Meeting Webinar Metrics Strategy 216

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Pipeline reviews and reporting are constant sources of contention between management and sales people. Most often the value of this activity is portrayed as the inverted triangle in this diagram. Managers are getting all the value! At it’s worst, sales people view it as a “Big Brother Is Watching Exercise.”

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Jonathan Farrington

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Today’s post is all about defending margin, and so I apologize for any embarrassment the title may have caused – and I also apologize to anyone anticipating some mild titillation: In fact the only embarrassment I may cause you today, is if you recognize yourself in any of the scenarios!

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