Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

There’s no doubt about it: as a new year dawns and the troubles of the past are put firmly behind us, building a strategy for the future feels incredibly exciting. 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? Companies too.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Strategy Buyer Persona 113

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Not all sales people have the same skills.

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Pipeline Territories Harvest Cold Calling 212

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Don’t do a territory redesign project without knowing exactly who you’re targeting. Revising the comp plan without aligning it to a defined sales strategy won’t work. Without that, virtually all else below is drastically marginalized. What projects or initiatives will have the most positive impact next year?

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Top of Funnel Territories Scale Segment 296

Xactly

APRIL 16, 2018

Variables in Sales Commission Strategies. As sales operations leaders also know, creating the right sales commission strategy can be a complex endeavor. Choosing the Right Sales Commission Strategy. Hybrid — As the name suggests, the hybrid plan combines flat and tiered commissions strategies.

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Commission Motivation Strategy Hiring 58

Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

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. Negotiations and Discounting – Review deal profitability to find the “unscrupulous discounters.”

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Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Territories Top of Funnel 105

SBI Growth

AUGUST 1, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Profit Margin (%). Examples include optimized territory structures and off-loading non-essential tasks. Revenue, margin % and $’s, Opportunity $’s, Time Spent, Strategic Fit, etc. Profit Volume ($).

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Scale Hiring 317

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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. We measure a lot of stuff in sales. Both have identical quotas, $5M. Both have $10M pipelines.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Churn Territories Pipeline 110

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

There are several possible reasons: Need to keep your complete book of business and preserve your territory. You can acquire them in a multiple of different ways: You dropped your price too quickly and marginalized your perceived value. Explain your shift in strategy. You instinctively avoid customer attrition. You are a giver.

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Customer Referrals Margin Territories 303

The Pipeline

APRIL 8, 2011

Battle Reparation Tactics Meet Marketplace Strategies. Similarly in the market world, you have to entice a clientele base by promoting heavily without really striving for a high profit margin. Battle Reparation Tactics Meet Marketplace Strategies [link]. Battle Reparation Tactics Meet Marketplace Strategies [link] #news #sales.

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Pipeline Meeting Webinar Metrics Strategy 216

The Pipeline

APRIL 17, 2013

I remember when I first started working for a company back in the early 1990’s (before we had web mail), the company had two main product lines, and had the usual territories across the continent, primarily driven by geography. No one ever had to move out of their comfort zone, mine was hunting.

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Demand Generation Agencies Top of Funnel Territories Demand Generation 296

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 10, 2017

Being able to visualize your market is a bonus that helps with defining and assigning territories, allocating field resources, and focusing marketing efforts. If your TAM is inaccurate, even by a small margin, you might make the wrong go/no-go decision. Some Final Pointers. Reevaluate your ICP, and target accounts at least annually.

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Marketing InsideView 136

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

But selling value allows not just revenue but margin to be considered. open territory) is met in stride. This could be going on a sales call, helping with deal strategy or running a sales meeting. For example, making the number by discounting heavily hits your goals. That’s profitable and good business. And make it look easy.

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Promotion Construction Hiring Scale 297

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

According to RepHunter , 20% to 40% of gross margin (sales minus direct expenses) is standard. Paying on gross margin. In other words, a rep would be compensated more for selling a product with a $2,500 gross margin than one with a $1,000 gross margin. Maybe you offer professional services, which tend to have low margins.

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Compensation Hiring Salary Commission 124

Crunchbase

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Both marketing and sales strategies will leverage information about a company’s history and its overarching goals and efforts. Marketing strategies generally explain what the product is, how much it costs, who will buy it, and where it will be sold. Average profit margin. Strategies. Marketing KPIs. Cost per lead.

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Cost per Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 52

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. Communication Strategy. Sales Strategy. Territory Alignment. All sales aren’t created equal. Appointments. Book Notice.

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Pipeline Hiring Cold Calling Top of Funnel 212

Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

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. Negotiations and Discounting – Review deal profitability to find the “unscrupulous discounters.”

Sales Enablement 52

Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Territories Top of Funnel 52

The Pipeline

MARCH 13, 2018

I know that the Lagging Indicators such as revenue, number of sales, margins, etc., Again, the goal is to develop strategies not based on particular personalities, which football club they like or beer they drink, but on specific performance factors that drive and support the company’s business objectives.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Margin 197

Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

There’s no way around it: Strategy is exciting. It’s even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product, or a slew of new features, and you need to develop and launch a brand new sales strategy that will take your product to the top spot it was made for. What is a sales strategy? Developing your sales strategy.

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Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Strategy 62

Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

You’ll get an evidence-based strategy for producing better results given today’s challenging buyer/seller dynamics. This book is filled with bold, smart, and powerful strategies combining proven old-school values with new-school techniques to connect with impossible-to-reach executive buyers. Salz’s book now.

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Decision Maker Handbook Lead Rank Lead Scoring 126

Mereo

APRIL 2, 2020

The team running sales operations is focused on the nitty gritty, down and dirty details of your formal sales plan tailored around your overarching business strategy. With too many salespeople assigned to a territory, you set your team up for missed individual quotas and an inundated market. Strategic Territory Alignment and Mapping.

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Sales Operations Revenue Territories Compensation 45

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Still, they can offer some interesting perspective on what you do well and the strategies you can implement to take your sales efforts to the next level. When times are tight and sales opportunities are sparse, the Hunter will forge into new sales territories and find new prospects. Don’t become overly friendly.

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Telemarketing Engineering Top of Funnel Territories 131

Sell Integrity

MAY 25, 2021

Here’s why it’s so important to get your sales plan and strategy firmed up now: If you don’t, you won’t be able to achieve the market share and margin growth that’s going to be available in the next 12 to 24 months. Here’s what he said: Be Ready for Virtual Sales Performance: As Bruce explains, this is a territory coverage play.

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Call-back Comparison Margin Pivotal 113

Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 10, 2016

Channel Strategy: Building a Sustaining Partner Community. -A This firm in 6 years had a 20% growth rate in an industry that was growing 3% annually, they quadrupled sales and profits margins were double the industry norms. A Case Study-. Do I have your attention YET? Start selling directly to larger customers.

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Channels Lead Rank Lead Scoring Strategy 40

The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this post we’ll outline what Sales Performance Management is, what it isn’t, its benefits, and tips for building an SPM strategy within your sales organization. The reality is that the technology is only a tool, and the tool is only as useful as the strategy and processes that it’s applied to. Start with a Strategy.

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Hiring Incentives Incentive Compensation 40

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Taking a deeper dive into the data reveals that while there has been significant growth in the number of Fortune 500 CEO accounts created versus last year’s results, the number of “active” accounts grew marginally. Not everybody is selling social media strategies, inbound programs, or content.

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Cold Calling Social Media Decision Maker Lead Rank 292

A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Starting the new year right, and in this case 2013, means having the right structure, people, processess, and strategies in place. margin/margin growth. Strategy: If only one effort is going to focus on the new year, then it has to be strategy. What is the 2013 sales strategy? revenue growth. partnerships.

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Margin Territories Channels Sports 117

SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As they look ahead to the upcoming year, recent PwC research shows that more than half of UK manufacturers are gearing up to introduce new products, with more than a quarter (27.3%) hoping to explore uncharted territory and expand into new markets. However, the path forward is not without its challenges.

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Opportunity SugarCRM Face-to-face CRM 26

Sales Training Advice

MARCH 26, 2011

Some sellers, and particularly business owners who think in terms of profits, like to start with margins or other metrics when setting their sales objectives. They don’t agree to pay you a certain profitability margin. If they knew your margin, they’d surely negotiate for deeper discounts! Customers buy based on revenue.

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Sales Goal Strategy Margin Lead Generation 53

CommercialTribe

JUNE 23, 2020

Frontline managers who spend the majority of their time focused on low and high performers will make a marginal impact at best. Where: Focus on Early Stage Pipeline, Account Re-Qualification, and Territory Re-Classification. At the same time, we know that coaching is not effective if it targets the wrong reps.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Sales Management Face-to-face 40

Xactly

AUGUST 30, 2018

Instead, they have to shift their focus to their sales reps–providing effective sales management strategies to promote higher returns on their sales efforts. The managers could either inspire their teams, helping them achieve their goals or crush their morale leading to reduced profit margins. It takes a multi-pronged approach.

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Enterprise Enterprise Top of Funnel Compensation 40

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 22, 2017

A terrific strategy for driving product line growth. Where product lines are very diverse, with different and unrelated buyers within the account, this issue may not be important (But I’m still driven by my mantra, “It’s our God-given right to 100% share of customer and territory…”).

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Territories Segment Inside Sales Pipeline 48

A Sales Guy

JANUARY 21, 2013

(A) Those who know : Those who know are very clear what challenges lay in front to them and have devised a strategy and plan to execute. They are clear in the begginning of the year what goals, strategies and approaches they will use to get to their number. Their strategies and approaches are specific and measurable.

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Quota How To Penetration Face-to-face 127

Corporate Visions

MAY 31, 2018

But this conventional approach, and the premises underlying it, raise a crucial performance question: What does it really have to do with helping a company’s business strategy, responding to shifting market demands, or intervening to fix acute, emergent needs when they arise? The main challenge when it comes to these situations?

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Territories Margin Training Pipeline 40

Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2014

Mixing meetings—the objectives of pipeline reviews, deal reviews, sales call reviews, account territory reviews are different, but we mix them in the flow of the meeting–destroying the purpose. The most common are forecast/pipeline, opportunity/deal, call (though held way to infrequently), account and territory reviews.

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Sales Management Forecasting Top of Funnel Sales Cycle 91

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2015

If we are committed to success, we would do this for our deal strategies, we would do this before each call, we would do this in expanding our share of account, we would do this in expanding our share of territory. We know the customer must say, “Those things are important to me!

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Margin Territories Account Call-back 48

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Some inevitable restructuring, new territories and realignment. Have current competitors changed their strategies? Have you shifted your strategies and priorities? ” Have your margins changed? Have you changed or shifted your go-to-market strategies? We’re getting ready for the Holidays and New Year.

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Sales Process Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Face-to-face 94

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2019

It may be adopting a new methodology, new technologies or tools, changing your go to customer strategies. As people struggle to make their numbers or to maintain their pipeline/activity metrics, they tend to cast a wider net, losing focus on the Ideal Customers, pursuing marginal cases. Hyperfocus on your ICP.

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Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Hiring Sales Methodology 91