Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

I would get my sales team to begin building plans for a strong start in the upcoming year at this time of year. Far too many companies will spend the first quarter answering questions to senior management as to why sales aren’t coming in rather than focusing on executing their business plans.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Though sales organizations hire more sellers than ever to grow their business and compensate for losing salespeople, studies show that they may not be following hiring best practices: 84% of sales leaders say they lack the sales talent they need to succeed in the future. How Sales Organizations Can Improve Hiring Decisions.

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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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Xactly

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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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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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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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Here are my top 5 tips to be part of the 10% who do sales planning right. 5 tips to rethink your sales planning. Every organization needs to choose the markets and buyers they want to focus on, and concentrate their efforts on those buyers. Related: The New Growth Formula: Customer Success + Predictive Sales.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. To say that sales managers have their work cut out for them would be a massive understatement. by Howard Brown, CEO of ringDNA.

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Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 5, 2018

I hope you have enjoyed our video series so far in terms of strategies to Crush your Sales Numbers. Strategy #4 is have your sales reps develop their own territory business plans. If your sales reps are not taking the time to build their business plans then where are they going to go, what are they going to do?

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Highspot

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In fact, a reported 69% of sellers who exceed annual quota consider their sales managers as being “above average” at their jobs. But here’s the problem: A good candidate for sales management is hard to find. Why is there a knowledge gap for sales leaders? sales guidance. performance KPI tracking.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

For example, what caused pain points at the end of the program: reps changing territories mid-program, sales that were booked but not invoiced, clients who made verbal commitments but didn’t sign contracts, field sales managers that vouched for sales that didn’t get logged into the system on time, etc.?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2017

That gives you an objective method for avoiding bias in your evaluation. By “bias” I am referring to a sales manager’s tendency to overlook or minimize the indications that the person is a bad fit, because we often don’t want to admit we made a hiring mistake. Every experienced sales manager has made a bad hiring mistake.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 18, 2012

I’ve decided to start with aligning quota with business objectives. In other words, whatever you are looking to achieve from a business perspective should directly align with every sales person quota. Sales people are making progress in the wrong direction. To me it’s the most important.

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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. Mixed confusing objectives.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

It can also foster a more collaborative and supportive team environment since there is no direct competition based on individual sales performance. In some instances, salary-only sales can be positioned as a more “transparent” marketing differentiator. This might give customers the impression of a low- or no-pressure sale.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sales professionals — yes, even managers — on frontlines of business development. Because, let’s face it, even in a perfect world, CRMs benefit company leadership more than the quota-carrying sales rep. Because like most sales and marketing technologies, CRMs are only as good as the data stored within its database.

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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. I’ll stop here. No related posts.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

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. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense.

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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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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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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. Sales professionals not only need a stimulating job with a lot of room for growth, but also social interaction, a positive work environment and recognition and respect from sales executives.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Top Sales & Marketing Awards 2011. Stored in Attitude , Awards , Business Acumen , Communication , Compete , Marketing , Sales Success , execution , qualifying. One for Top Sales & Marketing Blog , where I share the company of last year’s winner S.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

Pharmaceutical sales training faces several unique challenges that require tailored approaches and solutions. These challenges include: No insight into field activities Traditionally, it has been difficult for sales managers to gain visibility into the daily activities of their sales reps in the field.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

This creates a new challenge for sales management: how do you train your sales team?—?including This is unexplored territory?—?and As counterintuitive as it may seem, the secrets to sales AI success is entirely dependent on training: training of the AI itself and training of the salespeople who must use it.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 24, 2022

Sales forecasts are not guesses, however. They’re calculated estimates based on an analysis of factors such as current sales pipeline , previous sales history, total addressable market, and lead stage scoring. Sales managers use forecasts for territory planning as well.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

If your compensation plan rewards on units, focus the incentive on revenue or margin as long as those measures contribute to the business objectives you’re trying to accomplish. For an outside sales rep, it might be three months. The (BIG) bad news about a minimum qualifier is that it may exclude certain territories or reps.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 30, 2018

This is the equivalent of sales managers telling their salespeople that they “really need to make their quota.” Either way, the sales manager has committed coaching malpractice. At the same time, it’s a well-known fact that revenue targets have risen: A double blow to the hardworking sales manager and sales rep.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

But it’s important to look at the composition of that revenue to understand not only how it meets your current goals/objectives, but how it positions your organization/company for future growth. Stated differently, sales has to sell the entire product portfolio, not just their favorite products.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Listening To the Market. Many of the answers to a sales leader’s execution problems are in the market. This post is focused on how listening to the market accelerates field execution. This post is focused on how listening to the market accelerates field execution. Listening to the market has many connotations.

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Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

It leads your sales reps through various scenarios: how to prospect, when to sell what product or service, how to overcome common objections, what to negotiate for (and how ) to name a few. Best-in-class sales playbooks include: . Sales enablement materials. Sales resources. Sales templates. Territories.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

She does great work in recruiting and hiring of Sales Reps. She even ensures Sales Managers are getting the new hires onboarded effectively. Any virtual benches that the Sales Managers had have long ago been used up. Increasing number of vacant Sales Rep positions. Sales cost is not growing.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 27, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan This kind of story doesn''t happen every day. One of Objective Management Group''s (OMG) most successful partners had an opportunity to work with young business leaders that had never sold. There simply wasn''t any sales management and the coaching they received was consistent.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2012

Have you conducted growth opportunity analyses in your market? Are you confident the sales team’s people, money and time are accurately allocated for the upcoming year? Find out if your sales resources are aligned with growth opportunity by using the Sales Growth Pin Pointer. What is wrong with this picture?

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Sales And Marketing Alignment In Terms Of Lead Generation In A 2.0 Stored in BANTER , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Marketing , Proactive , Productivity , Sales 2.0 , execution. Sales and marketing lead generation tools follow this suit. March 2008.

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Pipeliner

JULY 18, 2019

What to look for while setting up a sales office in a new territory. Setting up a new sales office can come with a number of different challenges. Firstly, the market dynamics in the new territory can be dramatically different from what you are used to in your role. This allows you to segregate them into clusters.

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