Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Start your sales planning efforts with account segmentation to fill your territories with fruitful opportunities and increase your sellers’ ability to hit quotas. Consider leveraging predictive analytics to further identify buying patterns and buyer propensity to further maximize your sellers’ efforts. Territory profiles .

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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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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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Xactly

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sure, you know you need ICM to handle accurate and timely payments, but do you really need automated sales territory planning as well? Although automating technology for territory design can increase your sales up to 20 percent, territory planning is often categorized as a luxury in SPM—instead of as the necessity it is.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2014

I’ve been writing a short series on Hacking Selling–( Hacking Selling , Hacking Selling Part 2 ). 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?”

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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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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We observed this troubling phenomenon while conducting research for our book Cracking the Sales Management Code. Without a common understanding of the term " sales process ," sales managers can’t coach or communicate with their sellers as effectively. Opportunity Management. Account Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Here are a few incentive structures to consider for open budgets : Do This Get That – Rewarding reps on every increment of units, sales dollars or gross margin dollars they write up during the incentive period is a great way to increase sales. For an outside sales rep, it might be three months. It’s easy to measure.

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Allego

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In this episode, sales strategists Ken and Nick Valla, co-founders of The Valla Group, discuss how their firm helps B2B sellers maximize performance. Learn why organizations must transform their training approach in a hybrid work environment , what sales leaders should do differently, and the key skills sellers need today.

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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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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 15, 2021

She said, “Dave, it seems the only way to advance in my sales career is to be a manager. But I love selling, I love working accounts and doing deals. We need to have a richer strategy on talent management, development, and retention. Over the years, we developed as sales people.

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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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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I just had an outstanding discussion with a very bright sales enablement team. Some of the sales people were eating up the programs–but they were the consistent top performers. Having said that, not all the responsibility lies with sales enablement. Who's Responsible For Sales Enablement?

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Good segmentation will also give you the following: Exactly which customers have up-sell and cross-sell potential? You have to deliver this data down to the sales rep level. Then you have to design a plan that reps, managers, directors all follow to maximize the up-side. Make it Pay Off.

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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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Zoominfo

JANUARY 12, 2021

Over the last two decades, customer relationship management (CRM) systems have become the center of the universe for enterprises and small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) alike. A costly problem—with analysts citing CRM implementation costs reaching up to $100 million. The result?

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Pipeliner

JULY 14, 2023

Of course, you can dream of a second half so strong that it drives your numbers up, salvaging your year, insuring robust performance and healthy commission checks. If your sales organization is like most, those SWOT results were quickly forgotten in deference to a laser-focus on breaking out of the January selling gate fast.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Complicated commission plans or unwieldy territory rules and exceptions cause a half-baked sales team. For a perfectly cooked main dish of deals that hit quota, keep things simple to understand and easy for sellers to sell. Keep it Consistent – baking is scientific, and so is selling.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

It’s nice to do in the evening, no distraction from devices, there’s the great tactile feeling as I pick up a new piece, trying to figure out where it fits. Sometimes, I think selling, and all the things sales people must do to be successful, is something like a jigsaw puzzle.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Now they are impatient to make up for the temporary career setback. Best-selling author and Gen-Y expert Dan Schawbel explains why. It’s especially true for sales roles where the timing to change jobs is predictable. When new territories and quotas are assigned, other pastures look temptingly green. Community Service.

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Apptivo

MARCH 9, 2023

3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more! Bye-bye manual tasks, hello sales automation! However, at times no matter how long one stretches, sales tasks eat up a lot of productive hours. 3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more! Automated follow-up Drip!

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program. It requires a process, a consistent sales methodology, and time. Coaching vs. Managing.

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Women Sales Pros

MAY 25, 2018

In many instances, we limit ourselves in how we go about selling into large accounts. Sales managers work diligently to “even out” territories ensuring everyone has a chance to make lots of money. But in the end, sales people struggle to reach their full sales potential.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Let me unpack the issues–at least my experience: The funnel or pipeline is where we first start seeing systemic sales performance issues. We generally look at pipeline coverage and sales management mythology is “everything is great if we have 3 times coverage.” We carefully looked at our sales cycles.

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SBI

MARCH 18, 2015

The weekly sales forecasting process is the heartbeat of a sales teams’ activities, and intended to be a roadmap for the selling period. It currently takes legions of spreadsheets and armies of analysts in sales operations to roll up a sales forecast which ends up being immediately out of date.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 27, 2015

Sales Manager. Well, a sales manager with the “super salesperson syndrome ” will probably exhibited some of these 6 characteristics : Sell rather than coach. When push comes to shove, S 3 sales managers will spend their time selling rather than sales coaching. Take over sales calls.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Typically, sales specialists have very deep knowledge and experience in whatever they specialize in. Sales specialists are very important in sales organizations and critical to account and territory managers. Yet too often, I see conflict between the sales specialist teams and account managers.

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

Even worse, the content they get from marketing doesn’t match the messaging used in assets from the product team or the information drilled into them during training, so they confuse your buyers and end up creating their own content, wasting several hours per week. Would you like to step into the shoes of your salespeople? Probably not.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. 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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Xactly

AUGUST 20, 2018

To obtain and manage this data properly, sales organizations need automated sales performance management (SPM) solutions to help facilitate their planning strategically, from territories and quota allocation, to compensation planning and management. Design Fair, Balanced Territories.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 8, 2021

One of the biggest errors I’ve seen is hiring a sales person from a huge/big name company and putting them in a start-up/small business role. This is more than just saying, “Here’s your territory, here’s your quota, here’s your comp plan. Make sure you take your training and get out and sell!”

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. Very cool, and now new applications of that capability are popping up.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 18, 2019

The reason I want you to walk through this is to help you think about what I think is the biggest challenge facing sales leaders in maximizing the performance of their organizations: Talent. The sales person’s territory is open for 3 months. Average sales and sales manager tenure is 16.5

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BrainShark

MAY 31, 2023

In a webinar with former Bigtincan CMO Rusty Bishop, Forrester Principal Analyst Eric Zines explained why attrition is so bad for sales in particular. If a seller leaves and there’s a spot open, that quota isn’t covered or it’s split up by others on the team halfheartedly.” Because of quota attainment,” said Zines. “If

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