The Spiff Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Welcome back to our Meet the Team series! So, without further ado, let’s meet the team! Billy has been in sales/sales management his entire career and previously spent five years at Capshare. He appreciates the opportunity to use his skills and knowledge to help a company grow, and to truly make a difference.

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Meeting Sports Travel Engineering 84

SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2012

Are your sales resources properly aligned with growth opportunity ? The Sales Leader is about to receive the 2013 Revenue Number. He will rely on you, the Head of Sales Operations, for sales strategy advice. Have you conducted growth opportunity analyses in your market? ” Oliver : “Of course.

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Opportunity Strategy Banking Territories 316

Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset.

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Meeting Decision Maker Revelation ACT 130

No More Cold Calling

MAY 30, 2013

Even though most salespeople haven’t met quota in years, sales managers have greater expectations than ever. Only 63 percent of sales reps met quota in 2012, according to the 19th annual CSO Insights Sales Performance Optimization study , the same number as the previous year. Click here to read more.

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Quota Meeting Sales Qualified Lead Cost per Lead 214

Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 13, 2020

Sales managers normally face a trifecta of shifting demands from buyers, their direct reports and their organization. Get the Study. The COVID-19 pandemic gives sales managers the perfect opportunity to work toward transforming into more capable leaders. Scrub Your CRM Data. Focus on Quality.

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Top of Funnel Sales Management Strategy Funnel 110

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 5, 2014

In no particular order they are: Top 10 Sales Competencies. Top 10 Sales Management Functions. Top 10 Indicators That You Have a Trustworthy Sales Prospect. Top 10 Tips for Hiring Salespeople for Your Sales Force. Top 5 Reasons You Don''t Get More Strong Sales Candidates. 10 Sales Coaching Examples.

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Hiring Sales Management Decision Maker Cold Calling 249

Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

Although factors like your product line, buyer personas, and brand awareness are important, sales managers are also critical to the success of any business as they have the potential to unlock huge returns that impact the business's bottom line. Onboarding and training new hires is another sales management responsibilities.

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Sales Management Hiring Buyer Persona Compensation 125

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 3, 2020

It’s no secret that salespeople often fail as sales managers. Nonetheless, many of the best reps within an organization often end up in management positions. Whether you’re actively seeking a role as a manager or have already gotten a promotion, you should understand the most difficult aspects of the transition.

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Sales Management Hiring Promotion Coaching 120

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well.

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Sales Goal Examples Sales Management Hiring 87

Steven Rosen

AUGUST 26, 2021

Sales Manager’s Success Checklist. It is far too early to look at sales early. Here are the top 10 questions you should ask yourself and your sales managers to gauge if you/they have set the foundation for success. Do All Your Sales Reps Have Strong Business Plans? Is Your Sales Team Engaged?

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Compensation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Quota 386

SBI

JANUARY 28, 2020

6 Ways Sales Enablement Leaders can Gain Sales Management Support. Sales Enablement is generally focused on assisting individual sellers with less focus placed on others in the organization. “ Sales Enablement supports the sales team to move buyers to a decision point. Sales technology.

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Sales Enablement Sales Management Coaching Engineering 131

Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

One route into the position of a sales manager is promotion from having been a highly successful salesperson. They are suddenly saddled with the responsibility of the entire sales team. Fortunately, though, sales management is a craft that can be learned. This will help a sales manager to get up and running.

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Sales Management Quota Pipeline Top of Funnel 92

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To answer this question, let’s start with some data: According to the latest HubSpot Research Study , we found that 40% of businesses will miss revenue targets this year. That has led to a progressive trend for sales models: next year, 68% of sales leaders say they plan to keep or implement a hybrid or fully remote sales model.

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Hubspot Lead Rank Opportunity Lead Scoring 126

SalesFuel

APRIL 2, 2024

The company’s analysts define this practice as follows. “… Contact multiple individuals inside a prospect account before concluding that there is no opportunity present.” Buyers don’t want meetings, especially not before they’ve decided on a vendor. This aspect of the BDR’s workflow should be the focus of the sales manager’s attention.

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Maximizer Face-to-face Social Media Hiring 116

Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 11, 2019

The role of a sales manager may be the hardest job in sales. While coaching your team to sales success, your responsibilities include recruiting new talent and meeting the needs of key customers, all while collaborating with internal stakeholders such as marketing, product management and executives.

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Sales Management Scale Lead Rank Maximizer 90

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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Sales Coaching Coaching Sales Management Study 273

Nutshell

JANUARY 19, 2018

It’s a sales manager’s job to ensure that the right resources are applied to the right set of tasks and objectives. Even though they have to juggle a lot of responsibilities in the way of meetings and reporting, the best sales leaders spend most of their time working with their salespeople, training, teaching, and coaching.

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Account Sales Management Pipeline How To 73

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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Sales Coaching Coaching Sales Management Study 261

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 1, 2018

I have to admit being consumed with CSO Insights latest Sales Performance Report. If you haven’t had the opportunity to read it, make sure you take the time to download and study it. It’s filled with fascinating analysis, each chart presents huge opportunities for performance improvement. We win only 46.2%

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Sales Management Forecasting Analysis Quota 81

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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Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Forecasting 115

Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 29, 2014

Sales managers – roadblock removers. Sales managers – how does your sales team spend its time? If you’re like most, it’s likely that your salespeople are attending too many unnecessary meetings and responding to too many unnecessary requests for information. ©2014 Sales Momentum ®.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Face-to-face Funnel 131

CommercialTribe

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

So, where was her frontline sales manager? We can all see the appeal, but the reality is that the other opportunity would have closed without the manager’s involvement. Instead, Jennifer was left alone and the chance to put a qualified opportunity in the pipeline is gone. The data tells a different story.

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Coaching Top of Funnel Hiring Sales Management 52

Nutshell

MAY 16, 2019

Do you dream of leaving your sales associate desk behind and stepping up to a sales management position? The arrangements may vary from company to company, but in general, most sales professionals would jump at the chance to assume a leadership role. Are you Sure You Want to Become a Sales Manager?

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Hiring Sales Management How To Promotion 96

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

Hiring and onboarding are an expensive undertaking, so companies are incentivized to train new sales reps quickly and ramp faster. But, many organizations tend to rely on these programs and miss the golden opportunity to continue upskilling sales reps throughout their time at the company. Improve Employee Retention.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Top of Funnel Hiring 317

Miller Heiman Group

MAY 14, 2019

Sales managers influence what salespeople sell, where they sell, who they sell to and even how they sell. These factors make the sales manager role one of the most influential and demanding jobs in any company engaged in complex B2B sales. How many direct reports do sales managers have in your company?

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Coaching Sales Management Hiring Territories 73

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

CSO Insights has a much richer categorization than I’ve highlighted–look at the study.). They are separated by only about 2.1%–perhaps within the range of survey error, which means there is relatively little difference between top and bottom performers in meeting plan. Performance Level 1 represents 20.8%

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Sales Management Hiring Quota Comparison 77

SalesFuel

MARCH 13, 2024

Kogan adds, "… and gives you an opportunity to do something to support yourself to feel a little better.” As she reports, “Microsoft recently conducted a large-scale study." The findings show that taking five- to 10-minute breaks between meetings significantly can reduce stress and improve focus.

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Hiring Harvest Scale Microsoft 98

SMEI

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Value of Professional Certification in Sales and Marketing Enhanced Credibility and Expertise Professional certifications are more than just additional lines on a resume; they are a testament to your expertise and commitment to your field. Investment: Most certifications require both time and financial resources, so plan accordingly.

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Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Social Media Google Analytics 85

SalesFuel

APRIL 1, 2024

SalesFuel’s Voice of the Sales Rep study revealed that many reps continue to struggle with basic skills. They say the following are their top weaknesses: Challenging misconceptions/budget concerns Networking Handling rejections These three skills are an important part of the sales process. And again, mindset helps.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face 52

Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Like in a post-apocalyptic movie, sales heroes valiantly fought a formidable foe, developing and broadening their skills to combat the challenges of uncertain markets, supply-chain chaos, rising inflation, and the great resignation. Sales Assessments. Sales Skills in Customer Service.

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Trends Training Retention Face-to-face 118

Miller Heiman Group

JULY 8, 2019

Both studies found a common thread in those companies that didn’t just survive during the economic downturns but thrived: they prepared for it. . Last year, the average sales organization saw revenue attainment of 101%, according to CSO Insights, the research division of Miller Heiman Group.

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Revenue Hiring Sales Management Lead Rank 82

HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 1, 2011

IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors. Martin: Heavy Hitter Sales Linguistics: 101 Advanced Sales Call Strategies for Senior Salespeople. August 2011.

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Study Lead Rank Lead Scoring Penetration 163

Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As a manager, there is so much to do and never enough time. Research has found that sales managers spend just 32% of their time managing their team and only part of that is spent coaching. According to CSO Insights almost half of the businesses they studied left coaching up to sales managers.

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Coaching Sales Management Report Quota 52

Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As a manager, there is so much to do and never enough time. Research has found that sales managers spend just 32% of their time managing their team and only part of that is spent coaching. According to CSO Insights almost half of the businesses they studied left coaching up to sales managers.

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Coaching Sales Management Report Quota 52

Vengreso

JULY 20, 2023

This can “feel” like a grueling and often frustrating process, if you don’t maintain the right sales focus and mindset. Having a sales mindset rooted in positive thinking is what ultimately drives sales people to see opportunities for selling where others may not. And, it is your actions as a sales rep (i.e.

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Positioning Coaching Up-Sell Sales Coaching 105

Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

**This post is part of a series based on Showpad’s 2021 Modern Selling Study. To dig into all the data, visit the study homepage. Sales effectiveness is the domain where enablement collaborates with sales management to translate enablement efforts into tangible sales results. Regularly and consistently.

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Face-to-face Study Survey Coaching 96

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

A new research study unlocks the key to using social media for sales. Is it just another term to check off your buzzword bingo card at the next sales meeting you attend? Working with PITA (“pain in the ass”) clients isn’t just an unpleasant experience; it’s an opportunity cost. Social engagement. Not really.

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Social Selling Cold Calling Social Media Ideal Customer Profile 296