Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2019

You've spent hours prospecting : researching, making warm calls , reaching out via email and on social media. If you have prospects who are dragging their feet or slowing a deal down, you might be working with a tire kicker. So, how can separate these tire kickers from well-qualified prospects? Sound familiar?

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

These lines are just some examples of common objections sales professionals hear time and again from prospects. And while deflections and rejections come with the territory of sales, that doesn’t mean simply giving up on a hard-earned prospect who throws up a wall. If the prospect replies, “Never,” then, you’re stuck.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How are your leads and your territory? The bottom line is that only a solid vision will keep you motivated. Yet just six months later, she choose to take action out of her vision, and she overcame this traumatic event (and disability) and was soon surfing competitively again—and winning. Think about the circumstances in your own life.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 13, 2019

You’ll be amazed how much this will keep you motivated and into action. If you think you’re broke or that your territory is poor or that you can’t do something, then you’ll find evidence to support your belief and you’ll act (or not act!) If I don’t make that daily goal one day, I simply carry it over to the next day. accordingly.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore? Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. Are you territory based or open territories?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

2) Don’t Ignore the Candidate’s Red Flags Perhaps your prospective sales rep has an impressive resume, one which lists a series of excellent sales positions with an exciting range of duties, goals, and accomplishments. Ask questions like, “How would you handle a customer’s price objections?” Will they be good at the job, or not?

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 18, 2018

One of the key motivational drivers for many salespeople is the desire for advancement and growth. This could involve seeing their territory sales improve, helping a new product through its launch or possibly farming an account for new business. What’s their rationale and motive for wanting to be a manager?

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SalesFuel

APRIL 3, 2024

Specifically, being resilient helps sellers: Handle rejection Overcome objections and other obstacles (such as economic conditions) Stay motivated Thankfully, this is a skill that you can develop and grow over time. Understand they are a vital part of the process and something that goes with the territory,” she explains.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Motivation. Harness The Trigger Events That Turn Prospects Into Customers. They understand that if you don’t initiate the process, there is little chance of reaching your objective.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

We’ll cover topics ranging from motivation and productivity to innovative tactics. 1) Handling Objections & Rejections. 1) Handling Objections & Rejections. Objections come with the territory when making cold calls. 3) Personalized Prospecting: How, When, and Why to Customize Your Messaging.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 3, 2021

Sales teams are complex groups of people with individual goals, motivations, preferences, strengths and weaknesses which all need consideration when managing them effectively. The ideal sales representative is the one who can do both the prospecting and the closing , especially if you’re in a dynamic field of work. Step 1: Prospecting.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

However, since sales activities have been notoriously hard to measure in terms of performance, many business owners have adopted various commission structures to keep their sales reps motivated. As such, your prospective employees will judge whether your company can be a good fit. Properly structured commissions, that’s how!

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

The key to sales success is to harness the right kind and amount of stress to motivate your employees rather than discourage them. Managers, take a look at your sales metrics and conduct one-on-one meetings with your team to set realistic goals and offer rewards that will truly motivate. Look into prospecting tools. Communicate.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

When sales targets are aligned with precise actions and timeframes, your team feels part of your business’s success — and ultimately more motivated to reach their sales targets. This can include training on product features and benefits, sales techniques, objection handling, and customer relationship management.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This plan serves as a roadmap, outlining clear objectives, targeted customer segments, and actionable tactics to drive sales and promote brand awareness. It addresses how sales representatives engage with prospects, close deals, and meet revenue targets.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This plan serves as a roadmap, outlining clear objectives, targeted customer segments, and actionable tactics to drive sales and promote brand awareness. It addresses how sales representatives engage with prospects, close deals, and meet revenue targets.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Having a set performance management plan keeps compensation structure and overall business objectives aligned, resulting in a more motivated sales team. Performance metrics should measure each individual’s tasks and activities in relation to how well they serve overall business objectives.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Culture at another firm required Sales Reps to do their own prospecting and sales. Most sales were incremental or competitive displacement when prospects were in an active buying cycle. The IC plan was changed to diminish Rep prospecting. Yet the IC Plan is highly variable and doesn’t motivate Reps or Managers to partake of it.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 27, 2020

They're not particularly inclined to uncover needs, but if the prospect knows what they want, the shopkeeper can find it for them. They’re the masters of smooth, soft selling and are not afraid to ask for a prospect's business. They often feel they must be liked and respected by their prospects. Shopkeeper.

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Chorus.ai

APRIL 11, 2022

Go-to-market teams have less control over when prospects are entering the sales cycle and how much information they bring to the process, and marketing attribution has gotten increasingly harder as the digital universe expands and privacy concerns multiply. In the digital world, buyers have more knowledge and options than ever before.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The key to sales success is to harness the right kind and amount of stress to motivate your employees rather than discourage them. With a sales report , managers can take a look at your sales metrics and conduct one-on-one meetings with your team to set realistic goals and offer rewards that will truly motivate. Hire new talent.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 8, 2011

One that permeates many aspects of sales, starting at planning and territory alignment, right down to day-to-day tactical aspects of sales. While I know some do it as a way that they think motivates their reps, and let’s be honest, many reps do get pumped. Objection Handling. Prospecting. Territory Alignment.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

SDRs are responsible for outbound prospecting. SDRs usually do this by cold-calling or cold-emailing the prospects. The SDR then gives prospects a quick rundown of what the product is and what it can do for them. When an SDR has vetted a prospect, they'll pass the potential lead to Account Executives (AEs). They're right.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Competition, product features that suck and prospects who dont respond can make life difficult. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Qualified Prospects are Hard to Find. Another approach would be social selling, which can help you find new prospects. Sales is a tough job. I cant keep up with my workload.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

An empirical, objective, numbers-based look at current performance and what’s left to achieve. Practice objection-handling or consultative selling skills. Motivation. How great sales managers do this is personal (a video clip, a joke, a motivational quote, etc.), Objection Handling. Prospecting. Next Steps.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

So before you can craft or adjust your sales compensation plan, you must know your business objectives for the next year. Yet without commission, reps are usually less motivated to go above and beyond. You’re also giving reps the freedom to earn as much money as they can -- which is highly motivating. Increase cash flow.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Salespeople: Are you wondering how you would stay motivated and focused without a clear number to work toward? We’d take feedback from our prospects and relay it to the technical team. Management by Objective (MBO) plans reward salespeople for hitting their goals, rather than their sales targets. The cons of quotas.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Good persona building will make prospecting and turning those prospects into qualified leads much easier. By the end of a successful persona build, you should have a very clear picture of your ideal customer(s): their ages, lifestyle attributes, territories, and pain points. Step 1: Find your data. Step 1: Set clear goals.

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Openview

MAY 11, 2018

Combining that cross-functional skill set with strong technical competences means that the best reps don’t rely on their sales engineers to explain how their solution integrates or complements their prospect’s technology stack. They understand their product inside and out. So how are the best growth companies interviewing reps?

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The Brooks Group

JULY 18, 2017

The list is broken down into 3 sections to get to the nitty gritty about the motivators, skills, and behaviors most important to the sales position you’re looking to fill. Sales Interview Questions to Reveal True Money Motivation. How would you start working a territory from scratch? Walk me through your sales process of choice.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Field reps have one major advantage over inside reps: their ability to establish relationships with prospects. It’s far easier to build rapport and trust when you’re sitting across the table from your prospects rather than talking to them through a computer screen. Ask your prospect if you can arrive 15 minutes early to set up.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

It includes objectives and responsibilities for each person in a mode organization. The amount of products and services that a company offers is another factor in sales motivation. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Geography & Territory Structure.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 10, 2014

The six month Sales Business Plan is much more than a simple sales forecast but a tool designed to help the salesperson set goals and objectives in a variety of areas. What prospecting and activity goals are important to manage. What account or territory intelligence and relationship building is important. What did I miss?

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SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Tasked with recruiting and hiring, overseeing large teams, providing guidance and training, building culture, setting quotas, creating sales plans, analyzing data, forecasting, assigning territories… the list of responsibilities is as diverse as it is long. An area less explored however is how AI can actually help scale sales managers.

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The Creation of an Objection. Before attempting to handle any type of objection I believe that it is important to begin by looking at the beliefs that sales people are holding in their minds. If they are focusing on what objections they believe they will encounter, they will unconsciously transmit these thoughts to their prospects.

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 22, 2019

For current team members, use your one-to-one meetings to communicate expectations around goals, their sales territory, and the key performance indicators you’ll be tracking. This collaborative goal-setting between sales rep and manager will help keep your reps motivated towards reaching their goals. Number of demos given.

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Grow your revenue with Crunchbase, the all-in-one prospecting solution. Sales teams are tasked with creating and maintaining relationships with potential customers (prospects) and eventually pitching those prospects to close a sale. Curious about how salespeople determine if a lead or prospect is qualified? Sales targets.

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