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Sales Goals or Learning Goals

Steven Rosen

Balancing sales goals and learning goals requires a focus on skill mastery and progression, ensuring that reps have the necessary skills before moving on to the next objective. Recognizing the need for extra training, they brought in experts for areas like social media, territory planning, and sales messaging.

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The Pros and Cons of BDRs in B2B Sales and Marketing

Janek Performance Group

This includes lead handoff criteria, territory ownership, and commission structures, which can undermine collaboration and cohesion. These may be required to address complex customer inquiries or objections effectively and result in missed opportunities. This can limit their ability to influence purchasing decisions.

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SDR to AE: The 90-Day Guide I Wish I’d Had

Sales Hacker

Related: 10 Tips to Build Internal Relationships in Your Sales Organization What to do on days 15-30 as a new AE Territory mapping After being assigned your territory, study up. You’ll learn the basic and common objections that are thrown at AEs, and how the AEs handle them. That’s where your team backs you up. This is normal!

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How to Know if Your Team is Ready for Virtual Selling

Allego

Your company may have pivoted to virtual selling overnight this spring, but now you realize that working and closing deals when you can’t be there in person is the new normal. For everyone used to sitting down with a prospect, it’s new territory. You need a long-term plan that will take you into 2021. Facing 8 New Challenges.

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Five Keys to a Successful New Product Launch

SBI Growth

As the marketing leader, you play a pivotal role in bringing the new offering to market. Reps need to know who in their territory wants to hear about the new widget. Buyer Personas answer the following key questions: What are the buyer’s objectives? Companies rise or fall on the success or failure of a new product launch.

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The Link Between Coaching Skills For Sales Leaders and Sales Coaching Maturity

Sell Integrity

Forecasts, spreadsheets, CRM reports and territory reviews always seem to dominate their calendars. Here are just three of the pivotal differences that showed up in our research: The sales manager’s view of coaching: An accurate view of how sales managers view coaching is quite simply how much time they spend on it. That’s a 23% gap!

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Is Your Compensation Plan Evolving with the Company?

SBI Growth

One of the core strengths of any small business is its ability to adapt and pivot with the market. If you decide on #2, here's how to objectively evaluate your compensation plan: Look at your role responsibilities and find the comparable positions at your competitors. This post is for Small Company CSOs and VPs of Sales.