Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to make sure your team has everything they need to succeed. The answer is resource management skills—a crucial but often overlooked skill in the sales manager’s toolkit. Types of resources Budget Human resources Material resources Why is resource management important for sales managers?

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In this 2:56 video, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the need for sales managers to go beyond setting sales goals and to define learning goals for their teams. They share how organizations can align learning goals with sales goals and invest in training and resources to support their salespeople.

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Xactly

MAY 30, 2018

Earlier this year, we teamed up with the Sales Management Association (SMA) to conduct a survey on sales territory design. More than 100 organizations participated in the survey and provided insights into how they design and plan their sales territories. Download Guide.

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Xactly

AUGUST 2, 2018

The sales territory is a geographical area that is managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by sales potential, history, geography, or a combination of the above. The objective is to make sure sales territories are balanced to help increase revenues. .

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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 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

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 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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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. Find out if your sales resources are aligned with growth opportunity by using the Sales Growth Pin Pointer.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

So, let’s dive into how Salesforce Sync helps enable sales reps by supporting the foundation of any sales process: Territory Management. ZoomInfo Salesforce Sync for Territory Management. Context is King: Keep Your GTM Strategy in Motion. And, of course, it turns out the account is owned by a peer.

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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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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. Related: The New Growth Formula: Customer Success + Predictive Sales. Consider new territory rules that reflect changes in the market (and your business).

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SalesforLife

JUNE 27, 2019

If you read our blog, you know that account executives are responsible for building TAM maps for their particular geographic territory. This is a most basic, but fundamental strategy. This also applies to an event, where you’ll have a defined, set criteria, times, size of the room, set number of attendees, and geographic markets.

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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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Gong.io

JUNE 11, 2021

Here at Gong, we define sales enablement as a function that helps the sales team sell better from the time each sales rep is brought on board, to the time they decide to leave the company. A winning sales enablement strategy must include the following 5 components: . 2: Mechanisms to boost sales effectiveness.

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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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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Prospecting strategies uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline , and provides important context to future sales conversations. What Is B2B Sales Prospecting? B2B sales prospecting is the act of looking for potential buyers, customers, or clients to convert into new business.

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A Sales Guy

MARCH 4, 2014

They manage to the quotas. They influence the deal strategies. They resolve territory disputes. They sit next to, talk with and are closer to the sales people than any other person (role) in the company. Sales managers are the lynchpins to success in sales organizations. They distribute the quotas.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Cold emailing is a difficult marketing strategy for two main reasons. Cold emails are emails sent without prior contact with the recipient, with the purpose of establishing a relationship and eventually making a sale. Instead, you have to wait for an eventual answer, which in many cases never comes. Are cold emails still effective?

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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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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

You can avoid such a scenario by developing an onboarding strategy that effectively enables new employees to adjust faster. Many sales managers operate on the assumption that each new employee has the knowledge, expertise, and maturity level to hit the ground running and to bring immediate value to their organization.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

Without the incentive of commission or performance-based bonuses, salespeople may lack the motivation to go above and beyond in driving sales results. Sales managers will have to think of nonmonetary alternatives as motivators. As a result, the organization may lose the benefits of a united and collaborative sales team.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Yet, there is an objective way to set quota that incorporates high-level organizational goals while also meeting the realistic expectations of individual sellers. Let’s explore five essential strategies for setting aggressive but attainable sales targets. Engage Sales Reps and Sales Managers in Quota-Setting Discussions.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

There’s no doubt about it: as a new year dawns and the troubles of the past are put firmly behind us, building a strategy for the future feels incredibly exciting. You have the product in hand, but without a high-quality sales strategy, it won’t attain the success it was made for. What is a sales strategy?

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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. What objections do you expect to encounter?

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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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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.” Work harder' is a losing strategy. If so, then badgering the sales force to “work harder” is a losing strategy. Either way, the sales manager has committed coaching malpractice.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

So, let’s dive into how Salesforce Sync helps enable sales reps by supporting the foundation of any sales process: Territory Management. But what if reps and managers could identify accounts owned by specific reps or that are unowned, yet a part of particular territory? It’s not just reps who suffer, either.

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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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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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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Crafting a sales strategy is a key to success – especially when selling into major accounts. While front-line sales managers agree, we often hear comments like, “I don’t have the time” and “My territory is spread out and I don’t see my people face-to-face”. A Classic - '63 Corvette. Select the Opportunity.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Strategy Review Session. Crafting a sales strategy is a key to success – especially when selling into major accounts. While front-line sales managers agree, we often hear comments like, “I don’t have the time” and “My territory is spread out and I don’t see my people face-to-face”. . Select the Opportunity.

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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

APRIL 9, 2013

The downloadable tool includes a profile of a highly successful HR business partner to sales. Also included in the download is a sample scorecard of objectives for the HR business partner to Sales. Earlier posts talked about how HR Business Partners can provide value to Sales. Here’s a sample scorecard to draw ideas from.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 2, 2018

A sales strategy plan is your strategic approach to winning new customers plus developing and retaining existing customers. It also outlines in detail your sales goals and objectives for the period it covers including all the major marketing or sales tactics to be used. Sales Strategy Plan Overview.

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