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 Management Scale Top of Funnel Hiring 136

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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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. When you leverage tools like Salesforce Sync, you’re better positioned to time your outreach perfectly.

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LeadFuze

JULY 14, 2023

How to be a good sales manager is an inquiry that many professionals in the field often ponder. The role of a sales manager extends beyond just overseeing a team; it’s about fostering growth, driving performance, and achieving targets. A sales manager position, that’s your answer.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

It would be unacceptable for them not to have territory plans, maximizing the growth within their territories. We invest millions in software tools to help do these things, we invest additional millions in training to do these things, we invest thousands of person hours in account and territory planning.

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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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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

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

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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Sales Management Forecasting Top of Funnel Sales Cycle 90

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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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. Ask questions like, “How would you handle a customer’s price objections?”

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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 Management Hiring Top of Funnel Maximizer 93

LevelEleven

MAY 31, 2018

For sales leaders with teams covering vast territories across multiple countries, it’s difficult to know if each salesperson on your team is focusing on the right things day-in and day-out. Even after you’ve firmly established Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), sales reps can easily get their focus derailed when they’re remote.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 9, 2013

This post discusses what Sales might want in an HR Business Partner. 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. Competencies to Support the Sales Organization.

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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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SalesForce Territories Intent Signal Buyer Persona 100

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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SBI

MAY 8, 2012

Over time, and if left unattended, the inevitable accumulation of ‘stuff’, the clutter that permeates, penetrates and defines your motivation and attitude, will distract you from your objectives, will keep you from focusing on the right activities, and will undermine the vital integrity you have so carefully nurtured with your customers.

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Tools Territories Webinar Metrics Report 82

SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

This post helps HR and Sales decide if it’s time to fix the underlying cause. Get the Turnover Trouble Tool for help with the 13 leading indicators to watch. She is the HR business partner to sales. She does great work in recruiting and hiring of Sales Reps. Increasing number of vacant Sales Rep positions.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Margin Commission 312

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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Pipeline Territories Harvest Cold Calling 212

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Having a sales performance management process in place is crucial for your team’s overall success. There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. Helps predict future sales trends.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 27, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan This kind of story doesn''t happen every day. One of Objective Management Group''s (OMG) most successful partners had an opportunity to work with young business leaders that had never sold. There simply wasn''t any sales management and the coaching they received was consistent.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Pain point: A prospect’s business need; this is what sales reps must identify in order to provide value and move them farther along in the sales cycle. Objection: A prospect’s challenge leading to opposing a product or service, i.e. budget, time constraints. Does the prospect fall within my territory? Constraints.

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SBI Growth

JULY 26, 2013

In the predictor tool, you will also learn: Why short-term financial returns can be deceiving. Project/Initiative Objectives : This is the obvious area. Whatever initiative you are faced with, try to have incremental measurable objectives. An initiative to align territories based on sales rep potential attracts A players.

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Hiring How To Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face 267

SBI

JULY 24, 2018

In fact, who doesn’t love a good forecast session with their sales manager? Not only that, sales reps see tremendous value in the information reported back to them from the CRM. Sales reps do not love their CRM and see little value in it. IT HASN’T AUTOMATED THE SALES PROCESS, SO WHAT? A HISTORY LESSON.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The evidence clearly shows that a gender-diverse sales team historically outperforms a non-diverse sales team. A 2019 study by Xactly that researched 100,000 women in sales roles, including sales reps, account managers, and sales managers, found that 86% of women achieved quota, compared to only 78% of men.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Take the time to test your new Sales comp plan for compatibility – compatibility with culture and other drivers. Sign up for the SBI Make the Number tour to learn how peers are building sales comp plans. Also, you’ll get many tools including a list of Sales Effectiveness Drivers to test your plan against.

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Sell Integrity

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In the world of sales, coaching is seen as critical for driving growth and developing excellence within sales teams. What’s more, sales managers who coach, and especially those who are effective at it and coach consistently, see measurable performance increases with their teams.

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Coaching Sales Coaching Survey Motivation 88

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Download our Sales Rep Promotability Scale. It will allow you to: Objectively evaluate your team. open territory) is met in stride. You must attend multiple sales meetings. If you just listen to your sales manager, the critical interactions will be missed. They can help you make the other decisions.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

For everyone used to sitting down with a prospect, it’s new territory. You also need to add new skills of engagement, technical aptitude, active listening, follow up, and time management to your toolbox of selling techniques. Live video conferencing tools can only take you so far. Your experience is now delivered by technology.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 28, 2013

Download the Sales Ops Field Kit Here. Think about the last big effort you drove for sales. Rolling out a new CRM tool or territory structure. Within the Sales Ops Field Kit ( click here to download ), there are tools to support you. But one of your key responsibilities is to be an objective voice.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

If you’re a front-line manager striving to increase motivation and productivity or an individual contributor (SDR/BDR, account executive, account manager, success manager) seeking efficient and innovative tactics to gain a competitive edge, this is the track for you. 1) Handling Objections & Rejections.

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Revenue Scale Inside Sales Cold Calling 95

Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

Download our "Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation Planning" for incentive best practices and everything you need for a sales comp plan design project. Data is the most important and useful tool for any part of a strategic sales plan. Optimize Your Sales Plan. Gather as Much Data as Possible.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

What we’re about to say is going to contradict every point we’ve made thus far—but hear us out: Stress can be beneficial for sales people. There’s no way around it, stress drives activity and sales managers know this. These resources may come in the form of sales enablement tools, more team members, or additional sales training.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 258

BrainShark

MAY 31, 2023

Compared to what Sales Enablement Pro calls “activity-based metrics” that look at the number of calls made, demo sessions booked, or emails sent, time to competency is instead a skill-based metric which may be less quantifiable upfront but more valuable in the long run. But effectively building competencies requires the right tools.

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Hiring Sales Talent Scale Sales Enablement 62

Vengreso

DECEMBER 2, 2020

A sales plan or sales strategy can be the difference between an organization merely surviving, or a company exceeding all sales objectives. With so many ups and downs this year, as well as company pivots and new long-term strategies, sales planning is more important than ever before for success.

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Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Hiring Segment 120

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

So the only thing left is to differentiate yourself by helping the buyer achieve his/her objectives. Identify buyer’s objective. Understand how you can help them achieve those objectives. Hiring Sales Talent. HR Management. Lead Management. Objection Handling. Sales Leadership.

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Cold Calling Webinar Metrics 228