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. The Right Data for Customer Segmentation.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Which means things shaking up in the B2B world — holiday emails are being blasted, sales deals are being closed, and 2021 recruitment strategies are finishing up. Because in 2020 we should all know that data-driven strategies get you ahead of your competitors. Smooth Out the Sales Process by Mastering Objections. “I

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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. Use Data-driven Intelligence to Map Territories. 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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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As adoption rates in Customer Relationship Management Software (CRMs) continue to rise, a (data-driven) gap in usefulness and effectiveness is very clear. So, let’s dive into how Salesforce Sync helps enable sales reps by supporting the foundation of any sales process: Territory Management. This isn’t an ‘eye of the beholder’ process.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Here’s what we’re going to cover: Salesforce objects. Data Governance & Salesforce Objects. Whether your selling model is transactional, self-service, enterprise, or a combination of these, you will need to set up some objects in Salesforce that support the sales and eventual retention strategies of your business.

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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? Companies too.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

A sales plan is a roadmap that outlines your business’s strategy for selling its products or services. The plan also includes a timeline for product development and launch , pricing strategies, promotional campaigns, and sales targets for the first year. Sales goals A sales goals plan focuses on goals instead of revenue.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Let’s talk about why your organization needs to implement a sales performance management strategy. Having a set performance management plan keeps compensation structure and overall business objectives aligned, resulting in a more motivated sales team. Communicate objectives to your team and get their buy-in.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure. In fact, optimizing territory design can increase sales by 2 to 7% each year ( source ).

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

During the planning stage, salespeople should have clarity around the following questions: What is the objective of the sales call? What objections do you expect to encounter? Account plans help guide your account management strategy by answering questions such as: What are your company’s goals for the relationship? Not exactly.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As adoption rates in Customer Relationship Management Software (CRMs) continue to rise, a (data-driven) gap in usefulness and effectiveness is very clear. So, let’s dive into how Salesforce Sync helps enable sales reps by supporting the foundation of any sales process: Territory Management. This isn’t an ‘eye of the beholder’ process.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

An effective sales readiness strategy is essential to their success. Objection Handling. Territory Management. Quick Tip: If your reps aren’t uncovering enough of the correct information on discovery calls, a peer learning strategy can help. Objection Handling. Sales objections are a fact of life for reps.

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Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

Material resources Material resources include everything from computers and software to pens and notebooks. For example, by assessing territory assignments for sales reps, a manager might find that some territories have too many reps assigned to them.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

A sales plan lays out your objectives, high-level tactics, target audience, and potential obstacles. It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. Strategies and tactics. Make sure your objective is realistic, otherwise your entire sales plan will be largely useless. Expenses.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results. When building your strategy, you’ll need to set sales activities goals and track how your team measures up. In this post, you’ll learn tips for managing your team’s sales activity and about the software that can help along the way.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

This is unexplored territory?—?and and again, sales management, sales ops and IT must work together to develop an effective strategy to teach people how to combine information delivered by AI with their own skills in order to influence deals. This creates a new challenge for sales management: how do you train your sales team?—?including

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Lessonly

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Here are two key lessons we learned from the Practice First podcast that relate directly to sales enablement strategy , teamwork, and sales enablement jobs. It actually allows reps to spend less time fumbling through basic objections or demo decks and more time customizing their conversations with prospects and customers.

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The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Working alongside sales, RevOps, and executives, you develop comp plans that motivate sales performance while simultaneously supporting the business’s key objectives. If your strategy for comp plan design doesn’t go much deeper than a “set it and forget it” approach, you’ll start to look replaceable when your comp plans fail to deliver.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 12, 2014

Recently, I was with a client discussing their long-range strategy for sales. Core to their strategy was tightening their alignment with Marketing and Product Development. If new mapping software allows you to build more efficient territories, do the math. Clout Builder #4 – Unify the Sales Strategy.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

There’s no way around it: Strategy is exciting. It’s even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product, or a slew of new features, and you need to develop and launch a brand new sales strategy that will take your product to the top spot it was made for. What is a sales strategy? Developing your sales strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

As you'll read below, sales operations includes everything from lead management, sales strategy, and territory structuring and alignment to process optimization, compensation plans, sales automation, training, and data analytics and reporting. Sales Strategy. Territory Definition. Sales Operations vs. Sales Enablement.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

The SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) business model is one of the fastest-growing of the last decade. Because new software is being pushed into the market almost every day, the demand for SaaS sales professionals will only grow. These leaders are responsible for setting sales objectives and motivating their teams to hit those goals.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

They want to increase revenue through effective sales strategies. The focus is on things like reporting, territory management and later stage tasks such as contract negotiations and finance approvals. This can be categorized into four business objectives. A career in sales, sales ops, or sales enablement?

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LeadFuze

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This isn’t about quick fixes but tested strategies used by successful sales professionals worldwide. These strategies help sales reps build connections with potential customers effectively. But remember, the golden opportunity lies in using these insights to overcome objections they may have about your product or service.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , EDGE Sales Process , Forecast , Funnel management , Interactive Selling , Metrics , Proactive , Productivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Time Allocation , execution. I had a call from Bob, a director of sales with software company. Communication Strategy. Guest Post.

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OpenSymmetry

MAY 23, 2016

Sales Performance Management (SPM) solutions are a critical component of an organization’s core business, as it is the linkage between behavior and strategy. In terms of usage, Gartner specifically identify a growth in the use of SPM technology for gamification and territory management, but a big reduction on the use of appraisal solutions.

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Xactly

MAY 31, 2018

It is quickly transforming due to a variety of software tools aimed at helping improve day-to-day execution of the sales process. Ultimately, your sales compensation plan should drive sales behaviors that help achieve company objectives and drive growth. This allows leaders to evaluate methods to best optimize overall strategy.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

We at Software Advice typically focus on sales force automation software , but we decided to broaden our focuse and see what is available on mobile devices to match the needs of a mobile sales force. You can see her articles regularly on the Software Advice blog. Communication Strategy. Objection Handling.

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Showpad

JANUARY 8, 2021

According to HubSpot, the pre-work onboarding period can include everything from “shadowing,” in which new hires follow established reps as they go about their daily routine, to learning about whatever software and other tools they’ll be regularly using.

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The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this post we’ll outline what Sales Performance Management is, what it isn’t, its benefits, and tips for building an SPM strategy within your sales organization. It’s Not Just About Software. Some sales technology software companies position their solutions as the quick fix to your Sales Performance Management challenges.

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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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The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

Dave is the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc., He is internationally known for his ground breaking work in evaluating sales people, he is the developer of a tool for evaluating sales forces, and the co-developer of several software and web applications that help sales managers coach and hold their salespeople accountable.

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Xactly

JUNE 4, 2018

Most “software” problems are truly data/analysis problems. Leaders will hear that current software needs to be replaced because metrics aren’t looking promising–“I need this software/tool to solve this problem.” Technology enables her to move that data more efficiently. Is more data better? Only as long as it’s the right data.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the first scenario, the eager software sales rep wants to expedite the project start and does not want to introduce any delays in their sales pipeline. They are thinking about a potential 6-12 month delay in the sales pipeline, then delayed recognition of the software sale before the project can get underway. Cost Impact.

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Apptivo

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Plans and strategies are vital for the growth and success of any business. Many sales techniques we use are not sales strategies neither can they be construed to be a plan. A proper sales plan helps businesses achieve their goals and objectives. when (Timing), why (Objective of the Activity), and how (sub-tasks).

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Cincom Smart Selling

MAY 24, 2018

Configure Price and Quotation (CPQ) software is front and center in the digitalization of the selling and buying processes. A few simple queries within the CPQ software can provide prospecting lists ripe with opportunity. List customers in territory with revenue in excess of $100 million per year. Use CPQ to Identify Prospects.

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