Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

Author: Erik Charles When sales professionals look at artificial intelligence (AI), what do they see? And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. For example, sales applications should draw on a focused set of data? Additional data sources.

Training 206

Training Penetration Government CRM 206

SBI Growth

AUGUST 24, 2012

How do you plan on selling your sales strategy recommendation to the CSO? Over the last month you, the Sales Operations leader, have been thick in the weeds identifying growth opportunities to support your upcoming sales strategy plan. Demonstrate changing territory penetration rates. Static charts. Success Story.

Strategy 257

Strategy Google Analytics ROI Penetration 257

The Pipeline

JUNE 12, 2014

A great example in sales is the use of the word “Micromanagement”, a favourite among those looking to shirk some responsibility and/or accountability that comes with “Active Management”. Let’s use the example of a core metric important in driving sales, one of the simplest, proposal to closing ratio. What’s in Your Pipeline?

Penetration 267

Penetration Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Coaching 267

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Today’s post is the first of three directed to Sales Operations leaders. Resource allocation is critical to success for sales. The word has come down - sales costs need to remain flat next year. Sitting with the Regional Sales VP, the scowl returned to his face. The sales team on the street delivers the revenue.

Segment 288

Segment Customer Territories Penetration 288

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

What’s a sales plan? 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. A business plan lays out your goals -- a sales plan describes exactly how you’ll make those happen.

Buyer Persona 145

Buyer Persona Referrals How To Commission 145

SalesLoft

MAY 13, 2016

Modern Account Based Sales Development enthusiast, and Sr. Director at Birst, Chris Pham is joining us on the Salesloft blog as part three of a five part series on trends in sales development. — Sales development traditionally came from a world focused on the process of optimizing a lead.

Outbound 52

Outbound Inbound Account Penetration 52

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Modifying sales reports and dashboards to enable sales managers to track new product sales. Focus on new product sales.

Compensation 244

Compensation Incentives Incentive Penetration 244

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Still, virtual events were unchartered territory. We predict that people will be hesitant to travel like they did in 2019, at least until vaccinations have reached a certain penetration of the global population. We had participated in these events in past years with strong results, which made the decision process simple.

Webinar Metrics 177

Webinar Metrics Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cancellation 177

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2014

When you think about it, sales people have an awesome amount of freedom–but also a huge amount of personal responsibility. Sales is a lot like this. ” It could be an account, collection of accounts, industry segment, or geographic territory. It’s up to us to maximize the results produced in that territory.

Territories 96

Territories Revelation Penetration Maximizer 96

Xactly

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Few leading indicators are more predictive of a company’s future sales performance than its incentive compensation plans. While multiple factors influence the effectiveness of your sales incentive compensation plans, 5 tips stand out: 1. View Webinar. Know Your Employees — And What Motivates Them .

Incentives 78

Incentives Incentive Compensation Webinar Metrics 78

SugarCRM

JUNE 6, 2023

Here’s what we found in our history of collaborating with manufacturing companies: Most manufacturing enterprises struggle with current systems and processes that may help them create sales efficiency and enhance the customer experience. This dynamic significantly reduces operational costs linked to market penetration and local transactions.

Enterprise 26

Enterprise Enterprise CRM Territories 26

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2019

We have to increase our win rates, increase our average deal size, compress our sales cycles, improve our prospecting, improve how we engage our customers, create great value in every interaction. Our jobs is to maximize our success in the market–to maximize our share, our growth, our market penetration.

Penetration 84

Penetration Lead Rank Maximizer Sales Qualified Lead 84

Highspot

AUGUST 31, 2021

If sales strategy was a puzzle, then your sales model would be a corner piece: it helps frame your approach to businesses and determines how the other pieces of your strategy will fit together. The keystone nature of sales models makes choosing the right one all the more important. Why do you need a sales model?

Lead Rank 94

Lead Rank Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Hiring 94

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 27, 2019

I wrote, “Improving Sales Performance Without Changing How You Sell.” Or those who struggle in the sales process, we may be making things even more difficult by diluting focus. ” For example, sales enablement may have several initiatives to improve performance, marketing, sales ops, and so on.

Penetration 79

Penetration Coaching Face-to-face Pipeline 79

Xactly

AUGUST 30, 2018

Sales team management plays a big role in the success of an organization. As the bridge between executives and sales reps, managers communicate corporate goals with their teams and keep reps on track to hit their quota. It’s important for sales leaders to manage their teams effectively. It takes a multi-pronged approach.

Enterprise 40

Enterprise Enterprise Top of Funnel Compensation 40

SBI

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We all appreciate a sales process focused on helping us solve a real pain point or achieving a specific objective. Q: WHAT ARE THE TOP WAYS COMPANIES CAN TRANSFORM SALES TO IMPROVE THEIR PROSPECTS' BUYING EXPERIENCE IN THE NEXT 12-24 MONTHS. MARK: Make the time to understand what it means to deliver an exceptional buying experience.

Lead Rank 177

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Account Penetration 177

HeavyHitter Sales

MARCH 5, 2014

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled the  Why Sales Organizations Fail.           What prevents a sales organization from achieving success? Every sales organization can be classified based upon whether it is in a “Build,” “Compete,” “Maintain,” “Extend,” or “Cull” stage.

Hiring 108

Hiring Scale Territories Penetration 108

Emissary

JUNE 26, 2023

But this refocus for sales success can’t wait until the mad-dash and hysteria that inevitably comes at year-end. Sales Teams The second half is the most tumultuous for sales teams. Make a last Sales push for new logos. Do your homework to build out specific penetration plans for a narrow set of candidates.

Ideal Customer Profile 52

Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 52

A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 5, 2012

For sales leaders, this means identifying and executing on a new set of sales strategies to make our new number. Unfortunately, for most sales organizations there is very little strategy and a whole lot of goals. If you’re head of sales and you’re responsible for growth goals you need strategies NOT just goals.

Strategy 116

Strategy Hiring Penetration Churn 116

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Setup Your 2015 for Success. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. That''s a tall order even for the most accomplished sales person. The time to begin developing your Territory Sales Plan is now !

Hoovers 94

Hoovers Jigsaw Webinar Metrics InsideView 94

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

More than 1400 sessions, more than 350 exhibitors, 18 keynotes, 20 parties, 2 rock concerts, and 5 opportunities to help charities on site, there is perhaps no bigger event for sales and marketers. Sales is all about pursuit: pursuit of the right prospects, pursuit of the right message, pursuit of the right applications. Aventioninc.

Vendor 139

Vendor Twitter InsideView InsideSales 139

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Sales compensation is one of the trickiest aspects of the sales organization to get right. How to create a good sales comp plan. Sales comp plan types. Sales contests and SPIFs. How sales compensation should work. A sales compensation plan operates from a basic principle: Money drives behavior.

Compensation 132

Compensation Hiring Salary Commission 132

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2012

Pipeline reviews, territory reviews, account reviews, opportunity reviews, call reviews. It starts out with a review of the pipeline, pretty soon, someone–perhaps the manager, perhaps a participant, perhaps the sales person doing the review, focuses on a particular deal. Are we maximizing our penetration of the territory?

Territories 91

Territories Top of Funnel Maximizer Funnel 91

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2020

How to create a plan that will help you win more sales. Sales can happen online or offline. The most notable advantage is that this enhances market penetration for the product. Or they may restrict sales of particular lines to only their own website. How to Create an Optimized Distribution Strategy to Win More Sales.

Distribution 97

Distribution Strategy Retail Channels 97

SBI

MAY 8, 2012

Tweet Spring cleaning to rejuvenate sales. If you find a renewed sense of purpose emerging from the all-too-long winter months, here are several tools you’ll surely want to consider for rejuvenating your sales life. How can you alter, or refocus your sales plan accordingly to optimize your efforts? Spring is here.

Tools 82

Tools Territories Webinar Metrics Report 82

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Sales Tips: How to Plan Your 2017 for Success. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. It was time to apply those basic management skills (planning, organization, delegation, and control) to my sales territory and job function. Step 1: Timing.

Revenue 40

Revenue Territories How To InsideView 40

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 15, 2017

At Flannery Sales Systems, we just finalized work with three of our customers on their 2018 sales plans. To ensure that all critical items are in place for a successful 2018, here is a checklist that can be utilized by senior executives and sales leaders. Pipeliner CRM empowers sales teams to truly make their sales targets.

Face-to-face 45

Face-to-face Penetration Compensation Territories 45

SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As they look ahead to the upcoming year, recent PwC research shows that more than half of UK manufacturers are gearing up to introduce new products, with more than a quarter (27.3%) hoping to explore uncharted territory and expand into new markets. However, the path forward is not without its challenges.

Opportunity 26

Opportunity SugarCRM Face-to-face Infusion 26

The Pipeline

MARCH 31, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Social Selling , Social media , Trigger Events , Webinar , execution. About the classes: Classes are designed for all levels of sales professionals (reps-execs). April 2008. March 2008. January 2008.

Social Selling 216

Social Selling Webinar Metrics Pipeline Social Media 216

A Sales Guy

JANUARY 30, 2013

As the CSO, EVP, VP, Sales, it’s your job to build the best team possible and that can’t be done by outsourcing your reference checks to HR. If you’re like most heads of sales or sales leaders you don’t do the reference checks for your direct hires. Ask why they think she will penetrate the new territory.

Hiring 114

Hiring Penetration How To Positioning 114

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 14, 2015

They can’t afford to hire enough sales people to cover the markets, they don’t have enough deep expertise in certain markets, they need to collaborate with others to provide a complete solution to their customers. Without these partners, we can’t achieve the growth and market penetration we expect.

Outsourcing Services 48

Outsourcing Services Channels Penetration Territories 48

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Yet, in business and sales, spending our time with the same people–either within our company, professional community, and most importantly, in our customers can be severely limiting. If we want to extend our share and penetration of an account, we have to aggressively extend our relationships. No related posts.

Penetration 48

Penetration Territories Film Networking 48

Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

It's the end of the sales world as we know it. Gerhard , Huthwaite and many other sci-fi fans have prognosticated that sales itself may face an existential threat from artificial intelligence (AI) as we move further and further toward the COMPLETE buying cycle. Sales drones are an amusing but eerie concept to me.

Hiring 68

Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 68

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 28, 2013

I’m an unapologetic believer in the concept, “It’s your God-given right to 100% share of customer and 100% share of territory.” ” Everything I’ve been taught, everything I’ve taught or coached has been around maximizing the full potential in the “territory.” They quickly paled.

Territories 89

Territories Maximizer Account Penetration 89

A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2016

But there ain’t no growth without a highly functioning sales team. This series is gonna break down how to scale a sales team in today’s modern sales world. I’m not gonna start this series with how to hire more sales people or how to add new processes, or how to change the culture or hire a CRO or, or, or.

Scale 60

Scale Hiring How To Education 60

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 28, 2013

We get the programs and products we need to better penetrate our territories. If we’re great sales people, we offer, “Let us go with you to the executive committee and help you sell this.” I knew Rich was smiling over the phone, he’s a sales exec and recognized what I was doing.

Decision Maker 100

Decision Maker Penetration Territories Up-Sell 100

CommercialTribe

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Having been a frontline sales manager at Gartner years ago, this article is written to all of those currently in the role and hopefully reflects the sentiment and experience from all 2nd, 3rd, and beyond-line managers. . If you’re still reading (and I hope you are), becoming an effective sales manager takes time and discipline.

Forecasting 40

Forecasting Pipeline Top of Funnel Sales Methodology 40