The Spiff Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

They haven’t been given the chance,” says Chris Smith, Spiff sales manager and co-chair/executive sponsor of our BIDE Committee (Belonging, Inclusivity, Diversity & Equity). But, if you’re not careful and put too much stock in referrals, you may be creating a cycle that promotes unfair hiring practices.

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Hiring Promotion Demographics Lead Rank 55

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If sales is a journey, your strategic plan is the roadmap you'll provide your team to help them reach their destination. It is one of the most important activities you will ever do as a sales manager because, without it, your sales team will have no direction and no instruction manual to follow in order to achieve their targets.

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Sales Management Hiring Buyer Persona Exercises 109

Carew International

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Managers direct the affairs of the business , while leaders direct a group of people. Maybe some of us have the title of “Sales Manager,” but what we’re really tasked with is leading a team of sales professionals so that those individuals see success in their sales roles.

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Sales Leadership Sales Management Promotion Groups 48

SalesLoft

APRIL 21, 2020

Allye found her true calling in designing and implementing processes for Revenue Organization and is now the Director of Sales Operations at Chief, a private network focused on connecting and supporting women leaders. . In my new role as Director of Revenue Operations at Chief , I joined an organization that’s just over a year old.

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Data Sales Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Miller Heiman Group

MAY 16, 2019

Episode two features the Director of Sales Operations Management of Particle Measuring Systems —and Miller Heiman Group Icon —Kathy Venincasa. She and host Greg Moore discuss the growth of sales operations, the role it plays within sales organizations, and how to get sales forecasting right.

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Forecasting Hiring Sales Forecasts Sales Operations 91

Pipeliner

AUGUST 2, 2023

Some businesses struggle to manage a sales team. Sales operations aren’t for everyone. Cons: There are reputational risks in allowing a third party to handle your sales operations. You’ll need time to build a good relationship between your company and the sales outsourcers.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Outsourcing Hiring Salary 97

A Sales Guy

AUGUST 16, 2013

There are too many bad sales managers too. Management is as responsible for f **g f s up sales as sales people are. Management, like parents to children, wields tremendous influence on sales people and the sales organization and when they are failing, so too are the sales people.

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Lead Rank Hiring Sales Management Lead Scoring 121

SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

She does great work in recruiting and hiring of Sales Reps. She even ensures Sales Managers are getting the new hires onboarded effectively. Any virtual benches that the Sales Managers had have long ago been used up. The HR partner to sales will probably need help getting indicator data. This one is obvious.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Margin Commission 312

Showpad

JULY 15, 2019

These gaps are felt even more when an enterprise organization chooses to implement a new strategy or technology, such as a sales enablement platform. Enterprise Sales Enablement is Essential. Enterprise Sales Enablement is Essential. Therefore, much of it goes unused in the sales process.

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Enterprise Enterprise Sales Enablement How To 65

MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Sales Directors and Sales Managers rarely get to their positions simply through loyalty or length of time served. They’ve most likely been in the sales world themselves and been an excellent sales person. But this doesn’t mean they will necessarily make it as a manager or director of business.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Loyalty Positioning 181

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2021

Once you're crushing the numbers, you'll be ready for that promotion. Inside Sales Rep. They rely on email, phone calls, videos, and virtual meetings—instead of face-to-face interaction—to build relationships and move people through the sales funnel. Sales Manager Careers. Regional Sales Manager.

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Hiring Salary Top of Funnel Commission 108

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Help the sales leader identify any reps that are at risk of leaving. This should actually be an ongoing task of the HR leader to have frequent discussions with Sales Directors and Sales Managers to keep pulse on which Reps may be at risk for leaving. Has any documented issues of “disconnect” with sales management.

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Sales Talent Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

SalesLoft

JANUARY 29, 2020

Join the elite community shaping the future of technology sales. National Sales Network : NSN is a not-for-profit membership organization whose objective is to meet the professional and developmental needs of sales and sales management professionals and individuals who want to improve their professional sales skills.

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Groups Scale Networking Webinar Metrics 52

Showpad

JANUARY 15, 2021

After the events of Q1 2020 — and the year overall — sales transformation is no longer an option. The phrase “sales transformation” has been discussed before. According to a Forrester report on sales engagement : “2020 will be remembered as a watershed moment when B2B buying and selling changed forever.”

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B2B Sales Enablement Analysis Sales Operations 83

Pipeliner

MAY 26, 2023

Gartner You could continue writing about the different definitions of sales enablement and why there’s no globally accepted definition. Scalability: By standardizing processes, resources, and tools, sales enablement allows businesses to scale their sales operations more efficiently.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Scale Resources 98

Showpad

MARCH 7, 2022

And when it comes to sales leadership, teams led by women typically have higher win and attainment rates than teams led by men. But across all industries, women make up only 26% of sales managers. . Why do you think companies would benefit from having more women in sales leadership? The bottom line?

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Policies Quota Sales Leadership Promotion 59

Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Simply put, a go-to-market strategy is a plan outlining how a company introduces and promotes its products or services to their ideal customer, considering factors like the best marketing channels, sales methodologies , and pricing strategies to guarantee the product’s ongoing success. Who is on the GTM Team?

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing 52

Miller Heiman Group

JULY 15, 2019

In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the how performance-support practices, including sales management, sales operations and sales enablement, can help customer-facing sales professionals engage customers more efficiently and effectively.

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Forecasting Face-to-face Coaching Sales Coaching 58

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Sales professionals need to be equally involved in advocating for things like their mental health as well as raises and promotions. 89% of sales professionals say sales operations is critical role to growing their business. What this means for you.

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Revenue Lead Rank Hiring Account Based Marketing 125

Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2013

As Josiane asks sales leaders to say “bye, bye to meaningless cold calls,” she notes that succeeding in this new environment requires a different approach to measuring productivity. Managers may bristle at the idea of paying sales people to surf the web, Josiane says.

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Inside Sales Cold Calling Face-to-face Video 203

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2020

When you’re looking to improve your sales performance, strengthening your business acumen (specifically in the vertical market you are selling in) is critical. HubSpot Sales Manager Mintis Hankerson says: "You need to understand your customer's business before you even reach out to them or draft the first email.

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Hubspot Quota Lead Rank Lead Scoring 115

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In this article, the term "sales executive" refers to sales professionals working at the director level or higher — employees with significant influence over the general structure and trajectory of a company's sales efforts and strategy. The term that best captures the nature of a sales executive's responsibilities is guidance.

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Hiring Company Scale Hubspot 99

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Scale Lead Rank 111

PandaDoc

MAY 6, 2019

Overcome data overload by helping your salespeople choose the right metrics to focus on and being intentional about the software and systems in your sales operations. Make sure you have the right sales managers in place to set clear goals, define success, and ask the right questions. Define data-driven.

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Data Top of Funnel Scale Forecasting 88

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Marketing Operations (MOPs) rose up in the wake of rising automation and omnichannel demand generation. Sales Operations (SOPs) entered the fray as technologies allowed sales leaders to bring technologies closer into their orbit and away from centralized IT. Invest in Growth via Enablement.

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Engineering Revenue Hiring Lead Rank 124

Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 10, 2022

I’m the Director of Enablement at WorkRamp, with more than 12 years of experience in enablement, training, and sales operations. In this article, I’ll walk you through bridging the gap between L&D and sales enablement for your sales teams to create a culture of continuous learning that leads to super-powered sales reps.

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How To Face-to-face Sales Enablement Retention 122

LeadFuze

JANUARY 6, 2020

As you may be familiar with the term “direct sales”, especially since the name itself is very straight forward, but what is channel sales and how your business can benefit from it? What is Channel Sales? Essentially, it is a method of distribution, which is typically done by segmenting sales operations through a third-party.

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Outsourcing Services Channels Hiring Distribution 40

Miller Heiman Group

MAY 13, 2019

Chief Product Officer Dana Hamerschlag opened her presentation by describing Van Halen’s 1984 tour rider, made infamous by the clause asking show promoters to ensure backstage candy bowls included no brown M&M’s. The report finds that what sales managers do today was the responsibility of sales directors two years ago.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Trends Groups 82

Crunchbase

JUNE 23, 2021

We are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. Many sales departments have been forced to remotely scale their operations. This shift has given rise to the need for remote sales management efforts to more heavily target virtual selling channels. Conclusion.

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Scale Face-to-face Software Software 52

Emissary

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

One of the major themes was the expansion of sales enablement. Common expansion points include: involvement in talent and culture (traditionally owned by HR), data stewardship (the land of sales operations), field coaching (sales leadership domain) and content (once a Marketing only responsibility).

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Sales Enablement Scale Hiring Buyer 52

A Sales Guy

JUNE 21, 2012

hire a two new sales reps. redo the sales process. change the sales strategy. promote a new sales manager. create a sales operations function. establish and inside sales team. build an outside sales team. You can’t just. create a new comp plan and commission structure.

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Hiring Commission Inside Sales Incentives 118

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

41% of executives state that remote employees are less likely to be promoted. That will be up to you, as a sales leader or sales operations manager, to decide which tools will need individual paid accounts for, which ones can be shared, and which ones are good enough with a freemium version.

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Examples Strategy Face-to-face Lead Rank 88

Crunchbase

AUGUST 19, 2021

We are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. This promotes a healthy, mutual (rather than one-sided) relationship which is more likely to close a sale. For sales managers, getting the right tools and tech is also important.

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Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Scale Advertising 52

The Spiff Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Taylor Montero, Sales Operations Analyst. Billy has been in sales/sales management his entire career and previously spent five years at Capshare. He has spent the last 15 years in sales and sales management mostly in the K-12 Ed Tech space (multiple years in a start-up environment).

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Meeting Sports Travel Engineering 84

Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

When that role ended up being too big for one person, I had a choice and I decided to focus on sales enablement.” ” Q: What is sales enablement? How does it differ from sales management and sales training? Mary: “Sales enablement is like being the conductor of the orchestra.

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Sales Enablement Unica Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 71

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 6, 2020

Six months down the road, this article might still be bringing you leads and potential clients — even though you’re no longer actively promoting it. Instead of thinking of your sales operation as a funnel, visualize it as a flywheel, which is a machine that stores rotational energy. But in real life, this isn’t the case.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Hiring Lead Rank 97

Close.io

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Here are the three basic sales team structures that you can use to ramp up your sales game and build a high-performing sales organization. Note: We've put together a complete sales management toolkit for you: checklists, onboarding plans, meeting agenda's, comp plan calculators and more.

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Hiring Lead Rank Top of Funnel Real Estate 124