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. . Take Assessment.

Territories 68

Territories Demographics Travel Distribution 68

Xactly

AUGUST 13, 2018

Let’s cut to the chase–if you’re not using data to drive your sales territory mapping, your territories might be hurting your sales performance more than they are helping it. Sales territory mapping software offers more benefits than sales managers may realize. Take Assessment. The answer?

Territories 70

Territories Software Software Benefit 70

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.

Territories 45

Territories Travel Hiring Guidelines 45

SBI

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Old-School Territory Management is Dead: A Q&A with John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything. Following the recent acquisition of TerrAlign by MapAnything, I asked MapAnything CEO John Stewart to explain the relationship between map-based geo-productivity and territory optimization. Everyone assumes they are all-star sales geniuses.

Territories 87

Territories Revenue Data CRM 87

Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2024

Personally, I substitute Baseball for the middle topic because college baseball is in full swing and we’ve been traveling to watch our son, a college senior, play college baseball. The first column shows that only 42% of the bottom half of all salespeople are committed to their own personal sales success.

Decision Maker 193

Decision Maker Data Hiring Proposal 193

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.

Territories 50

Territories Demographics Travel Distribution 50

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.

Territories 49

Territories Travel Webinar Metrics How To 49

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.

Territories 45

Territories Software Software Benefit 45

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. For sellers, context is everything.

Company 156

Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

Shari Levitin

MARCH 9, 2023

He revealed that while one anxious passenger at an airport gate can cause the entire lineup of travelers to exhibit stress, the opposite is also true. How disciplined are we when it comes to hunting for new prospects? Set Aside Time to Prospect Prospecting is easy to neglect; like doing the laundry, it piles up.

ACT 118

ACT Territories Sports Cold Calling 118

SBI Growth

JANUARY 5, 2014

Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ‘A’ players on the team. Every sales manager is time starved. Sales Managers should be spending 75% of their time coaching their team. POST-SALES SUPPORT. Let customer service or post-sales support handle this.

Sales Management 310

Sales Management Face-to-face Decision Maker Travel 310

Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2021

We all know Tom: the sales guy trying to sell you something you don’t really need on a Tuesday afternoon. Tom is pitching to you because his office is based a few blocks away from your house and your street happens to fall within his territory. The Old World vs. New World of Sales. The Rise of Inside Sales.

Lead Rank 147

Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Inside Sales Outside Sales 147

Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Need to improve your sales team’s results? That’s the advice from a recent Harvard Business Review article that concluded, women are the future of B2B sales. If you are skeptical, ask yourself this: Which do you think is more likely to have a positive impact on your sales results next year — more women on your sales team or less?

Hiring 118

Hiring Travel Promotion Sales Leadership 118

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We’ve now created four nurture streams (previously we had just one), segmenting prospects by job title and areas of interest as determined by our BDR team and through progressive profiling. Still, virtual events were unchartered territory. Along the same lines, we paid extra for a thought leadership program at one event.

Webinar Metrics 177

Webinar Metrics Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cancellation 177

The Pipeline

AUGUST 27, 2019

While it may be realistic to expect inside sales teams to sell more than 23% of their time, it is not for others. If you are a full-cycle rep, with a demanding client base in a defined territory, 23% is not bad. Consider travel, time understanding the clients and market, generating leads, and more. Giving It Away. Well you can.

Wireless 264

Wireless Discount Face-to-face Scale 264

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There was a change to your territory. After a few slightly awkward sales calls you break for lunch. You may already have a target list created by your sales operations department. You may already have a target list created by your sales operations department. They can be measured only after a few sales interactions.

Construction 323

Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Lead Rank 323

Shari Levitin

JUNE 14, 2023

He revealed that while one anxious passenger at an airport gate can cause the entire lineup of travelers to exhibit stress, the opposite is also true. How disciplined are we when it comes to hunting for new prospects? Prospect first thing in the morning before checking your email.

ACT 62

ACT Territories Cold Calling Travel 62

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“I hate sales.” That puts sales in the bottom 5% of careers. This isn’t a complete surprise, however — while sales reps are often paid well, the work isn’t easy. From tracking down new prospects to qualifying leads, sales requires ongoing and concerted efforts to see success. You dread going to work.

Cold Calling 104

Cold Calling How To Hiring Travel 104

Score More Sales

AUGUST 20, 2012

We have a very high respect for the Sales Force Effectiveness Blog over at Sales Benchmark Index. They regularly have great and highly valuable content, covering key topics and issues on the minds of sales leaders and C-level leaders around sales and leadership. Stop calling inside sales inside sales.

Inside Sales 193

Inside Sales Travel Outside Sales Territories 193

Pipeliner

JULY 18, 2019

What to look for while setting up a sales office in a new territory. Setting up a new sales office can come with a number of different challenges. Firstly, the market dynamics in the new territory can be dramatically different from what you are used to in your role. Set up a long-term goal. Setting up infrastructure.

Hiring 71

Hiring Territories Scale Networking 71

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There was a change to your territory. After a few slightly awkward sales calls you break for lunch. You may already have a target list created by your sales operations department. You may already have a target list created by your sales operations department. They can be measured only after a few sales interactions.

Construction 216

Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Lead Rank 216

Showpad

MAY 12, 2022

Yet, working together, they’ve built a high-performance sales enablement function at TOUGHBOOK Europe—the European Mobile Solutions Business Division of electronics giant Panasonic. They designed new industry research methods that include both customers and sales reps. Before 2020, Panasonic didn’t have a sales enablement team—at all.

Industry 98

Industry Sales Enablement Hiring Telecommunications 98

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Mobile Apps for the Mobile Sales Force. Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution. One profession that stands to benefit most from these apps is sales. A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

Pipeline 275

Pipeline Hiring Travel Top of Funnel 275

Closer's Coffee

APRIL 23, 2020

Here’s What You Need To Know About The Inside Sales and Outside Sales Roles. As companies seek to grow their sales numbers it’s not always clear which sales approach to take. As companies seek to grow their sales numbers it’s not always clear which sales approach to take.

Outside Sales 64

Outside Sales Inside Sales Face-to-face Comparison 64

Pipeliner

JULY 23, 2022

The more critical and complex type of navigation is developing the skill for exploring unknown territory. Or, there can be a case of multiple objectives or destinations, and not knowing which to travel to or aim for. Navigation in Sales. An example of a heuristic approach in sales would be in the development of a relationship.

CRM 92

CRM Pipeline Objections Government 92

The Pipeline

MARCH 27, 2017

I recall reading Skip Miller’s “ProActive Sales Management”, where he states: “If you, as a sales manager, do not know if you are going to make the year after the first quarter, the battle is over. I should think we can include front line sales people. Now you better be lucky.”

Account Based Marketing 120

Account Based Marketing Quota Pipeline Construction 120

SBI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Prospecting Attention Deficit Disorder: How to Avoid the Shiny Object Syndrome. It’s not that you can actually execute hundreds of tasks in a day’s agenda, but if sales is your passion and profession, you are undeniably an expert at managing the precise allocation of time and resources across that number of tasks.

Ideal Customer Profile 125

Ideal Customer Profile Objections Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead 125

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

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Sales Operations is responsible for creating that winning environment. 80% of its sales team was outside sales reps. Those reps were covering an extensive territory and large customer base. The Sales Operations team moved to reorganize the group. This reduced the time spent traveling by more expensive sellers.

Hiring 293

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Margin Face-to-face 293

SBI

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

I’ll be at the Sales Enablement Soiree at the Four Season’s hotel on Thursday the 27th all day. To help you with that mission, we’re naming our top 20 Sales Tech Twitter handles to follow during this epic Dreamforce 2018. Go beyond sales enablement to create a sophisticated selling experience that buyers value.

Vendor 106

Vendor InsideView Hotels Hiring 106

Salesmate

JULY 9, 2020

Your sales pipeline covers every stage of the customer acquisition process from leads to after-sales support to repeat business. To be successful in sales, you need to track specific sales pipeline metrics. To be successful in sales, you need to track specific sales pipeline metrics. Sales Cycle Length.

Pipeline 121

Pipeline Sales Qualified Lead Churn Lead Rank 121

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 4, 2020

Succeeding in sales is 95-percent mental. In this decade, sales is a very challenging profession. The way businesses sell is constantly changing, and many sales reps are facing impossible deadlines, strict accountability, dozens of curveballs with each deal, and pipeline scrutiny from all sides. Why are you in sales?

Positioning 136

Positioning Hubspot Face-to-face Quota 136

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of the most important decisions first-time entrepreneurs and sales leaders face is when and how to hire their first salesperson. Hiring too aggressively -- or not hiring for the right role -- can lead to accordion growth, and too much caution stunts sales and company growth. 5 Steps for Making Your First Sales Hire.

Hiring 102

Hiring Salary Compensation Social Media 102

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. What is a Sales Plan ?

Ideal Customer Profile 120

Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Hiring Segment 120

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sales territories get a bad rep. . But that’s not a problem with sales territories as a whole so much as it’s a problem with how those territories were created and assigned. When you create balanced sales territories that everyone is happy with, the benefits can be huge. . What is a sales territory?

Territories 62

Territories Ideal Customer Profile Segment Lead Rank 62

The Pipeline

JANUARY 11, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , EDGE Sales Process , Forecast , Funnel management , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Cycle , Sales Process , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Time Allocation , execution. EDGE Sales Process.

Pipeline 209

Pipeline Face-to-face Cold Calling Sales Cycle 209

Igniting Sales Transformation

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

You say your sales manager makes you do it? YOU are responsible for your own sales success. If your activity isn’t generating enough sales meetings, it is time to look in the mirror. No matter how many prospecting touches you are expected to make, it is up to you to take the reins and change how you present yourself.

Microsoft 69

Microsoft Scale How To Lead Rank 69