The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Sales ramp-up time can be costly, considering how much training and coaching is required to get new reps up to speed. Naturally, you might be looking for ways to decrease ramp-up time and get new reps hitting their quotas as soon as possible. For one, insufficient training won’t create effective salespeople.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 13, 2019

Typically, projects and programs have a start date, an end date and are usually associated with training. Successful sales enablement is never a one-off, standalone initiative. As a result, if your company experiences a few bad quarters, sales enablement may be viewed as expendable. Coordinate Your Sales Enablement Services.

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Highspot

JANUARY 31, 2020

Sales excellence is defined as the consistent outperformance of key growth objectives, achieved by strategic, cross-functional initiatives. These initiatives are key inputs of your revenue engine: your training, tools, enablement, and culture. Percentage of sales reps attaining 100% quota. Time to quota attainment.

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Lead Rank How To Sales Enablement Analytics 98

Miller Heiman Group

JULY 21, 2020

In our 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study , sales leaders said an ineffective sales methodology or process was the second-most debilitating hurdle to sales success, finishing behind only inefficient internal operations. One-and-done training isn’t enough to teach your sellers your sales methodology.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. Tasked with recruiting and hiring, overseeing large teams, providing guidance and training, building culture, setting quotas, creating sales plans, analyzing data, forecasting, assigning territories… the list of responsibilities is as diverse as it is long.

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Sales Management Scale Top of Funnel Hiring 136

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

billion on training and development, including external providers, internal expenses and tuition reimbursement, according to The American Society for Training and Development. in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry.

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Vengreso

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In a B2B sales environment that is oversaturated with sales tools and technology, how sales organizations create and leverage an integrated sales approach is key. Our guest leads one of the most iconic sales training organizations in the world, so you know his insights will be both actionable and proven.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2020

If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings. Because it doesn’t actually help with sales execution. I’m including myself here.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 1, 2018

Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs still aren’t making quota. attain quota, and about 65 percent of sales reps in Europe do so. What sales leader would find these stats acceptable? Don’t get me wrong.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 15, 2021

One of the most positive outcomes from the past year was the swift adoption and embrace of technology for sales and marketing. As a result, many sales technologies saw rapid growth, and sales teams shifted their priorities and strategies. SD Teams Under Sales More Likely to Hit Quotas.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 20, 2020

At a time when sellers have immense pressure to close deals with limited time to engage customers, sales technology is an invaluable tool to give organizations clarity regarding what they need to do to be successful. higher quota attainment. higher quota attainment. 1) Sales reps: technology drives seller actions.

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SBI

JANUARY 28, 2020

Their bosses are raising their team quotas all the time, and they cannot understand how anyone could struggle to sell your product or solution. Where do their teams, and themselves, need ongoing training? Coaching skills for sales managers. Sales technology. Sales methodology. Train often.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 28, 2020

Post-virus, the top two long-term measures identified by respondents in the survey were customer satisfaction (43%) and customer retention (40%) , followed by the short-term measures of meeting the sales team’s quota and individual quotas (both 37%). Sales Technology Is Playing a Transformational Role.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 26, 2018

High-performing sales teams use nearly three times the amount of sales technology than underperforming teams ( source ). Training and onboarding. Around 3 in 4 organizations use classroom training as their primary way to train salespeople ( source ). Only 60% of sales reps meet quota ( source ).

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Our membership connects you with like-minded peers and resources where you can tap into dozens of classes and training through Pavilion University. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 50% of all enterprise B2B sales technology will include digital sales rooms. Create an immersive digital sales environment with Freshsales.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Sales rep performance is a complex challenge we’ve tried to address through traditional training and enablement programs, and for many, it’s not working the way we hoped. of stakeholders feel sales enablement initiatives meet or exceed their expectations. Do your reps have access to just-in-time sales content?

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the key sales skills that will equip your reps with confidence and boost sales. With proven sales training strategies and ongoing coaching and enablement, reps will be ready to tackle the art of selling. Why are Sales Skills Important?

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Implementation Today no company has weeks or months to get the technology up and running, and trained in on users. Processes Your sales processes, reflected in your digital pipeline stages, are crucial and must reflect buyer patterns as closely as possible. For example, a rep has a quota of $1 million. Accurate Answers.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 9, 2019

In this conversation, Shari Levitin explains how empathy builds trust, why it takes a human to express it, and how sales leaders can strategically hire and build their teams around the soft skills needed to complement new sales technologies and close more deals. Move over #Alexa it’s time to re-humanize the #sales process.

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 16, 2020

For the past few years, when the sales industry discusses sales technology trends, artificial intelligence (AI) rises to the top, although it has yet to take a foothold in the industry. of sales organizations—have not used the technology at all. Four Areas to Use AI in Your Sales Technology Stack.

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Opportunity Sales Operations Lead Rank Lead Scoring 53

SBI

AUGUST 13, 2019

With advancements in sales readiness technology and fresh approaches such as agile onboarding gaining popularity, now is a great time to transform your new hire training strategy. Sales enablement – if you don’t have a dedicated person or team to lead your enablement strategies, now is the time.

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SBI

JUNE 28, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. In this interview series, we ask executives at leading salestech companies to describe how their customers are leveraging technology, what metrics are now possible, and more. .

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The explosion of sales technology and access to capital has made the fight for buyers’ attention incredibly difficult. Even the best sales organizations plan for only 60% of their sellers to hit quota – and this number has been declining for the last decade. Selling has gotten harder. . Buyers expect more. .

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Allego

JANUARY 6, 2023

How can your sales team do more with fewer resources? What’s the most effective way to train your reps and get them selling faster? Do your sales reps have the skills to sell in virtual or hybrid settings? In this climate, winning sales teams will change their strategy to become more efficient and effective.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Practical suggestions for putting data front and center include creating dashboards that include relevant metrics such as number of meetings and number of sales qualified opportunities for inside sales reps or number (or percent) of reps making quota and wins / losses against competitors for account executives. Train your team.

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Scale Remedy Sales Qualified Lead Coaching 102

Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

Perhaps one rep is weaker in competitive intelligence while another needs more support with operating sales technology. By digging into the data, sales managers can identify opportunities for improvement and, in turn, maximize each rep’s performance. Technology skills : How well do your reps use sales tools?

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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Sales organizations must reinforce using perspective with sellers by implementing the three key pillars of sales enablement: content, coaching and training. Take The Sales Conversation Metric. higher quota attainment than those who didn’t. Offer Impactful Training through a Seller’s Career.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Conversion Lead Rank 76

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

When you consider that the average onboarding and ramp-up time for a sales professional is nine months or more, that turnover rate starts to have serious consequences for individual sales teams and the revenue they’re responsible for. Signs of Sales Rep Burnout. Offer training. But turnover can also be a positive thing.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 2, 2019

Technology is one key to creating this type of dynamic sales methodology, using customer-focused data and analytics to provide sellers with the customer perspective they need to win deals. Methodology requires training and familiarity first. Companies with this dynamic sales methodology in place have a 37.1

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SBI

JANUARY 12, 2022

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. In this interview series, we ask executives at leading salestech companies to describe how their customers are leveraging technology, what metrics are now possible, and more. .

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Scale 65

InsideSales.com

APRIL 15, 2021

One of the most positive outcomes from the past year was the swift adoption and embrace of technology for sales and marketing. As a result, many sales technologies saw rapid growth, and sales teams shifted their priorities and strategies. SD Teams Under Sales More Likely to Hit Quotas.

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Trends Lead Rank Hiring InsideSales 52

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

Anthony Johnson wasn’t the first Sales Development Representative (SDR) to learn this lesson the hard way. In the fall of 2015, the young sales rep was burned out, disheartened, failing to meet his quota, and on the verge of losing his job. Over the next eight months, Johnson averaged 110% of his quota. And he did.

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 29, 2019

Sales managers should develop a tight-knit feedback system around sales training, the accessibility of sales content and all-around best practices for sales reps. Encouraging this kind of dialogue can significantly lift a sales team’s performance. Plan for Frequent Onboarding Training. Conclusion.

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Sales Enablement Study Face-to-face Sales Technology 64

SBI

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Only half of his team made fewer calls – even with a lower quota. At first, he was impressed with their drive to overachieve and continue to achieve their old quota, until he reviewed the results. As a sales technology and data provider, a key element of our process, similar to any provider in this space, is onboarding.

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Vengreso

MAY 28, 2020

Think about this scenario: Your organization is ready to invest (or renew) hundreds of thousands of dollars (or perhaps millions) in your sales technology stack and tools for your team, but the executives and the finance department want you to calculate the ROI to justify the expense of each tool. How quickly will the company see ROI?

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As sales leaders barrel into what will likely be a challenging Q4, many do not like the look of their forecasts. Even before the rumblings of a recession, just 43% of reps in B2B tech sales were hitting their quota. Focus on what you can control: sales productivity. Completing new product and competitor training.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Forecasting 52

Sales Hacker Training

MAY 27, 2019

In short, the right sales tech can make the difference between hitting or missing quota — not just individually but as a team. Take a look at this… Sales Tech: A Top Priority for Sales Enablement. In short, having the right sales technology for the job matters. Need proof? Bottom Line. Some don’t.

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