MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

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. Who writes sales plans? What is a sales plan template? A typical sales plan includes the following sections: Target customers.

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SalesforLife

JUNE 27, 2019

In fact, because they have a defined timeline and a distinct call to action, events are one of the ways that create the greatest triggers (referrals, insights, and competitive intelligence). If you read our blog, you know that account executives are responsible for building TAM maps for their particular geographic territory.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 4, 2013

But I also had sales leaders who just raised the number by a percentage every year, not taking into consideration changes in the market or in opening up a new territory. Activity goals are goals that you typically come up with together with your sales manager targeting specific actions that you have a whole lot of control over.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. The question is, as a sales manager how should you structure your sales team’s expectations around prospecting?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

If you’re in a position to fill a sales role, you’re likely already feeling the pressure, because your revenue targets are built on the assumption that your team is fully staffed. Essentially, achieving your goals is only possible with a full roster of sales reps who know their territories and are ramped to full productivity.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 29, 2011

They’re not business referrals. Now that’s a qualified business referral. The best leads are those you receive through a referral. When you receive a qualified referral, you are pre-sold. Your sales time shortens. Get more referrals and get these results. It’s like dumping trash in our sales funnel.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 9, 2011

” Misperceptions that lead to sour grapes: I think my prices are too high, or my territory is bad. Get Sales Blog Updates. Generating Referrals. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Poor work habits: Getting to work late, or barely “on time.” Look for my next blog post. Share this Post.

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Highspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

Sales leaders offer that direction. Through hiring, training, analysis, and consistent follow-up, a good sales manager can help and ensure salespeople hit individual sales quotas. How Do You Measure Sales Performance? Sales performance can be visualized as a pyramid. Referrals given, referrals received.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 8, 2011

You KISS’d it & managed to cover a LOT of territory very clearly. Get Sales Blog Updates. Generating Referrals. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Stop whining and be the solution to your own problems. Share this Post. xmlns:dc="[link] xmlns:trackback="[link]. -->. Excellent presentation.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 14, 2012

If your top sales rep resigned today, how long would it take you to recover? Imagine this scenario: Your sales manager calls you up “Bob, are you sitting down?” Drew (the top sales rep in the company) just resigned. It happened to me when I was a Regional Sales VP for a Fortune 250 company. Can I do it without him?

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The below checklist includes highlights from the full Top Line Sales Assessment. Sales Fitness Assessment. Sales Process. ?Is Is your sales processes documented and refreshed regularly? ?Do Do each of your salespeople have an up to date plan for their territory? ?Do Sales Management. ?Do

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MJ Hoffman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Safe for you because when you put someone in a new role, and therefore new territory, they haven’t had too much time to do a lot in that territory. Any incoming referral call must be met with a polite explanation that directs their future employer to your company’s HR department, to explain their short tenure.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I realized very quickly that if I was going to fulfill my revenue obligation to my employer and earn the amount of money I wanted to make, I was going to have to come up with a plan - a Territory Sales Plan. However, what I did have was basic management training, skills, and education. Step 1: Timing. Here it is, New Years.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In the immortal words of sales guru, T.S. As sales managers everywhere offer their guidance and motivation that, even with these ends and beginnings that remain in the year, there’s still time to make good things happen. So, towards year-end, it’s critical to engage with your channel partners for territory and account planning.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 2, 2012

To at least nine people, they could be a great source for referrals in and beyond their current companies. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy. Sales Success. Sales Technique. Sales Tool. Sales traiinng. Sales Training.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2011

I suspect that cold calling, like other sales techniques continues to evolve, right along with other methods. In and of itself, cold calling, like referrals or other prospecting methods is not the end all and be all. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

No matter how much — or how little — experience you have in tech sales, it's possible to climb the career ladder in this field. You can start in SaaS sales as an SDR and with enough experience, you'll be able to work in roles like account executive, sales manager, and even vice president of sales.

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Pipeliner

JULY 29, 2018

Defining Pipeline Management: To engage in pipeline management effectively, you have to be selling multi-stage opportunities. Many people will try to include accounts or territories into the pipeline, but for it to be effective, it has to be a collection of opportunities with a concrete beginning and end, and steps along the way.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2018

Every business runs like a B2B sales prospecting operation. You head out to a territory (market) where you can mine (generate) something valuable, then sift (qualify) good finds from the bad. For B2B organizations, customers now represent the new gold to be desired and the sales team’s pipeline the new gold mine to be developed.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 25, 2018

It's not much of a leap to say reps are impatient for a promotion and jump ship before their managers get the chance to offer them one. What Can Sales Managers Do About Sales Retention? Many organizations take it for granted that their managers know how to effectively manage performance.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 30, 2011

Also on Friday May 13, I share the bill with a stellar group covering some hot topics: 12:00 Noon EDT – Paul McCord: Build a Solid Business on Referrals by Knowing Who Your Client Knows. 12:45 PM EDT – Anthony Iannarino: Building Your 13-Week Sales Success Plan. Sales Leadership. Sales Management.

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The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2011

Here is the line up for Day 5: Friday May 13, I share the bill with a stellar group covering some hot topics: 12:00 Noon EDT – Paul McCord: Build a Solid Business on Referrals by Knowing Who Your Client Knows. 12:45 PM EDT – Anthony Iannarino: Building Your 13-Week Sales Success Plan. Sales Leadership. Sales Process.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 14, 2019

As salespeople become comfortable in their role and territory, they begin to develop strong relationships with certain customers. These individuals can be a valuable source of knowledge and potential referrals. You'll maintain a predictable revenue without leaving valuable money on the table. But familiarity breeds complacency.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2019

This sales rep talks about money, commissions, bonuses, comp plans, incentives, and their numbers start to drop when they feel like something may affect their compensation negatively. Don’t change anything mid-year that will lead them to believe their compensation may be affected negatively, such as a territory or role change.

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Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 2, 2017

Despite my shortcomings, in less that two years I was promoted to sales manager and until twelve years ago, all I did was manage sales reps. As a manager (and as a salesperson), I had my pluses and minuses. I was a great networker who earned a lot of excellent referrals. I’d like to think that ….

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Managing a sales team is definitely a challenge, but until you have managed or been on a sales team building revenues at +20% MoM AT SCALE, you may be in for a swift and rude awakening. 12 Expert Tips For Managing a Successful Sales Team. “Use the volume-versus-value ratio”-Aaron Ross.

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

How are they going to accelerate referral relationships? Sales has to know they are a voice for their company, and marketing can help them understand social media policy, strategy and vision in the case they want to contribute. The better a company’s following, the better the leads and referrals. Sales Leadership.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 28, 2014

Sometimes we just let it go, thinking, it’s better to have someone in the territory, getting whatever business they can, even though it’s not what they should be doing. As managers, we should be terrified of this–a pissed off customer talks to far more people than a satisfied one. It’s wrong for our customers!

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The Pipeline

JULY 4, 2011

Let’s begin by stating clearly that cold calling is alive, doing well as part of an overarching client acquisition process that includes other elements such as referrals and inbound marketing; in fact the only time it does not work is when you don’t do it, which is why it doesn’t work for many who choose not to do it.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 25, 2017

” First, compensation is only one of many levers sales management can use to impact performance. Actually, this isn’t just a sales question, it’s a corporate question—certainly, we know marketing plays a key role in creating visibility, awareness, interest, and developing demand.

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Don on Selling

OCTOBER 26, 2018

As a sales development representative, they will spend about 13 to 18 months before getting a promotion to an account executive position. Most sales representatives are too impatient to wait this long for a promotion. How Can Sales Managers Retain More Sales? Suppose a sales company wants to watch 15 results.

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Pipeliner

MAY 2, 2018

You definitely should be experimenting with all of this for your vertical / territory. The invasive social networks come in handy when you get a high-level referral and that contact in common, truly knows the person well. Messaging them on Facebook Messenger is even riskier. Text messaging them is even riskier.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Sales enablement, elearning, ecoaching. Time management. Pipeline management. Account and territory management. Contracting and e-signature. Note taking. Route/Travel planning. Presentation. Prospecting. Customer survey/feedback. Analysis and planning tools. Tools that measure things. Storytelling.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 30, 2022

As sellers, our job is to find or initiate new opportunities with customers in our territory. It may be with existing customers, helping them grow and expanding our relationship, it may be finding new “logos,” to expand our coverage in the territory. We prospect, qualify, and pursue opportunities within our territories.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

Of course, I’d love for all of you to be getting referrals and leads from people you know and by word of mouth, but prospecting is a legitimate way to generate leads and new business opportunities. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy. Sales Success.

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Keith Rosen

JANUARY 12, 2019

If it’s part of your company culture and normal business cadence for your salespeople or your sales managers (if you’re a manager of managers) to develop their yearly sales plan, do a quick level-set to ensure they’re comfortable creating their sales/business plan to attain their New Year’s goals. .

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