Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

In B2B sales and marketing, companies employ various strategies to drive growth and expand their client base. One such strategy involves the use of Business Development Representatives (BDRs). Our recent webinar Turbocharging Business Development Strategies noted the importance of BDRs. 85% percent focus on outbound activities.

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 26, 2015

His email asked this: What is the most important metric in all of sales development? In essence, Steven (and the rest of the world’s best SDRs) have figured out the number one metric in sales development: prospect to qualified appointment ratio. A few weeks ago I received an email from Jason Lemkin.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 2, 2024

A pillar of success for any sales organization is an effective business development strategy. Of course, changes in the sales landscape and marketplace have a profound effect on your business development strategy. Our recent webinar Turbocharging Business Development Strategies introduced measurement at the macrolevel.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

How are your sales to date? Every sales leader I have spoken with could easily answer this question. If you are like most of the VPs of sales and marketing that I work with, you love developing marketing strategies and tactics. Developing marketing plans is the sexy part of what you do. I am sure you can as well.

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The Pipeline

JULY 27, 2021

While we should always be developing our skills, here are three prospecting fundamentals to practice during summer. This leads to process and metrics. Summer is a great time to update or develop a prospecting process, different from your sales process. Game Ready. Why lose momentum going into the fall?

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 4, 2016

A few weeks ago in December’s blab chat , Kyle Porter got a chance to (virtually) chat with Jacco van der Kooij and Craig Rosenberg to discuss moving past elementary sales development metrics. Both gave us so many powerful insights around sales development analytics — but Jacco’s most bold call to action? “We

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As the business unit head, you and your team have spent hundreds of hours building your marketing plans , analyzing trends, developing key tactics and building and revising slide decks. Global leadership forces you to increase your sales numbers and reduce expenses, and you have to dance. You have dry run after dry run. Here’s the rub.

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 25, 2018

How are your sales to date? Every sales leader I have spoken with could easily answer this question. If you are like most of the VPs of sales and marketing that I work with, you love developing marketing strategies and tactics. Developing marketing plans is the sexy part of what you do. I am sure you can as well.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In this 2:56 video, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the need for sales managers to go beyond setting sales goals and to define learning goals for their teams. They share how organizations can align learning goals with sales goals and invest in training and resources to support their salespeople.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 14, 2024

In this episode of the Sales Awakening podcast, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley dive right into the execution challenges. We need to identify the critical success factors and narrow them down to three manageable items. “Change management is sales management, and that’s going to make the difference.”

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2024

Sales Managers: Get Off Your Butt and Start Coaching Your Reps In today’s highly competitive sales industry, which has endless analytic tools and virtual interfaces, the role of the sales manager has quietly pivoted to that of a ‘dashboard coach.’ Presence is a form of currency in the economy of trust.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the strategy of simultaneously setting learning and sales goals. They explore the intricate relationship between continuous learning and improving skills for sales leaders, stressing the need for a balance. In this article, we’ll look at the connection between sales and learning goals.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Are you a good sales leader or a great sales leader? What makes a great sales leader? I have found that the two most important critical success factors to being a great sales leader are: Top sales leaders build winning teams by coaching , engaging and being a BOLD leader. What is stopping you from making the leap?

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2020

I used to think it was just sales newbies who struggled with referral reluctance. I wondered about those in non-traditional sales roles like customer success, CPAs, attorneys, architects, engineers, and consultants—who are now being asked to sell. Sales Leadership Is Missing It Big (and Here’s the Proof).

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Sales Scrum Episode #19 – Guest David Masover. David is the president David Masover Sales Consulting and shares how he leverages the sales process to drive success. How to develop and reinforce the skills required to execute the process. • How to turn sales managers into prospecting leaders.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Consider these points: Key metrics : Customer churn and attrition rate, customer retention rate, lifetime value of a buyer (how much revenue a customer brings in the long term), and Net Promoter Score (a range that measures a customer’s experience with a product). Doing so may also offset declines in aging products a company sells.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Learn how some companies are able to align skills, efficiency, and discipline leveraging a metrics-driven process for consistent prospecting and pipeline results. How to develop and reinforce the skills required to execute the process. • How to turn sales managers into prospecting leaders. Make data-driven choice and forecasts.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 23, 2021

Join me and the Canadian Professional Sales Association for a special Virtual Workshop: Coaching For Sales Performance and Growth. Their number one job is to develop and coach their team members to success. As a result of this webinar, you will: Understand the role of metrics in your success. Why Attend?

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 12, 2023

I started asking the question, “What are the top 15 metrics CROs should be tracking?” ” It returned a reasonable answer, including revenue growth, pipeline value, conversion rates, CAC/CLD and other business management metrics. Ever polite, ChatGPT apologized and responded with 15 people management based metrics.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 17, 2024

“What is ACV in sales?”, If so, it’s a key metric you might be missing out on. It’s a metric that tells you about the yearly revenue generated by individual contracts. The importance of knowing ACV in sales ACV is an important metric for a variety of reasons. Your current ACVs can help you predict future sales.

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BuzzBoard

APRIL 14, 2024

Importance of Email Metrics Analysis in Achieving Local Business Contract Success The success of a local business contract can often rest on a digital marketing agency’s ability to effectively communicate with prospective local business clients. Proficiency in email metrics analysis is a crucial component of this process.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Author: Barbara Adey It’s not enough to prepare for a sales call with general industry knowledge. Sellers need business acumen: a customer-specific grasp of business objectives and the metrics a customer uses to measure success. . As it stands, only 20% of salespeople are prepared to offer any real value during a sales call.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Given how much investment companies make in coaching sales reps, it’s not great to know that, commonly, 20% of sellers generate 80% of sales. Imagine the ROI that could be achieved if every seller were empowered to reach their monthly sales quota. This is why you’ve invested in sales enablement.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The concept of customer service has evolved from a post-sale afterthought to a key driver of business success. But why is this shared responsibility crucial, and how can sales teams lead this collaborative effort? Yet, only 54 percent say it generally feels like sales, service, and marketing don’t share information.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 21, 2024

Preface : Jose Andrade is a thoughtful sales leader with one of the most varied backgrounds I’ve seen. He sums it up, “Although I enjoy developing successful sellers, I am still most satisfied when I see that what we sell to customers meets or exceeds their expectations.”

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Pipeliner

APRIL 12, 2024

Andy is a master sales trainer and consultant with over thirty years of experience and has worked with over one hundred organizations. It explored how culture drives sales and business development. These companies must instill entrepreneurial behavior in their sales force. He advocated for a structured sales process.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. Demand generation is a joint effort between a business’s marketing and sales organizations.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 10, 2024

When it comes to B2B sales, content is still king. According to the Demand Gen Report , more than half of B2B buyers rely on sales content to guide their purchase decisions more now than in the past. Instead, you must understand how sales reps and prospects are (or aren’t) using sales content.

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2020

personas based on poorly sourced data, or worse, no data at all), they can be highly misleading and result in failed product launches, subpar marketing campaigns, and lost sales. Salespeople : Personas provide sales reps with a clear understanding of who they should be targeting, and allows them to better communicate with those individuals.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

When assessing your team’s performance, sales activities offer crucial metrics. That includes the number of sales calls, VP-level meetings, new qualified opportunities, and so on. With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results. Determine key selling activities.

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SBI

MAY 4, 2021

The Sales Learning Analytics That are Instrumental for Measuring Sales Performance. How Sales Learning Analytics Develop Your Sales Team. Sales representatives cannot sell unless they effectively articulate and convey the value of their organization’s products and services. By Shubhi Tangri, Qstream.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable. One of the best ways to ensure every part of your engine is running smoothly is to build sales performance dashboards for everyone on your team. What is a sales performance dashboard? What is a sales performance dashboard?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Sales operations teams frequently encounter hurdles such as juggling too many tasks, outdated procedures, insufficient data management, and communication breakdowns. When sales performance starts slipping, it’s a call to action for a sales operations strategy makeover. As a result, data silos emerge.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Any company's sales leadership needs to keep a pulse on how its salespeople are performing, both individually and on a broader organizational level — getting there often starts by understanding the degree of effort reps are putting in. That's where performance indicators known as sales productivity metrics come in. Calls Made.

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