SalesLoft

JUNE 21, 2022

If you had to guess, what percent of your sellers are actively using the sales technology you’ve purchased? . As a value engineer, I am constantly talking with sales teams about the ROI of sales tech. And so many of my conversations involve the idea of sales tech stack consolidation. Time, Money, & Opportunity Costs.

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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.

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Pipeline Sales Qualified Lead Churn Lead Rank 121

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2022

Selling was created as an alternative to older and stale sales methodologies like BANT, ANUM, and AN. It was designed to function specifically in a non-linear process because no sales process is exactly linear. We ask questions about the current way they are handling things and determine the costs of their own process.

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Sales Methodology Sales Qualified Lead Negotiation ROI 93

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

After the sales team returns home, they unpack their bags and hit the streets, energized and excited to hit the ground running. Sales faces a revolving door of change. When the plan is in alignment with execution, your territories remain optimized and sellers are focused on the best opportunities. stuff happens !

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

Sales turnover is a major expense. Replacing a single rep costs an average of 1.5-2X 2X their base salary, and that’s without factoring in lost revenue from reduced sales capacity while you recruit, onboard, and ramp new hires ( source ). fact, the average annual turnover rate in B2B sales is now 35% ( source ).

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Hiring Commission Compensation Incentives 75

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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ROI Sales Tools Tools How To 122

PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Every second counts — the pressure is on, and each word in your sales quote matters. Your sales pipeline is clogged, and your golden opportunities are wasted. Key takeaways CRM with an integrated quoting process reduces response time to customer inquiries, which is essential for achieving a cutting-edge sales pipeline.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Most sales reps groan, “Here we go again” at the thought of another sales meeting. Another sales meeting? Yet again, another hour that will be lost forever once the sales meeting finally concludes. Unproductive sales meetings cause both sales leaders and sales reps frustration and annoyance.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

After all, RevOps teams play an active role in supporting every function that drives revenue growth, from sales to marketing to finance to customer success. We offer six specific RevOps strategies that reduce costs and ultimately drive revenue– even if you have limited resources. Efficient communication channels. Audit your tech stack.

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Strategy Compensation Commission ROI 74

The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Recommended reading: AI Won’t Replace Sales Comp Managers: Here’s Why Simplify complex financial systems. With natural language processing capabilities, AI can translate complex formulas and commission calculations into language that’s easy to understand, whether you’re a seasoned expert or you’re managing plans for the first time.

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Commission Compensation Incentives Incentive 77

The Spiff Blog

JULY 14, 2022

In fact, pay secrecy can actually cost your company a lot more than any expenses you might have saved by low balling employees. Is someone really going to be invested in a company they suspect is underpaying them, or will they keep clocking out at 5:00 until they can find a better opportunity elsewhere? This is a mistake.

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Salary Compensation Hiring Commission 73

Xactly

JULY 4, 2018

Creating sales compensation plans is a challenging task—it’s all about balance, but sometimes the perfect balance can be hard to strike. You need your incentives to drive the right sales behaviors in order to achieve sales objectives. Creating a Sales Incentive Compensation Plan.

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Compensation Incentives Incentive Commission 84

The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

You may think you work in sales or on a RevOps team. This gives you a unique opportunity to optimize your sales commission process like a supercharged engineering team, and gain a serious advantage over your competitors— who are still slogging through their spreadsheets, none the wiser. That’s where this guide comes in!

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Xactly

AUGUST 29, 2018

When Xactly was founded more than 13 years ago , the company had a simple vision to democratize incentive compensation management and put powerful calculation tools in the hands of every company. Ultimately that one error created many issues–reps being overpaid, underpaid, or not paid at all.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 2, 2014

I wanted to spend some time discussing sales rep turnover. I worry too many sales executives spend too little time understanding turnover and it’s impact on the organization. They had notices 72% voluntary turnover of sales people in their first 12 months on the job. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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Territories Hiring Churn Coaching 92

Showpad

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Here are six video-powered sales tactics (two for sales development reps, two for account executives, and two for sales managers). Sales Development Reps. During the pandemic, Sales Development Reps (SDRs) had a tougher time than most on the revenue team. Showpad Video has dozens of use cases.

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Video Face-to-face Call-back Scale 59

Xactly

AUGUST 20, 2018

Technology like IBM’s Watson, Amazon’s related items, and Netflix’s watch suggestions is making business interactions with customers more digital, and the same can be said for sales organizations. Data is the driver behind AI/ML technology, and for sales organizations, intelligent planning. Take Sales Planning from Reactive to Active.

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SalesProInsider

JULY 12, 2017

.” What manager longs to hear those words from a sales rep? Those words typically don’t make a sales leader’s day. Yet maybe some rep change isn’t the disaster or reason to make a lot of changes. I will share the good, the bad, and the ugly of sales rep turnover. Turnover Impact.

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Hiring Salary Compensation SAP 54

The ROI Guy

JULY 9, 2018

Each year CSO Insights produces their Buyer Preferences survey, a tally of how buyers are evolving, and how well Sales is able to connect, engage and close in light of a changing environment. Over 70% wait until needs are defined before taking a sales meeting, and almost half have already identified a solution.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 26, 2013

As a result, the chances of experiencing a stall are greater than ever, with Sales Benchmark Index indicating that the biggest threat to growing your business is not the competition, but that 58% of deals are now stalled in the average pipeline. At this early stage, you have to illuminate the “Cost of Do Nothing” and “Quantify the Pain”.

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ROI Proposal Pipeline Face-to-face 65

Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2019

The sales methodology is like a set of rules for how you sell your products or services to customers. You need to define your methodology before anything else, including the sales process. Otherwise, your sales process will be applied differently by each rep on the team. What is a Sales Methodology? SPIN Selling.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 2, 2018

Common Sales Objections. Every prospect you speak to has sales objections, or reasons they’re hesitant to buy your product. Why are sales objections unavoidable? To be successful, reps must learn how to both discover and resolve these objections. It’s also important to distinguish between sales objections and brush-offs.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Let’s address the elephant in the room – there are just too many sales resources available to know what’s good and what isn’t. We decided to tackle the heavy lifting to create this round-up of our favorite sales resources, tools, and guides. Sales Outreach: Tools & Templates. Remote sales resources. Best sales books.

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 6, 2016

Sales Tips: Is Your Customer Experience Program Driving Metrics or Revenue? Several years ago I had the opportunity to visit the Great Wall outside of Beijing. Sample Calculation. Calculating this for a single customer is dead easy. Sample Calculation. This calculation, again, is fairly simple.

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Revenue Retention Analysis Vendor 40

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 8, 2019

While metrics are important in every aspect of any business, they’re especially critical in sales. Sales leaders can’t use their intuition to guide their decisions — not only are they dealing with a huge amount of information, but the risk of failure is high. Let's take a look at what sales metrics are. Activity Sales Metrics.

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Cost per Acquisition Lead Rank Churn Webinar Metrics 130

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. Death of a Salesman?

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Buying Cycle Marketing Comparison Vendor 45

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 31, 2023

With hundreds of AI sales tools in the market, picking the right ones for your tech stack can be confusing and daunting. To help you out, we’ve handpicked the top 10 AI tools for sales teams. We’ve also listed the top use cases of AI sales tools, along with a few best practices to help you get the most out of them.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Sales has traditionally been an intuition-driven profession. This allows reps to feel out each prospect’s interest and determine whether or not they’re an ideal customer. In recent years, however, sales data and technology has changed the way that sales teams think and feel — no longer does intuition sit in the driver’s seat.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2013

I recently had the opportunity to interview Jody Canavan, Founder and President of Launch International and an expert in content marketing. Why do you think sales reps are being invited later and later into the prospect’s decision-making process? We recently created some insight for a client around the real cost of inertia.

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