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. .

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. Wing was able to lean on ZoomInfo’s Chorus conversation intelligence solution and its SalesOS platform to analyze successful deals and perform lightning-fast research on her new territory and team. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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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.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 22, 2016

Why New Sales Managers Fail. Are you a new sales manager , or have you just been promoted into a sales manager role? I am going to share the number one reason why new sales managers fail. Time and time again companies promote their best sales reps into managerial roles.

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Sales Management Promotion Sports Territories 120

Gong.io

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you build a healthy sales culture? Why is it important to create balanced sales territories? On a recent episode of the Reveal podcast, we connected with Michelle Benfer, VP Sales at HubSpot, for answers to these and other questions that are top of mind for revenue leaders. Building a Healthy Sales Culture.

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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.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 7, 2018

KPIs for Sales Managers. Sales Volume by Location. Sales managers -- and particularly field sales managers -- can often feel like they are trapped in a fog. Download our free report here to learn the top 3 metrics ranked by sales professionals. Sales Volume by Location.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Management Scale 145

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

LinkedIn is filled with surveys about, “What is the highest priority focus for [Fill In Your Favorite Role]?” ” There are surveys asking for the one area sales managers should focus on. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Sales Management Study 261

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In the HubSpot Blog's recent survey of over 500 sales professionals, we tried to see what sales leaders hope to achieve when training reps and the top sales coaching tactics they use to get there — and our survey produced some interesting insight on both fronts. Sales Leaders' Primary Coaching Goals.

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Xactly

JANUARY 3, 2019

Sales statistics are a variety of metrics that provide insight into your sales organization’s health. Industry and planning-specific statistics also help guide sales planning and incentive compensation. We did some research and compiled some valuable sales stats that are important for all salespeople to be aware of.

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Handbook Territories Compensation Incentives 99

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Entering 2014, Sales and HR leaders face new trends causing turnover with top talent. This post offers solutions to Sales and HR leaders who ask this question: “How do we respond to demographic trends and retain top sales talent?” During the recent downturn, many sales forces benefitted from a uniquely capable labor market.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As if the looming year end wasn’t pressure enough for a sales leader trying to meet sales quota, will the loss of top sales reps pile on? The HR Leader can take some concrete steps to stop the exit of sales reps and therefore the loss of revenue. Immediate Help for Sales. But how do you know?

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Sales Talent Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Sales effectiveness is the domain where enablement collaborates with sales management to translate enablement efforts into tangible sales results. Sales effectiveness is where enablement efforts translate into sales results. Selling challenges linked to sales effectiveness. It’s a bit more complex.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

Sales coaching is all about looking forward and developing your people. High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program. A survey of 330 U.S.

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Sales Coaching Research Coaching Sales Methodology 113

Sell Integrity

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Effective sales coaching yields results, and sales leaders intuitively seem to understand this. In the world of sales, coaching is seen as critical for driving growth and developing excellence within sales teams. Forecasts, spreadsheets, CRM reports and territory reviews always seem to dominate their calendars.

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Coaching Sales Coaching Survey Motivation 88

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Look inside any distribution ERP system and you’ll find thousands of customers, product SKUs, sales transactions and more. This may seem challenging if you haven’t taken a data-driven approach to sales and marketing before. Imagine that you have a sales rep planning to drive to a remote location in their territory.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

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Retention Sales Coaching Coaching Scale 98

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2017

Author: Matt Brown, Senior Vice President of Sales, Lawson Products Salespeople are often described as extroverted with good social and communication skills. Typically dispersed across territories far and wide, and always on the go, face-to-face communication is often overridden by email, voicemail and text. Create a plan.

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Face-to-face Automotive Webinar Metrics Conference 197

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You can attribute sales success to many factors. A diverse sales team that acknowledges the importance of appreciating the differences in people can take a business to the next level. Let’s discuss the connection between diversity and sales in more detail. Develop Inclusive Sales Solutions. Attract More Loyal Customers.

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Hiring Advertising Advertising Lead Rank 98

Openview

MAY 10, 2019

Effective sales enablement in the Digital Age blends the traditional practice of aligning business needs to training with the (far trickier) task of finding new and innovative ways to make training as targeted as possible to the needs of the learner. Step 1: Get to Know Your Learning Audience. Step 2: Define Success at Every Level.

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Sales Enablement Data Scale Survey 88

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

I’m often amazed looking at the pipeline profiles of a lot of enterprise focused sales organizations. Each of these organizations had reasonably performing sales people. As we reviewed what the sales people were doing, we found the same thing their managers had found.

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Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation Account 91

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 25, 2018

A quick Google search or skim through your favorite sales blogs will show article upon article about how to hire the perfect reps, increase customer retention, and write the perfect sales job description -- for good reason. What if the biggest threat to sales teams isn't losing clients, but losing our teammates themselves?

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

It’s common knowledge that working in sales is hard. Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. In today’s post we explain the effects of sales pressure and provide ways to mitigate this stress productively. ” ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 258

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 24, 2019

Compensation is an important factor in attracting and retaining employees, especially in sales. Imagine if almost half of your sales team left the company because of a poorly designed compensation plan. Luckily, I've compiled some resources for you to determine the best sales commission structure for your sales team or yourself.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 4, 2011

The number of sales reps has declined significantly over the last 4 years. Declining sales has not only forced the industry to reduce the number of sales reps calling on physicians but has also created the need to better focus on customer needs. The survey says…. Come on people, your sales managers are struggling!

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Pharmaceuticals Territories Survey Sales Management 120

Partners in Excellence

JULY 18, 2019

The reason I want you to walk through this is to help you think about what I think is the biggest challenge facing sales leaders in maximizing the performance of their organizations: Talent. As regular readers know, each sales person we hire is a multimillion dollar investment. The sales person’s territory is open for 3 months.

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Hiring Territories Buying Cycle Sales 76

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

How has your sales leadership style changed this year? HubSpot recently surveyed over 500 sales leaders and found 40% of them have missed revenue targets this year — a significant trend that can’t continue if their businesses are going to survive. It’s time to rewrite the sales leadership rulebook.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

In fact, the 2018 Global Data Management Benchmark Report found that 52% of the organizations surveyed said data and analytics would be a key source of opportunity in the coming years. So, how can you visualize your sales data to make key decisions and analyze performance? The answer: A sales dashboard.

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Xactly

JANUARY 7, 2019

The start of a new year comes with a new sales plan—and that means you must reassess your sales capacity needs , align and balance sales territories , and create a sales incentive plan that drives sales performance. Enter sales compensation planning. The Importance of Sales Compensation Planning.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In the competitive world of sales, everyone is seeking the magic bullet that will accelerate revenue. But there’s a simpler way to increase market share: Make your sales organization more optimistic. Met Life was spending $30,000 on sales training per salesperson, but 80% of their reps had left within four years.

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Hiring Insurance Insurance Lead Rank 109

A Sales Guy

MAY 7, 2013

You have a sales process in place, but the sales manager and sales people are using separate spread sheets with additional stages, because the current sales process doesn’t meet their needs. You’ve built a killer sales portal the sales team never seems to visit.

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Top of Funnel Sales Leadership Territories B2B 128

Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. I was curious to hear what he thinks.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Data Intent Signal 195

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I read an article about the key productivity metrics managers are tracking. According to the survey of over 1000 sales managers, the five most popular metrics were: CRM utilization, Calls made, Emails sent, Conversations, Use of sales tools. I was left scratching my head, thinking, “WTF??????”

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Territories Maximizer CRM Account 48

Allego

MARCH 6, 2019

Sales coaching is a hot topic these days. Everyone wants to coach–and do it well–but Allego’s “State of Coaching 2019” survey uncovered a major disconnect between how sales managers and reps view the quality and impact sales coaching. Are Managers Focused on the ‘Right’ Competencies?

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Coaching Webinar Metrics Territories Survey 54

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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