SBI Growth

OCTOBER 8, 2012

96% of organizations are increasing or maintaining their investment in inside sales last year. It is a good bet your SVP of Sales is implementing, expanding or considering an inside sales team right now. Are you prepared to optimize the investment in inside sales? (To 4 Lenses to Optimize for Inside Sales Territories.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 28, 2012

As the Sales Operations leader, you’re out of a job without customers. Make a New Year’s resolution to build territories that are market-centric in 2013. Doing so will help the sales team make their target and increase your value. This will make life easier for you and your sales VP’s. How often should they be visited?

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Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2023

This is the fifth in a series of interviews I am conducting with subject matter experts and practitioners in the sales profession. I am examining where we are today with AI in sales and where we are going. Scott is the Founder of Sales Success Media and hosts the Sales Success Stories and Daily Sales Tips podcasts.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2021

This might not be all that mind-blowing to point out, but not all sales orgs are comfortably confined to their companies' corporate headquarters — operating under a group of managers that can come together to share stories over lunch every day. What does a territory sales manager do? They train reps across their territory.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

This blog is for Sales Leaders running rapidly growing sales forces. Subsequently, this leads to smaller territories. It is dividing up the total sale target between reps. Typically sales leaders also add 5-10% to the number as cushion. Sales leaders have no idea if each rep’s quota is attainable.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 3, 2018

Sales Territory Plan. Assess Territory Quality. One of the essential pillars of a successful business is a robust and organized sales territory strategy. Studies show that effective territory management can increase overall sales, improve customer coverage, and reduce costs. What Is a Sales Territory?

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Zoominfo

MAY 11, 2020

There’s a lot to think about when developing an annual sales plan to support your organization’s strategy and objectives: New customer acquisition, customer retention, increasing share of wallet, resource budgeting … just to name a few. But don’t forget about your sales territory plan. What is a Sales Territory Plan?

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 3, 2022

I do my own weeding and that "hobby" takes up a lot of my free time. If you think about territory sales or sales into a specific vertical, reps should be calling on the same customers and prospects all the time. But what if they aren't selling consumables? But then what?

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This is the second in a series of interviews I am conducting with subject matter experts and practitioners in the sales profession. I am examining where we are today with AI in sales and where we are going. Paul is the Director of Field Enablement at Groove , a leading sales engagement platform.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 25, 2023

And that, somehow, leads me to sales performance. Those salespeople aren’t aware that they suck and they don’t believe that they suck because they don’t know what great selling looks like, sounds like, or feels like. They aren’t selling anything to anybody. I was lucky.

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 2, 2021

In the “Crunchbase 101 for Sales” series, you’ll learn how to leverage Crunchbase’s all-in-one prospecting software to streamline your sales workflow and crush your quota. Your quota isn’t getting any smaller, and your territory isn’t getting any bigger. So, how do you find more qualified leads in your territory, faster?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 27, 2016

As a newly hired sales rep, I began the way I did at every new company, spending the first several weeks typing furiously into a growing Excel spreadsheet. It wasn’t until after my own special brand of analysis, that I would begin full-on selling. Because of that, I could identify the several hundred accounts within my territory.

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Xactly

AUGUST 13, 2018

Let’s cut to the chase–if you’re not using data to drive your sales territory mapping, your territories might be hurting your sales performance more than they are helping it. Sales territory mapping software offers more benefits than sales managers may realize. Take Assessment. The answer?

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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. . Take Assessment.

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 6, 2014

Is your sales team a territory free-for-all? In this podcast I share why not organizing into territories is a terrible decision that’s stunting your sales growth. Is your sales team a territory free-for-all? Sales Coaching The Sales Leader'

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SBI

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Old-School Territory Management is Dead: A Q&A with John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything. Following the recent acquisition of TerrAlign by MapAnything, I asked MapAnything CEO John Stewart to explain the relationship between map-based geo-productivity and territory optimization. Everyone assumes they are all-star sales geniuses.

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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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Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 3, 2020

Like most salespeople,you, too, might have faced a dilemma of cross-selling in your career while dealing with prospective clients. Are you familiar with cross-selling strategies for prospective buyers? Cross-selling could be a breakthrough if you aren’t already using it to your advantage. Divyang is an H.R.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

In B2B sales and marketing, companies employ various strategies to drive growth and expand their client base. Here, we’ll explore the role of BDRs, the pros and cons, and best practices to utilize them effectively: The Role of BDRs Typically, BDR is an entry-level position in larger, more complex sales organizations.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently.

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Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. But she also knew she needed to get up to speed very quickly. My life would be a nightmare without it,” says Wing, a ZoomInfo global sales manager who focuses on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

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Xactly

AUGUST 23, 2018

When it comes to sales performance management (SPM) functions, the difference between “nice to have” and “need to have” can seem difficult to determine. Sure, you know you need ICM to handle accurate and timely payments, but do you really need automated sales territory planning as well? Your sales reps will thank you.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Sales and marketing teams have always sought to understand how target customers work internally. Knowing how and where a customer’s decisions are made can make a world of a difference in how you sell to them, whether it’s prioritizing the right accounts with the right message or pinpointing which contacts to develop relationships with first.

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Tenbound

APRIL 19, 2024

by Kathleen Robida LinkedIn is always buzzing with tips and tricks for SDRs to book more meetings and for Sales to win more deals. Last but not least, don’t forget to; “LinkedIn connect, and don’t sell!” When SDRs are first paired with Sales, each needs to understand the career experience they bring. Participation!

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. But in the modern sales landscape, more and more salespeople have started reforming their behavior. Identify In this stage, salespeople do research to start the sales process with prospects who seem like good fits.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Smarter Prospecting in Less Time For experienced sales professionals, using ZoomInfo for the first time often feels like discovering a secret; after spending years going door-to-door, suddenly having a world of information at your fingertips can be an invigorating experience. Selling in today’s economy is tough enough.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 25, 2019

Author: Brad Soper, Andree Radloff and Mark-Daniel Rentschler What will sales divisions look like in the future? There are five developments that companies should pay attention to if they want to be competitive: Traditional sales forces will be cut in half. Sales will become too complex to stay a one-man show.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sales professionals — yes, even managers — on frontlines of business development. Because, let’s face it, even in a perfect world, CRMs benefit company leadership more than the quota-carrying sales rep. . Because like most sales and marketing technologies, CRMs are only as good as the data stored within its database.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 5, 2013

Ever wonder why some companies can generate as much revenues with less sales people than others with more? I think it has to do with the hoarder mentality that permeates sales thinking. “The The more territory, the more accounts I get, the better I will do”.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 19, 2021

But When prospecting, not selling, you should share the ultimate outcome right at the start. Foreign territory indeed, but not scary, very navigable, one just needs to try. As always, it is easy to point to the reps, but remember, someone, put them up to this. If they don’t like the outcome, the build-up won’t help.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This blog addresses how sales reps can ensure their quota is realistic and attainable. Many sales reps are forced to accept a quota that is neither. Over 65% of Sales Goals are driven by Executive and Corporate expectations. If their projections are unrealistic, so are the sales reps’ quotas. Bottom-Up Quota Setting.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

But one thing sales and RevOps leaders all have in common is that they collectively struggle to set realistic, motivating sales quotas. If quota setting is critical to forecasting, goal setting, and sales capacity planning , how is it that so many organizations still miss the mark? In fact, with only 24.3%

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. So, What’s a Sales Manager to Do? The Situation.

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