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? In this podcast I share why not organizing into territories is a terrible decision that’s stunting your sales growth.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 7, 2022

Unfortunately, at many companies, the revenue production system is clogged with waste — activities leading nowhere. But why would you want a system where reps are expected to fail almost 90% of the time? So while you might have a five-time pipeline up top, mechanisms should be in place to reduce it to 2.5-times Except for one.

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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. But without an integrated, automated system, you’re barely scratching the surface of its potential. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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LevelEleven

MAY 31, 2018

For sales leaders with teams covering vast territories across multiple countries, it’s difficult to know if each salesperson on your team is focusing on the right things day-in and day-out. If you’re a sales leader with a remote sales team, a Sales Management System may be just the solution you need to tighten up your process.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 5, 2023

As companies add and reallocate talent, enter new markets and territories, and adopt more security tools, corporate email systems are becoming increasingly complex. Over time, they could move from a simple name-based system to one that incorporates numbers or other unique identifiers. What drives up bounce rates?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

I allow myself to get sucked into discussions about CRM systems. Where else do you have the collected information about everything your customers have done with your company, the relationships of people in your customers to each other, all the data about what you can do to sell them more? Don’t let that stop you from selling!

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Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2022

Without proper attention to your lead routing system, you’ll spend resources to generate leads that may not go anywhere. A modern routing strategy that’s built for revenue growth includes three main elements: Integrated account-based selling tools The ability to route any object (e.g.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2022

Unfortunately, it’s all too common for sales teams to be hamstrung by incomplete routing systems and low-quality data. To set their sales teams up for success — and drive the largest possible return on investment for their businesses — today’s go-to-market leaders need comprehensive, integrated data and intelligent lead-routing systems.

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SBI

DECEMBER 16, 2014

In essence, we’re bringing science to the art of selling. Meaningful data can help improve and change how you sell and how you refine products and services. New technologies open up interesting applications and use cases that weren’t possible before. Historically, sales tools didn’t directly impact sales processes.

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Nutshell

MARCH 5, 2024

You’re probably already familiar with lead generation , where you draw people in and get them actively interested in whatever your business sells. Lead distribution is the process of matching up specific leads with certain sales reps at your company. You can also use the round-robin method in combination with these kinds of criteria.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I’m continuing my series on the importance of understanding selling as a complex system. I cover a wide variety of disparate parts: the job of the manager, time management, coaching, deal/pipeline/forecast/call/account/territory/prospecting/1 on 1’s, performance management, hiring, and on and on.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Time Available For Selling is a critical issue for everyone in sales. But before I go into a further discussion about time available for selling, let me first define how I look at time available for selling. There are review meetings-ideally to help improve their selling performance.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Most sales leaders, after all, begin with the same ingredients: a good product, a strong team, a great CRM system, and so on. In a competitive market, what pushes companies ahead isn’t just what they sell – it’s also how they sell. It gives you a leg up over your competitors, even if you all start with the same ingredients.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 24, 2024

For those who may not be familiar with this system, it was a “shoebox” with 12 monthly separators and 31 day separators. It was also used to ensure that follow-up tasks were completed when due. Nothing happens until somebody sells something. Assigning leads for follow up and having a record of those. By territory.

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Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2021

We all know Tom: the sales guy trying to sell you something you don’t really need on a Tuesday afternoon. Tom is pitching to you because his office is based a few blocks away from your house and your street happens to fall within his territory. Then there’s Kate. She sits at a desk and sends emails all day. The Rise of Inside Sales.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 20, 2018

Here are a few tips: Divide your territory in a way that makes sense. One of the first steps to effective territory management is to have a concrete view of current customers, potential customers, competitors’ activity, and the location of all of these. CRM system information – most recent contact. Happy Selling!

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SBI Growth

APRIL 21, 2013

Every time there’s a territory rezoning he bellyaches. Or If you chop up my territory, I’ll look somewhere else. How to Spot Them: Look at the number of prospects in each territory. No territory should have twice the amount of any other. Just stay out of her way and let her sell. He mostly gets his way.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure. How can an organization set themselves up for success by nailing the quota setting process?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Millions are invested in new systems–supposedly. Basically compliance is measuring, “are people using the system?” Reporting on who has signed into the system, how many times they’ve logged in and all the related measures are meaningless. Or they can enter garbage into the system.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 24, 2018

Just think about all the situations that might crop up suddenly, presenting challenges that you need to address right away. These situations might include: Troubled territory – What if a particular sales territory or geography is struggling with an aggressive competitor? The systems and technology your reps are using.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 16, 2022

B2B sales and marketing teams need reliable firmographic profiles of their target accounts that will stay up-to-date amid the rapid pace of change in business. Data teams continue to struggle with outdated records and fragmented systems that, at best, result in unpredictable sales outcomes.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 25, 2012

selling time) This equals only 17 hours per week. We all know improving selling time should increase sales. And what is the value I should receive by actually improving a sales person’s selling time in front of a customer? Look below on what impact an increase in an hour of selling time has on revenue.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 4, 2021

But they can cause lead routing problems, inconsistencies within a customer relationship management (CRM) system, and most importantly, missed deals. The good news is that new tools can shore up these cracks and prevent hidden problems from gaining a foothold in the tech stack. These failure points might seem innocuous.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 21, 2013

By signing up for the tour , you’ll receive the " Performance Culture Assessment " tool. Those reps were covering an extensive territory and large customer base. Systems Enhancement. A media organization recently created home grown CRM system. The homegrown system worked for tracking time and activity.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Ultimately, when your reps are selling to the right people, their job and sales process as a whole will be much smoother. This process often ramps up after the initial deal has closed to ensure the success and satisfaction of the customer. Territory Management. Opportunity Management. What level of attention does each deserve?

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InsideSales.com

MAY 13, 2021

Since the landscape has changed dramatically in the past year, here’s what changed about the traditional inside sales vs. outside sales conversation and how sales are building new, digitally enabled teams, no matter where they set up their workspace. Strategic vs. Transactional Selling. The Death of the Conference Room Meeting.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 8, 2014

They turned it up a notch and just refused to lose. Execute the system – In the middle of the second half of the game, UK makes a run and gets to within 1, takes the lead, loses the lead, gets back to 1. During this run, the Huskies stopped executing their system – their offense. Execute the System. Defend the territory.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This document allows franchisees to make an educated decision about the franchise system before entering into a business relationship. Item 11: Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, Training : The services that the franchisor will provide to the franchisee. What is a Franchise Disclosure Document used for?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Some of the sales people were eating up the programs–but they were the consistent top performers. What maximizes the success of a Global Account Manager in hunting in her account will be different from that which is most effective for territory managers. Tools, systems, processes, training are not enough.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Tracking Trigger Events With the myriad of instances that can be considered a trigger event, you may be wondering how to keep up with all of them. Luckily there are a few places you can set up alerts that will help you discover these events as they arrive. Set up alerts for when positions at a particular company are open.

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Allego

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If you’re going to take a data-driven approach to selling, you must have salespeople who are able to find that data and interpret it. He specializes in B2B selling to help companies transform and maximize the results of their sales organization. The conversations dive into the ups and downs of their journey.

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SBI Growth

MAY 15, 2013

She currently works in a peer territory - not in the one needing an SM. Knowing the current Sales Rep make up will reveal the needs of an SM. Social vs. traditional sales approaches - if most Reps are using emerging social selling, the SM must be strong at this. Eddie is an SM from a large software company.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

Industry researchers have found that a typical salesperson only spends about a third of their time actually selling. In this era of insight sales , as buyers do more research online, a “rinse and repeat” selling model is far from effective. GTM Plays Automated go-to-market plays that can rapidly scale your business.

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Apptivo

MARCH 9, 2023

3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more! However, at times no matter how long one stretches, sales tasks eat up a lot of productive hours. 3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more! For example, if they download a whitepaper, follow up with success stories to showcase a product or service.

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Pipeliner

JULY 14, 2023

Of course, you can dream of a second half so strong that it drives your numbers up, salvaging your year, insuring robust performance and healthy commission checks. If your sales organization is like most, those SWOT results were quickly forgotten in deference to a laser-focus on breaking out of the January selling gate fast.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Time you spent in the office with your colleagues talking about the problem with your territory, your CRM system, your personal issues. That means that you are not watched every minute – and most of us in selling are not micro-managed. We like that, right? It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. Henry David Thoreau.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Territories 227

MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

He was asking me if we could run a motivational programme for his team so that they would go out and sell more stuff, and stay longer at his company. If your competitors get wind of a territory not being covered by your company, it’s likely they will use that opportunity to put more effort into covering your existing customers.

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