HeavyHitter Sales

MARCH 22, 2012

I’ve had the privilege of conducting “Win/Loss/No Decision Sales Cycle Analysis Studies” for leading companies including IBM, EMC, ATT, Acxiom, and PayPal. Click here to learn more about Win-Loss Analysis.   The sales cycle is a formalized information-and-activity exchange. Did I listen to my sales intuition?

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Listen up Chief Sales Officer. It’s time that Sales Operations gets your undivided attention. Download the Leaders Guide to Sales Ops Enablement by clicking here. There are multiple reasons why Sales Ops needs your attention now. Sales, marketing, IT, strategy, operations and customer service. Opportunity is ripe.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Modifying sales reports and dashboards to enable sales managers to track new product sales. Focus on new product sales.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A post for Sales and HR Leaders to find root causes of Sales Manager (SM) vacancies. The Sales Manager position is the fulcrum between sales leadership strategy and sales force execution. Teams without effective sales managers lack morale and discipline. Weak sales strategy. Poor territory.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Effective growth CEOs can balance working on short-term sales tactics and long-term business strategies. A theme emerged around how much time to spend “in” sales tactics. If you act as the de-facto VP of sales, you’re working in the business. Maybe the current sales leader isn’t your long-term player. Taking Action.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This post is for HR and Sales leaders who want more. By participating in this free event at your office you will: Learn the best practices of the brightest sales people in our research. Discover tactical solutions to get the most out your incentive comp dollars. But for sales roles, it’s not enough to know “market” conditions.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 3, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Before I get into trouble for the title of this blog, let me 1.) Objective Management Group recently evaluated a sales force of 24 women. While working on the analysis, one member of our staff remarked that it seemed that "women were far less trainable than men".

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 20, 2012

HR leaders, get ready for the 2013 Sales Kickoff by fixing the flaws in your compensation plan today. Here are a few real-life examples of situations where the VP of Sales asked for help from HR: Heavy Equipment Company: The top sales rep earned more than the CEO for 2 of the past 3 years. Hold on for a moment.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 20, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Do you know what percentage of sales candidates eventually get hired? Two of the results pointed to an article of mine from earlier in 2014 that answered the question, " How Many Sales Candidates are Worthy of Being Hired? Recruiting is a lot like real estate sales.

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Xactly

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Compensation drives sales behavior, which means your sales incentive plan is a critical factor in sales performance and objective achievement. The incentive compensation planning team faces the challenge of balancing executive priorities and designing incentives that motivate reps. Set the Foundation.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

Unclear sales goals are costly. These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. KPIs should match the specific needs of your sales team. The Sales KPIs You Need to Know.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As a sales leadership team, there are plenty of questions we ask ourselves to improve sales performance analysis and management, including: Are we setting up our teams for success? Despite the fact that we live and breathe incentive comp, we are not immune to the factors that affect every sales organization.

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Pointclear

JUNE 27, 2011

As a CMO, I always ask myself, what value I would really bring to managing this process in-house versus having on-demand access to expertise, operational excellence and data analysis that comes as part of a partner's complete solution. What for you were the critical success factors you weighed in outsourcing lead generation?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

A comprehensive referral marketing program treats referrals like any other marketing channel— which means it includes strategic preparation, targeted decision-making, analysis, and iteration. Choose the right incentives. But, we recommend you give more thought to your referral incentives. Track and measure your results.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Yet, historically, getting the CEO, CFO, or even the CTO to engage early in the sales process—if at all—has been a long shot. Chorus.ai’s analysis of more than 500,000 recent sales meetings conducted by more than 100 of our clients in 10 major industries. The following 12 tips can help ensure that you and your team are.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 8, 2012

In order to be most productive with the sales opportunities in your pipeline there are a number of people you need to know well. You’re done in by lost sales, missed opportunities, misaligned goals, and “no’s” toward the end of a prospective customer’s long buying cycle. You (yes, you.) slow follow-up.

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The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As an incentive compensation manager, you hold a critical role that keeps your organization running. In this day and age, no one doubts the importance of sales compensation when it comes to driving growth for a business. What does an incentive compensation manager do? The same goes for your relationships with sales leadership.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The question was a result of declining sales, and the need to refocus selling efforts. Indirect sales and dealers is a bit of a different game. Keen oversight and analysis is necessary to keep both parties fresh and productive. Too often there’s a tendency to view the partnerships in light of past sales.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

It takes a skilled team, a proven cadence, multiple touch points, message testing, market analysis — and plenty of perseverance —t o produce the leads that truly contribute to revenue generation. Check out this video that explains how over-focusing on cost per lead incents lead volume over lead quality. Your comments are welcome.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

If Billy Beane were to take over a sales organization today, he would feel like he’d traveled back by about 20 years. Sales organizations today are dominated by metrics, but they’re rarely data-driven and even take actions counterproductive to the outcomes they desire. For years, I said call activity was the worst metric used in sales.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Well, it relies on digging deeper into the existing customer body and optimizing sales to your current customer body. Adding more incentives erases any second thoughts when contemplating defection. An analysis of the defectors and stayers in B2B model comes in handy. The solution to this marketing malady is continuous sales.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI AI is the future of all sales, but it hasn’t gone from 0-1 yet in the B2B space,” says George Kocher, CEO of Brand North, a digital marketing and growth consultant. We have a long way to go,” Venkata says.

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Xactly

JANUARY 2, 2019

The sales planning process can become quite complex, especially when it comes to designing sales compensation plans. Ultimately, the new compensation and incentive plans must successfully motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Time in sales compensation: 4 years.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

A comprehensive referral marketing program treats referrals like any other marketing channel— which means it includes strategic preparation, targeted decision-making, analysis, and iteration. Choose the Right Incentives Rewards are the most critical part of your referral marketing strategy. What Are The Benefits Of Referral Marketing?

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SBI

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

You can over-look a much simpler, more accurate, approach resulting in a lengthened sales cycle or one that stalls altogether. You can neglect the basics in favor of the exotic leading to wasted sales effort and un-needed complexity. I’ve seen it get so bad they place themselves into analysis paralysis failing to function at all.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The first monthly commission statements will soon be in your sales reps'' hands. This post is for Sales leaders and HR business partners. Read on to understand the mechanics of effective sales compensation. Erik Charles is the Principal Incentive Strategist at Xactly Corp. It answers a fundamental question.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 Why Sales Performance Management Matters.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 17, 2024

But, I can count on one hand, the number of sales enablement programs that include any significant training and development on change. By developing expertise in these areas, we would create greater value and greater success in incenting our customers to change and supporting them through their change process.

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Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Christopher has served as editor-in-chief or senior editor with Meeting News, Corporate & Incentive Travel, and Life Extension. He is East Coast Bureau Chief for BtoB Magazine. What can I do?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 22, 2018

Sales manager job description. Sales managers are responsible for helping their reps meet individual quota, getting the team to hit quota, forecasting sales and running sales reports, providing mentorship and training, recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new salespeople, and more. Sales manager responsibilities.

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

Motivating your sales reps is one of the key factors of sales success. In most sales organizations, the sales commission plan is the best way to do this. Your sales commission plan is a portion of your sales compensation plan. Data is the most important and useful tool for any part of a strategic sales plan.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For sales organizations, sales performance data can be a useful tool to drive strategic planning and increase performance. . Using a sales performance management (SPM) solution to analyze sales performance data, organizations can gain vital insights into the landscape they operate in.

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Xactly

JANUARY 17, 2019

A strategic sales plan is a portfolio of ideas, processes, and technology that guides a sales organization’s strategy and provides the resources and tactics for reaching sales goals. With goals in hand, sales leadership must then assess and determine the needs and means to achieve those goals. Technology investments.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Brainshark is a data-driven sales readiness platform. Brainshark is a data-driven sales readiness platform. Brainshark Unveils READY20 – the Only Sales Enablement Event Dedicated to Furthering Sales Readiness: Multi-Day Conference Will Be Held in Boston in August –. Sales Enablement. Sales Enablement.

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Engage Selling

JANUARY 25, 2013

Colleen, any fresh perspectives on dealing with customer’s paralysis by analysis? First remember that paralysis by analysis is the seller’s problem, not the buyers. If you are suffering from “paralysis by analysis chances are you are not talking to the real buyer. Offer an incentive with a deadline.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 17, 2014

As is usual this time of year, I’ve been involved in lots of discussions of incentive and commission plans–both last quarter as people plan for the new year, and now as these plans are being introduced at Sales Kick Off Meetings. and the lists go on and on.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

It refers to an AI-powered technology’s ability to use algorithms to analyze data and autonomously make informed, human-like decisions or improvements based on that analysis. Recommended reading: AI Won’t Replace Sales Comp Managers: Here’s Why Simplify complex financial systems. The word “autonomously” is the critical differentiator.

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