Pointclear

AUGUST 6, 2013

Over the last year, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing over 30 influential B2B sales and marketing leaders. It has been a pleasure to interview each of them and share perspectives on topics ranging from B2B lead generation and inside sales to social media trends and personal branding. Not Enough Leads.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

I hear this lament often from Sales Ops leaders. The highest priorities on your plate are often about reacting to the sales team. Compensation disputes, monthly reporting, new rep on boarding, SKO planning, forecast re-do’s, etc., Deploy or Expand Inside Sales. Deliver a silver bullet that will lower cost of sales.

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Revenue Inside Sales Webinar Metrics Field Sales 303

Pointclear

JUNE 26, 2012

His new firm, which specializes in strategic positioning and provocative sales messaging, is called Visible Impact. But, when I attended the recent Leadership Summit put on by the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP), I was reminded that sometimes questions can just lead to more questions.

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Inside Sales Hiring Conference Field Sales 162

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Your Sales Strategy. It is one thing to have a sales strategy. VPs of Sales are asking the question “What have I done before?”. VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. This is flawed.

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Compensation Social Media Incentives Incentive 325

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 19, 2012

My VP of Sales wants me to research trends in inside sales and conduct account segmentation. The sales managers are yelling for updated dashboards and territories. HR is on my back about finalizing the updated compensation plan. Oh, and Marketing wants to discuss sales enablement improvements. I am spent!”.

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Sales Operations Compensation Territories Segment 303

Openview

MAY 30, 2018

We’ve all heard Tom Cruise’s famous line from Jerry Maguire, but showing your sales team members the money is often a complicated equation. In this guide, you’ll find tips for designing sales compensation packages that yield results and actually scale. Salary or Bonus-Heavy Compensation: Which Model is Best?

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Compensation Top of Funnel Commission Lead Rank 147

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JULY 11, 2013

He was my sales colleague. It can take weeks or months for some in sales to truly qualify a sales opportunity. This exercise will help you determine if a sales opportunity is probable or not – it can save you hours or months of effort, and it can help you close business sooner. Get More Answers. Get those answers.

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Sales Qualified Lead Opportunity Lead Rank Lead Scoring 309

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Sales teams are getting their 2013 numbers. For the Sales Leaders who learned how to set quotas at the SBI Make the Number tour ( register now! ), the results will be quite different. 2013 results will uncover some long-hidden flaws in the sales force. This blog is NOT about how to correctly set your sales quotas.

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Quota Compensation Commission Margin 257

SBI

APRIL 24, 2012

Tweet AA-ISP Inside Sales Summit. Four hundred Inside Sales leaders attended the 2-day American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP) Summit last week in Dallas. The Summit is the only conference dedicated exclusively to Inside Sales Leadership. of leads will close.

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Inside Sales Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 122

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

While this is an important statistics for sellers to keep in mind, it means nothing to those who sell or set appointments by phone, where there is no body language, and it’s down to intonation and words; and as we have said before, words may not break your bones, they could hurt your sales. Sales Process Tibor Shanto'

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Intent Cold Calling Compensation Inside Sales 278

MTD Sales Training

JUNE 6, 2012

More and more companies are electing to employ their own in-house telesales staff to set appointments for the field sales teams. The question that arises though is how do you compensate this inside sales team? How you structure the compensation of the telesales force is critical. Commission on the Sale.

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Compensation Sales Qualified Lead Commission Field Sales 265

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If Sales Books lived up to the claims they made, we’d all be at 300% of quota every year. However, Sales VPs we interview always ask about specific sales books. Download this tool to see the top 5 books we recommend to Sales VPs. Download this tool to see the top 5 books we recommend to Sales VPs.

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Case Study Consumer Study Face-to-face 300

SBI Growth

JANUARY 25, 2013

As a sales rep, every so often you must ask yourself the question: Are you aiming for the bull’s-eye…or wearing it? Life as a sales rep is no exception. Improve your ‘A’ Player characteristics to: Increase sales. Reduce sales effort. They’re hungry, and get a rush from closing sales. Strike while the iron is hot.

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Compensation Follow-up 319

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As the VP of Sales, you’re pulled in 15 directions. You’re coaching and mentoring Sales Directors and Managers. Many Sales VPs are innately aware of the competition. Many Sales VPs are innately aware of the competition. They know their rivals’ compensation plans. This ramped up the sales cycle considerably.

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Competition Customer Lead Rank Top of Funnel 323

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

You are a seller and one of your big sales opportunities has stalled. Sales author Anne Miller gives us some examples: Hit? Determination, persistence and energy–everything a sales manager wants in a new hire, expressed metaphorically to win a job. Kill Crutch Words – Inside Sales Power Tip 133.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Inside Sales 229

SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2012

The most important function an HR leader can perform to support Sales is to help attract and retain top sales talent. Based upon our research interviews conducted with VPs of Human Resources, it is clear that most don’t really understand how to help Sales attract top talent. Is this opportunity limited to just Sales?

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Compensation Commission Territories Quota 244

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JUNE 30, 2014

To win in sales you, and your company, need a recipe for success. The ingredients to win in sales must be pure and of high quality to create a great, high-end, finished product. Here is what we believe it takes to compete with a strong solid sales team that closes the right deals with great sales velocity.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Territories Commission 247

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Their recent shift to new finance systems and a sales restructure created added complexity. As a result, they''re considering adding the position of Data Steward to Sales Ops. As a result, they''re considering adding the position of Data Steward to Sales Ops. World-class Sales Ops teams have access to reliable, timely data.

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Sales Operations Government Hiring Face-to-face 267

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JUNE 27, 2014

This week, LinkedIn shared some statistics in its study women in sales. They searched for female vs. male names and parsed the data to see how many LinkedIn members were female and in sales vs. male and in sales by industry. A future post will contain an interview with some of the top women in sales at IBM.

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Study LinkedIn Hiring Conference 231

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JULY 22, 2014

Midmarket companies and larger SMBs seem to fall into three camps: the ones who understand the power of social sales and actively work to build a plan of action, the ones who are coming around to this idea but not doing much yet, and those who are turning a blind eye and are missing a great window of opportunity. Keep Track of Your Buyers.

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Ideal Customer Profile Banking Engineering Twitter 234

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JULY 31, 2014

We have written about social sales relationship building and social sales research. Ultimately you will want to do more than listening, but even if you just listened to look for new opportunities, your sales team’s revenues would grow. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Ideal Customer Profile How To Twitter Google 229

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Not only will those in sales be able to manage their territories this way but also sales leaders will have incredible access to data and insights – even being able to reinforce learning. There are new tools and ideas coming out now that will change forever how we think about business process, marketing and sales. Mobilepaks.

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Workbooks Analytics Territories Compensation 232

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NOVEMBER 28, 2014

I’ve been compensated to contribute to this program, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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Apparel Trade Show Ideal Customer Profile Google 240

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JULY 30, 2014

For some of us it is easy to be social in sales, for others it is an effort, and for a third group, a confusing idea. I have been meeting more and more leaders in mid-market companies who are simply confused about the value of having their sales reps focused on social selling because they don’t see the payoff. Increase Opportunities.

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How To Ideal Customer Profile Twitter LinkedIn 230

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JUNE 25, 2014

Many of the same ideas are rehashed daily within sales and customer service – and in accounting and operations. If you have an open environment where ideas can be shared your company has a good chance of using collaboration for sales growth. In sales and business building – execution is where it is at. Blurred Lines.

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Marketing Airlines Ideal Customer Profile Policies 217

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MAY 23, 2014

Brilliant sales ideas are overlooked every day. Sales professionals often tend to over think things – so the combination of missing a simple idea and then over thinking can equal lost revenues. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Close More Deals.

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Follow-up Strategy Hiring Decision Maker 215

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

From a sales tools perspective, I have seen productivity gains as well as losses. I’m curious because every article like this one: 43 Mobile Sales Apps: Tools to Streamline Your Sales Ops opens up a can of worms for the sales reps and even some leaders intent on finding that latest tool to help the team.

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Real Estate Compensation Vendor Intent 249

Engage Selling

APRIL 2, 2012

Countless commission structures fail despite the best intentions of sales leaders. More fail when sales managers don’t explain their plans properly. Before you know it, inside sales is battling with field sales, direct reps are at the throats of the channel team, and you’re caught in the middle of the fray.

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Compensation Commission Territories Guidelines 79

Showpad

MAY 29, 2019

Inside sales definition. Inside sales is a type of sales where representatives perform regular sales activities remotely rather than consistent face-to-face meetings. Fewer and fewer sales reps are traveling to meet clients on a regular basis, ditching the briefcase and rolodex for a laptop and smartphone.

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Inside Sales Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Salary 76

The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you’ve worked in sales, revenue operations, or finance for any amount of time, I don’t have to tell you how important sales compensation is. You already know the right sales compensation plan can motivate your team, improve their performance, and boost overall job satisfaction. Insurance Sales Agents: $50,600.

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Compensation Salary Incentives Incentive 81

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

With all of the technology, tools, methodology and sales process in place you’d think there was no real simple way to help with your sales messaging. Newer sales reps need to feel comfortable with what it is that they are saying and to whom. What Helps Most? That’s why my best tool for doing this is…….drum drum roll…….your

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Buyer Compensation Exercises Twitter 226

SBI

MAY 7, 2014

You’ll need a new fuel source if you want to blast sales into the next stratosphere. Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. Performance and Compensation. Sales & Marketing Content. Sales Enablement. InsideSales. Mobile Selling.

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Sales Tools Tools Revenue InsideSales 139

SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

“Freedom lies in being Bold” – Robert Frost Are you consistently bringing bold sales strategy ideas to the VP of Sales? To be a world class Sales Operations leader, pick up the pace. Quantifying the potential impact for their sales leader. Sales Operations Success = Insight + Execution.

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Infusion Data Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 244

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APRIL 30, 2014

A startling fact, presented over and over in b2b studies shows that most sales reps do not follow up enough – despite the few we know of who seem to overcall – or follow up too many times with unqualified opportunities. Thinking about both art and selling in sales, you must be smart in how you strategize reaching your targeted buyer.

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Follow-up Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Buyer 222

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DECEMBER 29, 2014

Use the steps and your own terminology within your sales process to help your SDRs and BDRs enter clean, verified data.]. This is not so much a clean data issue but is so critical in moving your sales opportunities forward that it needs to be mentioned. Bad leads slow down your sales force. Increase Opportunities.

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Data Policies Ideal Customer Profile Guidelines 193

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Compensation.

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Hiring Top of Funnel 84

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MARCH 28, 2014

After reading Guy Kawasaki’s post about Arianna Huffington’s book, “Thrive – The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-being, Wisdom, and Wonder” it got me thinking about how to correlate it to the sales department in a mid-sized or SMB business. Sales is focused on growing revenues, and making money while doing it.

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