Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 24, 2024

On this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, JBJ sits down with Amy Franko, a sales expert specializing in the mid-market, to discuss pipeline velocity, qualifying deals, and the importance of asking the right questions in sales. In many mid-market organizations, sales teams find themselves in a balancing act.

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Pipeline Face-to-face Compensation Sales Qualified Lead 98

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Sales compensation is one of the trickiest aspects of the sales organization to get right. How sales compensation should work. A sales compensation plan operates from a basic principle: Money drives behavior. So before you can craft or adjust your sales compensation plan, you must know your business objectives for the next year.

Compensation 145

Compensation Hiring Salary Commission 145

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

Since I didn’t know any better, I figured that I might as well build the recruiting engine in the same fashion that I built a marketing engine, and it turned out the approach worked. Here are the 5 key ways that recruiting teams can leverage sales and marketing tactics to maximize hiring success: 1.

Hiring 222

Hiring Marketing Top of Funnel Cold Calling 222

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Market conditions 12 months ago were very different. Why This Matters— The size of your addressable market has shifted. Phase 2 - Develop Go To Market Plan - Many sales VPs don’t know the best route to market. Why This Matters- The optimal routes to market have changed. Compensation plans come last not first.

Compensation 325

Compensation Social Media Incentives Incentive 325

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Total compensation, benefits, company financials and market position, for example. The company is making significant changes to your compensation plan. Market innovation within your company has slipped as a priority, eroding your competitive edge. Most job seekers look at the surface when weighing options.

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Territories Real Estate Compensation Quota 300

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 13, 2021

From team-based sales to varying prospect conversations based on the data available and the unique customer needs, selling is constantly experiencing significant shifts. Blindly applying a "what worked last year will work this year" approach to compensation is a trap that needs to be avoided.

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Compensation Data Sales Conversion 120

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Is your sales team searching too many faces, looking for traces of prospects, instead of narrowing the search to recruit only your ideal clients? Yet, most companies miss the mark on referrals and instead make these common sales prospecting mistakes. Companies focus their sales prospecting on signing new logos.

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Lead Generation B2B Lead Scoring Lead Rank 409

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. There’s solid evidence that your Marketing counterparts are responding. According to a recent Content Marketing Institute survey: 73% of marketing leaders are producing more marketing content than last year.

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Buyer Persona Territories Compensation Buyer 310

Openview

MAY 30, 2018

In this guide, you’ll find tips for designing sales compensation packages that yield results and actually scale. As most CEOs have discovered at some point, sales compensation is very often a delicate balancing act. Salary or Bonus-Heavy Compensation: Which Model is Best?

Compensation 147

Compensation Top of Funnel Commission Lead Rank 147

Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

During 2009, only those companies with cash and a willingness to spend it - mostly mid-market companies - were hiring salespeople. They tend to pay more than smaller and larger businesses and their recruiting efforts, compensation and incentive plans are designed to attract stronger salespeople.

Sales Management 288

Sales Management Hiring Compensation Trends 288

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This is especially an issue while prospecting by telephone, or (dare I say it) cold calling. But if you are prospecting by phone, even if only those leads you sourced via inbound marketing, there are some steps you can take to have more success in a world void of body language. The above is a result of our social conditioning.

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Intent Cold Calling Compensation Inside Sales 278

Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. You can throw in tactical skills like effective messaging, multi-threading, persuasive cold-calling, and much more.

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Sales Enablement Strategy Hiring Scale 130

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

They know their rivals’ compensation plans. They even track their peers’ marketing and competitive messaging. Overview : Acme was the preferred vendor in the market. These LDRs were well trained and capable of qualifying true prospects. Prospects who did engage were speaking with multiple vendors as well.

Competition 323

Competition Customer Lead Rank Top of Funnel 323

John Barrows

MARCH 5, 2020

What’s going to happen to SDRs and prospecting teams in the future? We spoke to Josh Roth to hear how he thinks prospecting teams and the role of an SDR is going to change. Here’s how the structure of prospecting teams is going to change… Prospecting Teams Using Marketing Skills.

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Prospecting Top of Funnel Compensation Decision Maker 140

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

With any job, a primary consideration is compensation. With salary, commission, bonuses, and other incentives, sales professionals often have options and feel in control of the compensation they receive, which can be great for motivation and fulfillment. With commission-based compensation, reps earn based on what they sell.

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Compensation Salary Commission Margin 118

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 19, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine More than 40 percent of salespeople claim that lead prospecting is often more difficult than qualifying and closing the actual deal. It’s easy for prospecting to get pushed to the back burner, especially when dedicated time isn’t set aside for the task. Enhance communication with your marketing team.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation 221

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Just as a deadpan delivery will not engage or excite a buyer, competing with Bill Burr in front of prospects, will cost you sales. On the other hand, if you’re product is “good enough”, but they’ve made that connection, you can compensate for product deficiencies. If nothing else, they’ll feel they could call on you if they needed.

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ACT Face-to-face Buyer Compensation 335

DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 3, 2018

What does it TAKE to sell to the Chief Marketing Officer? Jill began this task by talking to Heidi Bullock , Chief Marketing Officer at Engagio , formerly GVP of Global Marketing for Marketo. Engagio is a B2B SaaS software company focused on helping marketers and salespeople drive the best business value for their company.

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Marketing Intent Data Face-to-face Webinar Metrics 193

SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

Marketing might be called in for a presentation design. She works closely with marketing to enable her team with content and leads. He is getting in front of prospects and valued customers. He’s looking at compensation analysis, territory design, and sales structure. But they are limited to these relationships.

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Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation 334

The Pipeline

MAY 20, 2011

Stored in Business Acumen , Buying Process , Guest Post , Productivity , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , execution. Ian Brodie is a Marketing Speaker and Coach who helps consultants, coaches and other professionals attract and win more clients. LinkedIn is a two way street, now your prospects know your background.

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Pipeline Twitter Small Business Small Business 313

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 31, 2020

Sales teams are a particularly unique case as their compensation is likely to be highly leveraged and more sensitive to changes in the marketplace. Reevaluate Quotas to Fit the Changing Market . Adapt Compensation Plans to Reflect Reality. Is top sales talent at risk of leaving if they can’t earn commissions? .

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Motivation Compensation Commission Incentives 194

SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2014

Sales or marketing challenges exist in every organization. Or Marketing isn''t connecting with the market. aren''t the same today (social prospecting, content marketing, buying process maps, etc.). HR, Sale and Marketing leaders alike will want to read this. Sales performance may be suffering.

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Hiring Direct Mail Buyer Persona Salary 292

SBI Growth

MAY 3, 2013

Assume both have similar tenure, experience, skills, opportunity and compensation. Evelyn is evolving and going after your best prospects. Rick is meeting his leading indicator targets but seeing the wrong prospects. Meeting with a marketing manager is not as valuable as meeting with the CMO. Rick is a relic.

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Ideal Customer Profile Outsourcing Services Lead Scoring Lead Rank 308

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

1 — Customers & Prospects: The most important thing is your customer/prospect. Territory, leads, compensation plan and their boss. For example: Territory — They need help targeting which prospects/customers have the highest propensity to buy. Focus Q1 training on modern prospecting using social selling.

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Territories Compensation Buyer Google 308

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Sales, Finance, Marketing and Customer Service need this alignment. Having a clear understanding of your ideal customers and prospects is essential to success. Armed with BPM’s and Personas, sales and marketing become much more effective. Routes to market must align with how your customers and prospects want to be served.

Top of Funnel 296

Top of Funnel Territories Scale Segment 296

The Pipeline

JANUARY 18, 2013

For salespeople, this creates “prospect paralysis” because they don’t know whether to follow up and, if so, when and how. Armed with this knowledge, a salesperson has valuable and actionable insight to make better and more informed selling decisions and actions, so they can focus on the most promising prospects and opportunities.

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Decision Maker Commission Compensation Proposal 276

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Take note CEO, marketing leader and CIO. Sales, marketing, IT, strategy, operations and customer service. Compensation that drives performance. Often, sales, finance, marketing and IT professionals all converge in this group. Marketing and sales need alignment. Listen up Chief Sales Officer. Opportunity is ripe.

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Company Hiring Buyer Persona Maximizer 296

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Then he spent a year in Marketing. Ops managers insisted on “helping” interview prospective sales reps. Sales Compensation was a particularly thorny issue. For example, think about the compensation battle I mention above. He rose from junior sales associate to become his division’s top rep. He promoted 5 reps in 6 years.

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Influencer Strategy Policies Lead Gen 282

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

This year I bought marketing automation software. Three years ago I dropped a King’s ransom with a compensation consultant. The software product was being launched into a replacement market. A prospect will buy this software to replace a system they already have. A prospect is not buying this product for the first time.

Banking 288

Banking Software Software Competition 288

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It was a common practice pre-pandemic to measure each business area with different KPIs, metrics and compensation models designed to optimize each area of operation. They were also able to use analytical and predictive tools to determine which clients or prospects were most at risk and better develop mitigation plans.

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SAP Compensation Face-to-face Analytics 207

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Sales needs Marketing to generate demand , educate leads, and supply qualified opportunities. Sales can then do what they should be doing, which is selling, not prospecting. Let Marketing help expand within existing accounts by nurturing contacts for the Rep (via inbound marketing and lead management.). Call to Action.

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Education Penetration Customer Service Sales Qualified Lead 303

The Pipeline

AUGUST 27, 2019

Consider travel, time understanding the clients and market, generating leads, and more. They not only give away their time; they pay the prospect for the privilege of doing so. You know what I mean, spending all that valuable time with prospects that you know will never buy. Giving It Away. Well you can.

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Wireless Discount Face-to-face Scale 264

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Next, take your compensation plan and from that, understand what sorts of activities you need to accomplish every month to make those numbers happen. If you do, you should be able to determine exactly what you need to do to hit your revenue targets, including how many prospects and deals you need based on your conversion rate.

InsideView 238

InsideView Compensation Inbound Lead Scoring 238

SBI Growth

JUNE 10, 2013

His quarterly operating plan neatly addressed compensation, development and succession planning. Similar closing skills were required, but prospecting would be far different. The existing sales team lacked social prospecting skills. A new competitor enters the market. A new competitive product appears in the market.

Top of Funnel 257

Top of Funnel Sales Talent Churn Call-back 257

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 22, 2013

According to your compensation plan and bookings report, you won. Specifically: Problem - Marketing does not generate enough demand. Choice - Accept it, complain about marketing or generate your own leads. New Capability Required - Modern prospecting methodology that sales reps can consistently execute. You celebrate.

Scale 282

Scale Compensation Exercises Follow-up 282

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 6, 2022

The first page of results was filled with self-serving articles from companies like Gong (artificial intelligence for digital prospecting), Hubspot (marketing platform) and more urging you to leverage their platforms so that you don't have to rely on salespeople.

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Retention Customer Compensation Hubspot 201

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Compensation. compensation strategy and delivery. Sales and marketing messaging should address the employee experience, and lowing the cost to serve. Compensation strategy. The ones who ignore that, they’re going to be talent losers in the market.”. Read it: How to Use Data to Recruit Like a Marketer.

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Resources Decision Maker Compensation Vendor 224