Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Plus, it can increase your sales. In a case study by Rain Group , a global sales training organization, they discovered that a client who went through sales training closed 15.2% more deals and the profit margin on sales-won improved by 12.2%. So, how can you improve your sales skills?

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The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Maintaining a healthy profit margin is (of course) important to the overall success of your sales team and organization. Once your salespeople are out in the field trying to sell your offering, should they have pricing authority (aka the ability to freely give discounts)? Cons of Giving Sales Reps Pricing Authority.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 16, 2012

Ask each of the territory managers to give you their revenue/margin/product goals for the year. Challenge territory managers to understand how they came to their goals. Once you’ve determined this, share it with the entire organization. Once this has been done start with a bottoms up exercise.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

CEOs and sales managers have long struggled with ensuring their sales team sells on value, not price. They hold rah-rah sales meetings that tout the benefits of the product and services. They teach negotiation skills, with the goal of salespeople standing firm on the price when meeting with a professional buyer.

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The Brooks Group

APRIL 8, 2014

This is a little-known, yet crucial factor that's present in top sales organizations. Sales & Sales Management Hiring & Selection Process. Top sales organizations have a screening and selection process in place that ensures only top talent is brought into the organization.

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The Brooks Group

APRIL 9, 2015

Compromising Profit Margin. How is your top salesperson making all of their sales? If their “deals” are so good that they continually cut into the profit margin, then those sales aren’t actually making any money. Anyone who can’t do that isn’t really helping the company, no matter how many sales they make.

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

.  Leadership  a motivated and well drilled sales team will outsell one twice it’s size, but only if they have great sales leadership. Sales People are not motivated by Sales Managers, they are motivated by Sales Leaders. Imagine a sales person as a knife.

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 27, 2014

At any rate, while not that frightening, this short story can provide good food for thought as you think through the structure of your sales compensation plan. In another situation, salespeople were given a reasonable base and a significant commission based on sales volume and margin on an individual basis. Sales Compensation

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 4, 2022

However, there are a variety of ways a business can increase sales, and each method requires a different skill set. For example, is the plan to increase sales by gaining new market share and increasing the number of accounts, or are we going to focus on increasing profit margins and selling more to our current clients?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 21, 2023

These programs often include comprehensive training, educational materials, assessments, and examinations to ensure that individuals meet the established standards for competence in the sales field. It represents the desired level of sales performance that the individual or team is expected to achieve.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For more than 30 years, David’s firm has helped companies of all sizes achieve growth, improve margins, recruit stronger salespeople, and develop high-performing sales professionals. Its unrivaled and growing network of contributors brings different, unique perspectives and insights on today’s sales and business issues.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For more than 30 years, David’s firm has helped companies of all sizes achieve growth, improve margins, recruit stronger salespeople, and develop high-performing sales professionals. Its unrivaled and growing network of contributors brings different, unique perspectives and insights on today’s sales and business issues.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

When our pipelines aren’t full, and our managers are harassing us, we cast a wider net. As a result, we fill our pipelines with marginal prospects–wishful thinking on our part, but people that have very low likelihood of ever needing our solutions. Call me up, let’s discuss these ideas.

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Sales Hacker Training

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Founded in 1990, Action Selling provides a broad range of training resources to hundreds of thousands of sales professionals. The company was among the first in the industry to incorporate big data into its learning infrastructure, focusing on critical selling skills and the best ways to reinforce these proficiencies.

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Allego

APRIL 29, 2025

Yet while many organizations push their teams to “work harder,” the real path to greater sales productivity lies elsewhere: in smarter processes, tighter alignment, and better enablement. They constantly strive to improve productivity and efficiency for the sales team, because they know it impacts the overall business.

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