The Pipeline

JUNE 17, 2021

I am proposing that you make it safe to miss a sales target. I have some research that makes this a great debate to have in your sales team right now. It relates directly to how goals, targets and quotas are set and hit. Setting sales goals where even a 70% level of achievement would be great. Hear me out.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 24, 2022

The post Know Who Will Hit Quota Before Hiring Sales Reps appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Sprockets’ sophisticated software evaluates potential hires based on the traits of a company’s best employees to determine the right candidate in just a few minutes.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 2, 2018

The odds might not be in your sales team’s favor … yet. I’ve interviewed many sales reps over the past two months, trying to better understand the challenges they face in today’s fast-paced, digital-first sales environment. A long sales cycle exacerbates the problem. That’s a real downer for sales reps.)

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Losing the big deal; being buried in administrative tasks; falling short of quota. The post Halloween Scares: Conquering the Five Biggest Fears of Salespeople appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Here are five common fears of salespeople and how to conquer them.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It’s Monday, a great day for great sellers, the week is ripe with possibilities and opportunities, and how it turns out Friday, is almost entirely up to you and the decisions you make, and the actions you’re willing to execute, or choose to avoid; it’s what makes sales great. But quota attainment is just a symptom, not the cause.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

And for revenue leaders, that means the tug-of-war between sales capacity and quota attainment is perhaps more important than ever. While a larger sales team can be an asset, it’s also one of the biggest expenses for companies already facing pressure to mitigate costs. partner Jordan Lee said at a recent ZoomInfo event.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs are still missing quota en masse. That’s a fact. Have We Met? So, what is trust, anyway?

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 10, 2023

Stock Market down. We are now seeing these events in sales organizations: Missed forecasts. Failure to hit quotas. We have already seen these factors occur across the board: Low QoQ GDP. High interest rates. Massive layoffs. Cost-cutting. Closing delays. Order cancellations. We know what doesn't work in a recession.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

Hiring and onboarding are an expensive undertaking, so companies are incentivized to train new sales reps quickly and ramp faster. But, many organizations tend to rely on these programs and miss the golden opportunity to continue upskilling sales reps throughout their time at the company. That’s where sales coaching comes in.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

If you’re a sales leader, it’s crucial to master the elements of outbound for your team. Making the cold outreach process less intimidating often depends on sales quotas. You want to set attainable quotas that achieve real success without compromising the seller’s sanity or the prospect’s journey. No problem, right?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Whether it’s signing off on a new marketing campaign or helping revamp the sales team, it’s tough to. As CEO, you’re presented with initiatives from your team all the time, and every single one is a top priority.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

To stay ahead of the competition and thrive, it’s essential to identify and adopt sales techniques that can boost your productivity and results. The front-runners focus on data hygiene and ensuring they have accurate and holistic customer information across sales, marketing and service departments. Automated sales prospecting.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2019

We recently discussed AI in the following post: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on B2B Marketing. Today John Holland, Chief Content Officer of CustomerCentric Selling, helps us cover the other side of the coin—artificial intelligence within the sales process. The Problem with B2B Artificial Intelligence and Sales.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Unfortunately, many salespeople see their pipeline as a holding tank for opportunities, rather than a means of driving to quota. Pipeline reviews involve flows and paths to success, quota. I have shared my views on time , it is the currency of sales, time and pipelines are finite. And time to quota. Pay To Play.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

CEOs are increasing sales and marketing investment more than any other functional area in 2022, and most GTM leaders are funneling a significant portion of that investment to quota-carrying reps.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 22, 2019

In their stead, we have new modern sales communications that are data-driven, personalized, relevant, omnichannel, sequenced, and fully optimized for today’s sophisticated buyer. The following are the seven major business pain points solved by sales engagement: Business Pain Point #1: Not Optimizing for the Modern Buyer.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2020

Or worse, could you lose your sales job altogether? You could be vulnerable if you’re not sharpening your sales skills and honing the tactics that will help you succeed in 2020. Forrester analyst Andy Hoar didn’t mince words when he spoke at the 2015 Forrester Sales Enablement Forum. Adapt to the Digital Business Environment.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2020

As people ascend from their quarantine, fix up their hair, and realize their sales, or specifically quota retirement, needs attention. It’s too early to tell the long-term impact on sales and selling. Start by aligning yourself with the right people, both in the sales tribe, more beyond. How typical for the tribe.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings. Sound familiar?

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Referrals Sales Management Hiring Scale 328

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 24, 2023

When I read my feeds or listen to a lot of “experts,” the focus is always on hitting our quotas, maxing our commissions, achieving our goals. Listening to sales executives, the focus is, constantly, making your numbers. The post Can We Be Helpful And Still Make Our Quotas? appeared first on Partners in EXCELLENCE.

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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. What happens to the sales force and their commission-based structure? Do their existing quota allocations still make sense in this new world? Model Costs Accurately.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

In sales the go to is often sports, and one can understand why. No issue with that, but I prefer to use investment and the financial markets, primarily because of the focus on value. With nearly half of B2B reps missing quota , it follows that they are failing to deliver value to their prospects. Customer Value Management.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

It’s common knowledge that working in sales is hard. Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. In today’s post we explain the effects of sales pressure and provide ways to mitigate this stress productively. ” ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 11, 2024

For the last six years, I’ve been an avid user and champion of using async video in my day-to-day as a seller — well before joining Loom to lead its Sales and Customer Success teams. I’ve seen the benefit of async video messages to close deals and build prospect relationships as both a quota-carrying seller and a sales team leader.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 9, 2018

Author: Rich Lanchantin, CEO, Qstream With unemployment rates at a 10-year low, it simply isn’t practical to buy your way to sales performance by cherry-picking top reps from the market. Instead, the most resilient and successful sales organizations are building programs that draw maximum value from more of their existing reps.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 276

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Oh ya, the marketing team that “developed” the “value prop” does. What really counts in the real world (you know where sales are made), is the prospects’ and clients’ perception and definition of value. Almost all executives point to one kind of sales meeting they hate most. Prospecting.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Despite advancements in tools, methodologies, and other attempts, sales as a profession continues to struggle. Quota attainment remains under 60%, closed forecasted deals aren’t much better. Given that about 90% of your addressable market is not “In” the Market, you need to think outside the “product”. By Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. Is sales is making the most of their newfound time and resources?”

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Manual sales prospecting and lead generation doesn’t get your sales and marketing teams where they need to be for their quotas — and it wastes time. However, when these teams are equipped with the right tools, such as sales intelligence, less important tasks can be automated so that reps can focus on lead strategies.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 27, 2019

Author: Mike DeLeonardis, President, North America at beqom Seventy-nine percent of companies say that increasing sales productivity is a strategy they’re using to reach growth targets in 2019, but actually meeting this goal may be a challenge as only 35 percent of average-performing sales reps’ time actually goes to selling.

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