Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Building a successful sales force is not easy. Most sales managers will tell you it involves three fundamental steps: Hire the best-qualified candidates; train them; and compensate for results. The most successful sales managers ask themselves: “Who has special knowledge of this prospect’s business?” “Who

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Hiring Top of Funnel Compensation Territories 145

Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 25, 2012

“The growth in sales jobs, and therefore one would think, in sales training is in inside sales. Although there is a migration to inside selling, most sales training is based on the assumption that sales calls will be face to face. I discuss this fact in detail with Dan McDade of PointClear – HERE.

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Inside Sales PointClear Face-to-face Outside Sales 43

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. So, What’s a Sales Manager to Do?

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Territories Sales Qualified Lead 124

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As companies seek methods of decreasing costs and improving operational efficiencies, technological evolution has made the inclusion of inside sales teams a core component of organizational sales strategies. How much more cost-effective is it for a company to leverage an inside sales team to its fullest?

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Pointclear

JUNE 4, 2013

Since the economic downturn we recognize that companies have cut back on training for salespeople. I predict that this year about 50% of salespeople will miss quota due to the cut back in sales enablement and training. As mentioned earlier, companies have drastically cut back on sales enablement and training.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Call-back Retention 214

Pointclear

AUGUST 15, 2017

Amad said, “Yeah, they give us quotas, but the sales managers don’t have the same numbers, and the systems engineers aren’t on the same system; so no one gets punished but us.”. In my years of sales management and sales consulting I have found the following four reasons for sales failure in many companies.

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Quota Forecasting Policies Pipeline 113

Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2012

For decades now, sales management has put in sales processes and systems to standardize how sales reps manage leads and close deals with prospects. Sales reps need to make the connection between unique buying processes and the value of leads.

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Sales Process Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Buyer 194

Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2012

” But in a recent post on the Sales Lead Management Group on LinkedIn, Kevin McArdle, the regional sales manager for Eloqua (Chicago), advocated that sales departments should take over lead gen and he makes the following points: Sales departments are responsible for revenue. Sean Callahan.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 172

Pointclear

MAY 12, 2015

The sales manager, Bob, said to me in a gleeful voice, full of enthusiasm and hope: “We’re winning one out of every ten of our proposals, and we’re ecstatic.” Improving presentation skills (not the same as sales training). Using the complete CRM/marketing automation tool set.

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Marketing Proposal Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 100

Pointclear

MAY 15, 2013

Well, if it was that simple, sales training courses would offer money back guarantees. The top performers aren’t the problem—it’s the middle-of-the-road sales people who believe that by eliminating a dodgy deal they are reducing the value of their pipeline—when of course the opposite is true. The alternative close.

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Top of Funnel Opportunity Closing Film 248

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

So there’s no lead generation coming in the door, and they’re relying on old sales methodology to reach highly educated buyers who don’t want to waste one iota of their time talking about what their salespeople are trained about.”. But let’s be frank: the average sales manager or VP of sales isn’t in a position very long.

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Buyer Social Media Hiring Inbound 154

Pointclear

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Sales management is to blame, they don’t believe in the CRM system. Sharing in the follow-up of the sales leads (marketing automation). Coaching the salespeople about why the closeout of the sales leads is important (ROI). Losers give excuses. They say things such as: 1.

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ROI Coaching CRM Face-to-face 133