Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

First we need to check where we are against our new year goals. Next we need to take stock of our first month sales performance and make adjustments. Were just a little more than thirty days away from our new year intentions, resolutions, and goals. Then recommit to your goals. Its just human nature.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 7, 2019

Set your goals higher, so you can achieve higher! . Copyright 2019, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Sales Motivation Blog. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Results. People are still buying and selling.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 21, 2023

On the one hand, digitalization has dramatically increased […] The post Harnessing New Trends In Social Media To Achieve Sales Goals appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. At the same time, the turn toward digitalization has had significant impacts, both positive and negative, on B2B enterprises.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 26, 2019

In this article, we discuss the 3 challenges facing salespeople today:

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Digital isnt a sales strategy. A sales strategy isnt about tools or trendsits about how your company attracts and serves customers. Yet, too many sales leaders fall into the trap of believing the latest digital sales tools or automation platforms will solve their sales prospecting problems. Hope isnt a strategy.

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Referrals Face-to-face Sales Leadership Quota 310

Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Where will your sales be? Are your goals established for next year? A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. The three main reasons people don't achieve their goals are: They fail to write them down and post them in plain view. Determine how much you need to do each day to reach your goal in short steps.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Setting meaningful as well as realistic goals is a skill that all sales leaders know is crucial. When looking at sales goals, let’s clarify that they need to be both meaningful, with a focus on hard, not vanity, metrics. One of the best ways for sales leaders to set realistic goals is first to look back.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 11, 2022

For many salespeople, along with personal resolutions, it’s helpful to set new sales goals. After all, you want to start fresh, create goals that are challenging and achievable. Even more, you need goals that motivate you to do more and go further. First, select a long-term goal for the upcoming year.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Is your sales team disengaged? While not all sales teams may be struggling with demand (in fact some technology companies are experiencing record years), disen­gage­ment seems to be prevalent across all organizations and industries regardless of financial success. We took a keen interest on those in sales roles.

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SalesFuel

JULY 9, 2024

Achieving sales goals is never easy. Setting sales goals can be even more challenging. How To Incorporate Motivation When Setting Sales Goals In Korn Ferry’s recent Sales Maturity survey , researchers checked in with sales organizations about the challenges they are currently facing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Reaching sales goals is a strenuous challenge. The post Creating an Action Plan to Increase Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. If your business is doing poorly, it’s time to start working on solutions to fixing performance levels.

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SalesFuel

OCTOBER 3, 2024

If you want to exceed your sales goals, you’ll need to invest in an additional type of learning. Those facts may be true, especially if you are stressed about meeting your sales goals. In our survey of sales professionals , only 20% indicated they’ve read at least two books on sales this year.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 30, 2025

It can also make life much easier if your sales plan and quota gets bigger in the back half of the year as many do. With so much volatility in the market place in the moment I highly recommend listening to my book Selling in a Crisis on Audible or Spotify or taking my courses on Selling During Uncertainty on Sales Gravy University.

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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 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. Balancing Quality and Speed: Sales teams often struggle to balance quality with pipeline velocity.

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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. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 31, 2023

With hundreds of AI sales tools in the market, picking the right ones for your tech stack can be confusing and daunting. To help you out, we’ve handpicked the top 10 AI tools for sales teams. We’ve also listed the top use cases of AI sales tools, along with a few best practices to help you get the most out of them.

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RAIN Group

JUNE 23, 2021

The best sellers understand how important it is to develop the ability to adapt. But how do you continue to adapt and stay motivated over the long haul?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Its sales expertise? That's all well and good when your sales force works in a traditional workplace – sharing office space and meeting face-to-face. We tend to think of inside sales reps as being reasonably autonomous. There are opportunities to drop by a manager's office and discuss a sales situation or share a problem.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 7, 2020

With stay-at-home mandates causing what many reference as the “groundhog day” effect, your sales team is the perfect audience for incorporating surprise rewards as part of a sales incentive program to keep remote teams engaged and company morale high. How to start applying this to your sales team. Defining the unexpected reward.

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Autoklose

OCTOBER 7, 2024

No matter what your business is about, there’s one thing that you should always bear in mind: you need to learn how to sell and hit your sales goals! Although some people have a skill set that lends itself to sales, the truth is that the greatest salespeople are not born but made. Here’s how. Table of Contents 1.

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The Sales Readiness Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Success in sales demands more than a distant target. Let’s explore what subgoals are, their role in achieving your sales targets more effectively, and how a 4-step framework can help you manage your team’s performance. It requires a clear roadmap and smaller victories along the way, or, in other words, subgoals.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a 2023 survey of over 450 sales leaders, 91% of their teams missed quota that year. And even with revenue up in 2024 , reps are still struggling to meet their sales goals. Getting stuck on YTD sales. Projecting a sales cycle ahead of time gives sellers a better chance of making their numbers.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 17, 2025

Entering this 2025, to embrace a virtual sales program, like our own FlyMSG Sales Pro Plan , could be pivotal for achieving unprecedented business success. The Rise of Virtual Sales Programs As we enter 2025, the landscape of sales training programs is undergoing a revolutionary transformation.

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Sales 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I am continuing to report on findings from my new sales project. The project has already thrown up a few reminders I see time-and-time-again in the sales world. I am taking over a sales territory from a salesperson that has recently left the clients company. Reminder 2: Sales are driven by the customers.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Even if that’s not the case for you specifically, I can assure you that it is for many sales professionals (even the ones that swear they’ve become immune to its fearsome effects). You see, cold calling – no matter which way you feel about it – is simply a part of the sales biz. Find your partner company. 50 and $3.00

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In this 2:56 video, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the need for sales managers to go beyond setting sales goals and to define learning goals for their teams. They share how organizations can align learning goals with sales goals and invest in training and resources to support their salespeople.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It is easy to blame others for your lack of success - but in sales, it always comes down to how well you perform regardless of the obstacles. Focus on your sales goals. Now is the time of year where distractions happen. To do well this quarter, you need one thing more than anything else - focus. Focus on your KPIs.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

Unclear sales goals are costly. These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. KPIs should match the specific needs of your sales team. The Sales KPIs You Need to Know.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Author: Matt Suggs More than ever before, buyers can scan hundreds of reviews and articles about a product online, forming opinions before they even interact with a sales representative for the first time. Modern sellers must evolve their sales approach, reinventing their pitch to include information that can’t be found on the internet.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Achieving commitment towards sales goals and success is crucial for cultivating a successful sales team. It requires a concentrated effort and the growth of each team member.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 14, 2020

Most Sales Managers would agree that completing prospecting activities and hitting sales goals are critical to success.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If you are in charge of managing a sales team to reach sales goals, you must ask yourself this critical question; “Am I an effective sales coach?”

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Go for No!

JANUARY 11, 2025

My sales pipeline is always full, and I never worry about finding new prospects. I dont need any accountability to stay consistent with my prospecting or sales activities. My sales strategies are solid, and I dont need fresh ideas or inspiration. Rejection never affects meIve completely mastered my mindset around it.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Sales leadership is nothing more than interacting with others to make a positive impact. We can break it down even further and say that sales leadership is just people connecting with people. Sales and leadership are one and the same. Sales is only as complicated as we want to make it. Sales is helping people.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? Of course, your sales strategy’s success, including reaching your revenue goals, depends on the sales team hitting their numbers. It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. A sales rep uses the information (i.e.,

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 3, 2019

Author: Lance Tyson In the hypercompetitive field of sales, escalating goals have become standard. This year we’d be fine with flat or declining sales.” Everyone wants to see that hockey stick curve of escalating sales performance that will take their organization to unprecedented levels of success.

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