Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 31, 2025

Today, there are sales intelligence tools that provide us with direct lines and phone numbers to your contacts’ cell phones. It’s very similar to how we did it before the prominence of email, text, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. CRM applications have replaced 3×5 cards for easy organization and documentation.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Training or Individual Development Plans that go unfinished or without progress. Using the same sources outlined in point 1 above, look at the following: Determine the Sales Management Effort Score from this tool – which looks at items like those listed in the bullets under point 1 and other factors. Longer-term improvement.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Training: Have you given your team the right training? Some people just need the right information and training to become more productive. If budgets are tight, have your superstars conduct mini trainings. After evaluating your team and their tools, you might ask “Where do I start?”

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

To make matters worse, everybody in the planning sessions (finance, product, training, HR) has never made a number. What You Get — A sales tool that maps the decision making process of your product or service. This tool will get you going in under a week. #2 Territory, leads, compensation plan and their boss.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 9, 2013

The downloadable tool includes a profile of a highly successful HR business partner to sales. The downloadable tool contains more competencies to consider. For sales reps not yet using customer focus, appropriate training can be developed. Again the downloadable tool has a list with more responsibilities. Call to action.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 31, 2021

These include being systematic, knowing what top performers in your organization look like, having strong assessment tools to make scientific decisions and that the process is rigorously followed. Time & Territory Management. These tools are excellent at identifying potential red flags missed in the behavioral interviews.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. As the primary team responsible for sales tools, it’s time to re-evaluate. Get the sales team trained on how to sell socially. Create tools such as call plans, discovery guides and opportunity assessments that are persona-based.

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Buyer Persona Territories Compensation Buyer 310

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

He builds tools and systems to ensure his managers execute these projects. He’s looking at compensation analysis, territory design, and sales structure. Skills Training: Unless directed, the sales manager takes an ad-hoc approach to skills. She recommends reading the latest books or product training.

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Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation 334

SBI Growth

JANUARY 19, 2014

Mature organizations typically have a robust training program. However, much of this training is wasted on corporate policies and internal systems training. Territories underperform. Download our New Rep Onboarding Checklist document for 4 weeks of successful training. Pull your “A” Players into the training.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 19, 2013

The sales team deserved a training program as aggressive as this year’s budget. In a recent post , I urged Sales Ops leaders to take responsibility for training and development. It included activities the client’s Training and Development team had deemed necessary. Salesforce.com is not a compliance tool.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2021

They have to have a presence in various regions, and the managers tasked with making sure the sales efforts in those locations are carried out effectively are known as territory managers. The extent of a territory sales manager's influence leans heavily on the nature of their business, size of their teams, and structure of their sales orgs.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Build out a plan for training them and turning them into ‘A’ Players ASAP. ‘A’ Are they in the right territories? 5) Reallocate the C player territory to your A players. Put them into the absolute best territory. Download the SBI Talent Assessment Tool and find out who on your team is a true ‘A’ Player.

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Territories Scale Guidelines Groups 300

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Unfortunately, no one on their sales team was qualified to do the work; a territory design project. Not only this, but this territory design will need to be updated year after year. Download this tool to figure out if you are approaching problematic projects the right way. Get a copy of the tool for free at this event.

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Sales Qualified Lead Hiring Face-to-face Territories 267

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In either case, hiring/training distractions chew up valuable time better used for selling. You will have access to guides, templates and tools. Included in this you will receive the Causes of Sales Manager Vacancies tool. Included in this you will receive the Causes of Sales Manager Vacancies tool. Poor territory.

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Positioning Hiring Sales Management Compensation 292

SBI Growth

APRIL 19, 2013

Here is a screening tool. When your team brings you a sales problem, evaluate it with this tool. The tool has 10 yes/no questions. The 10 questions in this tool can help. This tool is used before spreadsheets are built. Sales training. Rely on this tool in this post to help you answer it. Root cause.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Your reps utilizing social and mobile tools consistently was not in your ’13 plan. Territory design, quotas and compensation plans. Sales training. Shouldn''t the front line sales managers be leading the training and it be buyer centric? Complete the Strategy Blueprint Tool for 2014. Steve’s plan was flawed.

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Mereo

JANUARY 22, 2025

Combine this skill with a solid sales process and training, and you give your team an environment they need to succeed. DETERMINING CAPACITY FOR SALES TERRITORY DESIGN To design effective sales territories, start by determining the capacity for each sales role. These tools can automate territory rules and account assignments.

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Ideal Customer Profile Territories Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 36

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

These are the characteristics that companies should hire and train for in order to drive consistent, strong sales growth in their organizations. As a result, they often retain weaker performers, believing it is better than having an open territory. They constantly reassess sales territories to optimize results.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Complicated commission plans or unwieldy territory rules and exceptions cause a half-baked sales team. They need to track their buyers and clients through social platforms or by aggregated content specific to their industry niche, geographic territory, or through named accounts. Train and coach frontline sales leaders.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Reps must have the tools and support to win the big deals. By signing up for the tour , you’ll receive the " Performance Culture Assessment " tool. Those reps were covering an extensive territory and large customer base. The tools and resources in your organization play a large part in future success. Resource Allocation.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Margin Face-to-face 293

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

Below is a guide to accelerated ramp-up time for your salespeople (along with some examples of how HubSpot trains their salespeople). When you're creating a new-hire training plan, remember a few things : Keep your training plan personalized, because no two reps are the same. Pre-week training. Product Training.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 16, 2025

He encourages hiring managers to look for quantifiable results, such as revenue growth or successful territory management. Learning Culture: Foster a culture of continuous learning within your sales team by providing access to training resources and development opportunities.

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Hiring Sales Talent Video Lead Rank 104

Steven Rosen

JUNE 25, 2013

These include being systematic, knowing what top performers in your organization look like, having strong assessments tools to make scientific decisions and that the process is rigorously followed. Time & Territory Management. These tools are excellent at identifying potential red flags missed in the behavioral interviews.

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Hiring Territories eBook Energy 309

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 3, 2013

Salespeople are always looking for ways to get in front of opportunities before their competitor can and using tools like LinkedIn , Twitter , and InsideView gives them the leverage that they need to make that happen. It requires learning new skills. As I have written before…social media marketing is NOT the same as social selling.

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Social Media Social Selling Media InsideView 271

SBI Growth

MARCH 28, 2013

Rolling out a new CRM tool or territory structure. Delivering enhanced training or instituting new performance dashboards. Within the Sales Ops Field Kit ( click here to download ), there are tools to support you. You’ve put new CRM and related tools in place. Download the Sales Ops Field Kit Here.

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Face-to-face Quota Territories Compensation 276

Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Only 53% of sales organizations are investing in ongoing coaching training and development of their sales managers. You can train your sales managers on coaching. Using traditional classroom training does not create skill mastery. Sales leaders acknowledge the positive impact of sales coaching. What can you do? Do nothing.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2023

Disrupting the traditional sales model Scott sees AI disrupting some traditional sales models like geographic territories. The key problem with the “best of breed” approach is integrating all the tools, so they communicate to each other. Like the idea of territories. Per Scott, “There are also just giant enablement problems.

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Scale Top of Funnel Territories Sales 221

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

This requires a different skill set, different methods and tools, than those relied on for being a number 1 rep. Again, I understand wanting to reward star sellers, but there are other ways, ways that allow you to avoid leaving a territory short, and a disappointed sales team. Saying “here’s what I did, you can do it too”, is useless.

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Hiring Sales Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring 296

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Imagine a time when you can work totally on the go with your mobile device – phone or tablet – to create business, follow-up with customers, train your team, assess your pipeline, and work a smooth system. There are new tools and ideas coming out now that will change forever how we think about business process, marketing and sales.

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Sandler Training

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In this brief article, we’ll look at two powerful resources that can keep sales teams (and sales leaders) on track: the KARE profiling system and the Pursuit Navigator tool – both of which were created by Sandler. The post Two Keys to Success in Large Territory Account Management appeared first on Sandler Training.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Also, you’ll get many tools including a list of Sales Effectiveness Drivers to test your plan against. Will a focus on training and coaching be undermined? Suppose HR and Sales have built great training and coaching materials. Or, the sales force has been trained on using social media in selling. Call to Action.

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Compensation Hiring Incentives Incentive 253

SBI Growth

JANUARY 27, 2013

It includes a tool: a profile of the Sales leader (Hanna’s advantage!) More Sales complaints we’ve witnessed: Can’t engage a world-class external training program. They get busy with the tactics of recruiting, onboarding, training, evaluation, etc. What kind of training and development does Sales need?

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Hiring Compensation Commence Sales Talent 308

SBI Growth

JUNE 26, 2013

Sales Process / CRM Overview – Provide a view of the pipeline, the sales process, forecasting and the CRM tool being used. Territory Design / Structure Process. On-Boarding – Summary of process for onboarding, training modules, technology set-up, etc. Compensation – Overview of compensation models and exception handling.

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Hiring Lead Rank Compensation Guidelines 319

SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2012

Every top performer has experienced the dreaded year-end “opportunity drop,” which from the rep’s point of view includes: The most rewarding territories are “re-balanced’ (split up). Management changes – another new boss to train. What opportunity (accounts, industry or geography) does the new territory hold? Register here.

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Compensation Commission Territories Quota 244

Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Only 53% of sales organizations are investing in ongoing coaching training and development of their sales managers. You can train your sales managers on coaching. Using traditional classroom training does not create skill mastery. Sales leaders acknowledge the positive impact of sales coaching. What can you do? Do nothing.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Sales Management Study 261

SBI Growth

JULY 26, 2013

In the predictor tool, you will also learn: Why short-term financial returns can be deceiving. An initiative to align territories based on sales rep potential attracts A players. Hank''s DLA experience: Hank’s team was trained on the use of the onboarding process and tools. This post details 3 of these categories.

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