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2018 Sales Management Critical Issues, Part 2

Partners in Excellence

The first post in this short series focused on Talent Management. This post, and the next one, will focus on various issues of complexity. Understanding the impact of complexity on each of us, our partners, and our customers; doing everything we can do to radically simplify the things we do are the next areas of management focus.

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Sales Quota: The Complete Guide to Hitting & Crushing Quota in 2023

Veloxy

In 2018, Salesforce found that only 57% of salespeople expected to hit their quota. We’re living in an era where sales has the richest technology stack and set of professional capabilities than ever before. Yet, the sales organization is failing to crush their quota, let alone hit it. Why is sales quota important?

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How to Build a Successful Sales Enablement Initiative in 5 Steps

Sales Hacker

Looking at the sales space, we are facing a few very specific challenges. Only sales approaches that clearly connect your solution to the buyers’ specific business challenges — challenges that have been properly diagnosed beforehand — have a chance to succeed. The same is true for sales enablement. What’s missing?

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A Sales Enablement Framework for Real Growth (Even in Times of Crisis)

Sales Hacker

Looking at the sales space, we are facing a few very specific challenges. Only sales approaches that clearly connect your solution to the buyers’ specific business challenges — challenges that have been properly diagnosed beforehand — have a chance to succeed. The same is true for sales enablement. What’s missing?

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Five Essential Strategies for Setting Aggressive but Attainable Sales Targets

Miller Heiman Group

According to CSO Insights’ 2018-2019 Sales Performance Study , only 54 percent of salespeople are making or exceeding quota. With organizations generally targeting a 70 percent quota attainment goal, this represents a major challenge to sales effectiveness. Quotas are a vital part of the annual sales plan.

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Do You Make These 13 Mistakes During Your Sales Conversations?

Sales Hacker

Mistakes during your sales conversations cost you deals. That means you can’t afford to slip up during sales conversations. has analyzed sales conversations with machine learning and AI for nearly two years. We’ve analyzed over one million B2B sales call recordings to tease out what’s working and what’s not, based on hard data.

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Frank Cespedes: How to Build and Manage Your Multi-Channel Marketing

Cience

His most recent book is Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling (Harvard Business Review Press), which was cited as, “the best sales book of the year” ( Strategy + Business ), “a must read” ( Gartner Group) , and “perhaps the best sales book ever” ( Forbes ). Answer: Yes.

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