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Sales Quotas, A Thing Of The Past?

Partners in Excellence

Recently read a provocative post declaring “Sales Quotas A Thing Of The Past!” ” For the most part, the article was a tutorial on pipeline metrics and a diatribe against much of the quota setting process. Much of the way sales quotas and goals are set is wrong. Sales is no different.

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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

Partners in Excellence

Customers and sellers have become widgets moving along the sales manufacturing line, losing the humanity, failing to build trust and confidence the buyers crave. But buyers don’t need to participate in that assembly line, they are learning through other channels, so our assembly lines are underutilized.

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Sales Organization Structures for Success: Models, Tips, and Best Practices

Highspot

Proactively thinking through how and why your sales organization is set up a certain way ensures that you are not only making strategic hiring decisions but that you’re putting your reps in position to thrive. What does a sales department do? What are the types of sales organizations? How do you structure a sales team?

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Sales And The Zombie Apocalypse

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I was having a conversation with Robert Racine about the state of sales management. During the discussion, he mentioned, almost in passing, that too many Sales Managers are becoming Zombies–that is acting purely on autopilot, rather than thinking, evaluating, engaging. But something has changed in selling.

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A SaaS Fairy Tale….

Partners in Excellence

When customers said tell me more, the sales process was usually pretty short. Sales/marketing started applying these manufacturing principles to the “mechanization” of the process. And assembly line process started to emerge. The jobs for each person on the assembly line were well segmented and well defined.

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The Problem With The Data….

Partners in Excellence

For example, no self respecting sales person/manager would find a 20% win rate acceptable. Or we wouldn’t accept average deal values that are significantly lower than our peers, or sales cycles that are significantly longer. Or, if we aren’t meeting our goals, targets, quotas. The post The Problem With The Data….

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A Script Isn’t A Call Plan!

Partners in Excellence

It is probably the most fundamental skill any sales person must master. ” Second, the script focuses on what we want to talk about, and the things we need to move the customer to the next station on our sales assembly line. Can You Make Your Annual Quota In 80 Days?