Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Too often, I get the comment, “People are making their numbers, but we aren’t achieving our goals!” Performance and comp is driven by a single number. It’s binary, you make/exceed it and you are a hero. You don’t make your number and you are on an improvement plan.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 24, 2023

Located within a company’s CRM or sales analytics software, it groups together related metrics for an “at a glance” look at progress toward sales goals. Make your analytics actionable See how data can be used to surface key sales insights that help you build revenue. Identify sales goals you want to track.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I think, “Why do we revel in achieving our quotas and scaling goals, when we could be doing so much more?” ” If we achieve our growth/revenue goals, we think we are doing well. Imagine what we could do, without impact to the cost of selling, if we started being more effective in how we manage each deal?

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2024

Q: There’s a lot of chatter about the overall buying environment changing because there is no more zero interest. Sales is much harder than in 2021. Until the second half of 2020, most companies had enough apps and weren’t looking on their own to spend more. In most startups, your payback time and magic number don’t matter.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Typically, we look at attainment of annual goals. Questions like, “Will we hit our numbers? Could we have done more or what cause us to miss? A few colleagues and I sat down, looking at research data of overall sales performance for a number of years. What challenges did we face, how did we address them?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 17, 2022

Basically, a number of them have been around what is preferable, low base as a percent of OTE, up to high base as a percent of OTE. Some of the discussion was around keeping the based as low as possible, with the idea of “saving money” if people don’t meet their OTE goals.

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Cerebral Selling

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“We spoke to the customer a number of times and identified their key issues. After all, the prospect agreed that solving the problem was important and we even helped them quantify the value of making the purchase. the real reason they buy). As a result, they suffer with low close rates and poor forecast accuracy.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About 69% of sales professionals say selling is more difficult now than in previous years, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales report. Even though it’s harder to sell, reps still need to hit their numbers. Learn more What is sales commission? But they offer a lot more. The pressure is on.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article provides a framework for making this transition successfully. Here’s where it begins: A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow. “Yes,” replied the Tortoise, “and I get there sooner than you think. .” Profitability is what makes your company truly attractive.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“Create more pipeline.”. While these are certainly lofty goals, they lack direction. It comprises sales activities the team must take to achieve that outcome, such as increasing revenue, improving win rates, or generating more leads for your sales funnel. . The first part of SMART goal setting is to set a specific sales goal.

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Martech

JANUARY 25, 2024

So, let’s look at what we can do to make this new-year smell linger as long as possible for our email marketing efforts. I think of three words — that’s it, just three — that will frame my priorities or personal goals for the coming year. Welcome to 2024! If you find yourself in the front seat of the struggle bus, do what I do.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve seen both kinds, and they can lead to a number of issues with imbalanced books. Why the old models hurt your sales team’s attainment. In the free-for-all model, it can be harder for new reps to ramp because more tenured reps have more accounts locked up. I’ve been in the SDR trenches. Introducing….

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Let’s dig into the most important things I’ve learned about target-setting from more than 20 years in sales and business so you can start clocking revenue. Create sales plans that save reps time and maximize sales impact Get your targets, budget, and headcount aligned with just a few clicks so you can sell more efficiently.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Saying that your team achieved $500k revenue in month one against a target of $2m for the quarter tells you that there are chances of missing the target, and hence you can make timely interventions. This is much more powerful than simply saying your team closed $500k in sales. isn’t enough. What are sales KPIs? .

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

As any business will attest, there’s no greater feeling than when your company grows and reaches a point where you need to expand your inside sales team. Naturally, more salespeople means more sales which translates to more revenue. What Positions Make Up an Inside Sales Team? The trend is the same.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2023

Quota attainment. If you’re new to sales (or don’t have an economics degree), decoding the sales compensation plan on offer can make your head spin. What is historical attainment at your company? One offer pays $15,000 more than the other. Variable OTE. Base salary versus bonus. They are: What is the pay mix?

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Search Engine Land

JULY 17, 2023

Like any endeavor, SEO works best with clearly defined and articulated goals. If you only set vague SEO goals like “get more leads” or “get more traffic,” you will lack focus and direction. Vague goals fail to provide a map forward and feed into wasted time and generalist SEO work that will do little to help your mission.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We found we could get the order, but delivering it became more challenging–or when customers found we couldn’t deliver, they’d choose to do nothing. Even dramatic reductions in numbers of sales people. Yet we are still expected to accomplish our goals. For the past several years, news gets tougher and tougher.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

So the focus on self interest, the drive for money or quota attainment can create these behaviors and destroy the concept of sales people as trusted advisors. So the focus on self interest, the drive for money or quota attainment can create these behaviors and destroy the concept of sales people as trusted advisors.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

It’s also why an outside sales salary is typically much higher than their inside sales counterparts. From long-lasting client relationships to face-to-face meetings , field reps can make all the difference in innovation by continually supporting customer needs. You’re not the only outside sales rep feeling that way.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 21, 2020

Sales people tend to be incredibly goal oriented. We are focused on hitting our numbers–our performance, often our compensation is based on whether we are hitting our numbers. We measure ourselves based on quota attainment. We focus on getting the PO, getting the order so that we achieve our goals.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 3, 2020

Are there other goals, equally important to achieving our overall organizational goals, that we should be measuring? I think we make the issue of measuring sales performance more complicated than it need be, because we confuse it with “compensating sales performance.” Who gets credit?

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

There's almost nothing more gratifying than the feeling you get when you accomplish a goal. Whether you're pressing "Publish" on a blog post or collecting initial analytics on a campaign months in the making, it's undeniably satisfying to know you've successfully finished a task. What is a SMART goal? Attainable.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2023

” We may have been a superstar in the past year, exceeding all our goals. ” Or we may have struggled, falling short of our goals. There may be new strategies, new focus areas, new challenges, and certainly new goals. What are our key strategies, and goals for the coming year? What worked? What didn’t?

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ClickFunnels

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

But they’re certainly less effective at generating leads than sales funnels. Where a website is like a brick wall, a sales funnel is like a slippery slide — they are page-by-page experiences that guide visitors toward a single conversion event (giving you their email address or phone number, for instance). They’re everywhere.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Anticipation of discounts: Buyers know that salespeople are more likely to discount the later it gets, so they wait in anticipation of discounts. Things might be drastically different in Q4 than they were in Q1. Now you know there’s some data and reasoning behind increased Q4 sales, here are top tips to help you score more deals.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Mastering SEO is not just about understanding which optimizations will drive the desired outcomes but also a reflection of meta-skills like learning and goal-setting that enable us to achieve our goals. Now let’s focus on what many might argue is the most crucial of them all: achieving the goals we set.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2021

Considering everything that goes on to make it a plan that everyone is happy with, it’s an inconvenience we’ll have to bear. hit your numbers ? Post your quota attainment ? That’s how my friend Stacey describes the way sales compensation plans have changed over the last 15 years of her SaaS career. Ramp policy.

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ClickFunnels

OCTOBER 22, 2021

For example, a TV commercial will tell viewers to call a specific number to get something for free. They will call and get on the phone with a salesperson who will upsell them on another, slightly more expensive product, and maybe upsell again if they accept the first offer. And when it costs $100 or more…. Can afford it.

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Cerebral Selling

MARCH 30, 2020

While the two statistics cited in these examples are mathematically equivalent , the second one produces a vastly different emotional response because of the more vivid imagery it conveys. . Would you take it? How would you feel about getting vaccinated? Have your feelings about getting vaccinated changed? The impact of Denominator Neglect.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2020

As soon as you hear a VP of Sales start to blame her/his own reports for missing a number, it’s over. When a VP of Sales has lost confidence in his ability to hit a number, it’s always easy to blame someone on their team. But a great VP of Sales never does, at least not more than once or twice. The Blame Game – More Time.

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Gong.io

MARCH 17, 2021

We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you win more deals. And their opponent was a harder-than-nails, my-way-or-the-highway, take-it-or-leave-it negotiator. . My goal was to understand what all salespeople could learn from those differences. Follow me to read upcoming research.

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Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2018

And to hammer that mentality into our heads, he would make us write down our off-season training goals every year. But he didn’t just accept the first draft of your goal sheet. He would make you edit it until you knew exactly what your goals were and how you were going to achieve them. What is a SMART Goal?

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Lead Fuze

JULY 3, 2023

This post will delve into why goal setting is important and how it aids in improving personal growth and professional development. We’ll discuss the characteristics of specific goals that make them more attainable, including the importance of incorporating timelines into your objectives.

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 28, 2023

As Google continues to push for automation , advertisers have gotten more creative about making updated best practices, including smart bidding strategies, work for their companies and verticals. add to cart, purchase, first-time or returning purchaser value) The steps to transition make sense. The revenue is already set up.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

But it’s more than that. A few factors that contribute to high-performing sales teams: High quota attainment. It’s no fun and demotivating for everyone to miss their goals. Even the best reps take a few quarters to really hit their groove, even if they hit their number before then. What differentiates them?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For the past 5 years, they had been consistently hitting their revenue goal. It hadn’t been easy, but each year, they somehow managed to pull it out and hit their goal. While they were making their number, they could be doing so much more. If you are making your number, can you do more?

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