Hubspot

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. But setting realistic, achievable, and clear goals that are based on data is the foundation for meeting your targets. Getting stuck on YTD sales.

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Meeting Pipeline Quota Sales 66

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 2, 2024

O Meetings are critical to achieving our performance goals! It is through these meeting, whether F2F, virtual, phone, that we engage our customers, helping them navigate their buying/problem solving process. So it stands to reason, that more meetings would drive higher levels of performance.

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Meeting High impact Quota Gaming 139

Hubspot

JULY 30, 2024

As a B2B salesperson for companies like IBM and Open Text, scheduling in-person meetings or phone calls was often challenging, regardless of my prospect or client’s industry or business size. The chat would likely be to schedule a more substantive meeting and not to try and close a deal when the decision maker is just “coming up for air.”

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Closing Quota Healthcare Tradeshows 85

Iannarino

JUNE 3, 2024

If you're struggling with abysmal win rates and failing to meet quotas, it's time to make significant changes to your B2B sales strategy.

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B2B Quota Sales Meeting 286

Membrain

JANUARY 12, 2025

Meet Andrew Barbudo , a digital media sales expert and Author of "Top Sales Producer: How To Crush Your Sales Quota", who shares his intriguing journey from the trenches of budget management and report generation to becoming a top-performing sales producer.

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Quota Account management Education Sales 125

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They look at comp expectations, perhaps tweaking the plans to meet certain budgetary or other goals. The present endless models on selling activities, outlining monthly and quarterly goals for demand/lead gen, outreach, meetings, top of pipeline, pipeline, renewal/retention, comp models and so forth.

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X-functional Strategize Quota Pipeline 127

Iannarino

JUNE 18, 2023

The only things you need are a CRM , a source of data, a meeting platform, and some effective digital assets. As sales stacks grow larger, win rates and quota attainment decline. You don’t need more technology to improve your sales results.

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Quota CRM Technology Technology 294

Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

Get ready to impress more buyers and get more meetings. They haven’t missed quota since I first called them. But, if they’re still stubborn or hesitant to commit to a meeting, here are a few other tips to get the evasive, “Yes!”: They haven’t missed quota since I first called them. Meeting booked! Risk eliminated.

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Cold Call Territory Quota Up-sell 358

Tibor Shanto

JUNE 17, 2021

It relates directly to how goals, targets and quotas are set and hit. Psychological Safety is important for setting hard goals and hitting quotas. But most importantly for Sales teams is they are also generally ‘high performing’ teams and over achieve their quotas. Reps don’t ask many questions in team meetings.

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Objectives and Key Results Quota Sales Drivers/motivators 293

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2021

Whether it’s going from call to call, virtual meeting to virtual meeting, or just getting things done; we never seem to have enough time. What if we started thinking about, “How do we make sure our customers are well prepared to get things done in our next meeting?” We are all busy.

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Meeting Customers Quota Pitch 140

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Google has admitted to quietly tweaking advertising auctions to meet revenue targets. ” When quizzed about this email during the antitrust trial, Dischler said his team’s goal was “to get creative so we could meet our quota.” ” Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on. SUBSCRIBE See terms.

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Price Meeting Quota Engineering 142

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The report says, “87% reported that their sales teams were having difficulty meeting or exceeding quota.” It also reinforces a culture of mediocrity because when not hitting quota is normal and expected, more people don’t hit quota because their jobs are clearly not in jeopardy.

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Quota Commission Sales Represent 88

Iannarino

APRIL 18, 2023

These large clients have greater needs, spend more money, and meet with multiple sales organizations. Winning one enterprise-level deal can retire your quota for the year. The strategies you might use when pursuing a small or average-sized company cannot help you win large clients.

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Closing Quota Gaming Clients 278

Iannarino

APRIL 20, 2023

A senior leader was unhappy with his sales force because they consistently failed to meet their sales targets. Based on his math, he asked his team to create a sales pipeline that was 800 percent of their individual sales quotas. To improve their sales results, he ran some calculations that showed his team had a 12 percent win rate.

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Quota Pipeline B2B Meeting 272

Iannarino

JULY 16, 2022

A search for something like “quota attainment” reveals that a large part of the sales population is missing their target. Every week, we hear from sales leaders and sales managers who complain about how their teams are unable to get a second meeting, an indication something is amiss. The data shows that salespeople are not doing well.

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Quota Sales Clients Meeting 268

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These targets are used to guide the quota-setting, territory mapping , and sales team strategies. These include things like quota attainment for a sales team and the numbers of deals in reps’ pipelines. With sales targets in place, your team can create quotas to strive for and specific strategies for hitting those quotas.

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Quota Territory Pipeline Sales 116

Tibor Shanto

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Unfortunately, many salespeople see their pipeline as a holding tank for opportunities, rather than a means of driving to quota. What is in your pipeline should meet specific and defined criteria. Pipeline reviews involve flows and paths to success, quota. Before you get too excited, the battle is with time, quota, and skill.

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Pipeline Quota Consult Prospecting 257

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

The application syncs to Google Calendar, allowing users to click the link in their calendar and enter a scheduled meeting in just three steps. That was three clicks to get into a business meeting. Perfecting cold calling practices: Sales reps should never pitch or push for a meeting right away. Step 3: Click on the Zoom link.

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Quota Cold Call CRM Sales 131

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

How many emails, how many calls, how many meetings, how many demos how many proposals, how many bathroom breaks……… And the gurus reinforce and intensify this. And every performance issue is addressed by running the numbers setting new goals; more emails, more calls, more meetings, more demos, more activity.

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Gaming Up-sell Quota Pitch 123

SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

So instead of just thinking about bookings targets and bookings attainment in meetings, she brought revenue focus into every cadence of running the business. But as she dug in, the real answer was too many sales reps were overbooking deals because of the pressure to hit their bookings quota.

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Objectives and Key Results Growth Engineering Quota 119

Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 10, 2021

Questions are the weapon of choice for consistently successful salespeople, so listen up the half that aren’t making quota. It very much is a closed ended process, that executed right, will allow you to have a meeting where you can leverage open ended questions. It’s an easy way to book more meetings and win more business.

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Appointment Quota Prospecting Education 274

STAR Results

AUGUST 26, 2021

Two key areas of focus are: what accounts represent the best opportunity to achieve their quota, and which accounts are new business going to come from. Many of my clients have been so busy with sales meetings that they have not spent any time in the field this year. Do Your Reps Know What Their Quotas Are?

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Quota Sales Represent Start-ups 279

Sales Gravy

APRIL 23, 2025

He described his typical daystarting at job sites at 7:30 AM, running between appointments, sending proposals from his truck, and working from Starbucks in between meetings. If 30 dials typically create two meetingsand two meetings a day keep your funnel fatcommit to 30 dials, period. Safety first; quotas second. Sound familiar?

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Prospecting Appointment Outside Sales Territory 72

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

So it’s the season where there are … some tough board meetings. Then, expect a tougher board meeting than you’d like. Even if that’s all board meetings were for 2021 and into early 2022. Help everyone see the context. “Yes, it was a tough quarter on sales, but Linda and Jill hit 120% of quota.

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Meeting Quota Growth Presentation 119

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Most salespeople expect to miss their quota every single year. But hitting quota every year doesn’t always equate to a perfect sales enablement strategy for a few reasons. First , quota is set too low to accommodate for sales process inefficiencies. This is why sales reps experience high turnover and workplace stress.

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CRM Quota Sales Pipeline 262

Martech

JULY 17, 2024

As performance becomes harder to predict, Emma is caught in a whirlwind of soaring CPAs, long “gap-close meetings,” and the desperate need to meet ever-higher quotas. Understanding product-market fit Product-market fit occurs when a product meets the needs of a specific market and is widely accepted.

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GTM Product Strategize Drivers/motivators 102

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 24, 2025

I track myself and each person on my team on three fundamental metrics: YTD performance against goal, number of high impact conversations each week (each person has a quota, mine is 6. Again, while we have lots more information, with those three metrics, I have a very good of our ability to meet those goals based on those three metrics.

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High impact Pipeline Inside sales Quota 115

Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

Wrap touchpoints around meetings. The main one is to treat video sales meetings like in-person calls. Would you show up to a serious meeting in a t-shirt and baseball cap? Hubspot explains how to set up video for sales meetings. Wrap TouchPoints Around Meetings. 10 Steps to Building a Virtual Selling Team.

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Sell Education CRM Up-sell 317

Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As you can see in the graphic, this functionality coordinates with Pipeliner’s real-time pipeline data within its opportunity management to guide the company to meet its targets and quotas. In addition, several different KPIs within historical data need to be understood for the targets and quotas to be accurately set.

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Pipeline Quota CRM Territory 230

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin emphasizes the importance of maintaining enough quota coverage to meet revenue targets while accounting for factors like rep attrition and ramp time. Hiring and team expansion decisions were driven by a combination of top-down demand modeling and bottom-up capacity planning.

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GTM Construction Quota Growth 109

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Whether it’s your first time planning a sales meeting agenda or your 100th, this time is yours to connect with and support your team. As a sales leader, meetings with your whole team of reps can be a valuable health check for your business — but they can also waste salespeople’s valuable time selling.

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Meeting Drivers/motivators Sales Quota 105

Veloxy

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Generate reports showing which team members are updating their records and meeting data-entry standards. Share these reports in team meetings to foster healthy competition and provide visibility into individual contributions. Share these success stories in team meetings or company-wide communications. Be sure to follow up.

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Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Outside Sales Follow-up 130

Veloxy

MAY 25, 2021

Whether it’s cold-calling prospective clients or following up after a meeting, discipline moves the successful salesperson to get it done and get it done on time. Artificial intelligence, machine learning , and great advancements in personalization are driving personal sales quotas and team sales quotas like never before!

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Referrals Quota Cold Call Contact 290

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Many organizations may closely meet your company’s ideal customer profile (ICP) criteria and warrant sales reps to proactively reach out to them. A lead meets a company’s qualification criteria (like BANT ) to be added to a company’s deal forecast. Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs). Opportunity. Evangelist.

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Territory Cold Call SQL Campaign 83

Salesforce

JANUARY 9, 2025

As a result, 84% of sales representatives missed their quota last year, and 67% expect to miss it this year. Through an acceleration framework that focuses on empowering sales teams , organizations can understand and meet customers’ needs more accurately.

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Closing Represent Territory Lead generation 98

Salesforce

MAY 4, 2023

Meet Zig the Zebra. Get started now All about Zig the Zebra Name: Zig the Zebra Height: 6’0 Pronouns: She/Her Birthday: May 4, 2023 First Appearance: World Tour New York 2023 Favorite Badge: Sales Cloud Basics Favorite Quote: “Value the relationship more than the quota.” — Jeff Gitomer, author and sales expert Who is Zig?

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Meeting Sports Strategize Quota 98

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2025

Meeting Customers Is Still The Ultimate Motivator Marc is still always meeting customers. Meeting the King of Bhutan and seeing he uses Slack? What’s notable is the speed of implementation from idea to innovation to live deployment took only six months. This change “supercharged” Slack’s performance.

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Strategize Healthcare Drivers/motivators Contact 97