Hubspot

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s here, the biggest sales quarter of the year. The very moment deal-seekers everywhere shoot their shot, turn prospects into buyers, and score buzzer-beating slam dunks that accelerate the business to record-breaking sales. Sales professionals who are doing their best work in Q4 are executing their sales processes to perfection.

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The 5% Institute

JULY 21, 2023

This article will guide you through the concept of SMARTER goals and provide practical examples to help you achieve your aspirations effectively. SMARTER is an acronym that stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound, Evaluated, and Reviewed. For example, “I want to lose 15 pounds in the next three months.”

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E-commerce Drivers/motivators Strategic planning Promote 52

Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this article, we help you navigate the intricacies of sales performance metrics, guiding you on which ones are pivotal and how best to measure them. What Is Sales Performance? Sales Performance vs. Sales Metrics Why Analyze Your Sales Performance?

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Objectives and Key Results Quota Sales Promote 59

Veloxy

MAY 11, 2023

Do I have your attention? Now imagine a world where your sales process flows seamlessly, leads never slip through the cracks, and revenue pours in effortlessly. In this article, we’re diving deep into the heart of sales success. Welcome to the world of the sales pipeline ! Here’s a fact.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

These questions can guide your agency selection process, aiding in informed decisions. Understanding your position 3. Will your business be considered a big, medium or little fish in their PPC department? Will you own your accounts or would they? It’s important that you always retain ownership of your account.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 17, 2023

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. This article will provide an overview of why setting specific goals is essential and how it helps push you forward and direct your SEO efforts. What are SEO goals? What do we need to do to achieve this?

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Objectives and Key Results CTR Click Through Rate Represent 98

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While it checks a lot of boxes for Sales Managers, there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done to unlock Salesforce’s potential to accelerate sales at your company. If you’re not already empowering your salespeople with Veloxy, you can rapidly deploy it and receive training at no cost for 30 days. Table of Contents.

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CloserIQ

MARCH 15, 2019

SDR performance reviews are essential for helping SDRs to improve their performance. To that end, it’s helpful to use a standardized format for reviews. Use this template to guide the performance reviews. Here’s what to include—and how to be effective in each part of the review.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Do you feel like your selling job is becoming harder and harder over time? Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours.

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Process Objectives and Key Results X-functional Sales 52

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

What Generative AI Leaders Know That You Probably Don’t High performers spend more than 20% of their digital budgets on AI, but that’s just the beginning. As you evaluate your current process, think of generative AI as supercharging your workforce, powering it to work faster, and more efficiently and creatively.

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Strategize Technology Technology Clients 111

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

What rules your sales team – order or chaos? Do your reps follow a consistent and repeatable process that makes it easy to predict quarterly sales? Or are they flying by the seat of their pants, following their own playbooks, and sending your metrics all over the place? Some of the best sales teams start that way.

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Hubspot

JUNE 29, 2022

As a manager, ensuring your team is working as effectively as possible should always be a — if not the — main priority for you. That's why you need to find ways to maintain a pulse on your employees' ongoing performance. You can't gauge all of your problems by answering 20-or-so questions. Let's dive in. Team processes.

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Salesforce

JULY 6, 2021

World-renowned sales coach Timothy Gallwey has captivated CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business leaders for decades. With one simple idea: “[Sales] coaching is [the key to] unlocking a person’s potential. Learn to create an A+ team with digital sales coaching. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.”

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Sales CRM Follow-up Pipeline 98

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The global pandemic forced sales teams to change their processes and go digital. Organizations must adapt their sales strategies post COVID-19 to meet customer expectations. Whether you’re looking to implement a remote sales strategy or improve your current strategy, keep reading. What is remote sales?

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Objectives and Key Results Pitch Pipeline Sales 108

PandaDoc

APRIL 30, 2024

Regularly keeping track of incremental sales is one of the best ways of determining how best to allocate your marketing resources. In this article, you’ll find out how to calculate incremental sales for any given marketing campaign, as well as some useful tips and best practices on how to maximize this metric.

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A/B testing Objectives and Key Results Campaign Legal 52

Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 25, 2023

And that, somehow, leads me to sales performance. If they haven’t been exposed to professional selling methodologies and sales processes, and had those demonstrated to them via expert, unscripted role-plays, then they would have no clue that the presenting and proposing they have been doing is woefully inadequate.

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Territory Objectives and Key Results Account management Sales 77

Gong.io

JULY 27, 2022

Today’s high-performing revenue teams are those who are focused heavily on retention, not just new client acquisition. It’s the whole reason they’re called revenue teams, and not sales teams, in the first place.). The QBR (quarterly business review) is one of the frameworks CS professionals use in pursuit of this goal.

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Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Clients Strategize 62

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2023

Step One: Run Your Numbers It may seem basic, but start by reviewing your numbers, especially those associated with your GTM strategy or GTM funnel. Ensure you take into account things like: How many qualified opps are you creating per month? How many qualified opps are there per sales rep? Sign up for free.

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Closing Bigger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This sales podcast episode is focused on shifting our sales performance management from tactical to strategic. Although there are dozens of strategic shifts we can make, today we are focused on three key levers that can impact your personal and organizational sales performance.

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Strategize Sales Pipeline Non-Profits 116

Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

In order for your car to run efficiently, you need every part of your engine firing on all cylinders. Nothing can be out of place, and if one piece fails to perform its function, you won’t get very far for very long. Your revenue organization works in the same way. What is a sales performance dashboard?

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Engineering Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Pipeline 100

Gong.io

AUGUST 24, 2022

If you’ve worked more than one month in sales, you know that the new quarter starts the minute after the last one ends. And most sales teams consistently measure throughout the quarter how their performance is tracking to their goals. We call this process sales forecasting. What is a sales forecast? .

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Territory Pipeline Finance Sales 62

Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 11, 2014

It’s not a lot different from helping our clients identify why the sales team isn’t generating the anticipated sales growth. When we complete our Sales Organization Assessment, we end up with a graphic that looks like this: What you are looking at is a summary of the level of different skills that the sales team possesses.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 8, 2019

Recent research by Bain and McKinsey, both published in the Harvard Business Review, analyzed companies that came out strongest in this century’s prior recessions. Let’s explore three actions that your CRO can take now to recession-proof your business. When you monitor your leading indicators, you’ll catch warning signs sooner.

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Cross-sell Negotiate Sales Quota 82

The 5% Institute

MAY 25, 2023

Sales Methodology plays a crucial role in the success of any sales team. It provides a structured framework and set of strategies that guide the sales process, from prospecting to closing deals. It encompasses a series of well-defined steps and best practices designed to increase the chances of successful sales outcomes.

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Technique Consult 52

Lead Fuze

JUNE 28, 2023

Having the capacity to compose a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is an indispensable aptitude for any business head. Performance improvement plans are effective tools in managing employee development, setting clear objectives and providing guidance on achieving them.

Construction 52

Construction Teamwork Drivers/motivators Lead generation 52

ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2021

Conversions are crucial to your business. But a good conversion rate doesn’t always mean more sales. We’ll also dive into the relationship between conversion rate and profitability and how to leverage your conversion rate formula to drive optimization efforts. If you consistently generate 100,000 unique visitors a month at a 1.2%

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Conversion Growth Gambling A/B testing 156

Lead Fuze

AUGUST 22, 2021

Follow Consistent Sales Forecasting Methods to Avoid Making Bad Decisions. You have no idea what your company is going to be making this time next year. Sales forecasting solves this! Most B2B businesses don’t bother creating a sales forecast. If their sales are up, happy days! “Oh, no. Click To Tweet.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. Top 6 sales training techniques.

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Technique Negotiate Pitch Inside sales 92

Salesforce

JANUARY 8, 2024

After all the innovations and emerging technologies that cropped up in 2023, business leaders are assessing how to move forward and which new trends to implement. Here are some of the biggest trends that will affect your business over the coming year. It’s how you understand your customers, make informed decisions, and gauge success.

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Angle Healthcare Technology Technology 76

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

We’ll show you how to: Assess your company’s current approach to data. Map your data strategy against overall business goals. Despite these shortcomings, executives in your company might be wary of signing off on a data strategy. It’s tempting to develop a strategy that works just for your department.

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Pitch Objectives and Key Results Government Click Through Rate 107

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sales onboarding – every company does it, but few do it as well as they’d like. According to a report from The Sales Management Association, 62% of companies consider themselves to be ineffective at onboarding. Software companies used to spend months or years developing new products. 4 Steps of Agile Onboarding.

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Objectives and Key Results Objection handling Sales Negotiate 82

criteria for success

MARCH 18, 2020

Keeping a remote sales force motivated doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, if you hire the right people and develop a good process, your remote employees may surprise you in how well they perform. Here are 6 tips to keeping your remote sales force motivated to perform at peak levels.

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Drivers/motivators CRM Sales Presentation 80

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 30, 2021

Businesses have been worshipping big data for some years already, but unforeseen events in 2020 and 2021 made it clear that revenue rests on sales data. The pandemic turned markets and sales expectations upside down, leaving only 27% of CEOs feeling confident they’ll see revenue growth in the next 12 months. How to solve it.

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Objectives and Key Results E-commerce Sales Campaign 89

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The more control and visibility you have into your sales pipeline, the more revenue you’ll bring in. In fact, HubSpot Research found a positive relationship between the number of opportunities in your pipeline per month and revenue achievement. But what is a sales pipeline and why is it so instrumental to selling success?

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Pipeline Negotiate Objectives and Key Results Sales 101

Highspot

MAY 8, 2020

In the world of business-to-business sales, coaches are just as essential to ensuring reps have the skills they need to close deals with confidence. Why is sales coaching important? How do you coach and develop a sales team? Top sales coaching techniques. What makes a sales coach great? What Is Sales Coaching?

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Technique Sales Negotiate Quota 78

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a marketing growth strategy to increase your market penetration, market share, and revenue. Rapid experimentation is critical to your growth marketing strategy. Your customers want different things. A marketing growth strategy is about small and incremental wins that build up over time.

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Growth A/B testing Objectives and Key Results Referrals 115

Salesmate

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Like a crystal ball, sales forecasting will surely not show you an exact view of the future. However, it will do give you some predictive insights into what is likely to happen in a specific time frame in context to your sales. Thus, sales forecasting is essential for any sales-driven organization.

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