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How to Set Quota

A Sales Guy

Community member Jeff Abbott commented on a recent post about how he’d like to better understand how quotas are set and by whom. The first thing you need to know about quotas is there are a lot of different ways to set them. Let’s start with the rules: Quota MUST align with the business objectives.

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The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement – Mike Kunkle

Tibor Shanto

In essence he delivers the building blocks of Sales Enablement. Mike shares the 12 building blocks, tied together with systems thinking and communication management, sitting on a base of (optional) sales support services. It turns out, sales enablement isn’t just training, or content, or technology. Big Messages .

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Five Sales Operations Best Practices that Drive High Performance

Miller Heiman Group

The study showed that sales organizations that took a reactive approach saw much lower sales performance, resulting in win rates that were 7.4 percent lower and quota attainment that was 14.3% Embrace the Expanding Role of Sales Ops. Sales operations’ remit is massive—and it seems to expand every day.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

Deel scaled the sales team from two to 250 account executives, but issues with productivity and enablement of the account executives cropped up. Deel solved this by scaling the revenue operations team in conjunction to support sales, design quotas, and go-to-market strategies, and leverage data to identify the best strategies.

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How to Build Your Sales Operations Team from Scratch

InsightSquared

Sales operations has been around for quite some time, but lately the function has been gaining momentum. Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership. Quota and compensation planning. Go-to-market strategy. Renewals management.

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New Study: Finding the Growth Potential for Sales Operations and Technology

Miller Heiman Group

Process and Technology, including sales technology stack administration and strategy, data management and data strategy. Sales Support, including sales enablement, deal desk, prospecting and proposal management. The Role of Sales Technology within Sales Operations Best Practices.

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Align Sales Compensation With Your Goals: ?A Compensation Plan That Works

A Sales Guy

Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. In short, sales compensation should be not just a tactical focus for your organization, but a strategic one as well. Certainly, using a quota-based compensation plan can achieve this objective, too.