Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The world of sales is vast, and if you’re a sales professional, you’ve likely been exposed to both inside and outside sales roles. However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

Bookmark Now: Cold Calling - Everything a Sales Person Needs to Know. We help sales teams turn unproductive churning into generative earning.” When a B2B buyer picks up a cold call, they instantly think you got their name and number from a list. We help sales teams turn unproductive churning into generative earning.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently.

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Veloxy

JULY 14, 2023

Sales route planning has evolved beyond basic navigation and emerged as the key to unlocking unparalleled time efficiency and maximizing results in the field. In the dynamic world of field sales, simply getting from client A to client B is no longer sufficient. What is a Sales Route Planner? How do Sales Route Planners work?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

A sales process is crucial to any commercial organization looking to secure revenue and grow. However, since sales activities have been notoriously hard to measure in terms of performance, many business owners have adopted various commission structures to keep their sales reps motivated. Let’s dig in.

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Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 14, 2023

This guest post was written by Alex Cook , Manager, Enterprise Sales at Klue. Year-end can be the most exciting time in sales. You could also be well behind your quota, struggling to stay motivated and worried about job security. Why are territories carved the way they are? It can also be the hardest.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2020

If a salesperson hit quota at their last job, they’re much more likely to hit quota at your organization, right? According to statistics from our sales professional user base here at RepVue , only 46.7% of sales professionals globally are achieving quota. And it’s even fewer in software sales organizations.

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Veloxy

JUNE 17, 2021

Sure, you might have quotas and deadlines that show accomplishment, but what exactly is the rate of your efforts? Since time is literally money when it comes to business, sales leaders have devised a way to instill dollar value on a day’s work. This intriguing value is what we refer to as sales velocity. What is Sales Velocity?

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Similarly, a solid sales compensation plan is about striking the right balance. Overcomplicate a sales compensation plan, and you’re left with sales reps who aren’t clear on their goals or hungry to hit their quota. What you’ll learn: What is sales compensation? What are sales compensation plans?

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Commission Territory Quota Objectives and Key Results 64

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re not the only outside sales rep feeling that way. This article doesn’t list every outside sales strategy under the sun. These are tactics that have helped outside sales professionals grow their pipeline by 300% in one month. Here’s a mentality that top-tier outside sales gurus have.

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Salesforce

MARCH 4, 2023

Is your sales pipeline generating enough leads? To keep afloat in these times, sales leaders need to have access to reliable data, and these sales management dashboards can help. Data dashboards , standard with Sales Cloud, provide minute-to-minute visibility of your business as things change.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

.” The QBR is a great forum for sales managers and enterprising salespeople to separate themselves from the pack. After all, the best reps are CEOs of their territory, thinking holistically about their business and knowing what makes their patch unique. Plan faster to sell more Question #1: What happened?

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A Sales Guy

JULY 24, 2012

Ok, I’m coming back to the quota discussion. My last post about quota focused on the importance of quota aligning with business objectives and business strategy. RULE 1: Quota MUST BE perceived as attainable. When quotas are not perceived as achievable, sales people just give up and don’t even try.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We’ve talked about Toast a bit here on SaaStr – most recently we wrote up the 5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $1.1B Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales in 2017. A Glance at Toast’s Hypergrowth Journey When Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales, the company was Series B with $20M in ARR.

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Growth Territory Referrals Customers 75

Openview

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Continued success also relies on innovative sales enablement techniques that boost performance, help meet customer needs and achieve bottom line results. While many corporate sales enablement functions are already leveraging state-of-the-art enablement mechanisms, like online and virtual trainings, chat bots etc.,

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Salesforce

AUGUST 24, 2023

I’ve seen countless businesses (including enterprise companies) compile — and try to analyze — sales data in spreadsheets like this. Sure, spreadsheets are useful for small projects, but they can be cumbersome when dealing with complex sales data. Sales dashboards to the rescue. See how it works What is a sales dashboard?

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Hubspot

APRIL 24, 2019

Compensation is an important factor in attracting and retaining employees, especially in sales. Imagine if almost half of your sales team left the company because of a poorly designed compensation plan. Luckily, I've compiled some resources for you to determine the best sales commission structure for your sales team or yourself.

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Commission Territory Real Estate Quota 90

Veloxy

AUGUST 17, 2022

Salesforce automation tools go a long way in helping you improve the productivity and efficiency of your sales team. However, the right “stack” of Salesforce automation tools can really help you accelerate revenue and crush quota. I love finding the latest and greatest Salesforce Automation tools on the AppExchange. Docomotion.

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Salesforce

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Sales route planning is critical to a sound sales strategy. If you do it right, you’ll reap the rewards of connecting your sales reps to high-value opportunities at the right time. But with planning and the right technology, sales teams can get the most out of every day in the field. This can be a complex process.

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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. According to the Harvard Business Review, the average annual turnover in sales is about 30%.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Building a sales forecast is both an art and a science. Accurate sales forecasts keep your leaders happy and your business healthy. Build sales forecasts with accuracy Use the real-time data updates and insights of Sales Cloud to keep your forecasts accurate and your teams on track to hit targets.

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CRM Territory Manufacturing Pipeline 59

PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

A sales plan is a roadmap that outlines your business’s strategy for selling its products or services. Acting as an essential tool for businesses of all sizes and in all industries, a robust sales plan helps to identify sales goals, target markets, and sales tactics to achieve those goals. What is a sales plan?

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Territory Objectives and Key Results Teamwork Customer Relationship Management 52

Veloxy

MARCH 15, 2023

As forward-thinking companies transition from traditional sales enablement to revenue enablement, it’s important to understand that 42% of businesses still don’t have a sales enablement program. That’s a HUGE problem. Let’s get started.

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Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In this article, we provide insights on how to build a product sales organization structure that yields results. We talk about optimal sales organixation structures of teams in your company. First, it is important that sales team structure roles are clear; second, it ensures successful achievement of both parties’ expectations.

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Territory Assembly Line Commission Objectives and Key Results 52

A Sales Guy

JANUARY 21, 2013

As VP of Sales or Head of Sales, making quota is your job. Therefore, knowing whether or not your team is going to make quota as early as possible is critical. Being January, I’ve spent much of the month with my clients evaluating their sales plans. They have no idea how they are going to make quota.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

According to CSO Insights’ 2018-2019 Sales Performance Study , only 54 percent of salespeople are making or exceeding quota. With organizations generally targeting a 70 percent quota attainment goal, this represents a major challenge to sales effectiveness. Organizations aren’t setting quotas effectively.

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Territory Quota Cross-sell Government 71

Hubspot

MARCH 7, 2018

KPIs for Sales Managers. Sales Volume by Location. Upsell/Cross-Sell Rates. Sales managers -- and particularly field sales managers -- can often feel like they are trapped in a fog. Download our free report here to learn the top 3 metrics ranked by sales professionals. Who’s reaching their quota?

Territory 101

Territory Cross-sell A/B testing Promote 101

Sales Hacker

JUNE 8, 2022

Like most sales teams I’ve been on, you’d find the Navy SEAL adage to be true: Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. We can slow down to orient everything about our deal cycles to find the sales signals that make them sticky. Related reading: Your Sales Cycle is (Probably) Too Long. What’s a sales signal? Try This Instead.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2022

Sales is not an easy topic for academics to teach. He has so much sales and management knowledge he could write a book on it — and, in fact, he’s written seven, including “Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing.” Sales is cross-disciplinary.

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Cross-sell Territory Finance Consult 83

Hubspot

APRIL 5, 2023

There are many things to consider if you are interested in starting your career in sales. You’ll also need a thorough knowledge of sales trends and stats to succeed. With a modest, go-get-'em attitude, you can learn the stats you need to know to anticipate what a career in sales has in store for you.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 10, 2021

Why do we sell? Why do we choose a job that requires us to sell? Something happened along the way, and all of a sudden I discovered sales. And since then, I have been fairly deeply involved in selling, sales, sales people and customers. Every day in sales is different. I loved being a sales person.

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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

Salesforce

JULY 28, 2022

Fortunately, sales leaders can work to avoid these hardships by acting now. To ensure your company is recession ready, develop a game plan for your sales organization that focuses on investments in tools, training, and effective sales tactics. Refocus on delivering value, not hitting quotas. Speed up rep success.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2018

Being a good salesperson , or good at selling, is difficult to quantify. More of an art than a science, sales plays a critical role in almost all businesses. Yet, businesses rarely use best practices or proven sales process tips to increase success rates. Keep your sales pipeline lean. 1) Keep Your Sales Pipeline Lean.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Old-School Territory Management is Dead: A Q&A with John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything. Following the recent acquisition of TerrAlign by MapAnything, I asked MapAnything CEO John Stewart to explain the relationship between map-based geo-productivity and territory optimization. They blow out their quotas and get pats on the back.

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Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Stress Reduction In High Pressure Sales Jobs. I’m not sure if I should write this article about sales stress reduction for salespeople. This article focuses on five common stressors in sales, and how to identify them. Working in sales can be really stressful, gut-wrenching and soul-destroying.

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Commission Quota Sales Territory 93

Gong.io

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a sales manager, you’re like a general marshaling your troops (or sales reps) into battle. It’s your job to lead your team through the trenches and give them direction so they’ll know which markets or territories to target and how best to attack. That’s why having a strategic sales plan is vital. Image Source ).

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