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Most sales leaders run sales contests; all sales leaders love benchmark data. (Or they should.) If you’re a sales leader, that means you’re in for one awesome blog post. For the last two and a half years, we studied sales performance at 445 companies. Today, we broke some of it down according to sales contest...
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Picture your average college basketball player. He’s in the gym doing extra work, and while his intent is great, the maximum effort just isn’t there. A few minutes later his head coach strolls in. The player begins to work a little harder, focus a little more and increase his overall efforts. He wants to impress...
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A sales person is social by nature. It’s their job to be good at developing relationships. But today being a social seller is more intricate than simply being able to hold good conversation. Social selling is about being connected. It’s about seeing things from both a seller’s and a buyer’s perspective. It’s about your ability...
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By now you know that conversations are essential to your sales team’s performance. (If you don’t know this, go back and read this post.) Conversations — which we at LevelEleven define as calls with prospects or customers where we learn something that helps us advance the relationship — are controllable, measurable and vital. Last time...
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Many organizations are focusing on building metrics-driven sales environments today. And with so many types of key performance indicators (KPIs) out there for sales teams, everyone has their own playbook. Me, I’m a conversational kind of sales KPI guy. Let’s dive right in then, shall we? I believe there are two types of sales KPIs:...
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