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Advice for Sales Managers
Sales development teams have become a crucial transition point in the sales process. Acting as the gatekeepers between marketing leads and sales opportunities, your sales development reps (SDRs) influence much of what happens at the top of your funnel. But for such an important role, how do you know if your SDRs are performing successfully? Managers often...
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This is part 3 in the “Skill vs. Will Sales Coaching Series.” Read part 1 here and 2 here.  In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, we’ve looked at using skill vs. will to analyze your team and introduced some of the personality traits you might come across. Now, in part III, we get to...
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When you think KPIs for your sales team, do you think sales quotas, average deal size or revenue per sales rep? Well, think again. Defining a KPI within a sales organization is often misunderstood and therefore, misused. To better understand how to get this right and build your own KPI-driven sales machine, this post will unravel...
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Leading a field sales team comes with unique challenges. When your team is working from any number of different places, suddenly you’re not just managing sales performance strategy, but also time zone differences and communication logistics, all while trying to keep your team motivated, engaged and hitting their numbers. But if you excel in a...
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Hundreds of sales leaders kicked off 2015 at SalesLoft’s Rainmaker, an event marketed as the “first ever” sales development conference. A Forbes piece named sales development “the biggest trend in sales today” two weeks later. Then in February, Google search interest for “sales development representative” hit an all-time high. It’s pretty simple: If you’re one...
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When a company is seeking to get their sales team more focused on the right sales KPIs to increase sales, it begs the question: What sales KPIs are the right ones for them to focus on? Closing sales is the obvious one, but it’s a lagging indicator that results from the collective actions leading up to the sale...
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