The sales development loop helps you get your team to quota every quarter. Your revenue goal for the quarter is clear. How you reach it is not. In fact, it’s likely that only 57% of your sales reps will hit their quota. What might that mean for you if this trend continues? Let’s try not…
A successful launch plan creates better alignment by engaging sales team stakeholders. Do you have a busy sales team that you need to get quickly up to speed on new products, messages, or processes? Time for a launch initiative! Creating a successful launch plan will provide you and your team with the framework to improve…
Creating sales and enablement alignment improves sales efficacy and quota attainment. Does this sound familiar to you? Sales claim that everything that comes out of enablement is useless and should be ignored. Enablement says that, if sales would just engage in their initiatives, they could greatly improve their ability to attain quota. In my experience…
Bring the launch of your next sales enablement initiative into the 21st Century. When a business creates a new product, evolves their message, or has critical business information to impart, it relies on the sales team to deliver that info to the marketplace. But the sales team’s ability to present that message is only as…
All launch initiatives have one key ingredient for success in common—change management. Sales enablement launches new initiatives all the time. From new products to new messaging, mergers and acquisitions to new processes. And let’s not forget the sales kick-off! While you may think that each of these initiatives are unique, the truth is that they…
Is a failed product launch sales’ or sales enablement’s fault? The weeks since your big product launch initiative have turned to months. As the one-year mark looms ever closer reality begins to sink in. Sales are flat, revenue is sluggish, and your worst fears are being realized—you’re looking at another failed product launch. As your…
Formalize your deal review in 7 simple steps. As David Brock notes in his book, Sales Manager Survival Guide, sales managers spend their lives in reviews. So it might come as a shock that it’s likely that the majority of the time you spend in reviews is wasted. The core reason is that most sales…
It’s a fact: well-defined sales processes lead to more productive sales performance. In a study conducted by CSO Insights, this fact was validated—companies with defined sales processes won 53% of their forecasted deals vs. 43% with ad hoc processes. This essentially means that a defined sales process yields 23% more output from sales. The numbers…
Google observed and analyzed 10,000 manager interactions and found out what makes a good sales manager. Google is the gold standard when it comes to using data-driven insights to make decisions. Constantly on the lookout for ways to optimize their business based on data, Google executives wanted to find out if there was a way…
Our C.O.A.C.H. Sales Manager Coaching Methodology integrates actionable sales coaching into your day. Recent research has proven that the number one skill that separates average managers from highly effective ones is coaching. While the leadership and management world at large has known this for quite some time, sales management specifically has largely been left out…