Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

So that means I know how many months ahead I need to look at to make sure I’ve got enough pipelines. So if I look at a month or a quarter, you start and you say, okay, do we have enough pipeline? I think that’s true in a lot of different regions. The first one, I know my sales cycle.

GTM 115

GTM Sell Customers Cold Call 115

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 25, 2014

We talk a lot about account planning, particularly if our “territory” is one or a few large accounts. But we probably won’t achieve all the growth we need to achieve by relying on upgrades and cross sell to our current customers. Create a customer for life, through providing great, ongoing customer experiences.

Territory 121

Territory Cross-sell Strategize Account management 121

Veloxy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This turns a sales rep who spends too much time on non-selling activity into a trusted advisor that spends the majority of their time on customer engagement. This includes tools designed to reduce the administrative burden on revenue operations and reps by automating non-selling activities. How is AI Changing Sales?

Sales 223

Sales Non-Profits CRM Pipeline 223

Partners in Excellence

JULY 24, 2024

After all, that’s all we sell. The way we can generate a story and a sequence of “Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, …” is by focusing on the customer and the underlying problems, challenges, opportunities they face.

Cross-sell 143

Cross-sell Territory Follow-up Prospecting 143

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

40% More Pipeline. It provides more high-quality accounts in the pipeline. Pipeline velocity. You can measure this by measuring Pipeline Velocity. It measures the time it takes for a deal to move from one stage to another in the pipeline, all the way up to closed-won. Pipeline Influence. Larger Deal Sizes.

Pipeline 118

Pipeline Click Through Rate Cross-sell Territory 118

Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

With this sales calculator, you can discover what’s slowing down your sales process and how much more revenue you can make with an accelerated pipeline. Helps your sales team spend more time on the selling activities that produce revenue. Helps perfect your sales process in order to sell more. Is this free or paid?

Sell 182

Sell Cold Call Tradeshows Cross-sell 182

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The sales people are using all the classic arguments—”it wastes my time and diverts me from selling activities,” “it doesn’t help me sell more,” “it’s management’s way of micromanaging me,” “all I do is spend endless hours doing reports, I’m supposed to sell!”

CRM 119

CRM Territory Cross-sell Pipeline 119

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s what selling without a sales dashboard is like. This not only takes time away from selling, it can introduce a lot of opportunities for mistakes. Sales leaders can use a dashboard to understand the game their team is playing as they sell and identify where reps may need help or extra training. What is a Sales Dashboard?

Pipeline 135

Pipeline Cross-sell CRM Sales 135

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Create sales plans that save reps time and maximize sales impact Get your targets, budget, and headcount aligned with just a few clicks so you can sell more efficiently. These targets are used to guide the quota-setting, territory mapping , and sales team strategies. Is additional product or sales training needed before teams can sell?

Quota 116

Quota Territory Pipeline Sales 116

SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2022

Adding C-level engagements and cross-departmental selling will lengthen your sales cycle but it will provide you with customers who stick and an increased average transaction size. Pipelining candidates. That’s why you need to implement: Cross-departmental participation and commitment. Territory Development.

Territory 98

Territory Cross-sell Quota Networking 98

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

It’s supposed to help them better manage their opportunities, territories, and time. But managing our deals, pipelines and territories are much more complex. Do I have upsell, cross sell opportunities? While some of the vendors would claim it’s important, the goal of CRM is not system utilization.

CRM 112

CRM Territory Cross-sell Sports 112

Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2022

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. It also varies depending upon whom, and where you’re selling.”.

Cross-sell 109

Cross-sell Territory Finance Sales 109

Salesforce

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Here’s an example: Joy’s Toys, a toy manufacturer, is focused on growth but doesn’t have a clear target KPI for lead generation that incentivizes reps to keep their pipelines full. Historically, sales KPIs have focused on things like new leads in the pipeline, number of closed deals per quarter, and individual quotas.

Cross-sell 105

Cross-sell Pipeline Contract Sales 105

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

I’m often amazed looking at the pipeline profiles of a lot of enterprise focused sales organizations. It turned out, the structure and the territory assignments of the sales people in these organizations, was a problem. Each sales person, had about 1000 customers in their territories.

Territory 96

Territory Cross-sell Pipeline Inside sales 96

Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2019

If one of your goals is for 5% of monthly revenue to come from upsells or cross-sells , make this goal specific by identifying what types of clients you’ll target. In this case, your sales team must achieve that 5% upsell/cross-sell number by the end of the quarter. Pipeline value. Upselling and cross-selling.

Strategic planning 100

Strategic planning Strategize Referrals Cross-sell 100

Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Product training is a structured learning process that helps team members understand, communicate, and sell a product. According to Gartner, 77% of B2B buyers say their most recent purchase felt “very complex or difficult,” highlighting the importance of thorough product knowledge for anyone selling or supporting a solution.

Product 52

Product GTM Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 52

Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

It leads your sales reps through various scenarios: how to prospect, when to sell what product or service, how to overcome common objections, what to negotiate for (and how ) to name a few. Best-selling author, Hal Elrod, once said: . Best-in-class sales playbooks include: . Sales enablement materials. Fostering ongoing collaboration.

Territory 118

Territory Objectives and Key Results Contract Price 118

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 7, 2012

38% of those using the process can sell value and avoid discounting, where only 4% of those who have no sales process do the same! So we go into calls unprepared, we don’t know what are the most important next steps in the deal, we don’t take the time to analyze our pipelines, we don’t have territory or account plans.

Territory 110

Territory Sales Manufacturing Objectives and Key Results 110

Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

SDRs fuel the whole revenue engine by bringing in qualified leads to generate pipeline. This involves spending 1:1 time with their people to help them strategize, brainstorm, and develop their communication and selling skills so they can grow your pipeline. Accounts by region. Pipeline coverage. New accounts.

Engineering 114

Engineering Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Pipeline 114

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 14, 2015

I learned the importance of putting together a plan, whether it was for my account, territory, or for the year. Or rather than scraping through with crossed fingers and a few prayers, I could now aim for overachieving my numbers (that’s where the real money started kicking in.).

Territory 105

Territory Cross-sell Manufacturing Finance 105

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2021

Prior to the pandemic, many companies knew which vertical channels were doing well, but COVID caused a change in territory planning overnight. Companies need to look at the company-specific data for their company for where to focus and where not to focus, as well as to understand what’s happening in the pipeline.

Cross-sell 94

Cross-sell GTM Territory Sales 94

Partners in Excellence

JULY 8, 2015

Marketing presented tremendous data about web traffic, email hits, SEO results, and so forth–but when the Sales exec stood up, his pipelines were drying up, transactional sales were flat to slightly declining—the story was completely different. Recently, I sat in a conversation between a marketing team and a sales team.

Launch 114

Launch Manufacturing Cross-sell Finance 114

Salesforce

AUGUST 24, 2023

Cross eyes. Automatically create sales dashboards to visualize your data Hit your targets with data-driven selling guidance built directly into your CRM. If your singular goal is total sales, you probably want to track metrics that support that goal, like leads generated, leads in pipe, and pipeline value. (My Fill in cell.

Pipeline 98

Pipeline Quota Lead generation CRM 98

Openview

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Often, it’s not until the end of the process that companies ask a candidate to demonstrate their ability to sell something. How do you manage year-to-year territory adjustments as your company grows? Eventually, people will catch on that if their territories are getting bigger, that’s bad. It can’t change overnight.

Territory 72

Territory Healthcare Sales Retail 72

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

x/= : Customer is happy buys more of your service through renewal, upsell and cross sell. A few practical examples are: Pipeline generation: What campaigns generate the most pipeline? If we know which campaign generate the most pipeline we can invest more into these campaigns. Sometimes first impact is delivered.

SQL 108

SQL Non-Profits Drivers/motivators Education 108

Sales Hacker

APRIL 6, 2022

And these manual processes take sales reps away from their most important activity: selling. If you’re selling a limited number of products or services, or have an extremely simple pricing model, a CPQ system may be beyond your needs. A better selling experience. Scaling sales operations.

Cross-sell 107

Cross-sell Contract Price Finance 107

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Revenue by territory. Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated. You can’t control how much this salesperson sells -- but you can tell her to increase her daily email output.

X-functional 101

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 101

SBI

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Customers realize they have a wealth of information about the selling process but are yet to see business gains from it. Alan: We speak to a lot of organizations that know they need to drive better upsell/cross-sell, or they know that growth is a corporate imperative, but they don’t know how they can get there.

Cross-sell 55

Cross-sell Sell Pipeline CRM 55

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Closing out the year with no line of sight into Q1 sales pipeline is asking for a disaster. We’ve all seen the issue of emptying the pipeline to finish strong but then faced the challenge of starting the new year with nothing. Be realistic regarding your pipeline and move opportunities out, down or up. Marketing is required.

Pipeline 78

Pipeline Cross-sell Cold Call Territory 78

Heinz Marketing

MAY 6, 2019

Yet another great episode this time of Sales Pipeline Radio , live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. So thank you very much for joining us and every episode, past present and future of Sales Pipeline Radio, always available at salespipelineradio.com. They have different regional chapters and it’s fantastic.

Pipeline 60

Pipeline Sales Cross-sell B2B 60

Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

Sales ops is responsible for supporting and enabling sales reps to sell efficiently and effectively. Sales operations teams bring a system of selling and structure to a sales organization. The focus is on things like reporting, territory management and later stage tasks such as contract negotiations and finance approvals.

Territory 69

Territory Objectives and Key Results Finance Cross-sell 69

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This new team redeployed a web analyst to take on the role of CRO and create test pipelines for each of our journeys. So we bought them into the regional teams to tap into their expertise. Creating the first internal CRO role. The structure had meant that digital managers were more focused on execution. Resources to get it done.

Territory 77

Territory UX Cross-sell A/B testing 77

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. Companies in our region are good at achieving PMF and scaling to $1 million-$5 million ARR efficiently. Org Building Ideas for Cross-Border Companies. It helps your leaders scale and creates a CXO pipeline for the company. It’s a close-knit buyer/seller group.

GTM 114

GTM Niche Cross-sell Contract 114

Lead Fuze

JULY 1, 2023

Finally, you’ll gain insights on cross-checking territory assignments, compensation incentive programs, capacity staffing and understanding different types of quotes serving different functions. Case Study: Adjusting Quota Based on Performance Imagine this: Jonathan sells fewer products but at higher value points.

Quota 52

Quota Growth Territory Commission 52

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Leaders from your different regions show up with estimates they all calculated in different ways, some of them in spreadsheets. But how can you drive precision and completeness in your pipeline data? Anyone who touches or creates opportunities can work to improve the quality of your pipeline and drive accuracy. Picture this.

Process 59

Process Territory Objectives and Key Results Pipeline 59

Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. Growth forecasts of sales territories. Automating any possible selling or non-selling tasks. Sales Enablement Core Responsibilities.

Non-Profits 75

Non-Profits CRM Territory Cross-sell 75

Gong.io

AUGUST 24, 2022

They’re calculated estimates based on an analysis of factors such as current sales pipeline , previous sales history, total addressable market, and lead stage scoring. Sales managers use forecasts for territory planning as well. Say, for instance, you have 10 deals in your pipeline currently. Inventory and equipment purchases.

Territory 62

Territory Pipeline Finance Sales 62