Veloxy

AUGUST 17, 2022

However, the right “stack” of Salesforce automation tools can really help you accelerate revenue and crush quota. When you can access Salesforce from anywhere on any device, you can automate and eliminate up to 95%, or 1,200 hours, of non-selling activity. The Top 7 Best Salesforce Automation Tools. source of image. source of image.

Appointment 147

Appointment Territory Cross-sell Contract 147

SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2022

It was a critical metric for us because when I started we were at -15% quota capacity. Now we’re at 15+% quota capacity. I encourage my sales reps to get to a quota of 70-80% on one-rate deals. That’s why you need to implement: Cross-departmental participation and commitment. Territory Development.

Territory 98

Territory Cross-sell Quota Networking 98

Veloxy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

For you the sales manager, this means forging better working relationships with salespeople and enhancing their ability to hit quotas consistently. 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. How is AI Changing Sales?

Sales 223

Sales Non-Profits CRM Pipeline 223

Lead Fuze

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding how to set sales quotas is a critical aspect of managing and driving a successful sales team. A well-structured quota system not only motivates your reps but also aligns their efforts with your company’s overall objectives.

Quota 52

Quota Growth Territory Commission 52

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Wrapped around this is some notion of upsell/cross sell, “Can we expand the relationship with the current customer (individuals)?” This mindset isn’t different from the hunter assigned a geographic or industry oriented territory. Our goal in every territory is to maximize our penetration of the territory.

Territory 101

Territory Account management Cross-sell Retail 101

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Unlike a closing sales rep, SDRs don’t carry a traditional quota. AEs are held to quotas. How to know if this job is right for you: Being an AE is a natural next step once you’ve gotten some selling experience under your belt. You’ll be moving around constantly: Around the city, region, state, country, or even world.

Territory 101

Territory Commission Outside Sales Account management 101

Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Sales reps often juggle multiple demandsmeeting quotas, showcasing product value, and forming authentic customer connectionswhich require a healthy mix of soft and hard skills. In other words, hard skills guide what sales reps sell, and soft skills determine how they sell to prospects. Below are the top 10 skills to nurture: 1.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell Technique 52

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. In the past, it was enough for sellers to simply meet or exceed their quotas.

Cross-sell 109

Cross-sell Territory Finance Sales 109

Hubspot

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Quota and OTE. Setting quota. If you want them to stop selling to poor fit customers, institute a clawback so they lose their commission if the customer churns or returns the product within a set window of time. Increase upsell/cross-sell rate. This structure is relatively rare in selling organizations.

Commission 101

Commission Quota X-functional Non-Profits 101

Salesmate

MARCH 23, 2021

Bottlenecks may arise when your team chases the wrong customers, or neglect the right ones at the right time, delays in-process activities, and letting go of upselling and cross-selling opportunities once the sale has been completed. Manual labor is nothing but a distraction from selling for your team. Cut down on manual work .

CRM 116

CRM Cross-sell Tradeshows Up-sell 116

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

High percentages of the sales teams were making their quotas, but they were working their asses off winning deals that were smaller than they thought they should be winning. It turned out, the structure and the territory assignments of the sales people in these organizations, was a problem. The client changed territory assignments.

Territory 96

Territory Cross-sell Pipeline Inside sales 96

Salesforce

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Competitor Saul’s Dolls, on the other hand, has mapped out a clear path to revenue growth that includes target KPIs for lead generation, quota attainment, and customer retention. 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

JULY 8, 2015

Quota’s may be missed, new customer acquisition may be off, customer retention may be off, sales by product or region may be off. All of this because we aren’t aligned–cross functionally and vertically within our organizations. I’ll be writing about this in the future. Confusion About Metrics.

Launch 113

Launch Manufacturing Cross-sell Finance 113

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Aim for the moon with targets and quotas In the words of the famous Michelangelo, the greater danger doesn’t lie in aiming too high and falling short. If you’ve been meeting quota attainment for the past few months in a row, then you’re clearly underplaying your real potential. However, salespeople tend to miss the bigger picture.

Outside Sales 130

Outside Sales Pipeline Inside sales Cross-sell 130

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.

Territory 71

Territory Quota Cross-sell Government 71

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: . Territories. What defines a territory (zip code, country, state, region, country, etc.)?

Territory 118

Territory Objectives and Key Results Contract Price 118

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 7, 2012

Just one data point from CSO Insights 2011 Sales Performance Optimization Study shows that in organizations where most of the sales people are leveraging the sales process, 70% beat their quotas, and in those where people are not consistently using the sales process on 51% beat their quotas. Territory planning. Account plannnig.

Territory 108

Territory Sales Manufacturing Objectives and Key Results 108

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

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. Upselling and cross-selling. Measurable.

Strategic planning 100

Strategic planning Strategize Referrals Cross-sell 100

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

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. Secure the deal through the use of all available resources such as executive relationships or board relationships in order to provide the most cross-functional attention possible.

Cross-sell 94

Cross-sell GTM Territory Sales 94

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 31, 2018

Account Based Marketing/Selling is all the rage today. But having played in this space for more than a few years, a lot of what I see is deja-vu all over again, echoing concepts from the 80’s, 90’s, even before (look at some of the original books on account based selling and when they were published.

Sell 74

Sell Territory Cross-sell Strategize 74

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Percentage of sales reps attaining 100% quota. Revenue by territory. Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated. Imagine one of your reps isn’t hitting her quota. Revenue by market.

X-functional 101

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 101

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

This process means SDRs typically aren't held to traditional quotas but to the number of calls they make or qualified leads they gather. Nearly half of their time is spent selling remotely (i.e. Regional Sales Manager. According to Glassdoor , the average base salary for regional sales managers is $75,600. Image Source.

Commission 94

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 94

PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

Selling is arguably a line of work where personal attachment matters the most. Territory volume Territory volume is a commission paid off based on revenue from a specific region. Territory volume Territory volume is a commission paid off based on revenue from a specific region.

Commission 52

Commission Territory Quota Drivers/motivators 52

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

How much revenue is generated by each product, product line, or service that you sell. cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Percentage of Res Attaining 100% Quota. How many representatives on your team are attaining 100% of their quota. Revenue by Territory. Revenue per Sale.

Territory 99

Territory CRM Sales Cross-sell 99

SaaStr

JULY 3, 2020

Rather than having this erratic schedule around hitting sales targets, or hitting releases, that there’s a feeling that just quarter after quarter the company keeps shipping and selling. We had to learn how to do sales and sales marketing and compete in heads up battles against other companies selling similar products.

Finance 104

Finance Launch Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 104

Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 15, 2019

Maybe you log into your CRM, look up which of your salespeople exceeded their quotas and brought in the highest amount of closed-won business. For example, they may have inherited the account from someone who built a strong relationship and “farmed” it well or have a strong territory assignment. Not necessarily. Conclusion.

Cross-sell 78

Cross-sell Quota Territory Sales 78

Openview

APRIL 11, 2018

So much of what they do, particularly fundraising, is selling. But if you scale this function with intention, a sales org will enrich your company’s existing culture, help you build better product, and sell it too. . We do a monthly global all hands and regional all hands even more frequently. Founders make natural salespeople.

Product 82

Product Negotiate Quota Cross-sell 82

Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

If your reps don’t meet their quota, you have a record of their activity — which means you can dig into the numbers to figure out why they’re behind and coach them accordingly. Accounts by region. Sales enablement goal: Equip frontline sellers with tools, education, and processes that lead to better selling. Future meetings.

Engineering 114

Engineering Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Pipeline 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. By knowing these, you can see signs that overarching sales strategy should be revisited, territories should be re-evaluated, or enablement efforts should be shored up.

Pipeline 98

Pipeline Quota Lead generation CRM 98

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. Here are a few sales operation metrics you might have seen before: Quota achievement. Average win rate. Average sales cycle duration.

Territory 69

Territory Objectives and Key Results Finance Cross-sell 69

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

Rather than having this erratic schedule around hitting sales targets, or hitting releases, that there’s a feeling that just quarter after quarter the company keeps shipping and selling. Some startups can do monthly quotas if they have an extremely quick sales cycle. To me, that’s what the cadence says. billion dollars.

Finance 114

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 114

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It’s also a lot easier to start with everyone hitting quota and ratcheting up than vice versa. It’s also not reasonable to expect your new hires to hit quota in their first pay period. If you want to do that, just lower quota and make it simpler for everyone. an contest on deals closed when quota is based on ACV).

Quota 97

Quota Non-Profits Sales Cross-sell 97

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

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

million with about 10, and today we’re sitting with 13 people, and we just crossed 2 million in revenue. So the easiest way to look at it is to say, “We can sell more. We can cross-sell. We were profitable in our first month. We scaled in our first year to 446,000 and had about five people. Where is that plan?

Cross-sell 102

Cross-sell Clients Growth Up-sell 102

Hubspot

APRIL 2, 2018

It might be because another rep is handing off the deal, there’s been a territory change, or the deal has closed and an account manager is taking over. Deals that happen entirely online are usually the opportunities that drag on for weeks or months -- and that’s not good for anyone’s quota. Mid-stream introductions.

Prospecting 101

Prospecting X-functional Contract Cross-sell 101