Hubspot

JULY 30, 2024

As a B2B salesperson for companies like IBM and Open Text, scheduling in-person meetings or phone calls was often challenging, regardless of my prospect or client’s industry or business size. The chat would likely be to schedule a more substantive meeting and not to try and close a deal when the decision maker is just “coming up for air.”

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Closing Quota Healthcare Tradeshows 85

Iannarino

JUNE 3, 2024

If you're struggling with abysmal win rates and failing to meet quotas, it's time to make significant changes to your B2B sales strategy.

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B2B Quota Sales Meeting 279

Membrain

JANUARY 12, 2025

Meet Andrew Barbudo , a digital media sales expert and Author of "Top Sales Producer: How To Crush Your Sales Quota", who shares his intriguing journey from the trenches of budget management and report generation to becoming a top-performing sales producer.

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Quota Account management Education Sales 126

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They look at comp expectations, perhaps tweaking the plans to meet certain budgetary or other goals. The present endless models on selling activities, outlining monthly and quarterly goals for demand/lead gen, outreach, meetings, top of pipeline, pipeline, renewal/retention, comp models and so forth.

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X-functional Strategize Quota Pipeline 127

Iannarino

JUNE 18, 2023

The only things you need are a CRM , a source of data, a meeting platform, and some effective digital assets. As sales stacks grow larger, win rates and quota attainment decline. You don’t need more technology to improve your sales results.

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Quota CRM Technology Technology 292

Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

Get ready to impress more buyers and get more meetings. They haven’t missed quota since I first called them. But, if they’re still stubborn or hesitant to commit to a meeting, here are a few other tips to get the evasive, “Yes!”: They haven’t missed quota since I first called them. Meeting booked! Risk eliminated.

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Cold Call Territory Quota Up-sell 358

Tibor Shanto

JUNE 17, 2021

It relates directly to how goals, targets and quotas are set and hit. Psychological Safety is important for setting hard goals and hitting quotas. But most importantly for Sales teams is they are also generally ‘high performing’ teams and over achieve their quotas. Reps don’t ask many questions in team meetings.

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Objectives and Key Results Quota Sales Drivers/motivators 293

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Google has admitted to quietly tweaking advertising auctions to meet revenue targets. ” When quizzed about this email during the antitrust trial, Dischler said his team’s goal was “to get creative so we could meet our quota.” ” Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on. SUBSCRIBE See terms.

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Price Meeting Quota Engineering 142

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The report says, “87% reported that their sales teams were having difficulty meeting or exceeding quota.” It also reinforces a culture of mediocrity because when not hitting quota is normal and expected, more people don’t hit quota because their jobs are clearly not in jeopardy.

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Quota Commission Sales Represent 88

Iannarino

APRIL 18, 2023

These large clients have greater needs, spend more money, and meet with multiple sales organizations. Winning one enterprise-level deal can retire your quota for the year. The strategies you might use when pursuing a small or average-sized company cannot help you win large clients.

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Closing Quota Gaming Clients 277

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These targets are used to guide the quota-setting, territory mapping , and sales team strategies. These include things like quota attainment for a sales team and the numbers of deals in reps’ pipelines. With sales targets in place, your team can create quotas to strive for and specific strategies for hitting those quotas.

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Quota Territory Pipeline Sales 116

Tibor Shanto

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Unfortunately, many salespeople see their pipeline as a holding tank for opportunities, rather than a means of driving to quota. What is in your pipeline should meet specific and defined criteria. Pipeline reviews involve flows and paths to success, quota. Before you get too excited, the battle is with time, quota, and skill.

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Pipeline Quota Consult Prospecting 257

Iannarino

JULY 16, 2022

A search for something like “quota attainment” reveals that a large part of the sales population is missing their target. Every week, we hear from sales leaders and sales managers who complain about how their teams are unable to get a second meeting, an indication something is amiss. The data shows that salespeople are not doing well.

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Quota Sales Clients Meeting 262

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

The application syncs to Google Calendar, allowing users to click the link in their calendar and enter a scheduled meeting in just three steps. That was three clicks to get into a business meeting. Perfecting cold calling practices: Sales reps should never pitch or push for a meeting right away. Step 3: Click on the Zoom link.

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Quota Cold Call CRM Sales 131

Iannarino

APRIL 20, 2023

A senior leader was unhappy with his sales force because they consistently failed to meet their sales targets. Based on his math, he asked his team to create a sales pipeline that was 800 percent of their individual sales quotas. To improve their sales results, he ran some calculations that showed his team had a 12 percent win rate.

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Quota Pipeline B2B Meeting 255

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 4, 2025

The third part is having and following through on consequences for failure to meet the required targets. Many sales leaders fail to set targets for much more than revenue/quota and perhaps 2-3 others from my list. Having a job in sales should not be the equivalent to membership in a country club, where you are welcome until you resign.

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Quota Territory Pipeline Referrals 69

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

How many emails, how many calls, how many meetings, how many demos how many proposals, how many bathroom breaks……… And the gurus reinforce and intensify this. And every performance issue is addressed by running the numbers setting new goals; more emails, more calls, more meetings, more demos, more activity.

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Gaming Up-sell Quota Pitch 122

SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

So instead of just thinking about bookings targets and bookings attainment in meetings, she brought revenue focus into every cadence of running the business. But as she dug in, the real answer was too many sales reps were overbooking deals because of the pressure to hit their bookings quota.

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Objectives and Key Results Growth Engineering Quota 119

Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 10, 2021

Questions are the weapon of choice for consistently successful salespeople, so listen up the half that aren’t making quota. It very much is a closed ended process, that executed right, will allow you to have a meeting where you can leverage open ended questions. It’s an easy way to book more meetings and win more business.

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Appointment Quota Prospecting Education 274

STAR Results

AUGUST 26, 2021

Two key areas of focus are: what accounts represent the best opportunity to achieve their quota, and which accounts are new business going to come from. Many of my clients have been so busy with sales meetings that they have not spent any time in the field this year. Do Your Reps Know What Their Quotas Are?

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Quota Sales Represent Start-ups 279

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

So it’s the season where there are … some tough board meetings. Then, expect a tougher board meeting than you’d like. Even if that’s all board meetings were for 2021 and into early 2022. Help everyone see the context. “Yes, it was a tough quarter on sales, but Linda and Jill hit 120% of quota.

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Meeting Quota Growth Presentation 119

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Most salespeople expect to miss their quota every single year. But hitting quota every year doesn’t always equate to a perfect sales enablement strategy for a few reasons. First , quota is set too low to accommodate for sales process inefficiencies. This is why sales reps experience high turnover and workplace stress.

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CRM Quota Sales Pipeline 262

Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

Wrap touchpoints around meetings. The main one is to treat video sales meetings like in-person calls. Would you show up to a serious meeting in a t-shirt and baseball cap? Hubspot explains how to set up video for sales meetings. Wrap TouchPoints Around Meetings. 10 Steps to Building a Virtual Selling Team.

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Sell Education CRM Up-sell 317

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin emphasizes the importance of maintaining enough quota coverage to meet revenue targets while accounting for factors like rep attrition and ramp time. Hiring and team expansion decisions were driven by a combination of top-down demand modeling and bottom-up capacity planning.

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GTM Construction Quota Growth 109

Martech

JULY 17, 2024

As performance becomes harder to predict, Emma is caught in a whirlwind of soaring CPAs, long “gap-close meetings,” and the desperate need to meet ever-higher quotas. Understanding product-market fit Product-market fit occurs when a product meets the needs of a specific market and is widely accepted.

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GTM Product Strategize Drivers/motivators 101

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 24, 2025

I track myself and each person on my team on three fundamental metrics: YTD performance against goal, number of high impact conversations each week (each person has a quota, mine is 6. Again, while we have lots more information, with those three metrics, I have a very good of our ability to meet those goals based on those three metrics.

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High impact Pipeline Inside sales Quota 111

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Whether it’s your first time planning a sales meeting agenda or your 100th, this time is yours to connect with and support your team. As a sales leader, meetings with your whole team of reps can be a valuable health check for your business — but they can also waste salespeople’s valuable time selling.

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Meeting Drivers/motivators Sales Quota 105

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It’s all about crushing quota! Some buyers are still working from home, and most face-to-face meetings have been replaced by Zoom calls. Customer Experience is now the number one key performance indicator, replacing sales quota. Table of Contents. What is Sales Acceleration? No need to fret. And isn’t that Sales Utopia?

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Sales Quota Up-sell Contact 290

Sales Gravy

MARCH 13, 2025

How many times have you gotten to the meeting but your pitch fell flat? P - Problem & Pain An eventual Yes stems from painpain from stalled business, lost revenue, or missed quotas. They couldnt make quota. Outline the ROI clearly and make it simple, easy, How many times have you gotten to the meeting but your pitch fell flat?

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Quota Pitch Sales Prospecting 63

Veloxy

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Generate reports showing which team members are updating their records and meeting data-entry standards. Share these reports in team meetings to foster healthy competition and provide visibility into individual contributions. Share these success stories in team meetings or company-wide communications. Be sure to follow up.

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Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Outside Sales Follow-up 130

Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As you can see in the graphic, this functionality coordinates with Pipeliner’s real-time pipeline data within its opportunity management to guide the company to meet its targets and quotas. In addition, several different KPIs within historical data need to be understood for the targets and quotas to be accurately set.

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Pipeline Quota CRM Territory 211

Veloxy

APRIL 28, 2021

Along with a few ideas on how the tech can help them hit and exceed their quotas. With relevant data, you can go ahead to develop a tailored, personalized pitch before even meeting with a prospect face to face. If you bombard your team with non-selling activities, even the best sales rep will be unable to hit their quotas consistently.

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Cross-sell Sales Quota Up-sell 289

Veloxy

MAY 25, 2021

Whether it’s cold-calling prospective clients or following up after a meeting, discipline moves the successful salesperson to get it done and get it done on time. Artificial intelligence, machine learning , and great advancements in personalization are driving personal sales quotas and team sales quotas like never before!

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Referrals Quota Cold Call Contact 290

Veloxy

JANUARY 20, 2023

On top of that, they want sellers to meet them “wherever” they are. That’s a lot of pressure to add on top of economic uncertainty and rising quota. How can a salesperson meet all of these standards while also enjoying what they do? What if the answer was this: Be more human.

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Sell Quota Sales Cold Call 246

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Before Covid, field sales was synonymous with hitting the road, meeting customers in person, and regularly making significant commissions. Fortune 500 and Inc 5000 companies have found continued success with new field sales strategies and technology, and a new number one key performance indicator (hint: it’s not quota).

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Territory Inside sales Outside Sales Pharmaceutical 244

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Many organizations may closely meet your company’s ideal customer profile (ICP) criteria and warrant sales reps to proactively reach out to them. A lead meets a company’s qualification criteria (like BANT ) to be added to a company’s deal forecast. Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs). Opportunity. Evangelist.

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Territory Cold Call SQL Campaign 83

SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2025

And Get Them Both Hitting a Basic, Sustainable Quota. If they tilt the curve. -> But also give your sales leader, and your individual reps before you have one, a quota on your time and meetings per week. If you jump too early, you risk hiring sales reps who flounder because the process isnt defined yet.

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Commission Objection handling Quota Sales 77