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Why Sales People Fail (When the Company is to Blame)

A Sales Guy

Sales people fail because they company fails them and when the company fails them the isn’t doing some or all of these things; They don’t provide a good competitive product. They aren’t providing solid sales support (enablement). They’ve created a shitty sales culture. They lack sales leadership.

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Why Sales Quota Must be Perceived as Achievable

A Sales Guy

When quotas are not perceived as achievable, sales people just give up and don’t even try. It’s like pricing yourself out of the housing market. Sales Support (Insides Sales, Content Marketing, Technical Support, etc.). Sales Investments. RULE 1: Quota MUST BE perceived as attainable.

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11 essential sales pipeline metrics you should be tracking

Salesmate

Your sales pipeline covers every stage of the customer acquisition process from leads to after-sales support to repeat business. To be successful in sales, you need to track specific sales pipeline metrics. Your average deal size is a useful sales pipeline metric for assessing gross revenue.

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62 Reasons You AREN’T Going to Make Quota this Year

A Sales Guy

Bitch you have a shitty territory . Some territories are better than others. Rather than bitch your territory isn’t as good as Mary’s or Fred’s, figure out a way to get more out of it. Yup, you could have better sales support. And yes, the organization could provide better sales enablement.

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170 Sales Terms From A – Z: The Updated Glossary of B2B Sales Definitions

Sales Hacker

Average Sale/Selling Price. Account Based Marketing (ABM) is a strategic framework that engages qualified individual prospects or customer accounts as unique markets in themselves, worthy of focused, hyper-personalized treatment by sales, marketing and other teams. . Inbound Sales. Pricing/Price.

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15 Mistakes GTM Teams Make When Moving Upmarket (and how to avoid them)

Sales Hacker

” Is it something beyond just “we want bigger deal sizes to make our unit economics work” or do they feel they have a strong product market fit and can actually command those prices. Needs more pre sales support. Once those are in place, then you can put together a real enterprise sales strategy.

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The Breakthrough Guide to a B2B Sales Process

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Believe it or not, the sales process strategy extends far beyond just you and your sales team. When building out a sales process, get together a group of employees involved in different sales support functions. Depending on your solution, allocation can be based on territory, company size, industry, or persona.

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