Tibor Shanto

JANUARY 11, 2022

But if you’re going to plan, there is more to it than Territory or Account Planning. Not only more, but more diverse way to plan and execute to exceed quota. I talk a lot about focusing on prospects’ Objectives. Sure, everyone has the goal of making quota, or improve prospecting, but the question is how?

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Territory Quota CRM Prospecting 167

A Sales Guy

JANUARY 21, 2013

As VP of Sales or Head of Sales, making quota is your job. Therefore, knowing whether or not your team is going to make quota as early as possible is critical. I know who is going to make quota this year and who isn’t. They have no idea how they are going to make quota. Quota is missed most by this group.

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Quota Territory Clients Start-ups 127

A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Quota is hard enough to make as it is. Only 52% of sales people make quota. Doing these things will make for sure you don’t make quota. Bitch you have a shitty territory . Some territories are better than others. Not do enough prospecting . So you better prospect more. Blogging is prospecting.

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Quota Cold Call Territory CRM 116

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

Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2020

If a salesperson hit quota at their last job, they’re much more likely to hit quota at your organization, right? of sales professionals globally are achieving quota. It turns out that quota attainment has become the exception, not the rule. I didn’t make this decision because quota information was difficult to get.

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Quota Cold Call Outside Sales Sales 113

Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

What would it take to get through to prospects so busy that landing their accounts sounds like an urban myth ? By the time a rep is reaching out to a prospect, you’re most likely the 10 th generic sales robot to try your luck. Needless to say, you’ll find the prospects agenda full. Breaking Through to Busy Buyers.

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Sell Cold Call Pitch Prospecting 317

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

Compensation & Performance Metrics Fuel a Culture of Winning: Codium structured its compensation and quota models to create immediate success. A staggering 7 out of 10 early sales hires exceeded their annual quotas, and some reps are on track to earn seven figures in their first year.

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Territory Drivers/motivators Quota Pipeline 71

Openview

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The beginning of the year is typically a time where you either get a new territory or simply start from scratch with your current one. How do you best take action on your territory plan? Here are three actionable techniques to use when getting started with your territory plan and working toward crushing your goals in 2019.

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Territory Quota Technique Follow-up 89

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ineffective territory planning might lead to uneven distribution of resources or overlooking potential opportunities. Analyze territories strategically, considering factors like customer density, buying behaviors, and competition. With Veloxy, your team can focus more on engaging with prospects and increasing their conversion rate.

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Objectives and Key Results Territory Inside sales Cross-sell 279

Hubspot

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a 2023 survey of over 450 sales leaders, 91% of their teams missed quota that year. This begins at the sales rep level but can become an enterprise-wide problem when sales staff, from reps up to SVPs, focus on their year-to-date (YTD) positions against quota. Why are revenue targets so hard to hit?

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Meeting Pipeline Quota Sales 66

Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 14, 2023

You could also be well behind your quota, struggling to stay motivated and worried about job security. Why are territories carved the way they are? A good example of where it’s helpful to create this transparency is in the areas of quota and year-over-year (YoY) growth. Year-end can be the most exciting time in sales.

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Quota Pipeline Drivers/motivators Negotiate 209

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 26, 2012

In some sectors, fewer than 25% of all salespeople will make quota in 2012. Even best-in-class companies are lucky when fewer than 80% of their salespeople make quota. Are you OK with it when your own salespeople fail to make quota? Sales Strategies can play a role in salespeople failing to make quota.

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Quota Territory Consult Price 86

Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Pick Up a BookI once pulled myself out of a rut by alternating 10 minutes of prospecting with 10 minutes of reading No Bull Selling by Hank Trisler. That pattern helped him stay focused and eventually led him to top-performer status in his region. 15 minutes of prospecting, 10 minutes of follow-ups) add up.

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Territory Drivers/motivators Quota Sales 57

Tibor Shanto

JANUARY 25, 2022

The driving question being how do I take a territory from a 20% margin base, to 25%? There are several ways to slice this, but it needs to be surfaced in coaching and quota discussions more often. How are they selling and negotiating with prospects? You should be upgrading your base as often as your phone. Margin Of Error.

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Commission Territory Negotiate Quota 157

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Sales leaders often evaluate prospects and existing customers based on readily available information — order history, and firmographic data (company location, size, industry, etc). Start your sales planning efforts with account segmentation to fill your territories with fruitful opportunities and increase your sellers’ ability to hit quotas.

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Territory Quota Strategic planning Sales 120

Hubspot

JANUARY 14, 2025

Theyre someone who takes initiative, inspires their fellow salespeople, and drives revenue growth through an innovative approach to prospecting and selling. When it comes to B2B sales, relationships, strategic alignment, and trust determine the success of everything, from initial prospecting to long-term client retention.

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Negotiate Cross-sell Drivers/motivators Strategize 78

Sales Pop!

MAY 28, 2023

For example, if AI were equipped with adequate data points, perhaps we might be able to more accurately forecast earthquakes in regions where they are a threat. Perhaps you don’t have enough meetings set, or you had enough meetings set but haven’t actually had them because prospects didn’t arrive. leads us to prescriptive analytics.

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Hospitality Pipeline Sales Territory 234

Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Role of an Outside Sales Representative An outside sales representative, also known as a sales rep, is responsible for conducting sales activities in the field through direct customer interactions, both with prospective and existing customers. Lead generation software is another vital tool for outside sales teams.

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Outside Sales Cold Call Represent Objectives and Key Results 242

Gong.io

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The value of sales territories isn’t lost on most sales leaders (and if it is, we’ll clarify that shortly). The problem is making your sales territory planning fair without swallowing up your time. . What is sales territory mapping, and why is it important? What is sales territory mapping, and why is it important?

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Territory Cross-sell Sales Non-Profits 62

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We have all sorts of pipeline metrics, activity metrics, prospecting metrics, account, territory, retention, renewal, mix, margin, and endless other metrics. Let’s imagine we have two sales people with very similar territories. Both have identical quotas, $5M. ” They say, “They have to prospect more!!!

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SQL Territory Pipeline Quota 149

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. After all, the reps have quotas to hit and there’s currently too much commentary of AI being aspirational as opposed to practical. This helps with prospecting and smoother decision making.

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Sales Non-Profits CRM Pipeline 223

Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2018

Every business runs like a B2B sales prospecting operation. You head out to a territory (market) where you can mine (generate) something valuable, then sift (qualify) good finds from the bad. Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Why B2B Sales Prospecting Needs More Attention Than You Think.

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B2B Prospecting Cold Call Referrals 105

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2021

” Too often, the driving metric for sales performance is “the number,” quota, or the revenue goal. Each has made their number, they’ve each hit their quota of $5M revenue. I’d go further, saying Sales person 1, even though he hit his number, significantly underperformed the potential in his territory.

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Territory Quota Growth Account management 138

Salesforce

AUGUST 15, 2023

If creating a sales team is like building a car, then territory management is where the rubber meets the road. But not all territory management is created equal. But first, let’s get clear on what territory management means. Watch the demo What is territory management? Let’s take a look.

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Territory Healthcare Quota Pipeline 52

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

We also do Account and Territory Planning –or we should. How do we expand our relationships in the account or territory? The most effective sales people don’t just do this randomly, but they have a structured process–they analyze their accounts and territories, assessing the potential.

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Product Territory Sales Quota 126

Veloxy

MARCH 15, 2023

This means identifying the bottlenecks in the sales process and addressing them to speed up the time it takes for prospects to become customers. This includes identifying the bottlenecks in the sales process and addressing them to speed up the time it takes for prospects to become customers. Try our revenue growth calculator!

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Cross-sell Objectives and Key Results Growth Teamwork 246

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2018

Although it’s difficult to generalize across sectors and territories, our data found that higher performing sales teams saw a typical conversion rate of 37%, closing deals on average in 36.5 Don’t be afraid to say no to prospects. Keep your sales pipeline lean—don’t go after every prospect that walks through the door.

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Quota Process Pipeline CRM 77

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Everyone is focused on quota performance. Our quota, our target, whatever we call it, it’s the number we have to achieve this year. Our quota performance, year to date, is a trailing metric. We’ve hit the end of the month, we look at quota attainment and see that we are really behind our number.

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Quota Territory Pipeline Up-sell 115

A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 21, 2013

When faced with a tough economy, a competitive space, or a high quota, knowing “how” you are going to make quota and drive the revenue number is difference between the good sales people and the best. It’s too easy for sales people to blame the economy, quota, their shitty boss, a bad territory or a poor product.

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Pitch Cold Call Territory Quota 137

Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

When we talk about outside sales, we’re referring to a team that goes out on sales calls to sell regionally and at conferences, events, and so on. On the flip side, inside sales is handled remotely without face-to-face interaction with prospective buyers. Inside Sales Team. What Positions Make up an Inside Sales Team?

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Inside sales CRM Sales Pipeline 232

Hubspot

MARCH 7, 2018

How are your salespeople contributing to the expansion of your business in their given territory? Who’s reaching their quota? Is quota too high? Of the new prospects your reps reach out to, how many convert to customers ? Are lower-performing reps approaching bad-fit prospects?

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Territory Cross-sell A/B testing Promote 101

Veloxy

JULY 14, 2023

It’s about finding the optimal path that seamlessly integrates with your sales strategy, empowering you to exceed quotas and surpass customer expectations. Photo of Badger Maps GeoPointe GeoPointe is a popular choice among Territory Managers who oversee multiple field sales representatives.

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Territory Gaming Drivers/motivators Sales 130

A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Great sales people identify unique, out of the box solutions to; getting deals unstuck, prospecting, getting to decision makers or solving product challenges. Knowing the history of manufacturing in America or how Attila the Hun rose to power could help you make quota. They bring an amazing creativity to solving problems.

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Manufacturing Quota Angle Territory 90

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

SDRs (also commonly called business development reps, or BDRs) are responsible for the first part of the sales process: Researching, prospecting, and qualifying leads. Unlike a closing sales rep, SDRs don’t carry a traditional quota. AEs are held to quotas. Account Executive (AE). Resiliency is crucial.

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Territory Commission Outside Sales Account management 101

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2025

“Marketing is fluffy and unmeasurable” – Unlike sales, which has clear metrics like quota attainment, founders often believe marketing can’t be measured. A smaller number of high-quality leads that convert at higher rates is vastly superior to a flood of poor-fit prospects.

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Pipeline B2B Territory Quota 78

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2012

Pipeline reviews, territory reviews, account reviews, opportunity reviews, call reviews. The same thing happens in account or territory reviews. We start talking about the account or territory plan, and within a few minutes, a deal pops up and we shift our focus to a deal. Do we have enough deals to achieve our quotas?

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Territory Pipeline Quota Represent 112

Hubspot

APRIL 2, 2018

I’m looking forward to working with you [prospect].". Great to meet you [prospect]! You’re working with a prospect. I found myself in this situation a few years back: The deal had been advancing, my prospect was responsive over email, and I was confident we would close soon. I just wanted to introduce myself.".

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Prospecting X-functional Contract Cross-sell 101