Tibor Shanto

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In essence he delivers the building blocks of Sales Enablement. Mike shares the 12 building blocks, tied together with systems thinking and communication management, sitting on a base of (optional) sales support services. It turns out, sales enablement isn’t just training, or content, or technology. Big Messages .

GTM 167

GTM Sales Consult Quota 167

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Sales Cycle. This includes everything from inside sales to account executives to strategic asset allocation. Post Sales. Support the professional services and customer managers who guide your clients. For strategic accounts, it would make sense to pull out all the stops because of the prize size.

GTM 109

GTM Strategize Government Inside sales 109

InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

Sales operations has been around for quite some time, but lately the function has been gaining momentum. Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership.

Contract 119

Contract CRM Territory Sales 119

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

Data from Crossbeam shows that ELG is the third-most cost-effective strategy behind customer referrals and inbound sales. Support on pipeline movement. Together, you can strategize the best approach to moving those leads through the pipeline. Let’s break it down Why ecosystem-led growth? 4 huge benefits: Cost-effectiveness.

GTM 121

GTM Growth Referrals Cross-sell 121

Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Pre-sales engagement: Salespeople can influence customer perception from the very first interaction. Post-sales support: The role of sales doesn’t end with the closing of a deal. Following up, addressing post-sale concerns, and ensuring customer satisfaction are vital for fostering loyalty and repeat business.

Service 147

Service Customers CRM Campaign 147

Pointclear

JANUARY 15, 2013

What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.

Lead generation 80

Lead generation Healthcare Strategize Appointment 80

A Sales Guy

JULY 16, 2012

Quota MUST take into consideration, territory, product availability, sales cycle, sales support and market conditions. Therefore, the exercise to set quota is a business exercise, not a sales or commission discussion. Let’s start with the rules: Quota MUST align with the business objectives.

Quota 113

Quota Territory Commission Drivers/motivators 113

A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Bad sales techniques aside, I did enjoy learning about the new companies providing a breadth of sales support products and services. There was good attendance by sales solutions companies. There are a lot of killer companies starting in world of sales support. How bizarre is that?

Sell 92

Sell Pitch Technique Sales 92

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

In good times, the shield is set aside and angled parabolically to reflect back to the pure sales acumen of the sales leader boss who has scheduled themself to present in front of the next all hands meeting to show everyone that their department is the reason times are good.” — Sean Mulvihill , Founder & CEO at Storiphi.

Pipeline 122

Pipeline Angle GTM Consult 122

Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 21, 2020

Sales Support. Sales Planning Support. On average, sales operations teams owned or played a heavy hand in managing 11 or more of those 21 practices. The highest performing sales organizations in the study reported that their sales ops team took the lead in more than 14 activities. Own Sales Support.

Quota 75

Quota CRM Technology Technology 75

Partners in Excellence

JULY 8, 2013

We need to reassess how we deploy our sales teams to maximize the value we bring to customers. Larger organizations leverage specialists, pre-sales support, technical specialists and others. In many cases, we leverage strategic partners to help provide the breadth and depth of skills needed to drive customer success.

Territory 118

Territory Account management Cross-sell Sales 118

A Sales Guy

JULY 23, 2014

Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. In short, sales compensation should be not just a tactical focus for your organization, but a strategic one as well. Sizing It Up. Compensation plans shouldn’t be developed in a vacuum.

Commission 120

Commission Quota Cold Call Sales 120

Partners in Excellence

MAY 27, 2021

For example, product management/marketing, strategic planning, finance, legal, HR, manufacturing, logistics, operations… Each part of the organization has dependencies on each other. We can no longer be Sales led, Digitally supported. Instead, we must reinvent everything around Digitally led, Sales supported.

Strategic planning 133

Strategic planning Manufacturing Legal Finance 133

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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Gaming 128

Gaming Objectives and Key Results Sales Up-sell 128

Martech

DECEMBER 1, 2023

But strategically, cost-effective acquisition isn’t about spending less or increasing the team. Having a sales enablement specialist who keeps in touch with the leads after a call with SE brought Belkins the following results: Twice more deals. 30% shorter sales cycle. Cutting down costs on marketing and advertising.

Process 107

Process Customers Appointment Pharmaceutical 107

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Once onboard, get regular input from your sales, support, and customer success teams. Make strategic decisions and leverage your data. As a founder, consider personally interviewing your first 100+ hires to ensure they are culturally aligned—even more critical in a fully remote organization. Go global early.

Cross-sell 109

Cross-sell Account management Clients Growth 109

Salesmate

JULY 9, 2020

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. Are there issues quality, lack of availability, or poor after-sales support?

Pipeline 121

Pipeline Contract Sales Territory 121

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The distributor may also augment the vendor’s resources by providing training, technical assistance, marketing, and sales support to all of the channel partners. Larger enterprises that want to eliminate the day to day tactical responsibilities from their IT team so they can focus on more strategic technology initiatives.

Commission 117

Commission Manufacturing Negotiate Contract 117

Martech

MARCH 1, 2024

Thus, retention is gaining traction again as a strategic B2B marketing priority. Examples of successful applications of continuous selling models in B2B include: After-sales support services. But let’s remember that retention, loyalty and value expansion in B2B are different from B2C. Replacement parts. Just-in-time components.

B2B 128

B2B Cross-sell Pharmaceutical Account management 128

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

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. .

B2B 105

B2B E-commerce Cold Call Represent 105

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

And it’s really allowed us to just align closer to our customer’s most strategic partner and where they’re going long-term with regards to that. So those have been the two things, both deal acceleration, but also allowing us to get closer to our most strategic partner. Rico Mallozzi: No, I totally agree.

Cross-sell 103

Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 103

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

If you're happier in the trenches making sales and ringing the gong, a sales manager position might not be for you. Sales Engineer. These professionals are also known as “pre-sales support,” “systems engineer,” or “field consultant.” VP of Sales.

Territory 101

Territory Commission Outside Sales Account management 101

A Sales Guy

JANUARY 30, 2012

If done correctly, the company and its sales people will be percieved as a go to resource for critical, strategic decisions customers and prospects make around your products and services. Supporting sales no longer means providing slick, glossy, product sheets or spec sheets.

Pitch 93

Pitch Government Up-sell Clients 93

Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2018

We often don’t speak the language of business, and we don’t do a good job of strategically aligning our programs to their goals. The goals should not be just to support the sales force in general but to drive specific, transformative, and measurable changes in the organization and its performance.

Non-Profits 100

Non-Profits Profit margin Quota Sales 100

Pointclear

DECEMBER 12, 2013

TV networks are just like the marketing resources and sales support at your company: they provide you with sales content, such as presentations and data – and do so with the best of intentions – but don’t offer the framework necessary to be valuable for meeting your sales goals.

Entertainment 72

Entertainment Networking Pitch Prospecting 72

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

This creates a unique window of opportunity for strategic partnerships. Marj Koppelaar , Head of Strategic Partnerships at Mirakl : “I do a lot of research into the company to find out what they are trying to achieve. For instance, product marketing assets and internal sales enablement assets make great partner toolkits.

Strategic partnership 84

Strategic partnership Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Strategize 84

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

This creates a unique window of opportunity for strategic partnerships. Marj Koppelaar , Head of Strategic Partnerships at Mirakl : “I do a lot of research into the company to find out what they are trying to achieve. For instance, product marketing assets and internal sales enablement assets make great partner toolkits.

Strategic partnership 77

Strategic partnership Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Strategize 77

Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 14, 2020

Survey respondents—global sales organizations with dedicated sales operations functions—indicated that sales operations touches or owns 21 activities, divided into four categories: Sales Performance Management, including sales metrics and analysis, forecasting and pipeline management, reporting, and sales leadership communication.

Technology 58

Technology Technology Growth Quota 58

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

And because of that our overall sales and marketing spin, when we compare it to our next competitor, is about 50%. So myth number three is worry about sales support later. And his question to me was, hey, when should I hire my first sales support person? Myth number three. He has a $10 million business.

Cross-sell 69

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 69

criteria for success

DECEMBER 31, 2019

A sales process is to selling as a recipe is to a cake. Without the proper steps in a particular and strategic order, you will fail at both selling and baking a cake. Watch our webinar on how a sales process can make or break your business. Don’t forget: every sales process exists for a reason. Want to learn more?

Process 59

Process B2B Territory CRM 59

The 5% Institute

JUNE 7, 2023

In today’s competitive market, having an effective sales methodology is essential to drive revenue and achieve business goals. The Spiced Sales Methodology is a comprehensive approach that has gained popularity among sales professionals.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results B2C Strategic planning Relationship building 52

SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

Keynote Sales Speaker / best-selling Author: High-Profit Prospecting / Helping You Find Better Prospects NOW. According to Mark Hunter, Sales is the greatest profession and he loves to help solo salesperson, sales team or any startup to give a boost to their sales by strategizing and implementing prospecting sales strategies.

Inside sales 76

Inside sales Consult Cold Call Sales 76

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

You may agonize over the decision to choose one path over the other, but you can save that strategic energy for figuring out how to transition more free users into paying customers. Will you still need sales support for some enterprise accounts? Freemium and free-trial signups have one thing in common: Neither generates revenue.

Customers 119

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 22, 2018

3) Analytical and Strategic. A great CSM needs to be analytical and strategic. You will likely talk to people from outside of Customer Success, such as Sales, Support or the Product team. Being highly organized and proactive is another key to success in the role. 4) Emotional Intelligence.

Customers 69

Customers Strategize Start-ups Service 69

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

According to our research , almost all (97%) manufacturers are pursuing strategic changes to their service and aftermarket operations. In today’s digital and customer-centric world, manufacturers must evolve to remain competitive and drive growth. Many view service as a major opportunity.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Service Contact CRM 52

Hubspot

MARCH 21, 2012

For example, you might change an offer targeted at a C-suite executive to be shorter, use a more professional tone, and provide less tactical and more strategic advice. Once you've identified the best offers, you can simply update the language and layout to cater to each persona's interests and needs. You can do this for an ebook, too!

Presentation 78

Presentation Lead generation Angle Follow-up 78

Salesforce

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From there you can automate account-based research within Sales Cloud, using built-in AI that pulls in relevant data from the web. You can also ask your sales support people to research industry trends that will help your sales team understand the challenges their customers face.

Teamwork 59

Teamwork Customers Cross-sell Strategic planning 59