sales performance
- CRM and Data Platforms
Close: The Inside Sales CRM and Sales Automation Platform For Fast, Agile Teams
Close is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Automation platform designed specifically for sales teams. Close streamlines and improves the sales process, enabling businesses to close deals faster and more efficiently. Close primarily helps small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and startups that have a focus on B2B sales. It is especially beneficial for sales-driven organizations with inbound sales teams who…
- CRM and Data Platforms
The 4 Steps To Implement Or Cleanup CRM Data To Maximize Your Sales Performance
Companies that wish to improve their sales performance typically invest in an implementation strategy of a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. We’ve discussed why companies implement a CRM, and companies often take the step… but the transformations often fail for a few reasons: Data – At times, companies simply opt for a data dump of their accounts and contacts into…
- CRM and Data Platforms
Ambition: Gamification To Manage, Motivate, and Maximize Your Sales Team’s Performance
Sales performance is essential to any growing business. With an engaged sales team, they feel more motivated and connected to the organization’s goals and objectives. The negative impact of disengaged employees on an organization can be substantial — such as lackluster productivity, and wasted talent and resources. When it comes to the sales team specifically, a lack of engagement can…
- Sales Enablement
Key Changes You Need To Make To Your Annual Sales Kick-Off Meeting
It’s getting to be that time of year again, when Sales and Sales Enablement leaders are planning their annual sales kick-off meetings. It’s no small task. In addition to the basic logistics of selecting a destination, blocking rooms and finding meeting space, there’s an unspoken pressure to top last year’s meeting. How can we make it bigger and better? What…
- Marketing Infographics
How to Improve Your Sales Team’s Performance
So many of my friends are great sales people. Quite honestly, I never fully respected their craft until I started my own business and took a stab at it. I had a great audience, solid relationships with companies who respected me, and a great service that they needed. None of that mattered the second I stepped through the door to…
- Sales and Marketing Training
Sales and Marketing Alignment: Top Predictions for the Future
We recently had a fantastic interview with Giles House and one of the topics of the discussion was sales and marketing alignment. Fresh off that interview, InsideView recently published these predictions for sales and marketing alignment. They’re based on the new book, Aligned to Achieve: How to Unite Your Sales and Marketing Teams into a Single Force for Growth, authored by their CMO Tracy Eiler…
- Sales Enablement
Transforming Your Sales through a Multi-Threaded Approach
I was invited to take part in a recent panel discussion at the Sales Management Association’s Sales Productivity Conference in Atlanta. The session was focused on Sales Transformation, with the panelists providing their thoughts and insights on best practices and critical success factors. One of the first discussion points attempted to define the term itself. What is sales transformation? Is…
- Marketing Infographics
10 Sales Performance Stats To Know
What percentage of sales people, on average, miss their quota? What is the average close rate? How much better do the best sales reps perform compared to the average? What percentage of salespeople actually understand their customer’s pain? What percentage of sales representatives feel the pipeline is accurate? In partnership with Salesforce Work.com, this infographic from the TAS Group presents…
