Imagine if you could snap your fingers and give every sales rep on your team five extra hours to sell each day. Think how much more productive they could be. Some of the most successful sales operations managers have discovered how to control time, in a sense. By automating key processes, sales operations managers can increase […]

No two salespeople are exactly alike. But when you’ve spent enough time managing sales reps, you begin to notice patterns. There are some personality types that are common to most sales organizations. And one of the biggest mistakes that sales managers make is managing every rep the same. Inside sales reps with different personalities will […]

Sales analytics can give sales leaders valuable insight into both reps’ activities and the outcomes of those activities. Having that visibility can empower leaders to do a far better job of coaching reps to success. But analytics can also be used to help coaches improve their own performance. For our latest eBook, we asked some sales […]

Investments in sales management training has soared over the last two decades, with U.S. corporations alone spending $15 billion each year, according to the Harvard Business Review. With such high amounts being spent, businesses are understandably keen to measure their return on those investments. However, the ROI on this type of training is more difficult […]

It can be a challenge to remain customer-focused when the pressure is turned up from your sales managers, especially at the end of a quarter. It’s even more challenging at the end of the fiscal year. It’s easy to just focus in on the numbers. Now don’t get me wrong- we are all hired to […]

Going into a new sales year, it’s more important that ever to ensure that sales and are in lock-step. One of the biggest mistakes that I see B2B companies make is assuming that Marketing’s job is simply to generate leads. Sure, generating high-quality leads is an essential ingredient in a healthy sales pipeline. But the best […]

Are you looking for new ways to transform your sales team in 2017? In 2016, we partnered with some of the most successful sales leaders in the world to create our most popular library of sales eBooks and sales tools yet. Each resource is packed with tips that you can start using right away to accelerate […]

Step onto the showroom floor at any large-scale technology conference and you’re bound to see hundreds or even thousands of technology vendors offering competing solutions. Each promises to be the magic bullet that maximizes productivity and drives exponential revenue for your business. But the truth is that all companies have a limited budget. No one […]

A great sales operations manager or director of sales operations is nothing short of a superhero. More and more sales leaders are waking up to just how important a role sales operations has become. Just think of all the data involved in sales today. There’s prospect data that, when delivered in the right context, can […]

What’s the secret sauce to building an invincible sales team that routinely beats the competition? How can you motivate each rep to perform at their absolute best? I’ve spoken to several leaders of top performing sales organizations over the past few years, and they almost unanimously credit a powerful sales operations plan as the secret […]

Imagine that you’re on a sales discovery call and it’s going really well! You’ve built rapport, identified an urgent need for a solution and established that your prospect meets all your technical requirements. But the most crucial part of the call typically occurs during the last couple minutes. In this highly competitive business climate, you can’t end your […]

Email cadencing software is growing more and more prominent. How do I know? Because each day my inbox is inundated with more sales emails. The trouble is, very few of the sales emails I get are personalized. Reps are clearly just using set-and-forget email cadence software, throwing bad emails against the wall and seeing what sticks. […]