Resources

Assign too little potential to salespeople and they'll starve, but too much assigned potential leaves some opportunities unaddressed. Balancing potential across sales territories helps make quotas achievable for all salespeople and maximizes the firm's sales capacity and productivity. This webcast considers territory optimization approaches, including: Utilizing what-if scenario analysis to...Read more

How do top-performing sales managers consistently exceed their targets? Join Vantage Point partner Michelle Vazzana as she discusses the newly revealed secrets of rock star sales managers. Through the groundbreaking research in her new book, Crushing Quota, Michelle will demonstrate: How high-performing managers create clarity of task for the salespeople...Read more

Fundamentals of Sales Territory Optimization and Management Well designed and managed sales territories allow firms to maximize sales force capacity, provide a foundation for other sales performance management activities (including incentive compensation and quota design), and have a host of other benefits to sales forces. This course reviews territory management...Read more

Sales forces are change-intensive organizations, as are the markets and customers they serve. This research reviews critical change management practices in business-to-business sales forces, focusing on management’s efforts to anticipate and lead high impact change initiatives. Research outcomes include the degree and speed of change facing sales organizations, sales organization’s...Read more

Author Jason DeAmato considers behavioral and social intelligence key to sales success. In this webcast, he presents a model for categorizing buyers into one of four social styles: analytical, driving, amiable, and expressive. These styles, according to DeAmato, dictate how each individual person acts, thinks, and makes decisions. DeAmato shows...Read more

What are the secrets to rolling out a winning sales compensation plan? It's critical that the plan be easily understood and that it powerfully motivates the performance of everyone on your sales team, but there are other factors to consider as well, especially because the plan's success depends on your...Read more

Business-to-business sales forces confront a "customer experience gap" born from the suddenly widening distance between buyers' expectations and experiences. B2B buyers now want two things they're accustomed to from consumer experiences, but that most B2B suppliers can't do simultaneously: accurate, on-demand answers addressing their unique issues, and interactions across a...Read more

Recent Sales Management Association research identifies best practices in salesperson onboarding, and quantifies the economic impact when firms effectively onboard new salespeople. Join Bob Kelly, Chairman of the SMA, who hosts a panel of thought leaders and practitioners to discuss the business case for onboarding investment. Bob and the panel...Read more