Resources

Productive sales forces ensure their salespeople are both effective and efficient. That includes focusing sellers on spending the right amount of time with the right opportunities, doing the right tasks. Achieving the optimal balance of salesperson impact and efficiency requires well calibrated planning and support. This Sales Management Association webcast...Read more

Splunk (SPLK) is a leader in "big data," a fast-growing and quickly-evolving market. Splunk's recent IPO and impressive growth are due in no small part to its sales organization's speed and agility. Splunk supports its sales force with a sophisticated enablement strategy using playbooks designed to replicate their best sales...Read more

Are your messages resonating with your prospects and customers? What value or insight do you bring to a sales call? Would they write you a check after a sales call? Many organizations are challenged to differentiate not only what they sell, but how they sell. In this webinar we outline...Read more

Two sales effectiveness leaders discuss how they're addressing key priorities in their organization. Intended as a "practitioner roundtable," our panel also responds to issues submitted by the webcast audience. Topics addressed include mobile enablement, ensuring report quality, soliciting feedback from Sales Operations' internal customers, integrating advanced analytics, and strategies for...Read more

The use of virtual environments as a support platform for demonstrating products and providing after-sales advice is today relatively commonplace. The Web-video interface represents a fundamental shift away from traditional selling atmospherics where the facial appearance of sales personnel replaces many traditional dimensions of service quality. Although salesperson attractiveness has previously been studied...Read more

The recent economic downturn hurt more than sales performance – it allowed potentially destructive management practices to gain a foothold in many organizations. Hyper-vigilant forecasting, constant reporting, and increased spans of control are some of the sales management approaches borne of necessity in crisis, but which foster dysfunction during recovery....Read more

Sales executives deal with a daily barrage of data - forecast numbers, pipeline velocity, lead volume, territory effectiveness, win/loss reports. The biggest challenge is figuring out how to consume the data and translate it into better decision-making. How is this accomplished? The answer for an ever-increasing number of successful professionals...Read more

Recent surveys of sales, sales operations, and executive leaders found that optimizing “sales strategy” is expected to have the greatest impact on sales force productivity. (Greater than improving pipeline management, quota setting, sales compensation, or sales training.) Given it’s perceived importance, you’d think most companies would be good at sales...Read more