Resources

Business leaders rely on sales forecasting to gauge organizational health and to guide strategy. But most sales organizations find forecasting extremely challenging, and as a result struggle with forecasts that are rarely accurate. This skews resource investments in hiring and budgeting and prevents management from anticipating important demand trends. In...Read more

According to Zip Recruiter, there are over 700,000 open sales positions in the US, and nearly half of salespeople surveyed expect to be looking for a new job in the next 18 months.  However, the cost of a bad sales hire is 2-3x annual salary and rising steadily. Never before...Read more

With the “Great Resignation” in full swing, many organizations fear their best salespeople might soon leave for another opportunity. For those that do leave, compensation may factor heavily in their decision - but not necessarily because they believe they're earning too little. Experience shows that salesperson satisfaction with pay involves...Read more

Location-based information can add an additional layer of insight into sales and marketing data, but it's a resource many sales organizations do not avail themselves of. New tools and data sources, inexpensive and easy to provision, now put geoanalytics and its rich insights within reach of any firm. In this...Read more

Many assume salespeople gravitate toward "whales," the largest opportunities available to them. In reality, they often avoid them. A joint US and European research team set out to determine why. Making use of CRM data, survey insights, and experimental data, their research integrates academic theories and a practical sales prospecting...Read more

Change management now represents a critical capability for sales operations departments, as sales forces grapple with increasing disruption and volatility. Sales compensation updates often accompany other organizational changes and represent an especially crucial element of any sales force-impacting change initiative. In this webcast, we examine how sales performance management (SPM)...Read more

COVID’s onset came with dire predictions for B2B sales forces. Among them: sales organizations that depend on face-to-face interactions could expect a nuclear winter of new deals, as buyers pulled back and opportunities to develop new relationships disappeared. Some sales forces simply ignored this memo, and developed new ways of...Read more

The sales pipeline or funnel is a familiar concept in most organizations. It provides a framework for measuring and tracking sales opportunities through a series of gated stages, in a progression from leads to closed customers. Sales organizations use pipeline tracking to forecast future revenue streams, monitor salesperson activity, and...Read more