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11 Great Sales Contest Ideas to Motivate Your Team

By Jess Pingrey on January 6, 2021 | Sales, Sales Management, Tip List

A sales contest leverages competition and rewards to motivate sales teams while incentivizing the habits you want your reps to adopt, such as making a certain number of cold calls or closing a certain percentage of deals. We’ve included 11 sales contest ideas you can use for inspiration and explain how they can be used…

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How to Improve Sales Targeting With Customer Profiles & CRMs

By Jess Pingrey on December 11, 2020 | How To, Sales, Sales Management

Sales targeting is a management strategy that helps you prioritize efforts around the deals most likely to result in sales. However, for it to work, you must first be able to identify your top leads. Customer profiles and customer relationship management software (CRM) are great tools to help you recognize leads with the most potential,…

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7 Ways COVID-19 Has Changed the B2B Sales Industry

By Jess Pingrey on December 7, 2020 | Sales, Sales Management, Statistics

It’s no secret that COVID-19 has changed the way we do business worldwide, and the B2B sales industry is certainly no exception. Sales leaders have been forced to change the way they sell their products and services by going virtual internally with team members and with customers and prospects. Furthermore, it looks like the new…

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How Sales Managers Can Recognize & Manage Burnout

By Jess Pingrey on November 20, 2020 | How To, Sales, Sales Management

Anyone who has worked in sales knows that it can be rewarding, but very challenging at times. It’s full of ups and downs, similar to a roller coaster—especially in smaller organizations or startups where everyone is wearing a lot of hats and every opportunity matters. In this article, we’ll discuss how sales leaders and CEOs…

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Sales Performance Review Templates & Management Software

By Jess Pingrey on November 10, 2020 | Sales, Sales Management, Templates

Routine performance reviews help managers provide feedback to their sales team and identify areas of high performance or where improvement is needed. Having a performance review template saves time by eliminating the need to create a new document from scratch each review period. They are also used to standardize the sales performance management process and…

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15 Essential Sales Forecast Templates for Small Businesses

By Jess Pingrey on November 9, 2020 | How To, Sales, Sales Management

A sales forecast template is a customizable document that helps you project future sales for your team. Online template costs typically range from free to under $100 and are usually designed for Excel or Google Sheets. To help you speed up your search, we’ve compiled this list of 15 templates designed for a variety of…

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Sales Performance Management: Get the Most Out of Your Team

By Jess Pingrey on October 29, 2020 | Sales, Sales Management, Ultimate Guide

As someone who leads a sales team, your role is to motivate and resource your team to ensure it’s able to reach its goals. That can seem like a huge challenge, but the good news is there are tools and strategies you can use to help maximize your team’s performance. In this article, we’ll cover…

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13 Ways to Improve Your Sales Performance

By Jess Pingrey on October 26, 2020 | How To, Sales, Sales Management

Sales performance is the measurement of sales activity against the goals outlined in your overall plan. The simplest method of tracking performance is to establish sales goals for your team and for individual reps and then evaluate performance, either monthly or quarterly. You can then improve performance using new processes, tools, and software. Here are…

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The Top 18 Sales Training Program & Courses

By Jess Pingrey on October 20, 2020 | Sales, Sales Management, Tip List

Today’s sales professionals face an increasing amount of competition in every industry. To close more deals and generate revenue, salespeople must hone their prospecting, pitching, relationship building, overcoming objections strategies and other selling skills by investing in the best sales training programs. The most effective salespeople make training and professional development a continuous process of…

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The Complete Guide to Sales Operations

By Jess Pingrey on October 9, 2020 | Sales, Sales Management, What is

Sales operations are the processes and systems that enable a sales team to effectively generate leads, manage relationships, and generate new customers. They help sales teams streamline the sales process by doing things such as developing sales strategies, creating compensation plans, and training team members. Sales operations can be broken down into the various activities,…

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How to Create a Sales Plan in 7 Steps (+ Free Template)

By Jess Pingrey on October 2, 2020 | How To, Sales, Sales Management

A sales plan is a document used to establish sales objectives and develop strategies necessary to achieve them. Typically, this document establishes a plan for revenue growth and other measurements of success. Sales plans consist of sections outlining goals, identifying key customer attributes, and listing necessary strategies, tools, metrics, and estimated expenses. Start With Our…

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How to Write an Effective Sales Email in 7 Steps

By Jess Pingrey on September 29, 2020 | How To, Sales, Sales Management

The most common mistake in writing a sales email is making it too long. We forget that our prospects—like us—are busy people. Chances are they’re glancing at your message for a few seconds, on their commute, or in between meetings. Too long—and the email will get skipped. Knowing how to write an email that has…

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