Resources

Sales payroll is the largest component of selling expense for most firms. Realizing return from sales headcount investments involves much more than simply hiring the best available talent and turning them loose. For large sales organizations, maximizing sales headcount ROI is a multi-faceted challenge that involves several layers of management...Read more

Compensation is an important tool for managing indirect sales channels. Incentive compensation management for channels has challenges distinct from those associated with direct sales forces. As a firm's channel strategy evolves, its channel compensation schemes must re-align with new priorities. In this Sales Management Association webcast, we examine key trends...Read more

Covering global accounts has unique challenges. Large sales organizations typically use separate sales forces for their largest, most valuable, and most strategic customers and prospects. Managing the strategic account sales force also brings a unique set of management challenges. In this webcast we will examine the role of sales management...Read more

For companies with complex sales cycles – in high technology, industrial machinery, and advanced materials, for example – improving sales pipeline performance is essential for achieving revenue growth. But these firms face significant challenges determining which accounts should be the highest priority, what actions will advance the sales process, and...Read more

This spreadsheet tool quantifies sales capacity and missed opportunity by sales territory, and may be used for modeling the business impact of territory realignment.

Sales Management Association underwriter The TAS Group advises clients on Sales Performance Automation – a “salesperson centric approach to increasing revenue, improving sales forecasts and metrics, and continually reinforcing best practices.” SPA uses technology to enable sales methodology, and deliver just-in-time training to salespeople when it matters the most –...Read more

Managers and academics alike acknowledge that salespeople can play a pivotal role in intraorganizational knowledge-sharing behaviors with coworkers outside the sales unit (i.e., finance, engineering, production, design, etc.). To this end, this study contributes to the extant sales literature by delineating how and under what conditions salespeople’s knowledge-sharing behaviors are...Read more

In developing on-going customer relationships required in a global business world, twenty-first-century businesses are demanding greater numbers of well-trained, entry-level sales representatives while at the same time expecting higher levels of professionalism and skill from these salespeople. With increased focus on professional selling, we address the question:has the delivery of...Read more