Resources

No matter the size of your sales team, the turnover you experience or the solutions you provide, onboarding new people can be an enormous challenge. Studies indicate the longer the time to achieve quota, the less likely someone is to succeed in their sales role. But how do you onboard...Read more

  As a follow-on study to last year’s research on sales manager training, this first look research review webcast takes a more detailed look at the specific topic, tactics, and priorities given to sales management training initiatives. It benchmarks firms’ investments in manager training, as well as specific approaches used...Read more

Last year Symantec acquired Blue Coat, defining its position as an innovative cybersecurity leader. At the time, Blue Coat was scaling rapidly with revenue exceeding $750 million. Chris Fulmer was a part of BlueCoat's sales enablement team as it scaled and is now Director of Sales Enablement for Symantec. In...Read more

Salesperson activity is an important indicator of organizational productivity and effectiveness, but presents significant data collection challenges. Join us during this first look webinar as we investigate how sales organizations account for salesperson activity, and the nature of the insights they gain through such efforts. Topics addressed include the nature...Read more

This research examines sales organizations' sales performance management (SPM) practices. SPM, as popularized by sales technology solution providers, has come to refer to a portfolio of planning and resource allocation activities. These are sales budgeting, performance forecasting, territory design, salesperson deployment, quota allocation, and incentive compensation management. Our study identifies...Read more

Join us for a first look at the recently concluded research where we examine practices associated with sales performance management (SPM) in sales organizations. The practices include approaches to sales planning, performance forecasting, territory design, resource deployment, quota assignments, and incentive compensation management. The research will identify which elements of...Read more

Productive sales forces make sales process improvement a core competency. Most do so without comprehensively reengineering their sales process. Instead, they find incremental improvement opportunities, test new approaches, and frequently assess results. Over time, these changes accrue as substantial benefits, and include increased selling time, higher quality sales outcomes, and...Read more

  Twenty years ago, it took a relatively long time to build a bad reputation. Today, with the megaphone of social media, it can happen in seconds. And when it does, all the good will your salespeople have worked so hard to build up will be wasted. Without a consistent...Read more