Resources

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

Effective pipeline management is critical to sales force productivity. With it, forecasts hit the mark and quotas are achieved. Without it, arrows begin to fly and casualties are incurred. The key to effective pipeline management? The ability of your managers to coach your salespeople through the opportunities in their pipelines....Read more

Salespeople work tirelessly to build bigger pipelines, but are they working against themselves? New research suggests that many sales pipelines are actually too big... Not too small. Bad deals get inside and bounce around, consuming sales reps’ time, while only a trickle of revenue drips out of the pipe. Erratic...Read more

Organizations that solve complex problems with engineered solutions often bolster their sales force with sales engineering resources. These resources are often referred to as “Pre-Sales;” their role is focused in scoping customer requirements, configuring complex offerings, and securing the “technical close” alongside the efforts of the account management and business...Read more