LSA Global

JUNE 17, 2024

The real challenge lies in fundamentally changing and reinforcing the key sales mindsets, behaviors, and skills required to consistently deliver higher sales performance. For example, one recent client wanted to run sales training focused on helping their team to shift from selling one-off products to SaaS solutions.

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Alison Green

JULY 22, 2024

My coworker didn’t tell me he was applying for a promotion in our sexist company A long-time male acquaintance of mine, who I have known for 13 years, recently rejoined my industry after an eight-year hiatus and was swiftly promoted to the director of sales and marketing within just three months.

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15Five

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether sales are stagnant or growing, many leaders of sales teams face the same challenges – they need to understand why their methodologies worked or didn’t work, so that insights and learnings can be shared throughout. Common Sales Challenges. And all this translates to longer tenure at the company for top employees.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

A successful sales force transformation can mean increased revenue, increased sales productivity, and reduced cost of sales. But, up to seventy-five percent of attempted transformations fail, according to the authors of the book, 7 Steps To Sales Transformation - Driving Sustainable Change In Your Organization.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Top Sales Leaders Drive Growth If you find a sales leader who Is not up to the challenge of accelerating revenue growth, you have not found a high performing sales leader. But you need more from a sales leader than simply a desire to grow the top line.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

A successful sales force transformation can mean increased revenue, increased sales productivity, and reduced cost of sales. But, up to seventy-five percent of attempted transformations fail, according to the authors of the new book, 7 Steps To Sales Transformation - Driving Sustainable Change In Your Organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 28, 2021

A successful sales force transformation can mean increased revenue, increased sales productivity, and reduced cost of sales. But, up to seventy-five percent of attempted transformations fail, according to the authors of the book, 7 Steps To Sales Transformation - Driving Sustainable Change In Your Organization.

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Chief Executive

AUGUST 8, 2022

The reason for this seeming paradox is that some revenues are very costly to serve, while other revenues are ample to support higher costs. In our experience accelerating the profitability of tens of billions of dollars of client revenues, we have found that gross margin does not predict net profits.

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LSA Global

JULY 15, 2024

Sales leaders know that an underperforming sales force misses opportunities, loses deals, and negatively impacts customer loyalty. The good news is that when a sales force puts the customer first , adds meaningful value, and builds trusted advisor relationships , they grow revenues, margins, deal sizes, and relationships.

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LSA Global

MARCH 17, 2025

Whether youre a seasoned sales professional or an up-and-coming star, having a structured sales rep performance checklist ensures you: stay on track. Deeply Understand Your Target Customers and The Market According to salesforce, 86% of buyers are more likely to buy if sales reps understand their priorities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 25, 2017

A successful sales force transformation can mean increased revenue, increased sales productivity, and reduced cost of sales. But, up to seventy-five percent of attempted transformations fail, according to the authors of the book, 7 Steps To Sales Transformation - Driving Sustainable Change In Your Organization.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For example, one recent client had the abstract cultural goal of increasing sales team collaboration to win bigger deals faster while playing to people’s strengths.

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LSA Global

JULY 16, 2021

This ensures that sales managers help reps to smartly maintain accounts with high levels of performance and potential and more aggressively go after accounts with strong potential. Clarifying sales territories and forecasting their anticipated revenue give your sales reps meaningful and attainable sales targets to achieve.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 19, 2021

Less than 20% of sales leaders rate their current sales training programs as highly effective. That is not the ROI sales leaders, sales reps, or sales trainers should expect or accept. Sales training should directly improve sales performance (e.g., revenue, margin, win-rate, cycle time, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. Somewhere else?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In general, the roles represent two different, and often related, approaches to selling with each having an important part to play in sales growth. The roles differ mainly in how they go about generating revenue. What Makes a Good B2B Sales Hunter? Always follow through on client requests. What Works Best for You?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 28, 2019

Sales training reinforcement. While most organizations invest in business sales training with good intentions to improve sales skills, grow profitable revenue, and improve customer loyalty, most are wasting their time and money. Train their sales managers in how to effectively manage and coach their reps.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 20, 2019

This means not only providing the kind of consultative sales training that closes critical sales skill gaps but also keeps you ahead of the pack. You must actively involve all stakeholders – leadership, marketing, sales, service, finance, legal, product development, etc. – to-1 compared to their less aligned peers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Digital channels have upended the well-trod ruts of sales and marketing organizations — already, nearly a third of all B2B purchases are done digitally. All of this increased complexity means sales leaders must rethink how they source leads, manage pipelines, and sell more effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Sales teams and marketing teams pursue a common objective: create customer value and drive company results. But sales and marketing don’t always get along. Some tension between sales and marketing is healthy and productive. Marketers design strategies; sellers implement tactics.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Every salesperson knows the quality of their sales manager will have a profound impact on their own success. Sixty-nine percent of salespeople who exceeded their annual quota rated their sales manager as being excellent or above average. The best sales leaders are target and deadline driven.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Twenty-two percent of survey participants included top-level sales leaders such as vice presidents of sales, 14% were front-line sales managers who manage salespeople, 17% were hybrid sales managers who sell directly to customers and manage other salespeople, and 47% were salespeople who carry their own quotas.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. Integrate your marketing efforts with sales activity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

Features could include: size of the deal in terms of dollar amount, product specification compliance, number of competitors, company size, territory/region, client’s industry, client’s annual revenues, public or private company, level of decision-makers (influencers) involved, timing (e.g., Q2 vs Q4), new or existing client, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

One place they need to look is in their own sales organizations. In writing the book Sales Growth , we've found that CEOs who put sales management at the heart of their agenda have captured astonishing growth — outstripping their peers by 50 to 80 percent in terms of revenue and profitability.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

It goes without saying that there is a significant amount of pressure on every sales force to deliver its number. Sales management plays a crucial role in reaching that objective, but can sales performance really be managed? I mean, tactically managed? We need more revenue,” would sound from the top. “No

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

The results show that executives feel that they have a high level of understanding of their companies’ strategic priorities, while sales reps — who aren’t typically in the planning meetings, on the conference calls, or roaming the halls with the people crafting strategy — said they did not.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Profit maximization (short-term): A shipping company increases freight rates by 50% to benefit from a capacity shortage in the market, even though doing so will strike customers as exploitative and damage loyalty. The challenge for executives is, of course, to manage their conflicting goals, or so-called trade-offs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Graduate schools of business, back when they were fewer, favored applicants with work experience, and much of that experience had been won on the front lines of revenue generation. In seeking a master's degree, these go-getters wanted to acquire the general management skills their day-to-day jobs didn't teach.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

But consider the work of the Boston Consulting Group, which indicates that SO practices, such as targeting high-value customers and deploying sales resources with strategically-appropriate criteria, have more than three times the impact on revenue growth than SE initiatives. Performance reviews.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Many industries have had to downsize sales forces. There are several reasons for recent sales force job cuts: Shifting market dynamics are one cause, including changing customer needs, customer consolidation, new buying channels, and slowing market growth. sales reps following an industry-wide downsizing trend.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

If you spend much time around salespeople, it won't take long before you hear them griping about the issue that is the profession's biggest trouble spot: disagreement over the market potential of a group of accounts or a territory. A regional sales director says: "The Pittsburgh territory is vacant again. Sales force deployment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

I tried to discuss the impact of current market conditions, like competitive pressures on margins, and the specific circumstances created by a recent acquisition, to probe for an opportunity to bring value. You can’t simply declare “There shall be a coaching culture” or delegate its development to the VP of sales or HR.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

When I came to HubSpot five years ago, I had never run a sales team, so I didn't know the conventional techniques that sales managers use. Early on in this role, I defined the following mission for myself: "Scalable, predictable revenue growth." Five years later, my team is now 200 employees strong.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

Sales managers have a difficult relationship with luck. As a consequence, many sales managers de-emphasize luck, instead stressing the importance of stable, measurable, and controllable factors such as motivation and specific behaviors. They love it when it’s helping their teams, but they know how unreliable it is.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

Many tenured salespeople earn several hundred thousand dollars a year, mostly by selling to long-time customers who provide a continuous and stable source of revenue and income. Yet as market growth slows, the company can't attract and retain new salespeople because it's too hard to build a sufficient book of business to earn a living.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

One of the big challenges for the people leading global sales organizations is figuring out the right way to set pay for for salespeople who work in vastly different countries and markets. Some argue that having a single global plan for each sales role (e.g. These issues are typical in global sales forces.

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