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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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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Walk Me

JULY 19, 2022

Companies depend on the success of salespeople, which is why the public often views sales departments as one of the highest-stress environments within a company. When change leaders throw the uncertainty and discomfort of a drastic transformation strategy into this mix, it can seem like a sadistic act upon sales employees’ heads.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

The customized Leading Sales Teams Training for LATAM Sales Leaders was designed to align with and reinforce business sales training and solution selling training programs that sales reps and distribution partners had participated in within the last 6 months. That takes consistent and frequent sales coaching.

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AIHR

JULY 6, 2023

Let’s take a look at how skills and responsibilities support each other within two very specific job roles—a software developer and a sales manager. Example 2: Sales manager skills and responsibilities Responsibilities might include achieving sales targets, building client relationships, and reporting on sales activities.

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LSA Global

MARCH 17, 2025

Top 10 Sales Rep Performance Checklist: Essential Habits for Success We know from sales leadership simulation assessment data that top sales reps do not just wing it they follow a disciplined, strategic, and customer-first sales process. Using storytelling to make the sales pitch compelling, engaging, and relatable.

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AIHR

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The B2B Sales Hunters vs Farmers Sales Model The role of B2B sales hunter vs sales farmer has been discussed in business sales training workshops for decades. In general, the roles represent two different, and often related, approaches to selling with each having an important part to play in sales growth.

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LSA Global

MAY 8, 2023

The cross-selling strategy was part of a strategic sales initiative to grow globally while achieving economies of scale across markets, regions, products, services, and suppliers.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 50% Knowledge Gain 100% Net Promoter Score After putting their entire APAC sales team through customized solution selling training , this high growth technology client wanted to design and deliver a customized sales management training program for sales leaders to help meet aggressive growth targets.

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2023

The Top Sales Leader Effect ? What Top Sales Leaders Do Better than their Peers Getting the right person to lead Sales matters. The impact of top sales leaders is enormous. So, what is it that top sales leaders do better? Sales leadership is about effectively leading, managing, and coaching, not doing more selling.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 21, 2023

The sales force was being asked to shift from selling products and features to selling SaaS solutions across multiple product lines and service offerings in different geographies and sales territories. This included business sales training best practices for managing results-based sales metrics.

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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

JULY 24, 2023

Their sales and service teams know the challenges clients face and build technology that empowers clients to solve them holistically as trusted advisors. desire, productivity, capability and results and drive higher engagement by leveraging neuroscience to motivate the desired sales behaviors. Learn more about getting aligned.

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AIHR

JUNE 19, 2023

For example, if the data shows that, based on current trends, a company’s sales division is expected to grow by 40% then HR can determine that more sales managers will be needed to keep up with growth within the business. That’s why monitoring and adjusting your talent planning strategy is essential.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Sales Training Design Best Practices Matter. Sales training design best practices matter a great deal. Why go through the expense, effort, and time to provide business sales training for your sales force if it is does not improve sales performance? 12 Sales Training Design Best Practices.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Start a New Sales Territory. Being asked to start a new sales territory is often full of opportunities and challenges. Successfully ramping up and running a new sales territory is a big responsibility that could make or break your career and your sales team’s ability to meet its targets. Territory Success Metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

“What gets measured gets managed” is a longstanding business aphorism. But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. The result is poor management of what matters. Deconstruct Your Sales Funnel.

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AIHR

MAY 19, 2021

Supervisors have a real-time dashboard display of performance metrics. Hierarchies organized themselves primarily along functional areas such as Sales, Marketing, or Human Resources. In the beginning, they separated into management, clerical, and production groups. The work is routine, tightly controlled, and monitored.

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LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2024

Level 3 Training Measurement is typically determined through performance metrics, supervisor evaluations, and peer feedback. Examples of desired Level 4 outcomes from training include: — Increased sales revenue, margin, win rate, portfolio mix, deal size, and cycle time. This is where theory meets practice and KNOWING meets DOING.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

To motivate, manage, and reward B2B salespeople, many companies use sales incentive plans that link large commissions or bonuses to individual results metrics, such as territory quota achievement. The right sales incentive plan creates a double win. This made it easy to measure individual sales results.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

As an executive vice president for sales, I spent countless hours reviewing, examining, and analyzing the sales forecast for my company. I required the managers who reported to me to do the same. Conversations between sales leaders, sales managers, and sales staff frequently focus only on numbers: Did you make them?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

A distribution company pays its salespeople entirely though commissions on sales. Salespeople keep their accounts permanently after making a sale. Sales leaders want to realign accounts more equitably across salespeople to give newer salespeople a better chance to succeed while providing customers with better service.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2015

Companies are using more analytics to enable better sales force decisions, yet one area that is still too frequently undervalued is sales territory design, or the way in which the responsibility for accounts is assigned to salespeople or sales teams. Is the sales force targeting the wrong accounts? For example: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

A vice president of sales recently told us that he drives sales growth by publishing a monthly forced sales ranking of all salespeople. Forced ranking helps managers differentiate talent and deliver honest news to salespeople about where they stand. Salespeople love the competition.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What separates high-performing sales organizations from average and underperforming sales organizations? In order to answer this question, I recently conducted an extensive 42-part survey with 786 sales professionals. High-performing sales organizations employ a more structured sales process.

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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. They measure sales ROI differently.

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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. Instead, I relied on my background as an MIT-trained engineer to create a system of hiring and development that relies on metrics and quantitative analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. Even in sales, network performance now accounts for about 44% of the impact. On the most effective sales teams, particularly B2B, the individual no longer reigns supreme.

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AIHR

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Sample answer: “In my first sales management role, I trusted that my team of sales reps would accurately update their pipeline metrics – data which I needed to prepare my own management sales forecasting reports. However, not all the data was updated correctly.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

In the case of a sales organization, money, time, and effort allocated to accounts A and B are resources not available for accounts C, D, and so on. A confusion between efficiency and optimization plagues many sales efforts. All businesses face opportunity costs. Strategy and planning process.

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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? Our research suggests that it can… sort of.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In sales, where charisma and extroversion can be advantages, some people attribute success more to inborn personality traits than to skills that can be coached or taught. ”) But there’s a big difference between individual success in sales and success across an entire sales force. .”) Organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Imagine a sales leader who''s looking over data from exit interviews with salespeople who''ve left his company in the last year. The question: What should the sales leader do to fix this problem? Is it time to upgrade the first line managers, enhance pay, revisit promotion opportunities--or some combination of the three?

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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. Some argue that having a single global plan for each sales role (e.g.

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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. And the sales team — well, they mostly hated it.

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