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Demystifying Sales Enablement: What Is It, Why It Matters, And How To Do It Right

Sales Hacker

To see what selling on steroids looks like, check out companies with the best sales enablement strategies. You’ll discover a lively place, with a lot of things — like revenue, productivity, and win rate s — going up, and a lot of things — like speed to revenue, sale cycle period, customer churn, and staff attrition rate — going down.

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How to Build Your Sales Operations Team from Scratch

InsightSquared

You can add a more formal sales enablement role later. When you’re starting out, you may have only one or two folks manning sales operations, juggling all the tasks outlined above. As your sales ops team matures, however, the group will grow, and their focus will expand to other areas as well, including: Territory planning.

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The Best Sales Managers Don’t Chase Revenue: 6 Steps to Get Goal-Setting Right

Sales Hacker

Sales forecasting and planning should begin with data on current performance. Incentives (compensation, commission, benefits, perks). Evaluate your addressable market and how the sales team can optimize their outbound prospecting. 4) Integrate sales coaching, personal development, and sales training into your team goals.

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Inside Sales vs. Outside Sales: Which Is Best for You?

Sales Hacker

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Compensation.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

She has 20 years of experience in sales leadership and the talent acquisition industry. She started her career in traditional recruiting firms primarily in sales leadership positions before starting her own venture ProActivate. Misha McPherson – CEO at HumbleGritSales | Sales Enablement at SaaSy Sales Management.

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The Evolution of Software Marketing: Hey Marketing, Go Get [This]!

Kellblog

Customer acquisition cost ( CAC ) becomes a key industry metric which puts pressure on both sales and marketing to improve efficiency. Sales responds by staffing up sales enablement and sales productivity functions. A $100M ARR company with a CAC ratio of 1.5

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The Best Sales Managers Don’t Chase Revenue: 6 Steps to Get Goal-Setting Right

Sales Hacker

Sales forecasting and planning should begin with data on current performance. Incentives (compensation, commission, benefits, perks). Evaluate your addressable market and how the sales team can optimize their outbound prospecting. 4) Integrate sales coaching, personal development, and sales training into your team goals.