When I train sales manager to use TopOPPS, many want to focus on how to use TopOPPS for their one-on-one meeting with their sales reps.  It’s my experience that sales managers fall into two general camps when it comes to prepping for their one-on-ones: managers will spend time in their CRM gathering data or managers will not prep for their meetings and “wing it”.The first group will spend time in multiple CRM reports to get a better understanding of how their rep is performing while the second group will learn how their rep is performing only in their meeting. ...

A modern approach to consistency in the sales process. A sure-fire method to extend the sales cycle, add confusion to the forecast, and lose more deals is to have an inconsistent sales process. ...

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Dreamforce continues to get bigger and more complicated every year. Like most attendees, I love jumping from event to event while absorbing as much information from sessions, keynotes and vendors as possible. ...

Yesware is an excellent tool that allows a sales rep to track email sends, replies, and opens automatically within Salesforce. ...

The TopOPPS Dashboard tells the complete story of your current pipeline. Will I hit my number? The dashboard is used to show if we are going to hit our number - and if not, options to fill the gap. ...

Want to get to the next step? Of course, you do. You know that if there is no next step there is no opportunity. ...

You asked for 15 minutes on your prospect’s calendar thousands of times through emails. You cold called into hundreds of accounts asking for 15 minutes as well. ...

Check Out All of the Excitement from DRIVE 2015! ...

Step 1: Coaching on Sales Techniques and Process ...

Step 1: Coaching on Sales Techniques & Process ...

Thank you for sharing an awesome evening with us and making the inaugural DRIVE event an absolute success. There is not a more appropriate place than the Museum of American Finance to host an event on discovering ways to close more deals and grow your sales. ...

Step 1: Coaching on Sales Techniques & Process ...

I’d have to say I agree with 99.9% of the insights in Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson’s book, “The Challenger”, but not all of it. ...

Cold calling, lead hunting and everything else that goes into sales development should be easy, right? ...

Flawed thinking has it that there’s nothing important or exciting about the “middle.”  Just ask Jan Brady or any nose tackle on a defensive line.  But the middle of your sales funnel is really important – opportunities have to be watched and decisions made based on status and progress.  Which ones will make it?  Which ones will fall out? What’s my next step?  The decisions we make on opportunities in the middle of the pipeline will prevent surprises later and will help us to put the right resources on the right deals at the right time.  If we don’t make the right decisions, or worse, neglect these deals, it usually results in fallout, or what I call “zombie” deals that linger around cluttering up the pipeline. These zombie deals steal time away from us on thought process, manager conversations and important resources.  If we do go about it the right way though, more closes, faster cycles and accurate forecasts happen. ...

Remember BANT, that old way to qualify deals where we find Budget, Authority, Need, and Timeline? Well guess what? It just doesn’t work anymore for SaaS sales. Here’s the reason why: ...

Identifying a sales process for a new business can be difficult. We are a perfect example of how matching your sales process with your customer’s buying habits is extremely important. As we’ve evolved our process and matched it with our customer’s habits, it’s become evident that gaining buy-in from all stakeholders is the most painful part. We came to a realization that getting buy-in from an entire team meant a few things, and one of those things was that we needed to be more transparent with our sales process. Who knew transparency can set expectations without causing an awkward moment? ...

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  I may be biased but as the relationship between sales and technology continues to grow stronger, companies with tools like TopOPPS will have a significant competitive advantage. Today, it’s not just about getting the information into the system more efficiently, it’s also about what we do with that information once it’s there. CRMs are like relationships, you only get out what you put in. Unfortunately, CRMs are infamous for being  “junk in junk out” machines. So how can we trust the data? Better yet, how can we make the process of entering crucial data into the CRM quick and painless while still maximizing the amount of impactful information decision makers receive in return? ...