Modern business-to-business (B2B) buyers have unprecedented access to information to support their buying process and, as a result, have become more self-reliant in the evaluation process. This has made B2B sellers’ jobs harder; not only do they have less control in earlier stages of the sales cycle, but they have to work harder to connect and engage with buyers, turning prospects into customers. Sales technologies have helped modernize how sellers and sales leaders manage their pipelines and execute contracts, but technology gaps around engagement persist, making it difficult for sellers to keep pace with, connect with, and support buyer engagement. The common outcome: Sellers become slaves to their CRM systems, focused more on updating reports and logging their activities than they are in driving business results.

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Sales managers have faced the same challenges since long before CRM applications were invented. However, new tools and technologies are making their jobs easier. The future of sales performance management is integrated with CRM and social collaboration. It helps managers provide real-time coaching and motivation in context to drive better sales behaviors and, ultimately, better sales results.

The US retail industry has had an interesting holiday season, marked by high expectations, volatility and distractions, and a reassuringly strong end. While it saw high sales growth - a 4 percent growth over last year, the best in some time - the results have not brought cheer all around. In many respects, the 2016 holiday sales data emphasizes the disruption patterns impacting the retail industry, and validates several predictions about the changing face of retail. Online and mobile sales continue to grow unabated, at 17 and 44 percent respectively, while in-store traffic saw the highest decline in two years. While none of this is surprising in itself, it helps to highlight the role omni-channel retail will play in the coming years.

If you’re a sales manager, you’re probably feeling stuck in the middle. On one hand, you have a huge employee engagement movement going on with HR departments focusing on developing leaders and recognizing achievements with substantial budgets. On the other side, marketing departments are using technology and creativity (and also large budgets) to connect with and educate customers about their products, solutions and brands. The trend is to challenge every dollar spent on sales compensation to maximize ROI. HR departments are treating salespeople like all other employees. And customers are going online to avoid anyone with sales in their title. Based on our research and applications we see in our customers’ leading sales initiatives, if you’re a sales manager, you are trying to maximize results out of your sales team by increasing your teams engagement to meet company goals. Download this white paper to see which eight trends you should consider as you strategize for the year.

This guide is designed to help you align the sales and marketing departments in your own company so that you can start experiencing the results listed above. Take a look at the six keys to alignment outlined in chapters one and two, then read through the benefits of an aligned strategy in chapter three.

When organizations are managing sales performance, it is critical to balance and align each enablement and operational component. Misalignment – or too much focus on one element –can dramatically detract from performance levels and the ability to measure results. An organization may temporarily need to emphasize a particular component when it sees a challenge, but ultimately success depends on striking the correct balance across all SPM components.

To help us understand what business leaders think about ‘the cloud’ and the impact of cloud collaboration to their businesses, we asked Forbes Insights to conduct research. In response, Forbes surveyed over 500 senior executives from global companies with sales ranging from $250 million to over $20 billion, and interviewed 15 executives. The study examined the ways business leaders increasingly look at cloud collaboration as a way to increase productivity, accelerate business results, and enhance innovation and collaboration across borders and functions.

Coaching is a top priority for sales organizations – but most managers tasked with coaching admit they’re not sure how to develop or maintain an effective coaching program. Whether you’re starting a coaching initiative or making modifications to one, you won’t get far without the right buy-in, processes and resources. This exclusive eBook offers 11 must-haves for effective sales coaching. Inside you’ll find: • How to develop a comprehensive coaching plan • The difference between coaching and training (and why you need both) • Tips to make your current coaching program more effective Ready to see better coaching results? Download your free copy today. Download your free copy and start enabling your sales managers to reach their maximum coaching potential.

Read on to discover how companies are designing and administering their sales compensation plans, and to get additional considerations and summary findings from Xactly analysts based on an analysis of the results.

Use this guide as a checklist to compare your current email marketing technology against four core areas where marketing automation extends the power of email - audience targeting, automating marketing tactics, enabling sales and measuring results.

This white paper provides information on how the marriage of social collaboration, CRM, and performance management presents new opportunities for great sales managers to scale their skills more effectively.

How strong is your renewal program? Are you able to predict and analyze your performance correctly? ServiceSource® believes that the real yardstick of renewal performance lies in a comprehensive set of key performance indicators (KPIs) that can tell a much broader story. Over the last 13 years and over 145 engagements, we’ve identified these twelve critical factors for successfully measuring and growing your renewal revenue. This whitepaper provides a detailed overview of those KPIs.

MicroStrategy, a global innovator of mobile solutions, recently surveyed 500 U.S. organizations on the use of tablet computers to support sales activities across a large, diverse group of industries. The survey results suggested many companies are facing significant hurdles to sales enablement related to the limitations of their internal sales systems, which are largely not equipped for enabling sales processes out of the office. Find out how innovative companies are enabling their sales reps to be 10X more effective with mobile sales enablement apps.

This White Paper reveals the benefits for High-Tech Companies of using eSignature technologies.

Business development and marketing programs have a tendency to underwhelm when it comes to actual results. As a result, we’re bombarded with SalesTech and MarTech apps endeavouring to plug the leaks. But these tools rarely tackle the core issues behind your lacklustre results. What’s needed is a fundamental change to your go-to-market approach. This ebook shows you what that change could look like, and describes how to make it happen.

If you want to improve your sales team's results, you need to start by asking the right questions. Download this new best-practices eBook to learn about the 12 key questions for data-driven Sales Managers. This informative guide will help you: - Determine Key Metrics For Sales Management - Improve Sales Team Productivity - Closed-Won More Deals Download a free copy of "12 Must-Ask Questions for Data-Driven Sales Managers" today.

Want to boost sales with offers linked to shoppers' debit, credit and loyalty cards? This primer highlights the card-linked offer-how it works, projections for market growth and a merchant case study with real results.

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Nearly all sales organizations have the same goal for their sales enablement strategies: to increase sales results and productivity. Of course while this is simple to say, it’s not so easy to achieve.

The key to successful sales forecasting starts with pipeline measurement — consistent tracking in each stage of the sales cycle will bring consistent results. Careful focus on ?ve areas will strengthen the sales forecast process to drive better capacity planning, smoother operations, and most importantly, more revenue! The five metrics for every sales leader: Accuracy Variance Pipeline Coverage & Mix Compliance & Commitments Linearity Download now to learn more!

Incentive compensation represents the potential of delivering optimal sales results. But with up to 60% of sales reps’ income coming from incentive comp, it is crucial to get this right. Our study data has shown that ineffective compensation structures can lead to disengaged reps, high turnover, money left on the table, and low margins. The way we have designed and managed incentive compensation plans in the past may inhibit the sales force and prevent the business from scaling at the needed rate. Modeling and planning quickly become too complex for a spreadsheet-driven exercise.

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In this white paper, Internet.com explores how businesses can leverage the latest integrated sales and marketing solutions improve the effectiveness of both teams in an increasingly challenging environment.