10 Ways to improve sales rep performance
Successful sales rep performance is a crucial element for any sales-based business, but achieving it is often easier said than done. Your sales team has to deal with uphill battles including difficulties connecting with prospects, changing customer needs, unpredictable market factors and struggles creating value during client outreach. And while old standbys like sales training and metrics tracking remain staples for improvement, there are some other strategies that can help you better support your sales leaders and improve overall productivity....
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- Field Sales
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/how-to-improve-sales-rep-performance
Fastest Route with Multiple Stops: A Guide for Field Sales
Local lockdowns and social distancing requirements brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic have had a big impact on field sales teams. Meetings that once took place in person have shifted to phone and video conferencing. And while technology has been an essential crutch during these unprecedented times, it's no substitute for real-life, face-to-face conversations. The rapport you can build when you meet someone in person and the visual cues you pick up on during face-to-face meetings are hugely important factors...
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- Field Sales
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/fastest-route-with-multiple-stops
How can we improve sales force productivity: Actionable tips for sales managers
As the manager of your company's sales team, it's your job to oversee efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. More than that, it's your responsibility to cultivate the best sales capabilities in your workforce, ensuring all customer and prospect expectations are met and exceeded. Improving your sales force productivity can be daunting. It can be a struggle to pinpoint where to begin. We're here to help, though, and have put together some actionable tips for you to elevate the skills and abilities...
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- Field Sales
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/how-can-we-improve-sales-force-productivity
Area Mapping in Sales: 3 Ways It Can Help You Win More Deals
As a sales leader, you're always looking for the advantage, but there's a secret weapon you may not have thought about yet: area mapping in sales. Imagine this. You're sitting down to a game of chess. You know that you and your opponent are evenly matched in skill, so you're feeling confident. But wait, there's a catch. You sit down and someone hands you a blindfold. Your opponent gets to see the board and the pieces, but you're playing in...
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/3-ways-mapping-boost-sales
Increase Outside Sales with Effective Territory Management
Effective territory management is a problem most sales leaders, sales operations leaders and sales analysts agonize over. However, when you manage territories well, you can increase revenue and transform outside sales team efficiency. We hear from a lot of leaders who say their sales and service team members don't fully understand their territories. This gap in understanding leads to lost opportunities. But using a territory builder and realigning sales territories can result in a 2-7% increase in your sales. In...
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- Field Sales
- Territory Management
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/increase-outside-sales-with-effective-territory-management
The complete guide to fixing a broken sales process
Having worked with hundreds of sales leaders and thousands of salespeople, there’s a definite problem holding them back: Unclear or non-existent sales process. This leads to a lot of challenges, but sales leader don’t always make the connection between these problems and their broken sales process. When you clearly define a sales process, many of the challenges your sales team faces will start to evaporate. How do I know if I have a sales process problem? Every week, we hear...
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- Field Sales
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/the-complete-guide-to-fixing-a-broken-sales-process
Why Your Field Salespeople Are Always Busy, But Missing Their Targets
There is nothing more frustrating as a sales manager or a salesperson than missing targets, especially when you know you and your team are working hard. So how do you figure out what's going wrong? Analyze sales activity There are only so many hours in a day for a salesperson to sell, and you'll want to make sure that they're getting the most from their time. If you use a CRM system, you should be able to run a report...
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- Field Sales
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/why-your-field-salespeople-are-always-busy-but-missing-their-targets
Strategic Planning for Sales Territories: Creating a Roadmap for the Future
In a recent blog, we looked at how eSpatial's new Territory Manager can be used for operational scenario planning. Our hypothetical regional sales manager had to quickly cover a territory after a sales rep left the company. Now we'll look at how Territory Manager can be used for long-term strategic planning. Territory Manager allows you to save multiple versions of your territories. This is helpful during strategic planning because you can easily share them with key stakeholders, giving everyone the...
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/strategic-planning-for-sales-territories-creating-a-roadmap-for-the-future
Sales Capacity Planning: Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Sales Team?
It's a business death knell: "But we've always done it this way!" Getting stuck in a rut is bad for business, especially when it comes to your sales team. Just because you've had five sales reps in a region for years doesn't mean it's the ideal number. That's why you need a sales capacity model. If you haven't reviewed your sales territories recently, business activity may have drastically changed. And if your sales reps have too many accounts or leads to follow...
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/sales-capacity-planning-are-you-getting-the-most-out-of-your-sales-team
4 Steps For Onboarding a Field Sales Rep
A manager's guide
Added a new member to your field sales team? Read on to learn how you can get them up and running more quickly. Starting a new field sales job is tough. Like other sales roles, you need to get to know a new team, new market offering, and a new sales story. But in field sales, you also need to get to know a new territory with a new set of established accounts and leads. So what can the sales...
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- Field Sales
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/4-steps-for-onboarding-a-field-sales-rep-a-managers-guide
Save time by reporting sales territory performance with mapping
If you're still using spreadsheets to track your sales territories and performance, we have good news for you. You can reclaim your time through territory and performance mapping! Nortek Air Solutions started mapping and cut the time they spend preparing reports by a month every year. Putting a little initial effort into preparing your data and mapping your territories can help you achieve similar long-term results. But how does mapping help improve the efficiency of your reporting? We'll show you!...
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/save-time-by-reporting-sales-territory-performance-with-mapping
Field Sales Analysis
How to run your end of year/quarter push?
Quarter or year-end approaching? Find out how much opportunity is within reach of your field sales team so that you can maximize short-term performance. Running a field sales organisation is often a seasonal business. Sometimes you need to crank your sales performance to achieve an under-pressure quarterly or yearly target. But how much can you actually hope to achieve, and how do you go about it? Why is analysis important to your quarter-end push for field sales? Doing field sales...
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- Field Sales
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/field-sales-analysis-how-to-run-my-end-of-year-quarter-push
Can A Geographic Lens Really Enhance Your Field Sales Analysis?
Here's the scenario You're an experienced sales analyst. You analyze the field sales team performance using CRM reports, excel sheets, pivot tables, charts, and graphs. It takes a significant amount of time to convert raw data into meaningful findings with actionable outcomes. In spite of this, the Sales Director wants that information yesterday. You can't get him the reports fast enough but they're not quite answering the questions he's asking. You need a new perspective on the data and your...
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- Field Sales
- Market Analysis
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/can-a-geographic-lens-really-enhance-your-field-sales-analysis
Avoiding the Field Sales 'Milk Run'
Do you ever worry that your sales team are just visiting the same customers week in week out? Are you concerned that they have too many potential customers in the area? And are not making the best decisions about who to call on? Does your sale need face to face contact? If so, it is critical that your sales team are making good decisions about where to spend their time. A typical response we hear from Sales Leaders is "I...
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- Field Sales
- Reading Time: 5 minutes
https://www.espatial.com/articles/avoiding-the-field-sales-milk-run
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