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Sales Leaders: Are You Executing These Five Q1 Must Do’s?

Revenue Storm

For 20 years, I had a monthly sales quota. Even when I was leading a $400 million global accounts organization. Each and every month, I learned there are some critical actions every sales leader should be taking as we head towards the end of the first quarter. Average Sales Cycle: 6 months. Start with the numbers.

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Pipeline Ratios Have Changed – A Step-by-Step Approach to 2021 Sales Planning

Revenue Storm

Has the sales cycle elongated or shortened? In my experience, too many sales leaders and strategic account managers either have not done the math to determine their ratios or do not pay much attention to it… especially if they are measured annually. Sales Meetings. # of Sales Meetings. Average Oppty Size.

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Comprehensive Career Path Guide for a Key Account Manager

DemandFarm

Key Account Management (KAM) focuses on building long-term relationships, and aims to improve customer satisfaction – especially in a B2B scenario. A key account manager’s primary responsibility is ensuring that the needs of key clients are met, and that they remain satisfied with the company’s products and services.

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Top 5 Account Management Best Practices to Drive Real Customer Centricity

Revegy

SiriusDecisions defines account-based models , or account management, as representations of a strategic approach that align resources against a set of defined accounts and goals in a way that is relevant and valuable to those accounts and to sales/partners. Key Account Selection.

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5 Ways Account Management Drives Customer Centricity

Revegy

SiriusDecisions defines account-based models , or account management, as representations of a strategic approach that align resources against a set of defined accounts and goals in a way that is relevant and valuable to those accounts and to sales/partners. Key Account Selection.

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Forget elephants; hunt whales instead

Deep Insight

Whale Hunting with Global Accounts. It’s not often that I write book reviews but if there’s one book on sales management you should plan to read before the end of the summer holidays, it’s Whale Hunting with Global Accounts. Key account managers should not just be order-takers.

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Get from Good to Great: Strategic Account Planning

Revegy

This is the process of creating, reviewing and approving the account or territory plan. Sales Management Process. First-line managers must be enabled to review and coach on the quality of account plans and the execution of the action plan. This allows sales teams to reinforce the methodology.