Scaling B2B Sales Growth

As a Sales Leader you have to create a culture of accountability – everyone across the organization has to be accountable for their own performance and results. What is Accountability?  “It is a force that provides rewards or consequences for actions. A leader imposes the consequences for failing to meet…  Read More >

I know every other VP of Sales or a front-line sales manager (FLM) struggles with forecasting accuracy so I thought to share what has worked really well for me with very high level of accuracy.  It’s the Commit Process.  This is part of the way to build up your rep…  Read More >

As a CRO, I need to have the right process to forecast deals effectively. The problem is that without a data-driven or analytical approach to forecasting, most companies’ sales teams are not able to forecast effectively.  It’s can be simply called “speculation” to run a forecasting in a qualitative manner…  Read More >

  The CHAMP Sales System Qualification Criteria   Here is a summary of the CHAMP Qualification Criteria and you can find some example questions below.     The best way to align with your Buyer – is to ask them questions and actively listen with the goal of being helpful…  Read More >

I recently spoke to a few executives of a software company who were wondering how to transform a “farmer” team to a “hunter” team. Sometimes it seems that this is impossible.  But that’s a generalized statement and it’s contextual to the people on the team. The key is to meet…  Read More >

Every B2B SaaS company must be able to communicate to every employee on the Revenue Team (sales or marketing or customer success) the following: Who – who is the ideal type of buyer – or what is called the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)? Your targeted Ideal Company Profile (size, type,…  Read More >

For a CRO or VP of Sales to be truly great, they must first be great at recruiting and building winning sales teams.  And that starts with first becoming a great evaluator of talent. If you’re not there yet, you should learn how to identify talent when others totally can’t…  Read More >

“Select for traits, train for skills” – Chris Lytle, The Accidental Sales Manager   Recruiting talent (and building high-performing teams) is the #1 priority for a CEO, CRO or a VP of Sales for any B2B SaaS company. Previously, I wrote about the importance of and how to make your…  Read More >

Today too many SaaS companies have fallen into a trap of designing their sales processes to optimize for their own sales and marketing teams rather than for their buyers.  They approach buyers as just another transaction and focus on checking off a couple of checkboxes but this doesn’t match the way…  Read More >