QuotaPath presents Sales Nerds Live!

A new monthly LinkedIn Live series, with host Graham Collins.

Join our favorite Sales Nerd and his guests as they get into the state of sales and metrics that matter.

Episode 1

Lily Youn Jaroszewski, Head of Growth at Gradient Works, joined us as our first guest for the episode “What Sales Metrics do you care about most?” The two explored topics such as email reply rates, a/b testing outbound email efforts, the pivotal role pipeline progression plays, and much, much more.

Read Ep. 1 highlights.

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Episode 2

In Ep. 2 of Sales Nerds Live! Host Graham Collins welcomes Jacob Walker to the show. Jacob got his start in sales as an SDR six years ago and today leads as Head of Sales at Occupier. How’d he do it? By leading with a mentor mentality.

Read Ep. 2 highlights.

Episode 3

On Ep. 3 of Sales Nerds Live! Graham welcomes the passionate, rebellious, and results-driven Amelia Taylor to the show! A coach, mentor, and consultant, Amelia is an Account Executive at Carabiner Group and a Cold Calling Champion. In this episode, Graham and Amelia dive into prospecting efforts, highlighting her social selling strategy, her most effective greeting, and her approach to overcoming objections. A must-see for sales leaders and reps!

Read Ep.3 highlights.

Episode 4

On Episode 4 of Sales Nerds Live!, Graham welcomes Farhan Manjiyani. Farhan, who kicked off his career in tech as an SDR on Graham’s team, today serves as a product marketing manager leading GTM strategy for Grafana Labs. Watch as the two unpack the lifelong skills SDRs gain throughout their experiences and how it sets up the perfect stepping stone for other, more senior career paths in tech.

Episode 5

One of the biggest errors you can make in your comp plan design is assuming what your reps want. In our next episode of Sales Nerds Live! Graham welcomes two AE’s to find out what matters to them (and what doesn’t) when it comes to comp structures.

Episode 6

What are the most impactful SDR inbound and outbound tactics heading into 2023? We’ll discuss that and more on this next episode of Sales Nerds Live! featuring The SDR Newsletter Co-Founder Jimmy Comodeca.

Episode 7

Sara Strope‘s storied career includes 15-plus years of executive marketing experience for public enterprises and venture-backed startups such as IBM, Cloudant, and TaxJar. In this episode, Sara shares steps and best practices to align Sales and Marketing on goal setting, messaging, and strategy.

Episode 8

We’re big fans of the community-led growth approach, as it creates opportunities for sales and growth teams to build early, authentic relationships with those who fit your ICP.

But immediate wins are hard to come by.

Those who enter the game must be patient and consistent. Want to know how to get started and how to optimize your community experience? We turn to Matthew Volm, Founder of RevOps Co-op, a community of 7,000-plus revops professionals, for advice. Register for the live stream below!

Episode 9 – Coming Soon

Join Liz (Cain) Christo and QuotaPath for a LinkedIn live discussion about how to learn negotiation skills to advocate for yourself, steps for building your personal brand, tips to grow your professional network, and how to seek out opportunities for growth and advancement.

Sales Nerds Live next guest

Episode 10 – Coming Soon

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FAQs

What makes a good sales leader?

Many sales leaders share similar attributes and skill sets but good sales leaders have a few differentiated traits. The best sales leaders are number-oriented and actively keep their teams focused and moving toward the goal. Using historical performance or industry research, they align targets and quotas to data. Additionally, a good sales leader holds their team accountable while owning accountability when applicable. The strongest sales leaders also have a knack for recruiting solid hires and often have a following of former coworkers who would love the opportunity to work with them again. They are great coaches and empathetic mentors who make everyone around them better.

How do I motivate my sales team?

There are a number of ways to motivate your sales team. It’s important to recognize that each sales rep is motivated differently. Money is often the biggest motivating factor for reps. So, pay reps an appropriate amount of money with a good commission rate, and they will feel motivated to sell. By providing visibility into sales commissions, sales leaders unlock another way to motivate reps. When reps can easily see how much they are going to get paid on a deal and where to focus their efforts, they’ll work harder to close those deals.

What are sales metrics?

Sales metrics are used to measure performance and track progress. Hundreds of them exist, but RevOps and sales leaders usually have a handful of metrics that they favor most, like average contract value, demo to close, and qualification rates. When looked at individually and collectively, sales metrics help tell the go-to-market story and shape it moving forward. Leaders will also leverage sales metrics to design their sales compensation plans.

What is prospecting in sales?

Sales prospecting techniques evolve with technology, but the act itself involves finding and pursuing future customers. Some best practices in sales prospecting include defining an ideal customer profile to go after, establishing contact lists based on those profiles, personalizing outbound efforts (LinkedIn messages, emails), and sending helpful resources and content relevant to the conversation you plan to have next.

What is sales enablement?

The practice of sales enablement involves continuously providing your sales team with resources, training, content, data, and coaching to help them close more deals. RevOps and/or SalesOps, for example, provide sales enablement to their teams to increase productivity, connect with the right buyers, and run the sales cycle more efficiently and effectively.

What is RevOps?

RevOps connects sales, marketing, and customer teams using data to increase revenue and productivity. They are often tasked with researching new technology platforms to eliminate communication barriers between departments tied to sales, establish feedback loops, and create efficiencies across all stages of the sales cycle. They’re also responsible for researching and identifying trends and triggers in the sales data, hypothesizing and testing the causes, and communicating them clearly to all stakeholders.

What is a sales commission?

A sales commission is an important part of sales compensation. It’s a form of variable pay and is the additional amount of money a sales representative can make on top of their base salary. It’s typically a percentage of a deal amount that a rep earns for closing that deal.

How do I structure a sales commission plan?

A typical sales commission structure contains three major parts. The first: on-target earnings (OTE), which consists of the total amount of money a rep can expect to earn if they hit 100% of their quota. Next up? Quota. A quota is the pre-determined amount of revenue a sales rep is expected to sell during a given period of time. Teams usually follow a monthly, quarterly, or annual quota frequency. Last is the commission and/or a bonus. This is the percentage or set amount of money paid for closing deals.

What is a sales funnel?

A sales funnel framework represents the various stages customers pass through during their buying journey. This journey breaks down into the following four stages: awareness, interest, decision, and action. To meet potential buyers every step of the way, sales and marketing teams create outreach cadences, resources, events, and more, in an effort to move the buyer further down the funnel. 

QuotaPath created the Sales Funnel calculator to provide individual contributors and sales leaders with the ability to calculate how many meetings a team should hold in order to hit their attainment goal based on historical data.