sales performance

H&S Ventures provides management services for the Anaheim Ducks hockey team and its home-ice venue—the Honda Center. This popular indoor arena hosts scores of events and concerts, and H&S oversees everything from ticket sales to marketing and finance. H&S’s performance is measured by attendance, big-name bookings and how much fans spend on merchandise and concessions. Digital innovation plays a crucial role in creating a thrilling live experience that raises fans’ satisfaction and their average “spend.”

H&S Ventures provides management services for the Anaheim Ducks hockey team and its home-ice venue—the Honda Center. This popular indoor arena hosts scores of events and concerts, and H&S oversees everything from ticket sales to marketing and finance. H&S’s performance is measured by attendance, big-name bookings and how much fans spend on merchandise and concessions. Digital innovation plays a crucial role in creating a thrilling live experience that raises fans’ satisfaction and their average “spend.”

Learn the 20 key commerce metrics that you should be tracking to measure and optimize your commerce results. For each metric, you will learn what it means, why you should be tracking it, industry benchmarks. Download the eBook now.

Creating alignment between sales and marketing can be a challenge—competing priorities, differing success measures, and even separate terminology. We had the pleasure of hosting Forrester’s Laura Ramos, Vice President and Principal Analyst Serving B2B Marketing Professionals. Laura charted the path to successful sales and marketing alignment and share critical steps to strengthen the partnership and increase revenue success. You will learn how sales and marketing can: · Make revenue generation more efficient and predictable. · Move from a relationship of open hostility to one of smooth collaboration—ultimately becoming high-performance partners. · Work together to create lifelong customer engagement—the lifeblood of every successful company.

This Guide is a foundation for sales transformation based on twenty years of benchmarking best-in-class firms along with concrete examples. Staffing, management, and technology approaches are explored; giving actionable steps to vastly improve your sales organizatio's performance.

How Lowe’s, a Fortune 50 retailer, transformed into a omnichannel commercial success with digital performance management. In this case study, learn how Lowe’s transformed into a performance culture and delivered: Over USD$1 billion in eCommerce sales driven with growth in traffic and conversion Slashed average page load speed by half Correlated site performance with sales impact using predictive analytics Established data-driven decision making for increased customer focus and revenue

How Lowe’s, a Fortune 50 retailer, transformed into a omnichannel commercial success with digital performance management. In this case study, learn how Lowe’s transformed into a performance culture and delivered: Over USD$1 billion in eCommerce sales driven with growth in traffic and conversion Slashed average page load speed by half Correlated site performance with sales impact using predictive analytics Established data-driven decision making for increased customer focus and revenue

Electronic signatures (e-signatures), which are easily implemented from the cloud, help speed up the sales process by reducing errors and bottlenecks, while also ensuring greater security and mobility.

The close is the most critical step of every sale, but long, drawn-out processes can cause deals to fall through. Top-performing sales teams use e-signatures to close deals quick and speed time to revenue.

Forbes Insights examined the advantages of e-signatures through in-depth interviews with a number of senior executives and experts in North America and Europe, as well as third-party research.

How Lowe’s, a Fortune 50 retailer, transformed into a omnichannel commercial success with digital performance management. In this case study, learn how Lowe’s transformed into a performance culture and delivered: Over USD$1 billion in eCommerce sales driven with growth in traffic and conversion Slashed average page load speed by half Correlated site performance with sales impact using predictive analytics Established data-driven decision making for increased customer focus and revenue

Hotels and resorts with function space may well have an opportunity to boost their overall property revenue, given the escalating demand for function space and the fact that many of them have already maximized the value of their guest rooms through sophisticated revenue management capabilities. Success generally starts with a next-generation technology solution that can empower sales and catering personnel. Success also requires having in place the right organizational resources, business processes and performance metrics.

Aberdeen's Research Briefs provide a detailed exploration of key findings from a primary research study, including key performance indicators, Best-in-Class insight, and vendor insight.

This brief will act as your roadmap with tips about how best to utilize people, processes, and technology to improve your company’s sales performance.

This guide takes apart Sales Compensation, to figure out just what works and what best practices you need to achieve inspired performance.

To help you determine the right compensation, here are the most common sales roles, best practices on how they should be rewarded through pay mix, and recommended plan components.

Work.com (formerly Rypple) is part of the Salesforce.com family. This social performance management system is most commonly used by organizations looking to improve alignment, performance measurement, and employee motivation.

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.

Salesforce Research surveyed more than 2,300 global sales leaders to discover: The unifying goals, stumbling blocks, and success metrics for today’s sales teams How high-performing sales teams are evolving to stay ahead of the curve Areas where sales is doubling down to supercharge business in the next 12–18 months. This report highlights sales trends in 2015, including the central role of sales teams in an integrated customer success platform. Throughout the report, data is examined relative to sales performance to identify patterns for overall customer success.

CSO Insights analysts gathered 100+ metrics from 1,500+ sales executives to develop insights on three key areas: • the challenges facing their sales teams • why those problems exist • how they are successfully reengineering their teams to overcome those challenges Based on this data, the whitepaper How to Build a World-Class Sales Organization clearly outlines how to increase productivity and collaboration so reps can spend more time selling.

This report highlights sales trends in 2015, including the central role of sales teams in an integrated customer success platform. Throughout the report, data is examined relative to sales performance to identify patterns for overall customer success.

Global DNS performance and availability are critical to user experience. According to Gartner, “DNS is mission-critical to all organizations that connect to the internet. DNS failure or poor performance leads to applications, data and content becoming unavailable, causing user frustration, lost sales and business reputation damage.” But many businesses still rely on a single, often in-house DNS solution that lacks global scale and resiliency. This white paper reviews the business advantages of implementing a high availability DNS architecture using redundant DNS services. You will learn: - The critical role DNS plays in the user experience. - The risks of relying solely on a single DNS solution. - The added performance and reliability benefits of a high availability DNS architecture with a redundant managed DNS service. - Criteria for evaluating a managed DNS service provider.

Successful businesses are nimble and built to scale. At times you might need to grow your sales capacity by bringing more people on board. Other times you might simply need them to get more active, boosting performance. Sometimes you need to do both. To support the ebb and flow of your business your storage should be capable of scaling up capacity while increasing performance. Yet you might be surprised to know that only one All-flash vendor can do so, while keeping costs predictable. Read on to learn about 3 scalabity benefits that will transform your storage purchasing experienc

To compete in today’s fast-paced business climate, enterprises need accurate and frequent sales and customer reports to make real-time operational decisions about pricing, merchandising and inventory management. They also require greater agility to respond to business events as they happen, and more visibility into business activities so information and systems are optimized for peak efficiency and performance. By making use of data capture and business intelligence to integrate and apply data across the enterprise, organizations can capitalize on emerging opportunities and build a competitive advantage. The IBM® data replication portfolio is designed to address these issues through a highly flexible one-stop shop for high-volume, robust, secure information replication across heterogeneous data stores. The portfolio leverages real-time data replication to support high availability, database migration, application consolidation, dynamic warehousing, master data management (MDM), service

Pardot and Salesforce are complementary tools that really reach their full potential when paired together. Not only can these tools improve marketing and sales alignment, they can also provide greater insight into campaign performance, jumpstart lead generation efforts, and positively impact ROI. If you’re thinking about integrating these two systems, it’s important that you understand the benefits this will provide and the steps that will be required for implementation. So, let’s get started!