4 Non-obvious Reasons Why AEs are not Hitting Quota

08/08/2022 15 min Episodio 13
4 Non-obvious Reasons Why AEs are not Hitting Quota

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Episode Synopsis

When AEs aren’t hitting their quotas, you’ll often find that the culprits are pretty much the same…
Bad product-market fit, unrealistic quotas, or simply an underproductive salesperson.
But what if there was another way to think about this issue? That’s what we chat about with Michelle Pietsch, VP of Revenue at Dooly, on this episode of The Revenue Playbook. Michelle delves into the less obvious reasons why AEs don’t hit their targets.
She also shares tips on how to teach AEs to streamline their sales process and how to set realistic quotas.
Listen to find out:
How an AE’s day-to-day can affect their productivity
The importance of product market fit
Why context switching poses a distraction
How to teach AEs to structure their selling process
How to use sales enablement more effectively
How to be realistic with quotas
Michelle’s advice to AEs striving to hit and surpass their quotas

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