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Does Your Sales Incentive Plan Drive Customers Away?

SBI Growth

The purpose of every incentive compensation plan is to influence the actions of sales reps. You still have time before 2013 to fix any blatant disconnects. The post offers tools to make longer-lasting corrections, too. The post offers tools to make longer-lasting corrections, too. Sales incentives can be like square pegs.

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Will These 6 Tests Save 2013’s Sales Compensation Plan?

SBI Growth

Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. But wait – this new incentive compensation plan could flop. That would make 2013 worse than this year! Also, you’ll get many tools including a list of Sales Effectiveness Drivers to test your plan against. What can be done?

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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

There are categories of sales tools and CRM applications where none existed a few years ago. They tend to pay more than smaller and larger businesses and their recruiting efforts, compensation and incentive plans are designed to attract stronger salespeople. Quizzes by Quibblo.com (c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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Sales Leaders Can Close Big Deals in Q4 by Reducing Customer Risk

SBI Growth

Click here to get free advice on how your peers are planning for a busy Q4 and 2013. Top performers look for ways to help make it easy for buyers to buy. They address the risk that is undoubtedly in the buyers’ minds. Buyers know that reps are trying to make a commission check. They avoid tough conversations.

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Top Ten Ways to Immediately Improve Sales Tool Adoption

The ROI Guy

You’ve worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year.

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No Product Differentiation? No Problem. A CEO Who Found Another Way to Grow

SBI Growth

He conducted buyer research and asked his customers what their requirements would be. We partnered with a consulting firm to help us identify the right sales resources, define the sales processes, and determine the proper metrics and sales incentives.”. We provided them with the tools, training and support required to be effective.”.

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The Anatomy of a Perfect Sales Email, According to Experts & Data

Hubspot Sales

Ideally, you’ll be out in the field gathering actual feedback from your buyers. Give a few slots every month or every quarter, and maybe an incentive like a gift card.” She says you can then write a sales email to a segment of the most disengaged people on your list or one-time buyers who have gone cold completely.

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