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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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How to Avoid Wasting Money on a Compensation Assessment

SBI Growth

HR leaders, get ready for the 2013 Sales Kickoff by fixing the flaws in your compensation plan today. And get your hands on a Competency Grader for compensation assesement providers as part of SBI's "Make The Number 2013.". Rinse and Repeat: The Annual Comp Study. The standard comp study may be dangerously inadequate.

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Gamification: The Secret to Accelerate Onboarding

SBI Growth

Incentive Compensation: Sales people are “coin-operated.” These include recognition, incentives, interpersonal support, and clear goals. A February 2013 report by Aberdeen Research validates the impact of gamification. See below for links to case studies.) Compare their integrated CRM tools.

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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. Provide case studies that prove you can execute. Case studies help reduce your customer's fear of risk. They relate to the problem the customer in the study was solving for. Get ahead of this issue, by building a Q4 strategy now.

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

Hubspot Sales

Social proof or case studies. Give a few slots every month or every quarter, and maybe an incentive like a gift card.” But, by providing the option to chat, they can continue the conversation and learn how to put those credits and tools to use effectively,” Nonnemacher says. “As A compelling or high-value offer. Passive voice.

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Smart Selling Visions: Up-Close with Top Revenue Leader Adam Hollander, CEO of @FST_Games

SBI

So by the end of the contest, there’s only a small handful of reps even focused on the incentive (and of course a large portion of your team no longer motivated by it at all). Your top reps are self-motivated and don’t usually need an extra incentive to perform. Adam: How can you motivate the middle 50% of your team?

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