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Competition: The Invisible Enemy of Compensation Planning

SBI Growth

Discover tactical solutions to get the most out your incentive comp dollars. How do competitors structure incentive payouts? Start work today on the 2014 compensation plans. They are the engine that will enable you to Make the Number in 2014. Receive the Competitive Competition Analyzer. Author: John Kenney.

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How healthy is your office?

Sales and Marketing Management

In the book, they explain that two brothers from the finance world founded the International Well Building Institute and created a WELL certification process in 2014. The problem of split incentives. One challenge to increasing the focus on healthy commercial buildings is that of split incentives. Who will foot that bill?

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Business development challenge in professional services – role of team selling

Sales Training Connection

In professional services, there are field-based engineering and technical support staff, or implementation managers that are on-site and have unique perspectives about the customer. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC. This can be a particularly important competitive advantage in the professional service sale.

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Times Are Changing

Partners in Excellence

CSO Insight’s 2014 Performance Optimization Survey shows continued performance declines with 58.2% It means we have to reassess our whole approach to the market, our sales deployment (organizational/structural) strategies, our recruiting strategies, our training, metrics, sales processes, compensation/incentive systems.

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Video: Combating Chaos in Channel Sales with CPQ

Cincom Smart Selling

From engineering and fulfillment all the way to customer satisfaction, how you handle this chaos is critical to the success of your company. Are our sales incentives working? Aberdeen provides a very thorough look into how businesses are using CPQ in its 2014 report, “Configure-Price-Quote: Better, Faster Sales Deals Enabled.”

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3 Reasons Why Thinking-Outside-the-Box is Harmful to Sales Productivity

SBI

It’s when your idea isn’t overly creative, it’s simply over-engineered. I asked LinkedIn group members to contribute examples of when salespeople and managers over-think and here are a few responses: “Sales incentives can become so complicated or over thought that they completely miss their point and are counter-productive.”. “A

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18 Sales Podcasts Every Rep Should Check Out

Hubspot Sales

Commission Detachment : While money is always a powerful incentive in sales, reps must also genuinely want to help prospects. Bowery Capital has been producing this show since 2014, so there’s a lot in the archives. This episode covers techniques for balancing your motivations. Sales Gravy. Host: Jeb Blount , author of People Buy You.

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