The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Considering the volatility that most companies faced throughout 2023, you’re probably pondering a lot of significant changes to the way you design, execute, and manage your sales comp programs over the course of the next year. Don’t worry, we’re here to help! has increased from 29% to 36.3% over that same time period ( source ).

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Corporate Visions

JULY 23, 2020

Look at the constraints that typically take place during in-person enablement events, which all stem from limitations around time and class size: Partial Assignments – You’re put onto a team of three or four people (triads or quads), which means you only perform a quarter of the assignment, not the whole assignment.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 30, 2020

The post Proving the Power of Situational Enablement by Tim Riesterer appeared first on Corporate Visions. Every participant receives tailored feedback on their practice recordings, so they know precisely how they can individually improve. Situational Enablement has tremendous benefits for your organization. The results?

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Anthony Iannarino

JULY 29, 2019

The victory often goes to the salesperson and sales organization who can solve the client’s problem, the best of whom solve the problem before it’s a problem. Even if you delude yourself into believing your competitors are all terrible, their results likely prove different. This is how to be more competitive in sales now.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2019

It's only successful when sales leadership and the sales force execute with dedication and competence. Have I reached the executive sponsor? Salespeople can help their prospects by sending them how-to blog posts, offering to run a consultative call, and sending them relevant content resources. Let's dig into each.

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Anthony Iannarino

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

When you start in sales, you need deals. One deal is as good as another deal, a perspective that is helpful because you cannot learn to sell without actually selling. As you progress in gaining sales acumen, you also acquire the business acumen and the situational knowledge necessary to winning bigger deals.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 16, 2012

For Email Newsletters you can trust. RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Communication , EDGE Sales Process , Gap Selling , Impact Questions , Planning , Productivity , Prospecting , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales eXchange , execution. 0 Subscribers.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 31, 2018

I’ve seen some incredible changes, and I can say without a doubt that right now is the best time to invest in a sales career. Although it’s arguably more difficult to sell effectively in 2018, it’s easier for top performers to differentiate themselves. The first thing you need to do? Drop the 18 tactics below. Cold calling.

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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 15, 2019

Resolutions are made, and we are excited about executing a new plan. Beginning January 29, you will find new entries for the Smooth Sale Blog on my LinkedIn Profile Page (Elinor Stutz) and Twitter (@smoothsale). T hree factors can quickly kill progress: Not admitting what you do not know or cannot handle.

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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 8, 2019

There isn’t a day that passes without someone on LinkedIn or some other social platform publishing something about how much sales has changed, often citing the fact that salespeople are no longer useful to their clients (or necessary), since their clients can learn about products and services on their own (thank you, internet).

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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 17, 2019

If you want to develop your business acumen , your situational knowledge, and your ability to create value for your clients and your dream clients, you need to become intellectually curious. I started asking the question, “What happens if you don’t do something different?”.

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Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: My game participation with men and women raises the question, are you missing this team advantage? Learning from one another can improve business development processes and increase sales. Ask yourself, are you missing this team advantage? However, the print services company proved to be worse.

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Appbuddy

JUNE 14, 2021

ROI literacy is essential – we often talk about “selling to power” where the primary issues are driving growth, competitive differentiation, and increased shareholder value. But calculating ROI isn’t easy, and this hurts when you need to demonstrate program value to secure budget and new investment. The rest, as they say, is history!

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

As more companies evolve from sales enablement to revenue enablement, we often use the more general term “enablement” to ensure that we acknowledge the current state of your enablement journey, whether you are taking your initial step into sales enablement or are evolving to a comprehensive revenue enablement initiative.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Execution is difficult. Whether you are trying to stand up a high-performing sales organization or an operation that serves clients, execution comes with a set of challenges of its own. Without structure and a few disciplines, you make performance difficult at best, impossible at worst. Ideas are easy. Goals and Outcomes.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 10, 2020

You may have been fortunate enough to find someone inside your dream client’s company who is highly motivated to change. This person (or persons) is struggling with something that compels them to do something to improve things, or maybe you compelled them to do something different. Lack of Alignment: Priorities.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 2, 2018

Intellectual curiosity: Show you're not afraid of the unknown in sales -- and demonstrate how you tackle learning and becoming an expert in new things. Appetite for closing: Avoid vague accolades like President's Club in favor of percent of goal, activity board metrics, and proof that you continually close larger deals. High achiever.

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PandaDoc

MAY 6, 2019

But are you able sift through all that data to actually use it? How can the data you collect result in greater forecasting precision, more effective sales reps, increasingly objective performance measures, higher funnel conversion rates, faster revenue growth, and improved pipeline visibility? It was a dark time.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2020

What was the last sales message you received? Now, how did you react to it? Did you open/answer at all? Or did you send it straight to your trash bin? Or did you send it straight to your trash bin? I hate to break it to you, but prospects in your target accounts have the same reaction to your sales messages.

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Additionally, it’s crucial that they can tailor their approach and their messages in each buyer interaction in a valuable, relevant and differentiating way. Additionally, it’s crucial that they can tailor their approach and their messages in each buyer interaction in a valuable, relevant and differentiating way.

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SBI

DECEMBER 18, 2013

You can tell they truly enjoy the opportunity to recognize people, resources and tools that advance our industry in one way or another. In all, there were 16 categories that honored thought-leaders; books, blogs and articles; software tools; and useful resources. I’m sure you have a few of your own favorites.

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Showpad

MARCH 19, 2021

You’ve heard the phrase “nature versus nurture.” ” This theory differentiates between the talents and skills we’re born with and those we develop from outside influences. A knack for sales, for example, can absolutely be one of those things that a person is just plain born with.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Not only will successfully selling to them give your business a significant revenue stream and huge credibility boost, it can also lead to lucrative referrals. Not to mention, you may be able to consistently grow your partnership over time by expanding into different departments, regions, and/or subsidiaries.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here lies the proverbial fork in the road for you and your prospect. Either they’re a good fit for your product or service and you can move forward with the relationship, or it’s time to part ways. A discovery call is where you might do the bulk of your qualification, but it certainly isn’t where qualification starts or ends.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 27, 2018

We know you’re starting a new business or moving to expand and want to stay focused on the positive and the last thing you want to talk about is failure. Then, we can cover the basics of how to write a business plan. How can we differentiate ourselves? How can we make a profit? What is a business plan? Who are we?

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HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 4, 2008

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Understand Why You Lose Deals: The Martin Curve. Martin: Heavy Hitter Sales Psychology: How to Penetrate the C-level Executive Suite and Convince Company Leaders to Buy. Martin: The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White: Lessons in Business and Leadership for the Executive Team.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 20, 2016

The more prescriptive process you create, the greater success your sales team will experience. Salespeople tend to lose opportunities when they execute poorly, this is due to lack of training but it is also because they missed something during the sales process. If your sales teams execute that well you get the production Subway does!

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 18, 2016

Therefore, marketing and sales campaigns which provide the prospect with honest content where the buyer can educate themselves is vital. Blogs, webinars, case studies as all examples of content that may be beneficial to the prospect as long as it is not overtly self-serving. Three Magic Questions a Sales Manager Must Know. Why with us?

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CommercialTribe

OCTOBER 10, 2018

If you’ve acknowledged that it’s sales team behaviors that need to be evaluated, then you’re already halfway there! This simple step can make or break the customer interaction, so it’s important that professional poise begins in these early stages. Early in the Sales Cycle.

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Close.io

APRIL 13, 2019

The Internet is full of people who will tell you all about the success they’ve found from their strategies. But in selling, you need a proven sales plan template to guide your business growth: Have you tried personalizing your newsletter subject line? It can 5X your open rate! Wood - Executive and Brigadier General.

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LeveragePoint

MARCH 23, 2018

Equipped with extensive online information, risk averse B2B buyers can be elusive. As highlighted in our last blog, the biggest sales challenge early in the sales cycle is usually combatting the status quo and getting a buyer to evaluate your solution with the active involvement of your sales team.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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LeveragePoint

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Understanding Sales Challenges , Richardson’s recently compiled survey, identified the top 3 concerns among seller executives: (1) Competing against a low cost provider, (2) Combatting the status quo and (3) Knowledge about how to team sell effectively. This is a lonely time for a sales rep. Objectives Early in the Sales Cycle.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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OpenSymmetry

JULY 17, 2015

You have this same model being leveraged across industries as the consumer is driving the need for “sticky business models” and cloud-based services. You have this same model being leveraged across industries as the consumer is driving the need for “sticky business models” and cloud-based services.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? I’ve pulled together the top 97 books from a range of sales disciplines to give you the information you need to stay relevant, lead conversations, understand the trends — and of course, improve your game. You Can’t Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar.

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Photo by John Hain via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How Do You Rate Yourself Regarding Being Good? The statement proves the point of positive thinking and going for the win. As you read the insights below, consider ‘How do you rate yourself regarding being good?’ and whether change is in order.

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