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3 Ways Technology Can Streamline Your Sales Performance Management Strategy

Sales and Marketing Management

There’s a simple solution that will help streamline this issue and create more time for sales reps to spend actually selling the product or service: implement a sales and compensation system that’s transparent and easier to understand. Sales incentives are meant to attract and retain top talent, keeping them engaged in their work.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Entrepreneurial Enthusiasm with Chris Cabrera (S1:E10)

Alice Heiman

On this episode of the Sales Talk for CEOs Podcast, Alice speaks with Chris Cabrera, CEO of Xactly , which provides automated compensation for large sales teams. Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel. Chris’ life revolved around sales prior to becoming a CEO and it prepared him for starting his own company. .

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Transforming Sales Compensation into an Enterprise Strategy

Xactly

Sales compensation is one of the most costly investments enterprises make every year. From our years in the compensation space, we’ve found that 45% of compensation plans actually drive the wrong sales behaviors. In other words, 45% of the time, compensation plans are leading to missed selling opportunities.

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6 RevOps Strategies to Get You Through Economic Hardship

The Spiff Blog

Efficient communication channels. But, none of these strategies will be successful if you’re relying on antiquated or inefficient communication frameworks and channels. They require collaboration platforms or channels that your sales, marketing, and customer success teams understand and consistently engage with.

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8 Steps to Setting Smarter Sales Goals

Hubspot Sales

A Harvard University study found setting specific goals increases motivation beyond simply telling yourself, “ I’ll just do my best. ”. The study ultimately reported students who stuck to a goal-oriented plan performed 30% better than those who didn’t. The incentive for your reps to meet their quota? Incentivize goals.

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What should you do when your sales team is underperforming?

Nutshell

We’ve compiled six of the best strategies for improving sales rep performance based on real-world research and case studies so you can get back to hitting your benchmarks in no time: 1. Rethink your compensation strategy. Chung went on to study how companies should pay salespeople. Get to the root of the problem.

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Sell Like A Girl: Earn Less [+ Startling New Sales Commission Data]

The Spiff Blog

A Deep Dive Into Inequity in Sales Compensation In order to better understand the impact of gender on sales commission, we analyzed the annual commission data of 1,500+ commission-earning employees from 150+ companies, 43 states, 11 job functions, and 35+ industries. We looked exclusively at variable pay. Below is a preview of our findings.