Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 21, 2020

What does it mean for business events and incentive travel programs? Bauer : There’s no doubt this current crisis has changed the landscape for business events and incentive travel. We’ve also seen the tech companies in the industry step up to help planners navigate this new normal and get up to speed quickly.

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Meeting Face-to-face Travel Incentives 227

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Innovaxis Marketing, e-commerce for our B2B clients has risen from 5% to 15% or more of total sales. However, according to the Episerver report, 54% of B2B companies are letting one obstacle keep them from selling online? Some channel partners will complain anyway, but manufacturers need to hold firm.

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Outsourcing Services Channels B2B Incentives 156

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my work with sales executives from corporations large and small, I repeatedly see that team rewards are easily overlooked in favor of individual incentives. And while individual incentives are critical to the success of any sales organization, most companies are not fully invested in supporting the team environment.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 17, 2020

But in a company with both marketers and sellers, this motto has never been more applicable. Whether we readily admit it or not, there has always been an underlying current of us versus them between the sales and marketing teams. Sales and marketing need to become one. One leader. Where are those MQLs?” “Why Make a hybrid team.

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B2B Buyer Persona Marketing Top of Funnel 177

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Harnessing AI requires a strong alignment of incentives across departments, coupled with high-quality data and experienced resources to get the job done. With ZoomInfo data such as company size, industry, geography, technology usage and buying signals, lead scoring is an efficient, resource-optimized, automated process. The good news?

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Lead Rank Data Marketing Segment 130

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The following week, the company’s 90-plus employees were told they would be working remotely indefinitely, as it became clear the global COVID-19 outbreak made office settings unsafe. Phone2Action employees were appreciative of office breakfasts and all-hands happy hours that had become a staple of the company’s team-building efforts.

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Incentives Incentive Face-to-face Survey 227

SBI Growth

MARCH 29, 2013

B2B Sales Reps compete with their peers for sales support resources. Good Sales Reps consistently secure these resources and create their own virtual teams. It also works with the peers and co-workers within your own company. You can cash in on Social Debt to build your virtual sales support team.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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Hiring Retention B2C Demand Generation 95

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Women in sales have everything they need to succeed. It’s sneakier than gender discrimination or racial prejudice of old, but just as damaging for careers, relationship-building opportunities, and account based sales teams. The first is Sue, a successful field sales manager in a tech company. Comments were prolific.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

This series gives you the chance to meet the faces behind Spiff—the dedicated individuals who work tirelessly to shape our product and company. Paul Cataldi, Solutions Engineer Paul grew up near Detroit, Michigan and moved to Chicago after graduating from Notre Dame. What excites you most about your role at Spiff?

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Meeting Travel Engineering Hiring 67

Close.io

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Want more, higher quality customers with a lot less effort than it takes to do cold outbound sales or inbound marketing? Use this simple referral sales system to grow your business starting today. One of the most valuable sources of quality sales leads is right in front of you: your existing customers. What is referral selling?

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Referrals Customer Outbound Incentives 89

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 130

Women Sales Pros

JULY 27, 2018

Incentives: Non-monetary incentives are the better choice here, tied directly to your product or service (ex: priority support, added features, etc.). Asking Promoter clients (NPS score: 9 or 10) for referrals is given, yet shockingly few companies proactively add this method to their sales process.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Referrals 93

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Building a sales funnel that aligns with your business goals is essential. I’m the head of Product at Datanyze, specializing in sourcing up-to-date prospect contact info to keep your pipeline flowing and sales funnel fresh. What is a sales funnel? And then there’s the sales funnel. The 4 stages of a sales funnel.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 119

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 20, 2020

“We expect that in the future the implementation, validation and communication of some concept of Healthy Buildings will become an even more important differentiation for sophisticated companies,” they state. For every $3 a company spends on utilities, it spends $30 on rent and $300 on payroll. The problem of split incentives.

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Real Estate Hiring Incentives Incentive 120

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This post is for HR and Sales leaders who want more. By participating in this free event at your office you will: Learn the best practices of the brightest sales people in our research. Discover tactical solutions to get the most out your incentive comp dollars. But for sales roles, it’s not enough to know “market” conditions.

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Compensation Competition Salary Social Media 288

The Spiff Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

This series is an opportunity for you to get to know the faces behind Spiff– the people who work tirelessly behind the scenes to make our product and our company what it is today. Tomas Carchio, Solutions Engineer Tomas is 28 years old and has lived his entire life in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2020

Organizations are doing their best to navigate this new landscape of layoffs, remote working, canceled events, slowing sales and demand slumps. Some are further along than others, but all can agree that this has been an unprecedented test on how even the most well-prepared companies can cope with a catastrophe. .

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Engineering Revenue Incentives Incentive 207

Xactly

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Management by Objectives, aka MBOs, are goals set for employees to improve overall sales performance, as agreed up on by sales manager and rep. MBOs can be an extremely useful tool in addition to your sales commission structure because they give each rep individual goals to strengthen the overall sales organization.

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Examples Compensation Incentives Incentive 78

Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2019

In sales, culture is everything—and right now, it’s every where too. Sales culture has become one of the buzziest buzzwords out there, with think pieces popping up left and right about why culture matters. There’s no unattainable “it” factor that some sales orgs have and others don’t. Believes in the vision of your company.

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Top of Funnel Incentives Incentive Hiring 106

The Spiff Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last week we explored gender bias in sales. Today, we’re continuing the conversation by celebrating a group of incredible women from a variety of sales organizations who have made their mark in the world of sales. These same companies were less likely to have employee turnover rates ( source ).

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Negotiation Face-to-face Hiring Lead Rank 69

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They’re researching business products and services online, purchasing via websites as much as they can, and foregoing interactions with sales representatives whenever possible. Of course, the shift to digital sales tactics has been underway for years. What sales investments should you focus on in 2022? Sales engagement.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Forecasting 91

The Spiff Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Dan Vasilevsky, Sales Engineer. Fast forwarding a few years and that inspiration helped him achieve a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 2019. Knowing he had a knack for learning new things and meeting new people, sales engineering seemed like the right next step.

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Meeting Travel Engineering Hiring 81

The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sales Performance Improvement programs should be constructed in a way to better manage and channel the sales team to deliver higher levels of sales performance. In fact sales teams that go through a sales performance improvement program outperform sales teams in companies that don’t.

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Incentives Incentive Sales Leadership Guidelines 56

Apptivo

MAY 31, 2023

What is a sales funnel? Why is a sales funnel important? Sales funnel stages: understanding the customer journey 4. How to build an effective sales funnel for more sales? Optimizing and managing your sales funnel 6. Prepare for an energizing journey that will boost business’s sales efforts.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Funnel Social Media 52

Mereo

JUNE 13, 2019

Most leadership attempts to drive a culture of urgency with rewards and incentives. And while many incentives programs exist, the lack of urgency remains a No. 1 issue I come across in sales teams, across markets and business structures. With incentives and rewards not doing the job, how can meaningful urgency be achieved?

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Incentives Incentive ACT Lead Rank 50

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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Oracle Scale SalesForce Incentives 103

Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Kathleen Roberge , Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Rocketrip. How to excite your team (and incentive them along the way). Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs : Hey folks, it’s Sam Jacobs, your friendly neighborhood Sales Hacker Podcast host.

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Hiring Incentives Incentive Travel 63

SBI

JUNE 5, 2019

Transforming Sales: How Engaged Accounts Can be Known and Then Treated More Effectively. In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can transform sales in a significant way. A lot of where I see sales transforming is around how engaged accounts can be known and then treated more effectively.

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Account Scale Ideal Customer Profile Intent Data 135

Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

High-quality ones are important for SEO and better search engine rankings because it helps connect a “web” between your website and other related domain leaders. The measure of how memorable your company name and/or products are to the general public. High ones make upper management happy because they often lead to more sales.

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Paid Content Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 98

Score More Sales

MARCH 8, 2012

In order to be most productive with the sales opportunities in your pipeline there are a number of people you need to know well. You’re done in by lost sales, missed opportunities, misaligned goals, and “no’s” toward the end of a prospective customer’s long buying cycle. You (yes, you.) slow follow-up.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. Who should be responsible for sales compensation planning?

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Compensation Retention Hiring Commission 88

The Spiff Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Marcello Albuquerque, Software Engineer. Dave started his career in sales and marketing prior to falling in love with the balanced left/right brain usage of product management. Bobby Bartlett, Technical Support Engineer. Erli Ametaj, Technical Support Engineer. Benjamin Naugle, Software Engineer.

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Meeting Engineering PeopleSoft Travel 62

The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

She’s also worked with companies like G2, Hypercontext, and Bonusly. Connor Shlatz, Front-End Software Engineer. John Arsenault, Sales Engineer. Solving problems and having fun while doing so makes him happy, and he’s excited to showcase Spiff to finance and sales teams. What excites you most about your role?

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Meeting Top of Funnel Travel Engineering 75

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2018

Author: Kostas Chiotis Picture this: your company wants to boost its sales with an incentive program. If you are serious about search engine optimization, then you should know that press releases and media stories represent great opportunities and one of the top link building strategies according to experts.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Taylor Montero, Sales Operations Analyst. Vincent Cifelli, Solutions Engineer. Billy has been in sales/sales management his entire career and previously spent five years at Capshare. Adam has held a number of different accounting positions at a number of different companies, and has always loved the startup world.

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Xactly

MAY 24, 2018

Sales compensation is one of the most costly investments enterprises make every year. On average, companies spend about 9% of overall revenue. From our years in the compensation space, we’ve found that 45% of compensation plans actually drive the wrong sales behaviors. Why Your Sales Compensation Is Inefficient.

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