The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As we start planning for 2023, the only thing we’re certain of is that we’re in rocky territory– some organizations more precariously positioned than others. After our conversation with the Alexander Group, we came away with an action item. Our conversation made it clear just how important it is to remember the basics of comp planning.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This involves identifying target markets, segmenting potential customers, and positioning products or services. Sales managers guide their team in maintaining positive customer interactions. Incentives and Recognition Reward top performers with appropriate incentives and recognition. This can boost morale and motivation.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

Here’s a list of the best lead generation tools on the market today. These solutions range from CRM tools to exit-intentlead capture to sales management tools to marketing software and beyond. We’ve broken down the best lead generation tools into four distinct categories. Visit their pricing page to learn more.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

We had an insightful conversation about the challenges of recruiting salespeople, the impact of technology on sales, and the importance of understanding individual motivations. The Challenges of Recruiting Salespeople Recruiting salespeople is no easy task, especially for entry-level positions. Here’s a recap of our discussion.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 29, 2021

A sales strategy enables a company to position itself and its offering in a meaningful way. They participate in online conversations with potential buyers and offer personalized advice. Then, integrate your list with your other key sales tools (CRM, email and social outreach). Who will we sell to? Outbound sales strategy.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Senders need to ensure that spam rates (as reported in Gmail’s Postmaster Tools ) are below 0.10% and never above 0.30%. Offer incentives and valuable content to ensure that subscribers stay engaged. Use Postmaster Tools to monitor your spam rate, IP reputation, and domain reputation. An updated spam rate threshold.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2019

Social currency: As a business concept, social currency refers to the perceived value of a brand or product based on the level of conversation surrounding it. Even if you didn’t consciously remember the conversation, word-of-mouth influenced your purchase decision. Two months later, your grill breaks. Encourage online reviews.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Employee engagement increases when the incentives are worth the effort required to do well. Achieving goals that we’ve set for ourselves, as well as positive feedback and reinforcement along the way, triggers the reward system in our brain and floods our receptors with dopamine. Get the ebook 2.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2019

Accordingly, video coaching has become a popular tool for driving readiness in sales organizations of all sizes and across industries. Reps and their managers can see what their buyers will see, and learn from it – making course corrections before those high-stakes conversations. million words. Here’s How it Works.

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Vengreso

JULY 5, 2023

As the world of sales continues to evolve, Digital Sales Referrals have emerged as a powerful tool for driving business growth. Finally, we’ll provide tips on leveraging shared connections using LinkedIn’s Sales Navigator tool and crafting strategic follow-up messages that resonate with your target audience.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Anyone can post positive or negative reviews on sites like Yelp that can affect a business’s bottom line. However, in B2B selling, referrals are more than positive reviews. What specific incentives do you offer, such as discounts or special offers? Look for where their conversations take place, such as LinkedIn.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Author: Tim Houlihan In my conversation with Jana Gallus from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, we examined the ways that precision impacts the effectiveness of rewards. In short, more precision is better for rewards used with incentives, while less precision is better for rewards used with recognition. Incentives.

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Act!

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

You can use various tools like feedback surveys , interviews, focus groups , live chat, and support tickets to collect customer data. Since customer feedback loops focus on specific product aspects, most positive and negative responses will have common themes and a few outliers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Companies that increased their reliance on technology to keep operating remotely also turned to tech tools to maintain their corporate culture. Another recognition tool that is proving invaluable in the WFH environment is gift cards. Companies are also using Tango cards as incentives to complete training.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 21, 2024

Whether the field is in marketing, fitness, business, or otherwise, you can position yourself as an expert through content marketing. Suppose you are positioning yourself as a channel providing tips and tricks via regular content plus offering close and in-depth looks at specific problems and needs.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But remember that while the execs are driven by revenue and low customer churn, your sales reps are driven by their incentive compensation plans. Prioritize a positive sales culture. For example, a HubSpot salesman wrote in Harvard Business Review about the success of their incentive compensation plan during their “hunting” phase.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Two truths remain unchanged: Comp is just one tool for motivating salespeople , and upstream planning is still key. For example, artificial intelligence enables the efficient and practical application of unstructured data for sales performance management and incentive plan design. Cool stuff!

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

A call center uses a referral program to incentivize employees to refer their personal connections for open positions. But, if the gratification of payment is delayed, the positive feelings and motivation won’t have the same impact. Can you offer a non-cash incentive like a gift card immediately following deals of a certain size?

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

How to fix it: Give customer success managers industry guides to help them better understand their client’s business context, and to facilitate harder-hitting conversations that drive toward value building. Create tools to help your client to be successful in collecting measures on their side. Don’t be afraid to surface those ideas.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Join us for a great conversation about driving the right behaviors within your sales team. Today we’ve got Scott Barton, VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent and a veteran of sales, revenue operations, and incentive compensation.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Another effective strategy is offering incentives. These tools not only streamline the process but also guarantee unfiltered, genuine customer feedback that prospective clients can trust. Make the process beneficial for both your agency and your clients, and you’ll have a powerful marketing tool at your disposal.

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Act!

APRIL 29, 2024

For instance, you might not have funds to take employees out on fun team-building activities or offer monetary incentives every quarter. Plus, they’re in a better position to align their work with overarching business goals. Are there any expressions or phrases they must avoid in conversations?

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Sales Processes and Product Training Incorporating sales process and product training ensures sales reps understand the end-to-end sales cycle and are thoroughly familiar with their products or services, leading to more confident and valuable sales conversations. Provide training on how to effectively use these tools in the sales process.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

I think there’s a way we can use this existing tool in our sales stack to improve XYZ? Someone in their position, who gets the day-to-day struggle and that the contributor can bring everything and anything to. Someone in their position, who gets the day-to-day struggle and that the contributor can bring everything and anything to.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

We’ll also explore some of the challenges sales reps face that impact their productivity, detail how to calculate your team’s sales productivity, and discuss the best tools to help you increase it. Motivate with incentives Keep team morale high through inter-team competitions and incentives. Why is sales productivity important?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This kind of content positions you as a thought leader in a given field or industry, does not contain a sales pitch, and should never mention your company or brand except as the source of the content. The video is essentially a tutorial, but also serves as a great promotional tool aimed at business consumers. Whitepapers.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 29, 2016

Their selling powers rely on their energy, enthusiasm, and attitude in every conversation with every prospective client. The staffing industry is a well-established one in the business world, and money-based incentives have long been the primary mode of motivation. Is Money Really the Best Motivation?

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 22, 2023

We had an insightful conversation about the challenges of recruiting salespeople, the impact of technology on sales, and the importance of understanding individual motivations. The Challenges of Recruiting Salespeople Recruiting salespeople is no easy task, especially when it comes to entry-level positions.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 11, 2018

A good sales rep is able to have difficult conversations without being pushy, annoying, or intrusive. A candidate’s answer to this question will speak to their ability to hold a tense conversation—while still being likeable and charismatic. The ideal candidate will know how to stay positive and bounce back after difficult calls.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

You’ll find the do’s, do nots, customer examples, and actionable tools and templates for implementing and improving sales coaching in this guide. Reps who are coached are more confident and effective in their conversations — and our research shows buyers are 13x more likely to buy from confident sounding sellers.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. In the time the position has been vacant, has a team member stepped up to fulfill some of the responsibilities? Is their skillset better suited for the new position than the one they currently occupy? If so, how are they doing?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2019

Social currency: As a business concept, social currency refers to the perceived value of a brand or product based on the level of conversation surrounding it. Even if you didn’t consciously remember the conversation, word-of-mouth influenced your purchase decision. Two months later, your grill breaks. Encourage online reviews.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

I think there’s a way we can use this existing tool in our sales stack to improve XYZ? Someone in their position, who gets the day-to-day struggle and that the contributor can bring everything and anything to. Someone in their position, who gets the day-to-day struggle and that the contributor can bring everything and anything to.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 21, 2022

Through sales incentives! Using sales incentives and data-driven forecasting, Nabeil encourages his salespeople to reach specific and measurable objectives. How can incentives help our forecasting? Incentives drive behavior. Be more like people and start having conversations that end in the conversions you want.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 21, 2022

Through sales incentives! Using sales incentives and data-driven forecasting, Nabeil encourages his salespeople to reach specific and measurable objectives. How can incentives help our forecasting? Incentives drive behavior. Be more like people and start having conversations that end in the conversions you want.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2019

A good sales rep is able to have difficult conversations without being pushy, annoying, or intrusive. A candidate’s answer to this question will speak to their ability to hold a tense conversation—while still being likeable and charismatic. The ideal candidate will know how to stay positive and bounce back after difficult calls.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

There are more answers to that question than ever before, thanks to the variety of tools and channels at a modern marketer’s disposal. Not every referred prospect will become a customer, but the increased conversation about your company and products will strengthen your brand and help maximize your reach.

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