Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan On the first Friday in March this year, Jeb Ory led an employee appreciation celebration at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of Phone2Action, a provider of advocacy software that enables organizations to create grassroots marketing campaigns. Companies are also using Tango cards as incentives to complete training.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

Tomas Carchio, Solutions Engineer Tomas is 28 years old and has lived his entire life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After graduating, Samuel’s interest in building models and solving complex problems led him to start his career in software finance and sales operations. He was also drawn to the area’s outdoor paradise.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Paul Cataldi, Solutions Engineer Paul grew up near Detroit, Michigan and moved to Chicago after graduating from Notre Dame. Facundo Flores Lavalle, Solutions Engineer Facu is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She quickly realized her hustle mentality and passion for helping others makes her a good fit for sales in the tech industry.

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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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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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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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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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. Dustin Carpe, Sales Development Representative. Sarah Alaguretnam, Security Operations Engineer.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Brady lives in Utah and comes from a software development and software application management background. Nikki Peck, Software Engineer. Adam LeMmon, Sr Software Developer. Dan Filler, Software Engineer. After college, Dan first worked at XANT – a sales tech company in Utah before joining Spiff.

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 7, 2022

Gone are the days when commission, bonuses, and incentive pay were accounted for as direct expenses. It’s also more familiar— you can jump right in to your next ASC 606 report without having to stop and learn a new software. Bespoke software is technically customizable— for your vendor’s engineers. Think about it.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Partnerships are driving more leads and sales than ever before, and this is only projected to grow. PartnerOps (or ChannelOps) is newer than sales and marketing ops , but it is important to driving growth in the age of the ecosystem. Forrester estimates that 75% of world sales flows through indirect channels.

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The Spiff Blog

MAY 26, 2022

So, you’ve realized commission spreadsheets are actually evil, and that sales incentive software will vastly improve transparency, efficiency, and your personal sanity. After all, the last thing you want is to sink time and resources into a brand new sales incentive software, only to find yourself struggling to use it.

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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. In doing so, we hope to show the next generation of women that sales is a viable career path for women.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Taylor Montero, Sales Operations Analyst. Vincent Cifelli, Solutions Engineer. He soon discovered he had a passion for technology and software! Billy has been in sales/sales management his entire career and previously spent five years at Capshare. Drew McGuire, Solutions Engineer.

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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. Organizations of all sizes must begin planning now for jump-starting their revenue engines when we emerge from this crisis. That’s the bad news.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Every CRO finds themselves thinking this about their original revenue engine at some point— usually after a period of growth. With the right approach, you can turn a cumbersome revenue engine into a well-oiled machine. Too many teams still pass buyers from marketing to sales to customer success like a glorified bucket brigade.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 2, 2021

What do Top Sellers Know on How to Close a Sales Deal. Negative comments can drag down the success of a sale, so it’s important to eliminate them. 7 Techniques on How to Close a Sales Deal. The assumptive close is a technique that assumes the sale and continues to go through the motions of completing it. Soft close.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Sales is a changing game. Driven by CPQ technology, especially the sales configurator, and business customization, the selling process is rapidly changing. In others, Sales is brought into the discussion much later in the selling cycle. CPQ is the vital link between the sales rep and the experts at corporate.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But, unless real transparency, visibility, and clarity are intentionally baked into every function of your revenue engine, your sales team is essentially operating in a black box. This is especially risky in sales, where disconnected data can have serious repercussions on your pipeline and revenue. What is data-driven sales?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

The sales operations professional is like the coxswain for salespeople. Patrick Kelly, who led Xerox’s first Sales Operations group, describes the role as “all the nasty number things that you don’t want to do but need to do to make a great sales force.”. Download Our Free Sales Conversion Rate Calculator and Guide.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Read on to learn more about the ins and outs of customer lifecycle management as well as how Nutshell’s customer relationship management (CRM) software can help you with it all. In other words, offer incentives that will encourage them to become a repeat customer rather than a one-time purchaser.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

A sales plan is a roadmap that outlines your business’s strategy for selling its products or services. Acting as an essential tool for businesses of all sizes and in all industries, a robust sales plan helps to identify sales goals, target markets, and sales tactics to achieve those goals. What is a sales plan?

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

So, ensure that you have a list of keywords that potential customers could plugin on search engines when looking for a product or service. One of the largest drivers of leads in the SaaS industry is search engines. One school of thought believes that you would not be able to generate a lot of referrals without an incentive.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

There are many moving parts in a successful sales organization. If you know that you love strategizing to increase sales but don’t want to be an account executive, sales operations may be the right place for you. What is Sales Operations? Why do we need Sales Operations? Average sales cycle duration.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 3, 2016

And those are all great qualities for women in sales. The bulldog in question is Amy, director of sales strategy at a large B2B software company. She has both a deeply rooted sense of integrity and an unbounded passion for sales. More Leadership Lessons from Women in Sales. Lessons from the Dog Pen.

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Lessonly

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But closing a new deal today involves so much more than just the rep; there’s marketing, sales development, sales engineering, continuous sales training, procurement, and so much more. And, two uber important parts of this equation are sales operations and sales enablement. What Is Sales Enablement?

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Another effective strategy is offering incentives. Consider using feedback platforms or software to collect client testimonials. Integrating customer references and testimonials into your sales and marketing strategy is mandatory for enhancing small business growth.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 13, 2023

Lulu has experience in customer service, sales, onboarding, data analysis, and languages (he speaks three). After meeting some family friends who were software engineers, Jacob found himself wanting to learn how to write software. He would describe sales in four words which would be to make friends and solve problems!

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Close.io

AUGUST 30, 2019

In the last few years, there has been a radical shift in the way people use and buy software. In other words, we are experiencing the product-led era that came as a replacement to the marketing and the sales-led one. How is product-led different than sales-led? Give them the right incentives to keep using your product.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 6, 2018

This article takes you through 5 crucial tips to efficiently manage your sales pipeline. Before we jump right in, let’s define what a sales pipeline is. A sales pipeline is a systematic and visual representation of your sales process. Ensure your reps take ownership for their individual sales pipelines.

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SBI

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Inside sales reps who engage prospects with a personalized pitch see better open rates, have longer conversations, and book more meetings. But migrating from a traditional cold calling model to one that requires a high-level of customization can be challenging, even for the most sophisticated inside sales environments.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 16, 2020

Introducing specific people with different skills and expertise from your company into your sales cycle might be the solution for maintaining momentum in the ever growing complexity in today’s sales cycles. In 2020, there are a number of big factors at play for sales reps that make team selling more attractive than ever before.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Building a new sales strategy in the face of a recovering economy is even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product or a slew of new features to give to your customers. You have the product in hand, but without a high-quality sales strategy, it won’t attain the success it was made for. What is a sales strategy?

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Smooth Sale

MAY 15, 2023

For instance, web designers need to establish what distinguishes their work from others – such as which software or approach to customer service sets them apart. Offering incentives like recognition awards or flexible hours show appreciation for hard work from employees. Celebrate Success!

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

So, today, we explore five ways to double down on Seller Experience to save money, bring in more revenue, and ultimately create an environment where sales professionals can thrive– even in the face of hardship. When sales reps are happy, engaged, and supported they’re able to provide prospects and customers with a better experience.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As businesses grow, their software requirements grow as well. As businesses grow and adapt, software shouldn’t hold them back. HubSpot and Salesforce are top two enterprise CRM solutions, according to user ratings and reviews on G2, Capterra, and Software Advice. What is an enterprise CRM software? Sales enablement.

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