The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Recommended reading : How to Develop a Winning Sales Compensation Philosophy Compensation Transformation Tip #3: Personalize your sales incentive programs. Personalizing sales incentives is a difficult task for a number of reasons. To start, you might implement a range of incentive options that qualifying sales reps can choose from.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 4, 2013

We’re always looking for more business and for any opportunity to reach and surpass our quotas. One industry leader I know provides strong incentives for salespeople to refer. That way, you’ll all meet quota, and your clients will receive the best possible service. We’d rather beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Today we’ve got Scott Barton, VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent and a veteran of sales, revenue operations, and incentive compensation. Traditional tools don’t work in a hybrid sales world. powered by Sounder.

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SBI

JUNE 4, 2021

SetSail , the Revenue Execution platform for sales, releases new data on the anatomy of a successful B2B sales deal, derived from its analysis of deals at six large enterprises, including one of the Fortune 10, over the past two months. Media Contact.

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Xactly

AUGUST 30, 2018

As the bridge between executives and sales reps, managers communicate corporate goals with their teams and keep reps on track to hit their quota. For enterprise sales organizations, the sales team management process means higher quotas, bigger deals, and a longer sales cycle. It takes a multi-pronged approach.

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Zoominfo

JULY 1, 2018

Social sellers realize a 66% greater quota attainment than those using traditional prospecting techniques ( source ). IT Central Station: Described as a “Yelp or TripAdvisor for enterprise technology.”. To get started, invest in a social media management tool, track your competitor’s profiles, and monitor branded hashtags.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. There are plenty of sales prospecting tools and sales management software to help automate your manual tasks while personalizing your outreach. Fortunately, we’ve been tinkering with many of these inside sales tools for quite a while.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The tool has voice recognition capabilities, so you’re able to get into bed and say “Power on. Now, let’s say that one week after purchasing the sleep tool, you turn it on and receive the following message: “I’ve analyzed your sleep patterns over the past seven nights. Personalize sales incentives. Set alarm for 8:15 a.m.

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The Spiff Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Complicated Team Dynamics Sales teams, particularly those at hyper-growth organizations, startups , and enterprise-level businesses, are complex. Within those two organizations there is often further division– inbound vs. outbound, mid-market vs. enterprise, and so on and so forth. You get the point.

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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. CSO Insights reports that implementing formalized sales coaching leads to double-digit improvements in win-rates and quota attainment. Coaches can attach rewards and incentives (e.g.,

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Xactly

MAY 7, 2018

The resulting incentive plan must develop a compensation process that will motivates the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Palo Alto Networks is a network and enterprise security company helping their customers prevent security breaches. What are the biggest challenges you face in your role today?

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 20, 2023

If you’re responsible for managing sales commission, you’re already aware of the power you wield and, under the right circumstances, your potential to make lasting strategic impact– but without the right tools at your disposal, doing so is almost impossible.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

For example, if your team is consistently struggling to hit a monthly sales quota, then it's likely time to reevaluate the tactics the sales reps are using to prospect and close. Or the quota strategy might need to be adjusted depending on how badly the sales team is missing the mark. Close more Enterprise deals each month.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 22, 2021

Historically, compensation planning has been relegated to an Excel file, particularly for businesses without the budget for prohibitively priced enterprise software. By making sure every salesperson understands exactly what they will and could potentially make, organizations can use compensation as a real incentive and driver of performance.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

Salesforce brought all of the benefits of modern enterprise software over spreadsheets. We believe Salesforce realizes that its software isn’t ideal for handling incentive compensation systems. The company was a pioneer in Internet-delivered software as a service, or SaaS. True, I’m biased. )

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It can be calculated a number of ways, including a number of factors like commission, bonuses and quota – and even then, no two organizations figure it out the same way. Sales has a lot of incentive to bring in revenue, but they need the right tools to do it efficiently and effectively.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Your reps utilizing social and mobile tools consistently was not in your ’13 plan. Territory design, quotas and compensation plans. Steve is a VP of The Americas of a large enterprise software company. Change the compensation plan to incent new logo growth by adding an accelerator. You sell to a more informed buyer.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

Your goal should also be closely tied to your high-level business goals; to give you an idea, if the company is trying to move upmarket, your goal might be “Acquire 20 Enterprise logos” rather than “Sell X in new business” (because the former will encourage you to solely chase deals rather than focus on the right type of customers).

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Outside sales have in the past been reserved for high-value contracts with long sales cycles , multiple stakeholders, and enterprise-level SLAs (service-level agreements). Achieving sales quotas and targets. Setting sales quotas. Inside sales quotas . AE quotas are more closely tied to revenue. . Team management.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

That source of truth is a great tool for achieving transparency in Salesforce. We build pipeline and velocity through our sequences and sales engagement tool, as well as signals for our team, to make sure that we’re on track. Sam Jacobs: I’m always interested in how incentives drive behavior.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I wish I could say it’s all about incentives, but the truth is a bit more nuanced than that. Determine Additional Incentives (With Caution). You should really pick one metric like revenue vs trying to incentive multiple high level metrics. It’s also not reasonable to expect your new hires to hit quota in their first pay period.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2014

For example, I see LinkedIn data that says, “Sales professionals who use social selling are 51% more likely to exceed their quotas.” They usually have a format like, “High performers are X% more likely to exceed quota when they [Do this, Use that] than sales people who don’t [Do this, Use that].

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Xactly

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Marc has over 20 years of experience managing and leading global sales organizations at enterprise organizations, including Xactly, Cisco, and OpenDNS, which was acquired by Cisco for $635 million. If you haven’t hired at the right pace, you can’t accommodate quota capacity. All of which hurt your ability to hit your numbers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Formulation of Incentives Program. Selection of Enablement Software and other Technology Tools. Communication and Conferencing Tools.

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 26, 2020

See how Crunchbase Pro can help you hit your quota – try Pro free. In the last few months, endless sales teams have gone remote and learned to depend more consistently on digital tools. According to the Annual State of Sales by Salesforce , 57 percent of sales reps said they expected to miss their quota in 2018.

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Velocify

JUNE 28, 2017

Buyer and company intelligence tools provide sales professionals the insight needed to get the conversation going. 4) Territory and Quota Management Solutions. Territory and quota management solutions assign leads to reps based on geographic areas. 6) Incentives and Commissions. 13) Onboarding and Training Tools.

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Troops

APRIL 20, 2018

Then, we’ll share some tools that you can use to make your sales operations run more smoothly. If you don’t have any existing data, then make sure you provide each salesperson with the tools to mine their own data. Calculating incentive for top performers. Tools for a Successful Sales Plan.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

So, while you may possess hard skills in terms of proficiency with specific tools, you must also cultivate the soft skill of adaptability– or more specifically, digital dexterity. In finance and accounting, being digitally dexterous means that the value you bring to the table isn’t contingent on one specific tool.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

A sales compensation manager– or similar roles such as incentive compensation manager or variable compensation manager– is responsible for the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of sales commission plans, along with the reporting and interdepartmental collaboration necessary to effectively manage sales compensation.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

Any customer-facing rep who’s worked at a midsize or enterprise company is familiar with sales operations. Here are a few sales operation metrics you might have seen before: Quota achievement. If you love seeing results and helping sales teams get paid, focusing on performance and sales incentives is up your alley. Operations.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Recommended reading: 5 Sales Quota Setting Methodologies Proven to Generate Revenue Con #1: Limited context The BANT framework ignores many of the key factors that influence a prospect to purchase a product. For enterprise-level deals, the additional context provided by the MEDDIC framework becomes more essential. Can they buy it now?”

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Emissary

JUNE 26, 2023

Refocus on opportunity management methodologies and tools (deal plans) to equip sellers to handle a huge influx of deal activity. This can involve redistributing planning tools, holding refresher training and assigning field coaches. What needs integration into the workflow or with other tools? Reinforce opportunity management.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If your commission plans don’t encourage the behaviors and outcomes each rep should focus on, they’ll struggle to achieve quota attainment. Stephen Covey’s Circle of Influence and general ideology around influence and control are great tools to help you avoid those pitfalls and reap the following benefits: 1.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The premise is that enterprises can no longer afford to design geographically equivalent territories that are unbalanced in terms of value of potential sales, number of accounts, and travel and schedule efficiency. They blow out their quotas and get pats on the back. A: In the old model, reps that own good territories do well.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

If you want to increase sales productivity for your team, close more deals, and hit your quota, then keep reading. Best sales enablement tools to automate the process. ? Train sales reps directly in the sales enablement tools they’ll be using. That said, your sales reps need to understand how these tools work.

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Xactly

JUNE 13, 2018

Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. When your sales territories are poorly planned, it can result in: Drops in revenue earnings and failed quota achievement. Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Setting clear goals for your sales strategy is just as important, helping establish company-wide performance expectations and giving your salespeople the incentives they need to excel. Average contract size: Are you targeting larger deals with SMB+ or enterprise-level companies? Step 4: Give your team the tools they need to succeed.

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