The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

You already know the right sales compensation plan can motivate your team, improve their performance, and boost overall job satisfaction. And, conversely, you already know the wrong compensation plan can do the exact opposite- demotivate teams, decrease performance, and cause high rates of sales rep turnover. Only 24.3%

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But the lingering effects of the pandemic are not the only reason why your sales team may not be performing as you need or want them to. There can also be deeper, systemic issues that traditional incentives, such as commissions and bonus pay, can’t accommodate. Offer Rewards and Recognition.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Key takeaways Sales gamification can improve performance by drawing attention to specific metrics, sales targets, and KPIs. Employee engagement increases when the incentives are worth the effort required to do well. Manage your sales activities twice as fast Increase your close rate by 36% wuth PandaDoc.

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

Knowing how to set sales goals is a crucial skill for any business owner, sales manager or marketer. It not only drives revenue growth but also helps in managing customer churn and acquisition costs effectively. But setting effective sales goals involves more than just choosing an arbitrary number.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Why Every Sales Team Needs to Use Mutual Action Plans . For the B2B complex sale, b uying is notoriously a long, hard s log for B2B buyers. Your instinct might be to create a system whe reby you can mark deliverables as “completed” or “incomplete,” but that’s just not realistic. MAPs lead to more accurate sales forecasts.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Sam Jacobs: I’m always interested in how incentives drive behavior. Neil Ringers: We’re all in a SaaS-based world, at least from a technology perspective, so I think from an incentive perspective, you need to keep it as easy as possible. Make the base incentives simple (6-8%), then when over quota, simply raise them 10-12%.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 17, 2014

As is usual this time of year, I’ve been involved in lots of discussions of incentive and commission plans–both last quarter as people plan for the new year, and now as these plans are being introduced at Sales Kick Off Meetings. and the lists go on and on.

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Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

By assuming the bulk of administrative tasks, a sales operations team allows reps to focus on revenue-driving activities and sales managers to concentrate on coaching and supporting their teams. Sales ops frees up bandwidth for sellers to then use these resources to improve their performance. Top Sales Operations Tools.

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Nutshell

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

“Because we don’t have a system for qualifying prospects before we call them.”. Whether you ask three times or ten times, persistently asking “why” helps you move past the flawed assumption that your sales team is underperforming because they are lazy or unskilled. Have a formal system for qualifying leads. .”

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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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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

CRM systems provide a place for contact, customer and activity reporting. Sales reps that don’t use CRM need to understand that this is not acceptable any more. Sales managers have every right in the world to be informed of everything going on in their territories. Today, companies don’t have to accept this.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Nobody wants to be the bearer of bad news, especially when it comes to systems that your organization has spent considerable time and money researching and adopting. There remains little or no incentive for reps to update opportunities in your CRM, so it should be no surprise that reps routinely do the bare minimum on this front. .

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 13, 2017

I remember working with one sales organization that formalized the order approval process to such a degree that it meant adding a week to almost any sales cycle. Each order went through the following checks: The sales manager confirmed pricing and evaluated commission processing. What’s a Company to Do?

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SBI

JANUARY 13, 2015

This week I interview Adam Hollander, CEO of Fantasy Sales Team. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Adam: FantasySalesTeam helps sales managers run more engaging and higher performing sales contests with their reps. Most traditional sales contests have three problems.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

That makes creating multiple sales teams unnecessary. Of course, you can also use an inside sales model where appropriate. Revenue needs: It takes a lot of time and energy to get a partner channel system up and running. If you need money sooner rather than later, focus on direct sales for now. Channel sales manager.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

What is Sales Burnout and Why is it so Common? Unattainable or irrelevant goals: In sales, reps live and die by their quotas. Yet, quota setting is one of the areas that comes most difficult to sales managers. In fact, 61% of sales managers cite quota setting as their biggest challenge ( source ).

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

Great VPs of sales have gravitas and tact, command the room and hold their end of the table regardless of who is on the other side. They’ll rip apart your CRM and replace your opportunity fields with their proven-and-trusted sales methodologies and scoff if you try to rehearse Sandler, Challenger, or MEDDIC selling to them.

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The solution, in our experience, is modern training software that allows sales reps to find and review product information exactly when it’s needed by using techniques like just-in-time learning (reps can look up answers as needed) and microlearning (short lessons for improved knowledge retention). It’s wildly inefficient.

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ExecVision

JUNE 10, 2019

When you’re going through a recruitment phase, or trying to keep star sales employees exactly where they are, the prospect of joining (or remaining part of) that culture is enormously significant. The distribution of feedback must be a core part of your sales culture because it’s the path to business improvement. Fair incentives.

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Troops

AUGUST 7, 2018

From 2011 to 2013, he spent time in both the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants farm systems and had, as he put it, “a cup of coffee” at the AAA level. Today, Andrew oversees multiple sales teams at Square. Andrew has been building out sales teams at Square for the last four years.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Sales reps remain average because they: Don’t commit to improving. Don’t attend sales training. Don’t have a system to develop sales skills. Closing the sale is not just about solving your customer’s problem. Benign neglect is the top contributor to average sales skill development. .”

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 26, 2016

My last post inn this series was “ Super Hero Sales Managers.” ” I hesitated for a moment discussing this topic–sales compensation plans. I can barely scratch the surface on this topic, sales people, sales executives, and non sales executives invovled in compensation are likely to be unhappy.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 12, 2013

Step 4: Lean on Me Many studies indicate that, more than any other factor, the key to sales success is coaching, yet how many sales enablement programs include a formal coaching plan and commitment to drive adoption, usage and change? For a program this important, formalized sales tool coaching is a requirement.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Developing your sales strategy first requires that you diligently build up a concept of your target audience — otherwise known as your buyer personas — before setting goals and constructing your sales funnel. A wide variety of goal models are available for uniting your sales team. Step 1: Set clear goals.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 8, 2019

An essential tool, however, is a customer relationship management ( CRM ) system. Everything is all in one place to manage the customer relationship, including customer conversations. You can increase productivity and improve processes and pipeline management. Know your customer.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Dave: Charlie, you know my passion about the role of sales managers in coaching their teams in improving their effectiveness. How can managers coach and develop their sales people to becoming more trustworthy in engaging and working with their customers? We don’t trust those who never trust us. .

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

They haven’t been given the chance,” says Chris Smith, Spiff sales manager and co-chair/executive sponsor of our BIDE Committee (Belonging, Inclusivity, Diversity & Equity). Inaccessible application systems. In fact, data has shown that these tests weed out many of the exact candidates you’re attempting to hire ( source ).

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

So if you think about it from the perspective of, marketing has their system of record, sales has their system of record, customer success has theirs. While we’re looking at the revenue operations revolution is Vertify being that system of record, looking over, taking all of that data from all of those different sources.

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Allego

MARCH 16, 2023

Invest in Capability Building: Create learning and development programs for your sellers and managers to ensure they have the knowledge and skills to succeed. Rethink Compensation and Incentives: Tie incentives to outcomes that individuals can influence directly. But what exactly should sales managers coach for?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

Joined IBM as a sales rep, and then it was a sales manager, sales executive. Ended up running global database sales, global big data and analytics sales. Had about a 12-year career at IBM and it really was my formal schooling, if you will, on sales and sales management. Absolutely.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2018

By definition, teams have middle performers and, depending upon how forgiving management is, even low performers. We asked veteran B2B sales managers, consultants and coaches how best to build and sustain a high-performing sales team with a clear understanding that a company’s success relies on a lot more than it sales personnel.

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

Here’s why: The more you know about a person, the easier it is to tailor your management style to their wants and needs. No two people are exactly the same, and therefore, a one-size-fits-all approach to management will never be the most effective sales management tactic. What does your team’s work/life balance look like?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Devante Lewis-Jackson , one of the top rising sales leaders helping companies grow in New York City and most recently a sales manager at The Muse. The four phases of sales management. The four phases of sales management [9:30].

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 28, 2023

First things first: what is sales operations? As the name suggests, optimized sales operations (or sales ops, for short) ensure the sales team can work faster and smarter. It is a term that describes the activities and processes that support the sales organization. It also drives efficiency for sales managers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A dashboard for frontline reps will look very different than one for a sales manager, for example. The data a manager needs to effectively keep track of their team (like onboarding metrics) would only get in a sales rep’s way. Average Sales Price: The average value of a deal that closed in the system.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

Also, inbound and marketing automation creates a larger pool of leads for a salesman, so the compensation should differ from that of an outbound new sales hunter who not only generates the lead but works it and closes it. The costs associated with sales incentive program administration. Hold up your end of the bargain.

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Close.io

JUNE 3, 2019

Imagine two sales managers walk into a room. Sales Manager #1 wants to crush her quarterly targets and has an idea of what it’s going to take to get there. Sales Manager #2, on the other hand, doesn’t hope. But it’s not okay to wonder about your sales numbers. Sales forecast for hardware startups.

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