Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. The Example Salespeople (anyone, with any title, whose primary role is selling) don’t know about their own skill gaps and blind spots. We didn’t know what we didn’t know.

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Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

When implemented alongside strategic training, tools, and engagement techniques, sales operations can help sales teams become more productive and efficient and have a positive impact on both top- and bottom-line performance. Why is sales operations important? Why is sales operations important?

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Close.io

AUGUST 11, 2019

A sales operations team can change that. If you want to make sure your sales team is firing on all cylinders and making as much money for your company as possible, you need sales ops. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that sales operations is a new field; it's not. 5 best software and tools for sales ops.

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Xactly

APRIL 18, 2018

Sales operations and sales enablement are two sides of the same coin allowing your sales team to hone in on the actual selling motions rather than focusing on the back-end processes, tracking down training material, and optimizing the sales teams’ CRM. What is Sales Operations?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling.

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Sales Hacker Training

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Still, they don’t always nail down the details when it comes to the things that might entice a prospective salesperson — like a well-rounded sales compensation plan , for example. So why do sales leaders overlook something as important as a sales incentives program? Creating a Winning Sales Incentives Program.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For example, paying a high commission rate on a product that drives less profit than your other offerings might contradict an efficiency-first strategy. Recommended reading: 23 Quotes to Guide Your Sales Compensation Planning Process Compensation Transformation Tip #2: Emphasize customer retention and other expansion metrics.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

At the onset of COVID-19, single cloud platforms that allowed the integration of CRM solutions and effective analytics offered a light of hope for sales and service representatives that realized customer success depended on how they serviced them rather than just relying on siloed solutions.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

An example of AI vs. Machine Learning Let’s illustrate the distinction and relationship between AI and machine learning with an everyday example. This is an example of machine learning. Your goal is to offer the right incentive to drive specific sales behaviors. Personalize sales incentives.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The conference provides education and certification, networking, and in-depth sessions focused on sales compensation, sales operations effectiveness, and sales analytics. Related: How to Build Sales Compensation Plans for All Customer-Facing Roles – Templates and Examples.

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Close.io

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about how to set up actionable sales dashboards; from what metrics to track, to how to design a dashboard your team will actually understand and use, including: What is a sales dashboard? How to create a sales dashboard catered to your sales team. What it means.

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Xactly

JULY 19, 2018

Commissions play a key role in your sales compensation plans, driving sales behaviors and motivating reps to hit their quota. Depending on your sales force structure and size, there are different sales commission structures that can be used in your incentive plan. See an example here.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What’s the difference between the “how” and the “why” of sales compensation? How you pay sales reps depends on the way you design your comp program, what metrics relate to what incentives, and so on— all the details we’ve covered in many past articles about comp plan design. Let’s illustrate this concept with a few examples.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

For sales organizations, this type of clause or provision enables a business to reclaim commission or other performance based compensation paid to a salesperson, under specific circumstances. For example, let’s say a sales rep earns 5% commission up to $450,000 in sales per quarter.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

So I’m going to walk you through an example of creating your commission calculations in Salesforce. Using Salesforce to Calculate Sales Commission: Pros and Cons We’ve spoken with folks at Salesforce. We believe Salesforce realizes that its software isn’t ideal for handling incentive compensation systems.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 7, 2018

For example, a supporting framework is required where executives drive sales enablement efforts top-down and sellers receive consistent, proactive coaching from sales managers. Further, in my view the definition should precisely reflect the alignment required between the buyers’ journey, sales process, and content.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

And, strategic sales coaching is all about zeroing in on your most urgent sales priorities. For example, let’s say your number one priority as a business is to reduce customer churn. As a sales leader, it’s important to make sure your training and coaching sessions address the issues that ultimately lead to customer churn.

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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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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

One example of a situation where planning and strategy come in handy is during a job search. Let's say you've spent weeks or months scouring the internet for a new sales job, but none of the job postings seem to match your skill set or career interests. Tactical Planning Examples. daily, weekly, monthly) if need be.

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Xactly

APRIL 16, 2018

That’s putting it very simply, but a smart sales operations leader will recognize this dilemma instantly. The company (the Principal) wants profits, but the sales rep (the Agent) wants an income. Variables in Sales Commission Strategies. Choosing the Right Sales Commission Strategy.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 8, 2013

If you formalize them into your sales process, training and measurement, revenue will grow. Otherwise, your sales team will be eaten up. As the sales operations leader, you develop the sales strategy and support team performance. One of the missing pieces is as old as the concept of sales itself.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Poor performance often stems from poor sales planning. When compensation plans aren’t well designed, it can become a race between sales, sales operations, and finance to point the blame. Really, the focus should be on how you can improve sales performance with well-designed incentive plans. 0% to 75%.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 20, 2023

If you’re managing commission using Excel, for example, implementing a new rule may require you to: Manually identify and reconfigure formulas. In this scenario, you have time to gather and analyze commission data in order to: Uncover trends and draw correlations between comp plan structure and sales performance.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 21, 2022

Take commission software , for example. A vendor with a legacy solution that’s extensively customized for each customer— and requires external engineering support to maintain— will operate very differently than a vendor providing a low-code/no-code platform specifically designed for teams to self-manage. 5 = Exceeds the requirement.

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Xactly

MAY 21, 2018

No single plan design seems to capture as much attention as it is difficult to pay someone a high dollar amount for infrequent sales (or sales that may not materialize until down the road) on uncertain goals. This makes designing compensation plans for these reps more difficult for sales operations teams. Final Thoughts.

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The Spiff Blog

MAY 19, 2022

Today we discuss important considerations to keep in mind while building out your first SDR commission plan, how to get started, and we’ll also look at some example compensation plans. Of course this was just an example. Examples of SDR Commission Plans. Let’s look at two examples of SDR comp plans.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2019

What’s the #1 incentive you can use with your reps? Align incentives. Translate data requirements into sales and buyer-centric language, and your adoption will increase ten-fold. You need to start aligning the CRM to the sales process , as opposed to data entry. Align Incentives. Help moving deals forward.

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Xactly

MARCH 22, 2018

Most of the time when I speak about the middle performers, it is because I am trying to convince a sales leader that there is value in focusing on the middle performers rather than explaining the sales incentive tools available to increase their performance. Why Focus on Motivating the Middle?

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example: let’s say you want to build a new plan in which your mid-market account executives receive 5% commission on new business bookings and 6% commission on any multi-year deal. For example, let’s say a sales professional looks over their statement and doesn’t understand how their commission was calculated for a specific deal.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2019

In order to understand why your sales stack is in trouble, we need to talk about incentives. People respond to incentives. For salespeople, those incentives are generally financial. For sales operations teams, however, your annual team performance bonus is unlikely to factor into the day-to-day decision-making.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

In this quick guide to data visualization in sales, you’ll learn: Why lack of data visualization in traditional compensation processes is hurting you and your reps. Why data visualization matters in sales. Using data visualization to communicate and report on sales compensation is, well, a no-brainer. Let’s dive in!

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Examples of hard skills include copywriting, data analysis, project management, and computer programming. For example, say you’ve just released your monthly commission statements to your sales team. For example, consider the recent uptick in state regulations around pay transparency and reporting.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

Think about it, the average B2B sales cycle, from lead to close it’s 102 days on average ( source ). If a rep is already planning to be gone by then, there’s no incentive to dive into time-intensive sales activities. One example talking point could be: “I’ve noticed you’ve been flagging more admin issues than normal.

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The Spiff Blog

MAY 18, 2023

For example, an organization may compensate an Outbound SDR for the number of meetings they book. If done correctly, an incentive compensation strategy is tailored to each particular role so that it drives more of the right outcomes. Constant Change In the world of incentive compensation, the only constant is change.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For example, we assume your salary is important to you. In this example, that may mean you make adjustments intended to encourage reps to secure better fit accounts that are more likely to have success using your company’s products. So, as a leadership team, you agree to make slight adjustments to AE comp plans.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Take commission plan creation, for example. Here’s an example: let’s say a female sales rep earns slightly less commission than one of her male counterparts and therefore doesn’t qualify for an accelerator. Efficiency AI is capable of completely mitigating the inherent inefficiencies of complex financial processes.

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Troops

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Some say a remote sales team can’t work, but they’re making it work at InVision — makers of a product design platform with a team of 190+ customer-facing employees spread across the globe working in sales, customer success, and enablement. And they’re constantly hiring.

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