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4 new ways to engage your sales force

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Is HR telling you your millennial sales reps don’t like their incentive plans? Are you really going to have a different incentive for the 26-year-old white female than the one for the 45-year-old Asian male? and it is a common foundation for incentive plans. We never stop acquiring. 4: Define and Defend. “But

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How B2B Reps Use Social Debt to Get Sales Support

SBI Growth

This Social Selling skill works with your customers and prospects. Sales Support includes groups in Product, Marketing, Care, Legal, and Research. In spite of these perceptions, these groups need each other to be successful. It’s not easy for a Sales Rep to obtain support from these groups. Incentive Structure.

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The Dangers of Average Sales Skills

Janek Performance Group

Eye contact may sound like a trivial skill to average reps, but for top performers, every behavior matters. Within the group of reps achieving quota, only the top 10 percent can be viewed as high-performing. Developing sales skills such as effective communication, negotiation, and problem-solving requires discipline.

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Guest Post: Top 20 Reasons Why Sales Managers Suck at Coaching

Jonathan Farrington

Selling Skills – They never developed the kind of selling skills that would allow them to role-play all of the various scenarios that are bound to come up. Role Confusion – They spend too much time selling their own and the house accounts. He is the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc.,

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The Closer | Carrots and sticks are both long and skinny

Groove.co

The motivating properties of these organic materials have been debated for centuries, but unless your new sales hire is a dog, she is more likely to be interested in an attractive incentive plan. Well, according to sales consultancy The Rain Group, it does. Did you know that TIME stands for Treasured, Investment, Mandatory, and Empty?

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The Scary Tale Of A Flawed Sales Compensation Plan

The Brooks Group

The overall sales performance of the group was reflective of this flawed sales compensation plan. What incentive did any of these salespeople have to expend the level of effort required to compete in a highly competitive market? Their sales performance far exceeded that of the first sales group. And that’s what they did.

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How to Handle Sales Rejection: 15 Great Tips to Recover Fast

LeadFuze

Learn how to ask the appropriate questions, master negotiation, improve your selling skills, and sell in the manner in which the buyer prefers to buy. Consistent corporate growth necessitates the support and assistance of a skilled sales staff. This way, you won’t have to deal with many rejections again. .

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