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Sales Planning Fundamentals Part Four: Territory Planning

Xactly

In today’s post, I’ll talk about territory planning. Territory planning represents the foundation of sales performance management (SPM). You must have the right territory design in place to accurately allocate quotas. Accurate quota allocation impacts your team’s ability to achieve their anticipated incentive compensation.

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3 Keys to Building an Effective Commission Plan

The Spiff Blog

But remember that while the execs are driven by revenue and low customer churn, your sales reps are driven by their incentive compensation plans. For example, a HubSpot salesman wrote in Harvard Business Review about the success of their incentive compensation plan during their “hunting” phase. Prioritize a positive sales culture.

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10 Ways Data and Automation are Evolving Sales Planning

Xactly

To obtain and manage this data properly, sales organizations need automated sales performance management (SPM) solutions to help facilitate their planning strategically, from territories and quota allocation, to compensation planning and management. Design Fair, Balanced Territories. Drive the Right Sales Behaviors with Incentives.

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Sales Compensation: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot Sales

They get the security of a steady income with the economic incentive to sell. Shifting product and/or distribution costs, rebates, and territory changes can make calculating this extremely hard. A word of warning: These are suggestions, not guidelines. Base salary plus commission. This is the most common pay structure.

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11 Tips To Build A Successful Sales Strategy Plan

InsideSales.com

Increasing your revenue in your current territories with new and existing products. Increasing your revenue outside your territories with new and existing products. Make sure that the incentives you provide will push them towards motivation. Getting referrals from the accounts you have. Own Your Niche. Own your niche.

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How to Build Effective Sales Compensation Plans for Any Customer Facing Role

Sales Hacker

Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. This is what the person would be paid annually and it has two elements; a base salary and a sales incentive held against sales, also known as variable pay. NOTE: We recommend refraining from calling any sales incentives a bonus. Determine Total On-Target Earnings (OTE).

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Is Your Compensation Program Missing the SPM Boat?

Xactly

When Xactly was founded more than 13 years ago , the company had a simple vision to democratize incentive compensation management and put powerful calculation tools in the hands of every company. One often missed opportunity in the planning equation is optimizing territory planning.