The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement. Only when these components are carefully managed and integrated into your sales strategy, can you drive performance, foster a motivated sales team, and ultimately, achieve your sales goals.

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The Brooks Group

JUNE 11, 2017

By adding in a few carefully selected sales incentives, you can capitalize on this competitive streak and really get your team to race full speed towards sales goals. Sales incentives can be broken down into three categories. Sales incentives can be broken down into three categories.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Techniques for Effectively Motivating Sales in a Small Business Environment Motivating a small-to-medium business (SMB) sales team effectively can be a significant game-changer in achieving sales goals within a small business setting. Take the initiative to motivate your sales team today. Don’t hesitate.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Practical Tips to Improve Sales Operations Dealing with the complexities of change management and overcoming resistance requires simple, practical solutions. We’ll talk about how good leadership, special sales incentives, and clear jobs can help make sales ops better.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Fundamentals of Developing a Sales Training Program The best sales training is personalized, flexible, and relevant. It’s tailored to meet the unique training needs of your team and aligns with business and sales goals. Conduct role-playing exercises to practice objection-handling.

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The Brooks Group

JUNE 11, 2015

By adding in a few carefully selected sales incentives, you can capitalize on this competitive streak and really get your team to race full speed towards sales goals. Sales incentives can be broken down into three categories. Sales incentives can be broken down into three categories.

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OpenSymmetry

JUNE 30, 2015

With the help of incentive compensation management solutions, retailers are able to increase market share and drive the desired sales behavior. Incentive Compensation helps: Improve sales performance by aligning sales behavior with business goals to improve efficiency.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Setting Sales Targets Sales managers are responsible for setting realistic and achievable sales targets based on market analysis, historical data, and company goals. Sales Planning They develop sales plans, strategies, and tactics to meet or exceed sales goals.

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Xactly

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Sales compensation is a balancing act. First and foremost, you need to incent your sales team to close deals. Without the right incentives and fair pay, performance will suffer. Because of this, creating a strong sales incentive plan can be a difficult task. 6% of sales revenue), for every sale they make.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

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. Points, scores, and objectives allow participants to get a clear understanding of the end goal while prizes and rewards motivate them to achieve it.

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

When it comes to designing sales compensation plans , there are many factors that can affect the success of your plan. To help ensure you set your sales team up for success, here are six steps to setup a commission plan. Data is the most important and useful tool for any part of a strategic sales plan.

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Apptivo

MAY 26, 2023

Things to consider before placing a sales goal 4. How to set realistic sales targets for your sales team? Tips to effectively communicate sales targets to your team 6. How to track sales targets with the help of tools Apptivo Sales CRM? Summary What is a sales target?

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Setting goals is important in all areas of life – both personally and professionally. The world of sales is no exception. Sales goals help ensure your entire sales team is aligned. Each sales rep must understand the overall goals of the company – and the part they play in achieving those goals.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

A sales plan is a roadmap that outlines your business’s strategy for selling its products or services. Acting as an essential tool for businesses of all sizes and in all industries, a robust sales plan helps to identify sales goals, target markets, and sales tactics to achieve those goals.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

What’s a sales plan? A sales plan lays out your objectives, high-level tactics, target audience, and potential obstacles. It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. A business plan lays out your goals -- a sales plan describes exactly how you’ll make those happen.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 8, 2013

Instill pride for sales. Have incentives and contests to keep it competitive. Pay a larger incentive the second time. But once you do, it’s the easiest sale to make — pay handsomely — someone has earned it. Pay a big reward for the letters that overcome objections. Have regular sales meetings.

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Xactly

APRIL 16, 2018

However, a smart sales compensation strategy overcomes the Principal-Agent Problem, and it drives the right sales behaviors, inspiring reps to adopt and express desired business objectives in all their customer interactions. Or, keep reading for more sales plan ideas.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset. An opportunity to review what worked and what didn’t in the prior year while also creating the positive momentum needed to achieve sales goals for the year ahead. The activity KPI’s we set today, which incent the wrong behavior?

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SendBuzz

APRIL 22, 2023

Similarly, salespeople who are highly committed and involved in their work can increase sales by 20%, that simply means better revenue from more engaged team member. However, attaining this objective is not a simple task. Thus, here are some of the best sales contest ideas you can implement in your office to motivate your sales team.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2020

These 10 motivational techniques will engage both junior reps and their senior counterparts, ensuring they continue to work to meet their sales goals throughout the summer: Tips to Raise Sales Motivation at the End of Summer. Invest in sales management coaching. Limit the cost to 5% of an incentive budget.

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Close.io

JUNE 20, 2018

These four steps are key to building and maintaining a great culture where your sales team hits their quota and is committed to your organization's vision and goals: Set crystal-clear objectives & goals. Without ambitious goals to strive for, they have no incentive to put their best foot forward.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 23, 2020

You’re beyond excited, but your sales team seems less enthusiastic. You need them to move X number of units to meet your company’s sales goals, but they aren’t as motivated as you’d like them to be. Spiff stands for "Sales Performance Incentive Fund" (spelled with an extra "f" for some reason in some cases).

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2019

Once you know which metrics matter and which activities drive those metrics upward, you need to help your reps focus on those activities—which brings us to the next key component of a high-performing sales culture. Intentional Goals. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: If your goals aren’t S.M.A.R.T., Team Goals.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It may sound contradictory to reconcile a consultative sales process with the reality of ambitious sales goals, but forward-thinking organizations are combining both to reach new customers and achieve their growth objectives. You have got to be competitive on pay and on benefits,” Strickland says.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

It also relates to how well your sales team and related teams employ the time and resources available to achieve sales goals. This will save your sales team members heaps of time and allow them to focus on moving leads through the pipeline or engaging with existing customers for upsells and cross-sells.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

Depending on how experienced your sales team members are, they could opt for a base salary, higher commission rates, or something in between. So what can possibly be a better incentive than a performance-based bonus? Five typical sales commission structures 1. Well, offer more and bigger incentives!

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Apptivo

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A proper sales plan helps businesses achieve their goals and objectives. So what is this sales plan? What is a sales plan? Sales plan is a periodic forecast that is based on the overall objective of the organization, arrived at by analyzing trends, and predicting opportunities. How do we create one?

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

That is, the areas below identify gaps in how sellers are managing their businesses, and point sales managers to productive coaching conversations. Yes, some problems in a seller’s funnel come about because management put inappropriate incentives in place. Lack of visibility is often a product of dysfunctional incentives.

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Pipeliner

MAY 23, 2020

Employee engagement nirvana in sales is much more than simply engaging people; it’s more about bonding with them in a way that not only gets their support for corporate and sales goals, it does so by arousing their passion.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 23, 2014

Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. Are your sales goals orders- or bookings-based?

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 20, 2013

In both books I share ideas for sales contests/games as well as how to properly roll them out and manage them. In many cases I have seen great sales contest ideas poorly executed, it is critical you think through what your objectives are and what you want the results to be and then CLEARLY write down the objectives, rules and incentives.

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Xactly

MAY 31, 2018

Previously, sales performance management (SPM) has typically been categorized as solely focused on incentive compensation management (ICM) and sales compensation planning. It is quickly transforming due to a variety of software tools aimed at helping improve day-to-day execution of the sales process.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 23, 2016

In both books I share ideas for sales contests/games as well as how to properly roll them out and manage them. In many cases I have seen great sales contest ideas poorly executed, it is critical you think through what your objectives are and what you want the results to be and then CLEARLY write down the objectives, rules and incentives.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. Are your sales goals orders- or bookings-based?

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Xactly

APRIL 2, 2018

Whether a company is trying to grow or has reached the Enterprise level, the right sales commission structure can be the difference between hitting your goals or falling flat. Since sales is tasked with increasing revenues, incentives are an important part of achieving those goals.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A great sales manager has a unique combination of leadership, coaching, and analytic skills that empower sales teams to maximize performance. By setting clear priorities and objectives, sales managers can transform good sales reps into exceptional ones. Streamlining the sales process for efficiency.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Sales training participants can also benefit from the advice and stories of the most successful reps at various points in the pipeline. This includes those who are good at cold calling, objection-handling, closing and cross-selling. Create a training program that draws on the strengths and experiences of your veteran sales reps.

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