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Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

No More Cold Calling

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sales managers do what they ask others to do.

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How to Motivate Sales Managers with Compensation Strategy

The Spiff Blog

The variable component of success between great historic leaders and sales managers is exactly the same, and that variable is motivation. This individual more or less had complete control over their success, and therefore, they also had complete control over their sales compensation. Understanding How to Motivate Sales Managers.

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If Done Right, Your Referral System Won’t Actually Cost a Thing

No More Cold Calling

The problem is with typical sales metrics. If sales managers hold their people accountable for the number of phone calls they make, emails they send, and invitations and InMails on LinkedIn, that’s how they’ll prospect. I always advise clients against offering incentives for referral business. Forget about incentives.

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Optimize Incentive Compensation With Integrated Sales Performance Data

Xactly

Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) solutions help companies manage their sales compensation plans and calculate commission payments.

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6 Steps to Setting Up The Perfect Remote Sales Contest

Sales Hacker

If you’re managing a remote team, now is not the time to sell your sales contests short. Why Sales Contests? Sales contests are a tried-and-true tool in most sales managers’ arsenals and for good reason. Nail Down Incentives. If your incentive funds got slashed, you’ve still got options.

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The Immediate Benefits of Implementing a Sales Management System

LevelEleven

Q & A with Derek Wong, Geopointe Sales Development Supervisor. Many modern sales teams are implementing a Sales Management System that integrates with their CRM in order to motivate, engage, and coach their teams around the behaviors that support their business goals. We’re in sales and salespeople like incentives.

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Is A Sales Team Lead Role Worth Exploring?

Zoominfo

Picture this: You’re a sales leader, currently responsible for a team of nearly 10+ sales development reps. You have a strong solution to go along with a solid stream of both inbound and outbound activity, which prompted you to split the team by each channel to maximize meeting creation (and hopefully pipeline!).

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