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X-Factor Compensation Leaders: How to Be Incredible at Incentive Planning (Allergan)

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Those who work to create a plan for their company must develop a compensation process and incentive plan that will motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Allergan is a leading pharmaceutical company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. How did you get your start? How were our Sales team compensated?

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X-Factor Compensation Leaders: How to Be Incredible at Incentive Planning (Allergen)

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Those who work to create a plan for their company must develop a compensation process and incentive plan that will motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Allergan is a leading pharmaceutical company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. How did you get your start? How were our Sales team compensated?

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Or maybe you think that incentives have run their course and it’s time to drop them altogether. If you’re thinking of asking your reps what will make the best prize in the incentive program, stop. Are incentives obsolete? Don’t do it.

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What is the Best Commission Strategy to Motivate Sales Reps?

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The solution is straightforward: align the interests of the two parties by allowing the rep to earn a percentage of the revenue on the products they sell, aka a commission. This type of incentive is often used in insurance and real estate markets, and can be reassuring for customers, who know they won’t be needlessly oversold.

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The Achilles Heel of CRM Adoption (and 2 Ways to Overcome it)

SBI

The first revenue-numbing fact is that 65% of a sales rep’s time is spent NOT doing what they are ultimately paid for—selling [1]. The more revenue you generate, the more commission dollars you’ll earn. In the simplest of terms, when the reward compensates for the routine (of CRM), revenue is sure to rise. No more keyboard!

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Overcoming “Failure to Impact” Syndrome

Steven Rosen

Create a better incentive plan. In today’s corporate environment, responsibilities are outpacing the time needed to perform the activities that drive revenue. Secondly they spend less time in the field because of reason one and are too busy completing non revenue generating activities. Hire only top sales reps.

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Tips for Voicing Your Values When You’re Asked to Bend Morals

Pipeliner

Theranos, Wells Fargo, VW, Takada, and Purdue Pharmaceutical became notorious because their business strategies became deeply infected with nefarious intent. After all, sales forces are predominantly paid on revenue production, and as we know with incentive compensation, the goal is to get what you pay for.