Xactly

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Compensation drives sales behavior, which means your sales incentive plan is a critical factor in sales performance and objective achievement. The incentive compensation planning team faces the challenge of balancing executive priorities and designing incentives that motivate reps. Gather your previous and YTD data.

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Xactly

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sure, you know you need ICM to handle accurate and timely payments, but do you really need automated sales territory planning as well? Although automating technology for territory design can increase your sales up to 20 percent, territory planning is often categorized as a luxury in SPM—instead of as the necessity it is.

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 27, 2016

A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. The territory optimization and alignment element of salesforce effectiveness is vital for three reasons. Poor or excessive customer coverage if territories are too small, leading to missed revenue.

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Xactly

JUNE 13, 2018

Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning. Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. Ultimately, if your sales territories aren’t optimized, you hinder sales reps’ motivation and performance.

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SBI Growth

JULY 14, 2013

Territories : The field of play. Are territories designed to maximize growth balanced with efficiency? Are you holding back performance based on territory design and assignment? Give your very best reps the very worst sales territories and suffer the consequences. Incentive pay is a lever that must align with strategy.

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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 16, 2016

The Territory & Quota Management Revolution – New Incentive Compensation Platforms Blazing the Trails to Greater Efficiencies. Fast forward 20 – 30 years to the age of enlightenment for Incentive Compensation Management solutions. The importance of crediting transactions in the Incentive Compensation process.

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OpenSymmetry

JUNE 9, 2016

The Journey to Sales Incentive Optimization. A familiar scenario that salesforces experience is the excitement and optimism of the new sales incentive launch, followed by the realisation that: New rules have been introduced which limit the kind of high payouts experienced last year which made the plan unaffordable.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Surely something is wrong besides the new incentive compensation. Incentive targets are linked in a competitive fashion, not on my own improvement. Some firms may use competitive ranking for parts of incentive compensation, or for the illustrious "President''s Club". Flawed territory design is one possible underlying reason.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

With salary, commission, bonuses, and other incentives, sales professionals often have options and feel in control of the compensation they receive, which can be great for motivation and fulfillment. As a result, there can be reduced incentive to work harder or produce more. We all want to be paid fairly.

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Xactly

AUGUST 8, 2018

In the recent 2018 mid-market sales incentive study, CFO Alliance reviewed the relationship between Sales and Finance departments—and how this partnership can positively impact a company’s revenue potential. Incentive Compensation. Companies may need to begin to innovate when it comes to traditional sales incentives.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It comes from the way sales teams set up territories and quotas, measure their effectiveness, and adapt to changes. Territories today can be optimized to an unprecedented degree. Sales planning – Sales planning includes things like Territory and Quota Planning, Sales Coverage, and Account Segmentation.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Erik Charles is the Principal Incentive Strategist at Xactly Corp. In a recent webinar , Erik noted that: "The total outlay for Incentive Compensation in the U.S. They roll out the draft plans in November, have a few meetings, adjust the territories and quotas, roll it out to the field and run off to the next challenge.".

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the second scenario, the organisation has a strong HR or Sales leader driving the project who wants to look at a simplified process or wants a simplified incentives landscape before they start automating. Finally, 70-80% of companies will have no or at best inflexible technology to support incentives.

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

Download our "Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation Planning" for incentive best practices and everything you need for a sales comp plan design project. Formulate your new plan around the successful elements and structure incentives for new goals similarly. Ideally you need a sales incentive planning team of six people.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

From territory planning to sales team organization, to sales coaching and leadership strategies to sales compensation planning, each element helps to create a strong sales plan. Sales operations and compensation professionals must create an incentive plan that will drive growth for the company and attain executive objectives.

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Canidium

AUGUST 19, 2020

Many companies started paying draws, reducing quotas, increasing target incentives, or re-aligning territories to combat the economic impact from COVID-19. Yet the impacts of major events from the year will inevitably trickle into the early part of 2021.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This ultimately allows for better sales, territory, and compensation planning; thus, a stronger sales organization as a whole. . For example, if you notice that rep performance tends to drop off after they meet quota, you may need to examine if your incentives are truly motivating reps to meet and exceed their targets.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 2, 2012

For this to work effectively, quotas need to be set fairly against both large and small territories. Management needs to be able to understand opportunities and challenges in each territory when quota setting. By using percentage to quota they give smaller less developed territories a distinct advantage in rising to the top.

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Xactly

JANUARY 3, 2019

Industry and planning-specific statistics also help guide sales planning and incentive compensation. Companies that set cookie-cutter quotas across similar roles see 14% lower quota attainment than those that assign quotas based on territory-specific opportunities ( Complete Sales Planning Handbook. ).

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Xactly

JANUARY 17, 2019

Processes: Are your sales territories balanced ? What incentives and sales commission structures will you use to motivate sales reps? Territory design. Your Territory Design Matters. Your sales territories map the playing field for your strategic sales plan. Incentives Should Drive the Right Behavior.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As sellers, we have to manage our territories and accounts. We have to find as many opportunities as we can within those territories/accounts. Some have to be nurtured for some time, we try to incent as many as we can to change, qualifying them, helping them navigate their buying journey, ultimately making a decision.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In fact, the best way to ensure sales managers do their job well is by creating an incentive plan that drives the right behaviors. Download our "Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation Planning" for incentive best practices and everything you need for a sales comp plan design project. Annual Target Incentive. On-Target Earnings.

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The Pipeline

JULY 16, 2012

The specific comment was that the rep was reluctant to ask prospects/clients for referrals “because what if the person or company they refer are out of my territory?” They are able to stay focused on their territory, while earning some incentive for asking one extra question.

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Xactly

JULY 19, 2018

Depending on your sales force structure and size, there are different sales commission structures that can be used in your incentive plan. It is generally used to get sales reps through times of sales uncertainty, where they may experience decreased cash flow due to inexperience within a particular territory or product as they ramp up.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In many cases, employers that pay a base salary offer performance-based financial incentives (like commission) to supplement that baseline figure. Territory Manager — $87,751 per year. Sales Manager — $69,391 per year. Sales Director — $95,225 per year. Base Salary Example.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure. In fact, optimizing territory design can increase sales by 2 to 7% each year ( source ).

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Xactly

JANUARY 7, 2019

The start of a new year comes with a new sales plan—and that means you must reassess your sales capacity needs , align and balance sales territories , and create a sales incentive plan that drives sales performance. How to Develop a Sales Incentive Compensation Plan (with Templates). Enter sales compensation planning.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For example, artificial intelligence enables the efficient and practical application of unstructured data for sales performance management and incentive plan design. Related: Top 8 Sales Incentives That Actually Motivate Your Team (Besides Cash). Budgets, territories, and quotas are opportune moments in the sales planning cycle.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Re-assign your sales territories. If your sales team relies on territory management as part of your strategy, you may want to take a look at how your territories are assigned to ensure you have your strongest sellers assigned to territories or accounts that have the most sales potential. Implement customer rewards.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2020

They have differing metrics for success, compensation models (including incentives and bonuses), go-to-market strategies, territories and target markets, different types of customers, products and services, and on and on. But here’s the rub: sales organizations are not all the same. Sales Takes the Lead.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

Anaplan provides several cloud-based planning tools for sales: territory and quota planning, incentive compensation planning, sales forecasting, configure price quote optimization, and trade promotion planning. Plan 2 Win provides “the right strategic account, sales territory and pre-call planning tools for B2B sales teams.”

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Let’s incent everyone to sell more new logo business” he said. Incenting new logo business only further frustrated the sales force. Some territories were great and some were horrible. This Sales VP’s immediate reaction was to change the comp plan. This will cause the behavior change we are looking for to make the number.”.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 27, 2019

If you are a full-cycle rep, with a demanding client base in a defined territory, 23% is not bad. Buyers know they will be offered price incentives to bring a deal in sooner, like “end of the quarter.” While it may be realistic to expect inside sales teams to sell more than 23% of their time, it is not for others.

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Xactly

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A quota that is 10% too high might translate into no incentive pay at all. Balancing Territories to Ensure Fair Quota Allocation. In addition to evaluating past performance, effective quota planning depends upon appropriate territory design. It’s difficult to set achievable quotas if you’re relying on imbalanced territories.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 10, 2018

You need to start pulling together internal data from your incentive compensation management system, data from your CRM, and finally, information from financial teams on profitability and product revenues. Are you an Xactly Insights customer using empirical data to benchmark your incentive compensation?

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Those reps were covering an extensive territory and large customer base. Incentive Programs. Does your comp plan incent behaviors that will get you to your number? Resource Allocation. An electronics manufacturer was seeing declining revenue per head. 80% of its sales team was outside sales reps.

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