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Does Your Sales Incentive Plan Drive Customers Away?

SBI Growth

The purpose of every incentive compensation plan is to influence the actions of sales reps. You still have time before 2013 to fix any blatant disconnects. The post offers tools to make longer-lasting corrections, too. The post offers tools to make longer-lasting corrections, too. Sales incentives can be like square pegs.

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How to Avoid Wasting Money on a Compensation Assessment

SBI Growth

HR leaders, get ready for the 2013 Sales Kickoff by fixing the flaws in your compensation plan today. And get your hands on a Competency Grader for compensation assesement providers as part of SBI's "Make The Number 2013.". Software Firm: The annual Employee survey is overflowing with negative comments about the incentive plan.

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11 Sales Compensation Complaints to Address Before Next Year

SBI Growth

To get this tool, sign-up here. This also gets you access to SBI’s Annual Sales & Marketing Research. You will get access to more guides and tools to help sales compensation planning. Let’s say sales weren’t spectacular in 2013. Surely something is wrong besides the new incentive compensation.

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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

There are categories of sales tools and CRM applications where none existed a few years ago. During 2009, only those companies with cash and a willingness to spend it - mostly mid-market companies - were hiring salespeople. Quizzes by Quibblo.com (c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' What do you think?

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No Product Differentiation? No Problem. A CEO Who Found Another Way to Grow

SBI Growth

This post is about a CEO of a $450M company who focused on winning large deals to double revenues in a flat market. If you feel product differentiation and hot markets are the only way to grow revenue, this CEO proved otherwise by refusing to accept these limitations. The collision repair’s “market” depends on wrecked cars.

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Top Ten Ways to Immediately Improve Sales Tool Adoption

The ROI Guy

You’ve worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year.

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The Anatomy of a Perfect Sales Email, According to Experts & Data

Hubspot Sales

That might sound counterintuitive, but I interviewed Yuval Ackerman , email strategist, who shared her top tips for writing sales email marketing that don’t give you the ick! Yuval Ackerman, ethical email marketing specialist at Ackerman Copywriting , kicks off with her first tip: knowing your audience. Know your audience.

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