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Will These 6 Tests Save 2013’s Sales Compensation Plan?

SBI Growth

Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. But wait – this new incentive compensation plan could flop. That would make 2013 worse than this year! So, he commissioned HR to design a new incentive compensation plan (IC Plan.) HR even brought in an expert compensation firm.

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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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Inc Magazine Gets it Wrong on Sales Prospecting

Understanding the Sales Force

Until we have heard that they have a compelling reason to buy, they won''t have an incentive to answer any qualifying questions! That in itself is very archaic and when it is performed as a full-time function, it''s usually by the lead generation team, not salespeople. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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SalesProCentral

Delicious Sales

Incentives (379). Demand Generation (181). 2013 (4691). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? MORE >> THE SALES INSIDER AUGUST 13, 2013 What Shakespeare Can Teach You About Predictive Analytics Predictive analytics and Shakespeare have more in common than you think. 2012 (9049).

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Andrew Berger Built Square’s Sales Organization. Here’s His Advice on How to Motivate a Sales Team

Troops

From 2011 to 2013, he spent time in both the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants farm systems and had, as he put it, “a cup of coffee” at the AAA level. Once those opps are created, the BDR often have little or no control over whether the lead turns into a paying customer.

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Social Selling and Big Data at the Upcoming Sales & Marketing 2.0 Conference #S20C

SBI

How Gamification Leads to Improved Sales Performance. Your Crystal Ball: What This Year’s Sales Incentives Tell You about 2013. How Using Scientific Data Leads to Better Sales Performance. Challenge Your Company to Think Differently about Sales Enablement. Sales Management. Requires Sales Management 2.0.

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Attrition Sales: Beat the Odds On Sales Team Churn Rates

LeadFuze

The sales team has grown, but the lead generation hasn†t been able to keep up. It’s the responsibility of managers to design and implement quotas, incentives, territories, roles and responsibilities. In 2013, I heard that Salesforce.com lost 750 of their 3,000 salespeople (25% attrition). See the pattern here?

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