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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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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! Also, you’ll get many tools including a list of Sales Effectiveness Drivers to test your plan against. Is the tool ready for easy entry?

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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. 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. Incentive targets are linked in a competitive fashion, not on my own improvement.

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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. They tend to pay more than smaller and larger businesses and their recruiting efforts, compensation and incentive plans are designed to attract stronger salespeople. Quizzes by Quibblo.com (c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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Gamification: The Secret to Accelerate Onboarding

SBI Growth

Incentive Compensation: Sales people are “coin-operated.” These include recognition, incentives, interpersonal support, and clear goals. A February 2013 report by Aberdeen Research validates the impact of gamification. Compare their integrated CRM tools. They thrive on opportunities to win rewards and prizes.

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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.