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51 Ways to Fund Your Sales Improvement Effort

SBI Growth

To learn how other top companies fund initiatives, register for this event: How To Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute. I mentioned department-aligned efforts (HR = Talent or Learning; Marketing = Lead Generation or Sales Enablement; Sales = Sales Process or Sales Management.)

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Sales Revenue Growth for 2014? More of the Same Won’t Deliver Results

The ROI Guy

In your 2014 plans, you likely have some significant revenue growth targets for the New Year. The #1 reason sales reps do not achieve quota goals is not a lack of leads, products, CRM or training – but a failure to effectively communicate value to today’s more frugal / skeptical prospect.

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Five Bottom-Line Benefits for Incentive Compensation for Retailers

OpenSymmetry

One Wall Street Journal article reports that in 2014, the average turnover for part-time sales associates was 66%, while full-time was less at 27%, with the availability of benefits as the contributing factor to why full-time employees tend to stay. The second transformation relates to driving performance.

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Sales Training Games and Goals: 4 Steps to Successfully Motivate Retail Employees

Sales Hacker

I’ve been leading sales teams since 2014, and believe me when I say I’ve seen a few things. In this article, I’ll walk you through my step-by-step process of setting goals for sales reps — with a special focus on retail employees and the power of sales incentives and gamification. Stretch goals. Be creative!

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Smart Selling Visions: Up-Close with Top Revenue Leader Leslie Stretch of @CallidusCloud

SBI

We enable organizations to accelerate and maximize their lead to money process by identifying the right leads, ensuring proper territory and quota distribution, enabling sales forces, automating quote and proposal generation, and streamlining sales compensation.

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Smart Selling Visions: Up-Close with Top Revenue Leader Adam Hollander, CEO of @FST_Games

SBI

So by the end of the contest, there’s only a small handful of reps even focused on the incentive (and of course a large portion of your team no longer motivated by it at all). Your top reps are self-motivated and don’t usually need an extra incentive to perform. To learn more about Fantasy Sales Team, watch their overview video.

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The Criticality of SPM Technology

OpenSymmetry

Sales Performance Management (SPM) solutions are a critical component of an organization’s core business, as it is the linkage between behavior and strategy. Have a clear vision of the Future State you desire to achieve – SPM technology is the enabler, but the design, process, and approach needs to be aligned.