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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. Analytics/Big Data. Incentives/Compensation. But Analytics and Big Data are giving us insights and abilities that were unimaginable in 1980.

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[Webinar Preview] My Journey From Sales Rep to Compensation Manager

Xactly

Using SPM data and analytics to inform decision-making across planning, execution, and attainment. Looker started out as an Xactly Express customer in 2015, later migrating to Incent in order to keep up with accelerated growth. Successful strategies and tactics for overcoming obstacles and achieving results. About Looker.

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The Criticality of SPM Technology

OpenSymmetry

While, incentive compensation administration is still a main piece, the broader SPM technology concept is expanding more holistically to include other key aspects which directly impacts how a sales team might perform, including talent development, sales enablement, and territory and quota management. Steps to Success.

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October Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

According to Forrester, these are people who understand how to interpret balance sheets, have strong analytical skills, and are technology and data savvy. In 2015, 43.6 But consultative salespeople who take a strategic approach and operate in a more complex buyer dynamic will increase by 10 percent. This year, it was 53.3

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“A Butterfly Lands On A Leaf In A Brazilian Rainforest…….”

Partners in Excellence

It’s an article about predictive and proscriptive analytics. Part of my reason is having just returned from Dreamforce 2015, as you would guess, a lot of the sessions talked about analytics. Maybe toss in a free butterfly net as an incentive to buy the super deluxe chain saw.”

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How to write a monthly sales report to improve sales performance

PandaDoc

Some suggestions include: Graphs; Logos; Photographic images; Screenshots from analytics software; Tables. It also serves as an incentive to continue doing business with you. It provides robust reporting and analytics capabilities that help you measure sales performance over any time period so you can improve it.

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Through CPQ, Marketers are Creating a New Vision for Success

Cincom Smart Selling

That requires data and analytics. CPQ is one technology that will help you pull the data—the hard numbers—to facilitate analysis and decision-making related to selling incentives, product features, benefits and pricing options. i] Why CPQ Continues to Accelerate, Louis Columbus, April 12, 2015, Forbes.com [link].