Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Sales Leadership: How to Ensure You Exceed Your 2015 Quota. In my book; Creating High Performance Sales Compensation Plans I have an entire chapter on incentive compensation. At this time of year I am working with each of my clients to begin to position them for success. They build pride, team work and drive revenue.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 20, 2019

The company, which has been named one of the best places to work in Georgia by Georgia Trend Magazine, incorporates education, contests and incentives into its benefits program, adopting a holistic approach to helping workers be happier and healthier. Using incentives wisely. A wave of wellness. The motivation is not purely altruistic.

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ROI Incentives Incentive Study 257

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

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. Incentives/Compensation. We’re officially into the fourth calendar quarter of the year. Performance Management/Metrics. Sales Effectiveness/Sales Efficiency.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. That’s especially true for many companies with diverse products and services that include: a mix of products and services. No matter which approach you use, success depends on awareness.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2014

And which tactics will help us keep our pipelines full in 2015 and beyond? Now it’s up to the sales manager to coach, motivate, and incent everyone else—the average performers. Which broken sales strategies should we leave in the past (ah-hem, cold calling )? This is how it’s always worked in most sales organizations.

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Referrals Gatekeeper Cold Calling Networking 260

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 9, 2014

They have decided that based on current numbers, they will need to cut budget for 2015, and her words, not mine, “training is on top of the cutting list”. Not unusual to have a three year plan, but they also tie the development plan to three years, along with targets, incentive and what I and my peers bring to the table.

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Government Face-to-face Incentives Incentive 296

Steven Rosen

MAY 1, 2015

The opportunity to progress to the next level can be a great incentive for many sales reps. In late 2014, we launched The 2015 STAR Sales Managers Development Survey to understand the priorities of sales leaders in the area of sales manager development. Senior sales leaders recognise the importance of developing strong sales managers.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Then between 2013 and 2015, I moved into more of a pure sales role where I was cold calling. Because I was good at selling and great in the corporate world, there wasn't a lot of incentive until I found myself on the street trying to figure out what I was going to do. Our training was basically watching a guy do it for two days.

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Prospecting Pivotal Cold Calling Incentives 94

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 18, 2017

The surviving members of the band, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, continue to play and tour in various iterations, but the July 2015 shows were, according to the band, the last time the core four will all play together. Like other daring visionaries, the Grateful Dead rejected conventional wisdom.

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Lead Rank Marketing Strategy Trade Show 149

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 15, 2015

And Procurement is getting way more involved in every transaction, with specific incentives to extract discounts from every vendor proposal. With little vested interest and with inadequate time to review competing proposals, the team tends to focus on price above much else. You know you need to address the discounting challenge, but how?

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Discount Negotiation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 81

OpenSymmetry

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Just last year, in 2015, CEO Martin Shkreli of Turing Pharmaceuticals was under fire for buying the drug Daraprim from Impax Laboratories and raising the price from $13.50 Mylan’s Executive Compensation Structure – The Incentive Plan that Started It All. What is the correlation here?

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OpenSymmetry

MAY 23, 2016

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.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 30, 2016

In 2015, 43.6 Why is it that companies spend tons of money on client events, company celebrations, sales incentives, and work-life balance perks like childcare, but then they skimp on investing in building permanent, repeatable sales skills for their teams? However, a few critical sales challenges remain. This year, it was 53.3

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Cold Calling 120

OpenSymmetry

JULY 15, 2015

This year’s edition features organizations that expand across the broad spectrum of the SPM and Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) continuum and offers options to help provide transparency across the entire organization for sales related processes. Candidate Assessment and On-Boarding. Coaching and Training. Sales Comp Admin and Design.

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Vendor Territories Compensation SalesForce 40

SalesLoft

JUNE 18, 2015

They set up a booth at Rainmaker 2015 and raffled off an Apple Watch to a prospect who booked a demo with them right then and there. Take a tip from ListenLoop: be creative, give incentive, and act fast. Give us your name and email and enter to win a trip of a lifetime!

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Conference Incentives Incentive ACT 52

Xactly

APRIL 19, 2018

Looker started out as an Xactly Express customer in 2015, later migrating to Incent in order to keep up with accelerated growth. Accelerating growth and building your career through strategic compensation practices. Phil’s Compensation Mission.

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OpenSymmetry

MAY 26, 2016

The minimum revenue required for 2015 is $2 million, in business at least three years, with full time employees count ranging between 5 and 500. Winner of Advertising Age’s “The A-List” in January 2015, and the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in both 2014 and 2012. To qualify, companies had to be U.S.-based,

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Scale Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 74

Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 23, 2016

In many cases I have seen great sales contest ideas poorly executed, it is critical you think through what your objectives are and what you want the results to be and then CLEARLY write down the objectives, rules and incentives. If it isn’t fun, it isn’t selling”. A Contest Sampler. Ken has written 5 books, his latest book is: SLAMMED!

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face Incentives 52

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 16, 2020

people in 2015, to 6.8 Once you’re answered that pivotal question, these steps will help get your started: Align activities with incentives — Make sure everyone has skin in the game and by skin in the game I mean pay everyone involved when their efforts lead to net new revenue. First, buying cycles continue to involve more people.

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Sports Scale Up-Sell Follow-up 90

Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

2. Incentives to ensure everyone’s compliance. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC. But if you start to pick up signals that the agreement doesn’t appear to be in your customer’s interest – yet they still seem willing to move ahead – it’s a red flag. Investigate more. No one can predict the future.

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Negotiation Face-to-face Decision Maker Buying Cycle 50

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 11, 2016

Are our sales incentives working? According to Gartner’s “What’s Hot in CRM Applications in 2015,” sales leaders rate CPQ as their second-highest priority when it comes to CRM applications, right behind lead management. Are we sure customers are being quoted when we expect them to be quoted? Growth is another major channel challenge.

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Channels Video Face-to-face Licensing 54

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2019

If set correctly, incentives can have a positive effect on your team's behavior. The commission, bonuses, and sales performance incentive funds (SPIFs) you thought were inspiring your team can become more harmful than helpful if reps put their numbers ahead of their customers, who can feel pressured to buy. Rough Transitions.

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Incentives Incentive Motivation Company 89

Troops

AUGUST 7, 2018

If an incentive is working, they run with it, expand it, and try new variations to make it perform even better. In 2015, founder Jack Dorsey announced Square was adopting economic empowerment as a new vision for the company. “But all of them have very tactical, changeable goals.”. Conclusion: Tying Individuals to the Mission.

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Top of Funnel Motivation Compensation How To 91

Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. He was recently ranked for the fourth year in a row by Top Sales World magazine as one of the Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers for 2015. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 30, 2016

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].

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Marketing Demographics Collateral Discount 72

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Even in our recent 2015 CCS® Index, 50% of salespeople indicated cold calling as the least effective method of prospecting. Additionally, there are some really nice incentives for those people who elect to attend. No wonder salespeople hate it. The next scheduled one-day work session will be held in Denver, November 19th.

Prospecting 40

Prospecting InsideView How To Cold Calling 40

The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

While cash is king for motivating salespeople, financial incentives are not the only path to creating engaged and successful sellers. According to the Salesforce 2015 State of Sales report , high performers are 3 times more likely to view sales as 100% the responsibility of the entire company than their underperforming peers.

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Hiring How To Motivation Incentives 45

Sales Training Connection

APRIL 15, 2015

There are powerful incentives and protocols pushing everyone to do what they do well. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC. Training is easily accessed and affordable so don’t wait for the national sales meeting – create your own pathway for getting smarter. . In summary … Inertia pulls potential leaders towards a more traditional path.

Sales Management 50

Sales Management Sales Leadership Coaching Pivotal 50

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

The discount also provides an added incentive to try the sender's solution. Editor's note: This post was originally published in October 2015 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Best, [Your name] Why It Works This email template works because it creates a sense of urgency and exclusivity.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 10, 2016

Constantly invent new sales or partner incentive programs. He was recently ranked for the third year in a row by Top Sales World magazine as one of the Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers for 2015. Start selling directly to larger customers. Future blogs may go into greater detail.

Channels 40

Channels Lead Rank Lead Scoring Strategy 40

PandaDoc

AUGUST 21, 2019

It also serves as an incentive to continue doing business with you. Originally published April 1, 2015, updated August 22, 2019. When answering these questions, be as specific, open, and honest as possible. This approach helps you retain clients by keeping them informed about what you accomplish for them from month to month.

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Report Top of Funnel How To Social Media 45

OpenSymmetry

JULY 20, 2015

At an Operational level, track those aspects that show you can manage change – things like the ability to launch new products quickly, deliver new incentive plans on time, and set quotas timely and accurately. We discuss the Top Sales Planning Best Practices for 2015 and how organizations are able to move into a thriving future state.

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SalesForce Webinar Metrics Scale Quota 40

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

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.” I have to beg your indulgence on this article. It’s an article about predictive and proscriptive analytics.

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Lead Rank Analytics Marketing Qualified Lead Insurance 48

OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Forrester Research has published a great report that provides details on how HCM solutions , especially talent management applications, are paving the way for higher employee engagement and performance in 2015. Trust me, if you have the opportunity to read the entire report , it is definitely worth it.

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Scale Compensation Report Twitter 40

Costello

OCTOBER 1, 2018

She founded Avenue Talent Partners in 2015 to help startups develop and scale their own sales and client success teams. A seamless buyer experience coupled with a great product, in this case, gave Amy the incentive to buy. Avenue Talent Partners founder Amy Volas has built her 20-year career on her passion for sales.

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Conversion Scale Buyer Software 40

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 4, 2017

Getting the systems right to do outbound calling and outbound campaign, making sure that your incentive structure is right, hiring the right people who can sit at a desk and smile and dial for eight or nine hours a day and be creative in that endeavor to personalize their messaging – that’s hard. How do you explain that contrast?

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Company Conversion Outbound Video 120

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 18, 2019

They're offered a valuable incentive to share it with others. New users sign up, see the incentive for themselves, and share with their networks. But their incentive? From just 8,000 users at launch in 2013, Slack hit one million daily active users in late 2015. Viral loops. They accept and share with their network.

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