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MBO Examples to Kickstart Your Sales Team Engagement

Xactly

Management by Objectives, aka MBOs, are goals set for employees to improve overall sales performance, as agreed up on by sales manager and rep. MBOs can be an extremely useful tool in addition to your sales commission structure because they give each rep individual goals to strengthen the overall sales organization.

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When it’s OK to give a customer a gift – and when it’s not

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Will it help you close a sale or get more business? It’s complicated According to two studies on the subject, gift giving in sales can get complicated. But there’s another type of reciprocity that gift giving triggers—having to do with the relationship, not the sale—and it helps create a win-win for buyers and sellers.

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Driving Good Sales Behaviors: 4 Tips to Incentivize a Sales Team & Achieve Targets

Sales Hacker

In 2016, it was discovered that Wells Fargo employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts — without their customers’ knowledge — to meet sales goals. As you might guess, it boils down to how leadership incentivized the sales team. Communicating Good Sales Behaviors. Ask Wells Fargo.

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How to Influence the C-Suite

Janek Performance Group

“I don’t have time for any distractions,” a CEO replied many years ago to my sales call. His comment was impactful because it made me think about my sales approach. I thought of myself as a helpful, well-intentioned sales professional. When we lose a sale, we say, “They don’t get it.”

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Rio Olympic Games – The Road to Gold

OpenSymmetry

It’s hard to believe that the 2016 Rio Olympic Games are coming to an end. In order for organizations to create that ‘medal-winning’ sales team, they must first understand the mix of influences that will drive sustainable success. This doesn’t mean mimicking Steve Jobs and getting a tearful response to your sales pitch.

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Why You’re Not Closing Sales (and How to Fix It)

MarketJoy

Sales is the toughest job in the world, but it can be an incredibly rewarding and lucrative job too- if you know how to do it. Unfortunately, most salespeople focus on how to sell more instead of how to become better at sales and that’s why they keep making the same mistakes again and again. You Never Ask Clarifying Questions.

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Sell Like A Girl: Earn Less [+ Startling New Sales Commission Data]

The Spiff Blog

Welcome back to our Sell Like a Girl series– where we’ve spent recent weeks unpacking gender bias in sales. Today we’re continuing this conversation by sharing a preview of our latest research on sales commission. The Current State of Gender Bias in Sales Before we take a look at our newest findings, let’s level-set.