OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 6, 2017

On the OpenSymmetry blog, we’re starting 2017 with fresh perspectives on what it takes to evaluate, implement, and leverage incentive compensation solutions to make the biggest impact on a company’s bottom line. We’ll take submissions for our February posts until January 27th, 2017.

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Over 70% of sales organizations report using spreadsheets to calculate sales compensation and commissions for sales team members, which may be susceptible to integrity loss as they are shared throughout the organization. What kind of behavior do current incentive compensation plans promote?

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Getting into the swing of 2017, your company is ready to be liberated from the ancient tools handicapping your sales efforts to a mindbendingly slow pace. Take a fresh look at your sales compensation processes before considering the investment of a new tool. Key questions to ask include: How easy is it to change the comp plan?

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Xactly

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This ultimately allows for better sales, territory, and compensation planning; thus, a stronger sales organization as a whole. . But to start, consider the following metrics in your sales performance analysis: Quota attainment: In 2017, the average quota attainment was 55 percent and this number is continuing to fall (yikes!).

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Sales performance management (SPM) and incentive compensation management (ICM) are often used interchangeably. While at one time, these two terms did essentially mean the same thing, SPM now encompasses far more than just compensation. Fact #3: A lost sales rep can cost companies an average of $115,000 to replace.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In fact, the percentage of firms identifying themselves as data-driven had declined over the past three years, from 37% in 2017 to 31% in 2019 ( source ). Sales leaders are continually grappling with compensation. Meanwhile, the pace of data collection has only accelerated. Motivation takes a hit.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

This data helps companies benchmark sales rep compensation to design competitive incentive plans. Download our "Guide to Sales Team Compensation" to learn how to compensate each sales role and drive the right sales behaviors. It also helps illustrate the role that diversity plays in creating a successful workplace.

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SBI

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Dreamforce 2017 is just around the corner. Xactly @xactly Xactly is a leading provider of enterprise-class, cloud-based, incentive compensation solutions for employee and sales performance management. 6-9 in gorgeous San Francisco. B2B sales professionals can engage faster with customers to grow their business.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

So how do you strike a perfect balance between business goals and the compensation needs of employees? How your compensation package (including commission structure) works tells a great deal about your organization. So what can possibly be a better incentive than a performance-based bonus? Well, offer more and bigger incentives!

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

After traveling parts of Europe, in 2017 they moved to Saint Augustine, FL for a few years to live beach life. He began his career in Finance in the Washington, DC area where he discovered the world of Incentive Compensation Administration. BJ Neilsen, Engineering Manager BJ was born in Utah and began raising a family in Provo.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2009, the first year of Compensation Cafe, I closed the year by passing along some great reads I had run into. It's a few days past gift giving, but just in time for your 2018 compensation resolutions. . Radford Perspectives: Technology and Life Science sectors' Talent and rewards trends in 2017 and beyond.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Public companies have been under compliance since December 2017, and the implementation date for privately held organizations is quickly approaching (December 15, 2018). ASC 606 (IFRS 15) is well underway. Under the new revenue recognition standard , companies must change the way they report revenue in their accounting for sales commissions.

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Xactly

JULY 25, 2018

Download the "2017 Sales Compensation Administration Best Practices Survey," for incentive compensation trends, best practices, and tips to drive the right sales behaviors. Continue Learning. First, having a solid educational foundation with an undergraduate and graduate degree is key, but you should not stop there.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The commission accounting standard has been in effect for public companies since December 2017. Step 1: Evaluate the Compensation Strategy. When a company provides a sales rep with variable compensation, they can be paying the rep to bring in a customer for longer than the initial contract term. Download Guide. Download Guide.

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OpenSymmetry

AUGUST 17, 2017

For those in sales compensation or sales ops roles, this change may have huge impacts on the structure of your sales compensation rule configuration to account for new components or assessment logic in certain scenarios. Why the Need for this New Regulation? Allocate the transaction price to separate performance obligations.

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The ruling removes significant incentive for veteran advisers to remain in the industry or new advisers from entering the marketplace because of the reduction (or elimination) of commissions. This creates a gap in the time and documentation that is required to complete a transaction to the value of the compensation.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 9, 2017

My pipeline is full, but nothing is closing I don’t think my compensation plan is working. We start September 22, 2017 Sales management is one of the most rewarding jobs in business when you know what to do and how to do it. Compensation and incentive strategies. We seem to react to every opportunity.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. It needs to provide fair compensation to employees in customer-facing roles. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Plan Compensation for Onboarding and Training. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. Example Compensation Plans.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

After four years in the HR world focusing on benefits, compensation, equity, and retirement she wanted to finally take a chance and join the world of sales. Samuel has been very interested in programming ever since and has graduated with a degree in the subject in 2017.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

He first entered the world of technology and software when he accepted a position at a small software company in 2017. Spiff’s sales commission software enables finance and sales operations teams to self-manage complex incentive compensation plans and provides transparency for sales teams.

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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.

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Xactly

AUGUST 1, 2018

Sales compensation is an important part of a successful company. A strong incentive plan drives sales behaviors that help companies grow and achieve their goals. As a sales operations and compensation professional, compiling a team and analyzing metrics to create a compensation plan carries an incredible amount of responsibility.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Organizations must be strategic when designing sales compensation plans. These competing priorities lead many organizations to implement one of the most consequential– and sometimes controversial– provisions you’ll find in a compensation plan: the clawback clause.

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Xactly

JUNE 14, 2018

Traditionally, SPM has been synonymous with incentive compensation management (ICM). Using manual forms of incentive compensation management, companies were left with static data that is more of a problem than a solution. These are ten key insights we learned from the webinar. Register for Webinar.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Ten 2017 Sales Kick-off Meeting Ideas. . While working with a client last week it became obvious that we are moving into the time to finalize 2017 budgets, compensation plans and something most sales managers don’t take enough in developing their 2017 Sales Kick Off meeting. see previous blogs for ideas).

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Using Out-of-Date Compensation Plans. Compensation is the ultimate incentive. It's literally the main reason any salesperson works in the first place — so if you want to ensure that your team remains as productive as possible as it scales, you need to have a thoughtful, effective compensation plan in place.

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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 30, 2017

This places salespeople in a vulnerable position, and it takes a lot of trust to move forward with changes to the compensation structure made seemingly in a black box called “sales ops”. ” Sample 2: “The new incentive compensation plan will include these new modules: x, y, and z (what).

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SalesFolk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It starts with accepting and acting on two important realities in 2017: 1. Give them an incentive to stay in the role and make sure they know how valuable they are to the overall sales cog. Compensate them fairly and give them a reason to stay, rather than a reason to go. Pay your top SDR as much as your top AE, if not more.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 27, 2020

A gift card prize is a fun way to support a local or beloved business and can be perceived as something outside a normal compensation structure. This type of prize is typically paired with a smaller incentive like a gift card or small monetary prize, although it carries bragging rights in and of itself. Gift Card. Winner's Choice.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28]. AJ Bruno: QuotaPath is a dead simple sales compensation tool for sales teams, for ops, for finance, anyone that’s ever struggled with comp plans, struggled with the ins and outs, explaining it, what if I close these deals, we built a tool for you. Who influenced AJ [33:28].

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Yeah, sales SaaS got out of hand in 2017. 1 Best Seller.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And most of our data now as a software company it’s because that’s my background, but you as a sales professional can go to RepVue and view detailed analytics about sales organizations related to compensation data. What do reps like in terms of culture, product, incentive comp structure? How many people are hitting quota?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The larger your annual contract value (ACV) and yearly quota, the higher annual compensation should be. For example, if your ACV is $50,000, and you expect reps to close $700,000 in new business per year, their OTE should be around $126,000 — assuming compensation is split 50/50 between base and commission. Social Media.

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Xactly

AUGUST 29, 2018

When Xactly was founded more than 13 years ago , the company had a simple vision to democratize incentive compensation management and put powerful calculation tools in the hands of every company. Connected Insights: All too often, we still see compensation operating in a silo.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 4, 2018

On April 3, 2017, Forbes published an editorial stating that O’Reilly’s job was “safe” at Fox News. 21st Century Fox certainly has an economic incentive to keep Bill O’Reilly on air,’ said Brett Harriss, an analyst at Gabelli & Company, adding that any backlash the company faces from advertisers would be temporary.” The reason?

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