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Rethinking Metrics: The Shift from MQL to Pipeline in Marketing

Sales Hacker

Check out this article published back in 2017: Marketing Qualified Leads Are Cool, But I’ll Take Product Qualified Leads Any Day. Kevin reminds us of the relevant words of the late Charlie Munger, “Show me the incentive, and I’ll show you the outcome.”

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X-Factor Compensation Leaders: How to Be Incredible at Incentive Planning (Infoblox)

Xactly

A strong incentive plan drives sales behaviors that help companies grow and achieve their goals. Successful sales compensation plans require a balance between motivating incentives and revenue-driving factors, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be a stressful, time-consuming task. We are working on FY19 now.”.

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Meet the Spiff Team: Chapter Nine

The Spiff Blog

Paul Cataldi, Solutions Engineer Paul grew up near Detroit, Michigan and moved to Chicago after graduating from Notre Dame. Facundo Flores Lavalle, Solutions Engineer Facu is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Florencia Miguez Oliverio, Solutions Engineer Florencia is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Meet the Spiff Team: Chapter Eight

The Spiff Blog

Tomas Carchio, Solutions Engineer Tomas is 28 years old and has lived his entire life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With a background as a software engineer and a career in customer success, she is excited for her future at Spiff as a Technical Customer Success Manager. Professionally, Sherill has a passion for tech and helping people.

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How to Use Clawback Clauses in Your Sales Comp Strategy

The Spiff Blog

Shadow accounting is a practice in which individual sales reps keep track of their own deals and incentive-based compensation, typically to ensure that their compensation will be accurate. Look no further than the 2017 Oracle lawsuit , in which the technology company was sued for $150 million over clawed back sales wages.

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Meet the Spiff Team: Chapter Six

The Spiff Blog

Connor Shlatz, Front-End Software Engineer. John Arsenault, Sales Engineer. Sarah Alaguretnam, Security Operations Engineer. Brandyn Bennet, Software Engineer. Byron Garvin, Solutions Engineer. Diego Cardona, Solutions Engineer. A proud “Americanadian”, Rachel grew up in the US but hails from Toronto.

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How to Foster Transparency in Sales: A Guide for Sales Ops

The Spiff Blog

But, unless real transparency, visibility, and clarity are intentionally baked into every function of your revenue engine, your sales team is essentially operating in a black box. 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 ).