Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2019

Helping others as a team is invigorating and bonding, which is why corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to be a popular component of offsite meetings and incentive travel programs. Comparing the results from 2015/2016 with 2017/2018, CSR is actually up two points across all regions.

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Xactly

AUGUST 8, 2018

Successfully motivating and optimizing sales performance can be a challenging task for any business. Sales and Finance leaders typically deal with limited insights, convoluted systems, and employee demands wherever compensation is concerned. Incentive Compensation. CFO Alliance CEO Nick Araco, Jr. Watch Webinar.

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Xactly

JANUARY 3, 2019

Sales statistics are a variety of metrics that provide insight into your sales organization’s health. Industry and planning-specific statistics also help guide sales planning and incentive compensation. We did some research and compiled some valuable sales stats that are important for all salespeople to be aware of.

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Xactly

JUNE 27, 2018

Sales compensation plan can be a complex process. Those who work to create a plan for their company must develop a compensation process and incentive plan that will motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Time in sales compensation: 4 years. How were our Sales team compensated?

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sales planning entails many important factors. From territory planning to sales team organization, to sales coaching and leadership strategies to sales compensation planning, each element helps to create a strong sales plan. Position: Sales Operations. Time in sales compensation: 5 years.

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LevelEleven

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We have gathered three of the biggest trends from #DF18 and here’s what they mean for you: Not as Sales Minded. Many organizations using Salesforce® are not just sales teams. In fact, many aren’t sales teams at all! We talked to marketing teams, call centers, customer success teams, and more. Gamification Is Big.

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Xactly

JUNE 27, 2018

Sales compensation plan can be a complex process. Those who work to create a plan for their company must develop a compensation process and incentive plan that will motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Time in sales compensation: 4 years. How were our Sales team compensated?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Their sales reps get super hands-on with prospects during the buying journey — they provide demos, answer questions, ask for feedback, etc. It goes without saying: Always ask for permission before featuring a customer’s likeness in any of your B2B marketing content. Establish an Incentive-Based Customer Loyalty Program.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Align Sales Compensation with Your Goals A compensation plan that works. Note: This week’s blog is an excerpt from my new book: “Creating High Performance Sales Compensation Plans”. Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Here’s the 2018 list (from most-used to least), along with our suggestions for more convincing swaps. For example, if you’ve worked in B2B SaaS sales for most of your career, you might write, “I’m a senior Account Executive with seven years of experience in B2B SaaS.”. Skilled" is a new addition to the list in 2018. 3) Skilled.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan FirstBase is a startup company that was founded in 2018 with the mission to help global companies establish a U.S. Editor’s note: This creates an opportunity for employers to be more creative with non-cash incentives and rewards tailored to each employee’s interests.).

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Xactly

AUGUST 27, 2018

Sales has always been a male-dominated field, but this is changing. Surprisingly, female sales reps routinely hit quota at higher rates despite being paid a lower base pay than their male counterparts. Meet Lisa Welch, Xactly VP Enterprise Sales. Women’s impact on the workforce has continued to grow over recent years.

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Xactly

MAY 7, 2018

Sales compensation is one of the most important components of sales planning. Sales operations and compensation professionals must compile a team to piecing together metrics and goals, which carries an incredible amount of responsibility. Time in sales compensation: 11 years. Company: Palo Alto Networks.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Gamification took the sales industry by storm in the latter half of the previous decade — and with good reason. Research has shown that there are huge benefits to gamifying your sales process, including better worker productivity and retention when it comes to learning new things. Let’s jump in!

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Close.io

AUGUST 30, 2019

In other words, we are experiencing the product-led era that came as a replacement to the marketing and the sales-led one. How is product-led different than sales-led? How is product-led different than marketing-led? The following graph depicts the three SaaS sales models: Image source: Medium. Final thoughts.

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2022

Consumer-oriented businesses collect data to create profiles that can, among other things, power more personalized marketing campaigns and introduce people to products that are more relevant to their needs and interests. As consumers in a technology-driven world, our information has become a new form of currency. Answer: Yes. Answer: Yes.

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Cience

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

His most recent book is Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling (Harvard Business Review Press), which was cited as, “the best sales book of the year” ( Strategy + Business ), “a must read” ( Gartner Group) , and “perhaps the best sales book ever” ( Forbes ). Answer: Yes.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 22, 2018

Sales manager job description. Sales managers are responsible for helping their reps meet individual quota, getting the team to hit quota, forecasting sales and running sales reports, providing mentorship and training, recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new salespeople, and more. Sales manager responsibilities.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 Why Sales Performance Management Matters.

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the last few months, endless sales teams have gone remote and learned to depend more consistently on digital tools. According to the Annual State of Sales by Salesforce , 57 percent of sales reps said they expected to miss their quota in 2018. So, how do teams adjust to the digitally transforming sales landscape?

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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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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. To say this wreaked havoc on sales morale and finance numbers would be a massive understatement.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Zendesk Sell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But this shift towards relationships and away from mere transactions has also revealed one of the fundamental problems in how we think about sales and customer service. The problem is priorities: a sales team’s priority, the thing they’re judged by, is having as many conversations as possible. The number of meetings set.

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InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn how to use predictive analytics and big data to improve your team’s inside sales skills. Follow these sales best practices to improve your sales reps’ selling skills and turn regular salespeople into sales superstars. 7 Sales Best Practices. Celebrating success in competitive sales.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

According to CSO Insights’ 2018-2019 Sales Performance Study , only 54 percent of salespeople are making or exceeding quota. With organizations generally targeting a 70 percent quota attainment goal, this represents a major challenge to sales effectiveness. Quotas are a vital part of the annual sales plan.

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LevelEleven

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It’s no secret that sales reps have it tough, and their jobs are only getting tougher. A 2018 State of Sales Enablement report shows that nearly 70% of respondents reported that their company’s sales process were becoming more complex. Luckily, sales reps are often competitive by nature.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 27, 2018

There are hundreds of different sales tactics that you can use to find prospects, qualify leads, and make a sale. To point you in the right direction, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best and most popular B2B sales tactics from general practices to specific sales techniques you can use to close more of your deals.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

An integral piece in your sales performance management process is developing a compensation plan that is data-based and results-driven. In order to create a plan that delivers at every level, you need to make sure your sales and finance teams are united and provided the tools they need. View Webinar.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 30, 2018

What would a 10 percent increase in annual sales mean to your organization? This is dollars left on the table due to ineffective processes for “defining, assigning, and managing territories, quotas, and incentives and compensation plans.”. Compensation plans need to evolve with organizational objectives and sales strategy.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

As a sales professional, staying up-to-date on industry trends and best practices is crucial to becoming a better salesperson. One of the most effective ways to do so is to listen to sales podcasts. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best sales podcasts of 2023.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

This quote, from marketing guru Seth Godin, sums up the importance of good data in making better decisions. In fact, the 2018 Global Data Management Benchmark Report found that 52% of the organizations surveyed said data and analytics would be a key source of opportunity in the coming years. The answer: A sales dashboard.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

December around the corner also means your sales year is coming to an end. So, as a sales leader or manager, what do you do? How can you close out 2018 successfully? I’ve faced this challenge as a senior sales executive, sales enablement executive and outside sales enablement specialist. Tis’ the season!

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LeadFuze

JUNE 29, 2021

However, much like warfare, if you charge into battle without a proper sales strategy, you’re running blind. What is a sales strategy. A sales strategy is plan that outlines how a business is going to sell its products or services. A sales strategy enables a company to position itself and its offering in a meaningful way.

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Allbound

AUGUST 29, 2018

No matter what industry you’re in, chances are you rely on indirect sales channels and partner programs in order to rapidly scale revenue. Just a few years ago, Gartner predicted that 20 percent of B2Bs would be focused on commercially available PRM software by 2018. What Is PRM? Benefits of a PRM Platform. Managing Valuable Assets.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 7, 2020

Guest post by Scott Leese, CEO & founder of Scott Leese Consulting , and founder of The Surf and Sales Summit. According to Gong.io , the average tenure of a VP Sales was just 19 months as of 2018! Provide monetary incentive, leadership opportunities, and exposure to new roles and projects. We are competing every day.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 5, 2019

Recently, I reread an article by Brian Halligan, Replacing The Sales Funnel With The Sales Flywheel. It appeared in HBR in November, 2018, I keep coming back to it–something about it is disturbing to me. We have all sorts of sales methodologies, each slightly nuanced, but that do fundamentally the same things.

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