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3 Ways Technology Can Streamline Your Sales Performance Management Strategy

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mike DeLeonardis, President, North America at beqom Seventy-nine percent of companies say that increasing sales productivity is a strategy they’re using to reach growth targets in 2019, but actually meeting this goal may be a challenge as only 35 percent of average-performing sales reps’ time actually goes to selling.

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10 Sales Statistics You Should Know in 2019

Xactly

Industry and planning-specific statistics also help guide sales planning and incentive compensation. Nearly 50% of companies fail to measure and adjust financial forecasts and plans to account for the residual impact caused by sales force attrition ( 2018 Mid-Market Sales Incentive Study ). 2018 Sales Comp Administration Survey ).

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Managing for peak performance in a remote worker world

Sales and Marketing Management

Use of digital gift cards in the incentive division of Blackhawk Network, a leading gift card provider, is up 200% in 2020, according to Blackhawk’s Vice President of Marketing Theresa McEndree. Companies are also using Tango cards as incentives to complete training. A 2019 survey. Gift cards to the rescue.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Operations in 2019

Hubspot Sales

As you'll read below, sales operations includes everything from lead management, sales strategy, and territory structuring and alignment to process optimization, compensation plans, sales automation, training, and data analytics and reporting. Sales Operations manages sales representative compensation plans and incentives.

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Where Will Sales Investments Pay off in 2022?

Sales Hacker

In 2019, B2B buyers ranked access to self-service tools as the most important factor in a positive customer experience, according to a survey by B2BecNews. Companies that want to succeed in the new sales world need to embrace new technologies, especially ones that harness the power of data and analytics. Conversational intelligence.

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AI’s Role In Sales and Marketing

Sales and Marketing Management

Businesses increasingly understand the importance of having access to data across multiple sources, agrees Krishnan Venkata, chief sales officer at LatentView Analytics. CMO research from 2019 found that 54% of B2B marketer respondents said they do not use or have not tried AI.

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Your Sales Year is Coming to an End. Are you ready?

InsightSquared

Here are some ideas to help you gain a clear line of sight into opportunities and finish the quarter strong: Enable real-time access to sales analytics to truly understand if you have the sales pipeline and velocity to cover your sales goals and where you may be exposed. Cheers to 2019! We use our own solution, InsightSquared.