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5 Steps to a Competitive Sales Incentive Plan

Xactly

Compensation drives sales behavior, which means your sales incentive plan is a critical factor in sales performance and objective achievement. The incentive compensation planning team faces the challenge of balancing executive priorities and designing incentives that motivate reps. Gather your previous and YTD data.

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All you need to know about sales incentives

Salesmate

One such practice is that of providing sales incentives to the salespeople. What are sales incentives? Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.” – Nikita Khrushchev . In simple terms, sales incentives are something that motivates your team to wake up in the morning and get to work.

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Protecting Your Best Accounts from Competitive Encroachment

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

During difficult economic times, it is especially important for distributors to protect against competitive encroachment. This may involve creating more comprehensive marketing campaigns, strengthening relationships with key customers, or providing additional incentives to retain loyalty. Identify ways a competitor beat you.

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The ABCs of Compensation Planning: How to Build Better Incentive Plans

Xactly

The planning process entails more than just your compensation plan, but at the very core, strong sales incentive plans address three main considerations. First and foremost, your incentive plan must be aligned with your different sales roles. How do pay and and incentives differ between high- and low-performing reps.

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A Little Healthy Competition: Enabling the Competitive Nature of Sales

LevelEleven

Luckily, sales reps are often competitive by nature. When harnessed and enabled properly, internal sales competition can drive big wins for the entire business overall. To get the most out of the information, companies can use these numbers to enable a competitive spirit. Something about the “win” invigorates and excites them.

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5 Key Pillars of Effective Sales Performance Management

The Spiff Blog

These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement. Incentive alignment : Shared goals enable the design of incentive structures that motivate sales reps while aligning with the broader success of the organization.

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2022 Sales Compensation Trends: Notes from the WorldatWork Conference

Sales Hacker

Despite these advances, few industry pros currently use predictive or prescriptive analytics for determining sales compensation plan effectiveness. The conference provides education and certification, networking, and in-depth sessions focused on sales compensation, sales operations effectiveness, and sales analytics.