The Spiff Blog

MAY 31, 2022

After all, does your organization really need to sink even more money into sales compensation ? You need a proper commission management software to effectively future-proof your compensation strategy, so your team can run like a well-oiled machine— rain or shine. The short answer is, yes. Spreadsheets are inefficient.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Top Sales & Marketing Awards 2011. Stored in Attitude , Awards , Business Acumen , Communication , Compete , Marketing , Sales Success , execution , qualifying. One for Top Sales & Marketing Blog , where I share the company of last year’s winner S. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. December 2007. Gap Selling.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement. Creating the perfect sales compensation plan isn’t easy. Research sales compensation benchmarks to ensure your rates are comparable.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Let's take a look at some awesome sales articles from around the web. In today's Sales Brief we cover a variety of articles including the smartest way to approach content marketing , sales compensation plans that'll motivate your team , Zoom's rocketing success , and much more. Ready for your weekly Sales Brief?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 13, 2013

This article discussed the cost of a bad hire from the Sales Rep’s perspective. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. You will have access to guides, templates and tools. These tools will help you excel in your current and future sales positions. Their product was great.

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Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales reps need support to drive growth and increase likelihood of success, whether they’re going through initial onboarding, working through the buyer’s journey or collaborating with marketing. We’ll get into unique responsibilities of each later in this article. Establishing compensation plans. Setting territory structure.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Forbes ran an article about selecting cloud computing vendors – it helps explain more about the questions you need to know to get the computing you require. ( [link] ). From a sales tools perspective, I have seen productivity gains as well as losses. It seems that there are so many tools to help professional sellers and marketers.

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A model that fairly compensates your sales heroes for their hard work. Moreover, you’ll be getting access to our sales commission calculator tool in this article, so stay tuned. It is important to note that sales commission is a part of sales compensation plan. This article is exclusively dedicated to sales commission.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

With emerging technologies, shortened product life cycles, and the need to minimize costs, organizations increasingly resort to subcontracting as a strategic tool. This article will scrutinize the five benefits organizations can attain by partnering with an external product engineering services provider.

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Motivation and compensation are tough to nail under normal circumstances and are even trickier during tough times. In this article we plan to resurface a few well-known, but often overlooked, principles of compensation and motivation that can boost you and your team during these tough times. Let’s get into it!

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2018

As a busy recruiter, you don’t have much time in your day to spend reading articles and recruiting blogs. Although we primarily cover topics related to sales and marketing, we have also built up a large body of content about recruiting and HR. Recommended reading: Recruiter Round-up: The Tools Recruiters Use. We get that.

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Lead411

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Zoominfo has one of the largest B2B databases available in the market today. This article will dive into how Zoominfo collects it’s data and how it handles consent and control of the data. While ZoomInfo profits from data aggregation, individuals often receive no compensation for the use of their personal information.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This article will show you how the right commission plan execution can retain your employees, reduce customer churn and increase trust between internal teams. . But remember that while the execs are driven by revenue and low customer churn, your sales reps are driven by their incentive compensation plans. One wrong commission payment.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 5, 2013

Your Sales Management Guru Blog Author on “Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers” List . Speaker, consultant, and author Ken Thoreson’s updated Sales Manager’s Tool Kit now available . New tools include a quarterly business review, cross-selling and up-selling plans, and many more. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., KNOXVILLE, Tenn.,

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

A survey of mid-market companies conducted last month by accounting and advisory firm Marcum LLP and Hofstra University’s Frank G. Let’s address something that, although obvious, often goes unstated during conversations about sales compensation. How to Motivate Sales Managers with Compensation Strategy.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Changed your sales compensation plan. This article will give you the best practices to implement impactful sales initiatives. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. You will have access to guides, templates and tools to help your sales efforts. Gamify Your Sales Initiatives.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 7, 2024

As a marketing business owner whose revenue primarily comes from my writing services, late 2022 to mid-2023 was… unnerving, to say the least. I like to reference the data point that the average successful startup has two major pivots before finding product/market fit.” I tell you this from experience.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 14, 2020

That was one of those interesting things that was ‘proven wrong,’ but he may be proven right,” says Scott Galloway, an author, entrepreneur, podcaster and professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Click on any of the articles below to read more from our "NEXT" special report. . The office as a recruitment tool.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Guest Post , Lead Management , Marketing , Reputation 2.0 , execution. Marketing and Sales become unified around one process, instead of each focusing only on their respective ends of the revenue pipeline. March 2008. February 2008.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Framework for Your B2B Marketing Plan (2022 Update). Who currently have job openings for marketing help. What Is a B2B Marketing Plan and Strategy? B2B marketing plan and strategy is about how you plan to raise brand awareness. What is a b2b marketing strategy? B2B Email marketing.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The SBI Sales Initiative Assessment Tool has answers. No matter what initiatives your sales organization is considering, this tool carefully evaluates them. Will it strengthen your position in the market? After you download the SBI Sales Initiative Assessment Tool , you’ll need to do a little customization.

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Tony Hughes

MAY 12, 2019

They invest only 14% of revenue and have only 12% of their people working in sales and marketing. With the exception of WiseTech, data in the above graph was sourced from Bloomberg.com published on May 18, 2016 in an article by Dina Bass titled: This $5 Billion Software Company Has No Sales Staff.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Expand market niche (70%). When it comes to innovation (one of my interests within growing companies), it was interesting to see these statistics among the participant mid-market companies: 53% use cloud computing. What are your business predictions for mid-market in 2015? Operations (87%). New products (76%). participated.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

The SaaS industry has different selling techniques , key metrics , and sales process activities compared to the ones you’d encouter while selling a tangible physical product or a more traditional service like a marketing consultation package. Essential Software Tools for SaaS Sales. What’s the Length of a SaaS Sales Cycle?

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Don’t deprive your teams of these two important tools. In a 1996 article on the Kohler effect [“ Social compensation and the Kohler effect ,” Stroebe, et. By assembling teams that included the sales reps, sales engineers, customer service and invoicing specialists, the company beat their own aggressive goals.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution. We were honestly amazed at the great tools we found. For more information on each one and to see more choices for each category, check out the original article here: [link]. Sales Compensation.

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Women Sales Pros

MARCH 29, 2019

I’ve even read several articles supporting this point of view. I suppose most employers look at it differently, though, if they don’t have a predictive tool to hire salespeople correctly. There is a common belief that sales force turnover is always a bad thing. Well, I am here to say that some sales force turnover is a good thing.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2014

A mid-sized, mid-market company has some great advantages over a giant, slow-to-change organization when it comes to shifting to a more social approach to learn about your buyers and reach those buyers. read the article here. Some are even looking for you socially. Some are even looking for you socially. Where are you?

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Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this article, we help you navigate the intricacies of sales performance metrics, guiding you on which ones are pivotal and how best to measure them. Determine Profitable Customer Markets Knowing where your most substantial sales come from enables you to capitalize on those markets. What Is Sales Performance?

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Depending upon the person and the conditions in their sales organization each article may or may not be pertinent. Is your compensation plan working ? Do I have to alter the sales compensation plan to help achieve the new goals? Do you have a recruiting marketing plan in place? Did it achieve your goals for 2016?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Only have five minutes to read this article? Here’s a quick look at the three most common stressors salespeople face on a daily basis: Compensation structure. If your sales compensation doesn’t match what these top sellers believe their skills are worth, that’s going to cause issues within your organization.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 28, 2014

I’m looking forward to seeing how the world’s largest provider of technology services navigates the Watson team toward solving the millions of data puzzles in the business world to support small and mid-market business growth through understanding customer and prospective customer data. How about building an app with help from Watson?

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Pipeliner

MAY 12, 2021

Sales automation has grown to be an essential part of many organizations’ marketing mix. In this article, we’ll explore the little-known sales automation secrets that can take sales professionals to the next level of developing customers’ trust and credibility faster. But don’t worry! Set Up an Automated Omni-channel Prospecting.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 23, 2013

This came from a recent Forbes article, How Small Businesses Can Build a Relationship with Millennial Customers written by John Mason, GM of IBM’s Midmarket business unit. Perhaps for the first time ever, consumers are both willing and able to tell marketers exactly what they want. Any of that happening now? Take it as a sign.

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OutboundView

JANUARY 19, 2024

If so, this article is for you. When they’re not, it’s a major pain point felt by AEs, marketing, all the way up to the executive team. In this article, we’ll walk through the changing landscape of how to organize SDR teams when selling to HR to get better results. On average, with all hard expenses (salaries, tools, etc.),

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 18, 2016

This article suggests a framework for analyzing the Client Pain Profile (CPP) to guide discovery, focus demos, and further clarify the SDR and AE roles. Trigger events can and should be part of the SDR role, and should be compensated as part of a sales intelligence quota. Examples of Sales Intelligence Triggers.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Managing sales compensation is both a highly complex and highly consequential responsibility. The design and execution of a sales compensation program directly influences the performance and morale of a sales organization, as well as the overall financial success of a company at large. What is a Sales Compensation Manager?

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