Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When it comes to recruiting, hiring, and retaining great sales talent -- few things are more persuasive and important than maintaining a competitive sales compensation plan. Incorporate a few of these tactics into your next compensation plan overhaul, and see them benefit the quality of your sales team and your company’s bottom line.

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Xactly

JULY 18, 2018

In order to manage your sales performance, you need effective sales territory mapping. Sales territory design must be a thoughtful process that involves data and a balancing act to ensure every sales rep has adequate sales potential within their territory. Use Data-driven Intelligence to Map Territories. Download Guide.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Any professional, across every field and experience level, needs to have a solid understanding of how they're compensated — after all, that's literally the reason you're working in the first place. Your base salary is one of the key elements you need to account for when getting that picture of your compensation package.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

3) Clearly communicate benefits and compensation New hires should have a clear understanding of commission plans and other important benefits and compensation from the start. 5) Develop realistic goals Assess their sales territory and lay out the best course of action for each district or demographic.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 30, 2018

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. Have you made any adjustments to your 2019 comp plan for sales development reps?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Total compensation, benefits, company financials and market position, for example. The company is making significant changes to your compensation plan. You’ve had average results recently because your territory is a real dog. Are the best performers given the best territories? Those are important.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure. In fact, optimizing territory design can increase sales by 2 to 7% each year ( source ).

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

Your sales commission plan is a portion of your sales compensation plan. When it comes to designing sales compensation plans , there are many factors that can affect the success of your plan. When it comes to designing sales compensation plans , there are many factors that can affect the success of your plan.

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OpenSymmetry

DECEMBER 4, 2015

On November 19 th , 30 organisations gathered in London at the e-reward conference to discuss the benefits of compensation management software. OpenSymmetry’s (OS) focus was Sales Performance Management (SPM) software – how we define it, how we identify the business benefits and how to chose the right software. What is SPM?

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 27, 2016

A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. The territory optimization and alignment element of salesforce effectiveness is vital for three reasons. Poor or excessive customer coverage if territories are too small, leading to missed revenue.

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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 25, 2015

Sales Performance Management (SPM) has truly evolved over the last 10+ years from the days of having an on-premise solution that primarily automated the compensation calculation process with basic reporting, to a new dynamic frontier with extended capabilities.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

From sales force training and compensation to investments in sales processes and technology, organizations relentlessly seek to pull the right levers that will drive revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. Author: Brad Wilsted Companies pour enormous resources into growth.

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OpenSymmetry

AUGUST 3, 2016

Each salesperson is assigned a territory, a quota, and they “go forth and sell”, right? The Strategic Account Manager is included in this group and is amongst the most difficult roles to compensate in sales organizations. So, how do you compensate this key role? The organization broke my top rule to keep it simple.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Sales performance management tracking can provide valuable data enabling your organization to forecast future sales trends and employee compensation rates — particularly for commission-based compensation structures. Performance-based compensation. Helps predict future sales trends. Provide examples to reinforce the behavior.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Sales performance management (SPM) and incentive compensation management (ICM) are often used interchangeably. While at one time, these two terms did essentially mean the same thing, SPM now encompasses far more than just compensation. Fact #4: SPM can reduce territory planning time up to 75%. So what’s the takeaway?

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The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There are many benefits to implementing sales commission software, but we’re going to focus on the four most important. Aside from the obvious benefits of increased motivation and less manual reporting, leading commission tracking tools also provide transparency into the actual calculations behind the numbers. About Spiff.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The improved analytical capabilities provided by Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) software will help in the modelling and review of existing plans. As often as companies and sales leaders state that their sales compensation plans are simple, there is rarely a plan that is truly that simple ; there is always some layer of complexity.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Keep customer benefits front-and-center. Once that is done, identify ways you can present those qualities to speak to how the customer will directly benefit. Re-assign your sales territories. If you only had 60 seconds to convince someone to buy your product, what would you say? What main features would you highlight?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For instance, they may be selected to support a specific territory with higher potential. They’ve done what they needed to do to be successful as a team lead, so they would earn a Sales Manager title, along with a compensation bump. Diving into the deep end of the pool will always go back to compensation.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 22, 2018

He may have a tough territory to work in, or he could be a poor hire. Now consider how you would manage each of these very different reps and their situations in a way the benefits your organization. He’s got a lot to learn, and you’re just not sure if he’s on track—or when exactly you can expect him at peak performance. Watch Webinar.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2012

Others focus on the importance of a rewarding and competitive compensation package. Every top performer has experienced the dreaded year-end “opportunity drop,” which from the rep’s point of view includes: The most rewarding territories are “re-balanced’ (split up). These are obvious. Let’s go beyond conventional wisdom.

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Xactly

JULY 30, 2018

Hiring the best often comes down to offering the right sales compensation plan , providing an accurate job description, and ensuring the right expectations are set. Download "Designing Sales Compensation Plans" to learn best practices for building incentive plans that drive the right behaviors. It builds confidence.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

So how do you strike a perfect balance between business goals and the compensation needs of employees? How your compensation package (including commission structure) works tells a great deal about your organization. Territory volume Territory volume is a commission paid off based on revenue from a specific region.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For instance, they may be selected to support a specific territory with higher potential. They’ve done what they needed to do to be successful as a team lead, so they would earn a sales manager title, along with a compensation bump. Again, the challenge is that you’re just asking a team lead to do more, without tangible benefits.

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Xactly

AUGUST 20, 2018

For companies to truly reap the benefits of AI/ML, they need access and the rights to data. To obtain and manage this data properly, sales organizations need automated sales performance management (SPM) solutions to help facilitate their planning strategically, from territories and quota allocation, to compensation planning and management.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Worse we have all dealt with sales people who jump to competitors, extracting concessions in the form of bonuses, or compensation based on the fact that they will bring their book with them. That cost does not go down if the rep switches, the considerations remain the same, if they are benefiting from the service, they will stay.

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Xactly

DECEMBER 10, 2018

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. Set the Foundation. Gather your previous and YTD data.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Like a number of our clients, they are moving towards a stronger sales-led oriented culture, recognizing the benefit of higher growth rates across all parts of the organization. We immediately saw the benefit of their doing so and gladly helped. Do they align to a market program or a selling territory? Who owns a client?

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Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

To assemble this type of virtual sales force you will need to recruit, find, contract, train, incentivize and compensate them appropriately. There are abundant benefits to syndicating the sales of your company’s products and services. To sell is human.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 19, 2013

The question is “ Where are you going to improve to achieve the greatest benefit ?”. The cost-benefit tradeoffs associated with solving the sales problem will become visible. For example, your sales team will almost always lead with two solutions: Sales compensation. The question is not “Can you improve?” Sales training.

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Mereo

APRIL 2, 2020

With this in place, uniting your leadership and teams, go-to-market activities become more streamlined and successful, pursuing new territory or different markets becomes achievable. There are many ways to sell, all that have varying benefits depending on who your buyer is and what solution(s) you have to serve your markets.

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Xactly

MAY 31, 2018

Sales compensation is vital to sales success and company growth. For decades, companies have gathered different tools to manage compensation. Previously, sales performance management (SPM) has typically been categorized as solely focused on incentive compensation management (ICM) and sales compensation planning.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Download "The Enterprise Guide to Sales Performance Management (SPM),"to discover sales compensation best practices, the benefits of enterprise SPM solutions, and how Xactly can help you unleash sales attainment potential. These are the worst reasons to miss sales targets because they are the most controllable and the most avoidable.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 29, 2015

These are the findings of a recent Smart Selling Tools research study of sales and sales enablement executives, investigating B2B Sales Tools to determine which delivered the biggest benefits.

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OpenSymmetry

AUGUST 22, 2017

Expanding upon SalesGlobe ’s sales incentive design, territory and segmentation, and quota methodology practices, a new partnership with OpenSymmetry will allow us to help clients make the most out of a sales performance management solution.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales Territory Assignment and Growth Forecasting. Implementation of Recommended Compensation and Incentives Program. Allocation of Accounts and Sales Territories. Allocation of Accounts and Sales Territories. Manage compensation. . Territory design. Compensation plan. Operations. Deals desk.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 28, 2013

Rolling out a new CRM tool or territory structure. Redesigning compensation or quotas. That's some solid benefits for simply hitting the road every few weeks. Download the Sales Ops Field Kit Here. Think about the last big effort you drove for sales. Delivering enhanced training or instituting new performance dashboards.

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