The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

What does this mean for sales teams? If you’re responsible for reaching demanding sales targets, you must be more dynamic and strategic in 2024. If you’re responsible for reaching demanding sales targets, you must be more dynamic and strategic in 2024. B2B sales has an average turnover rate of 35% ( source ).

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Xactly

JANUARY 2, 2019

The sales planning process can become quite complex, especially when it comes to designing sales compensation plans. Ultimately, the new compensation and incentive plans must successfully motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Time in sales compensation: 4 years.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 30, 2018

Being a sales manager today is less about managing and more about developing, inspiring and growing the skills of your team. This is not easy and can leave a lot of sales managers chasing their tails trying to work out how to improve the performance of their team. Coaching improves your skills.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 5, 2014

Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ‘A’ players on the team. Every sales manager is time starved. Sales Managers should be spending 75% of their time coaching their team. POST-SALES SUPPORT. I am a big advocate of face-to-face coaching.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 30, 2018

Being a sales manager today is less about managing and more about developing, inspiring and growing the skills of your team. This is not easy and can leave a lot of sales managers chasing their tails trying to work out how to improve the performance of their team. Coaching improves your skills.

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Distribution sales teams are under a lot of pressure to produce results. Sales managers can use data to help them make informed decisions about how to lead their sales teams. In this blog post, we will discuss some ways that sales managers can use data to improve their sales performance.

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MarketJoy

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Sales development is the most crucial aspect of every business. And your sales development representatives play a vital role in the demand generation process, especially in the B2B company. So, it should be worth paying attention to your SDRs coaching. They can hurt your SDRs performance and hinder your sales coaching efforts.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2022

We do this through hiring the right people, training, giving them tools/processes/programs/systems to help them perform, providing the right support, eliminating barriers to their performance, and constantly coaching/developing them. We try to develop compensation plans that incent people to achieve those goals.

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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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PandaDoc

JANUARY 29, 2024

Hopefully, the start of the new year has you super jazzed about what your sales organization will achieve in 2024. We know we’re excited about the potential our sales team has at PandaDoc. A sales team is the powerhouse behind any thriving software company. Now, let’s talk incentives. It sounds simple enough, right?

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Are you prepared to succeed today in Sales, Sales Management, Business and Life? Let me take a minute to answer for myself and then I'll get on with the rest of the post: Sales - yes, Sales management - kind of, Business - yes. Incentive to succeed - Do you have the appropriate passion or desire for success?

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SBI

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Brainshark is a data-driven sales readiness platform. Resources All Awards & Recognition Blog Article Brief eBook ebooks & Guides Funding & Acquisitions Industry News Interview Report Video Video Reviews Webinars. Brainshark is a data-driven sales readiness platform. Sales Enablement. Sales Enablement.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the first scenario, the eager software sales rep wants to expedite the project start and does not want to introduce any delays in their sales pipeline. They are thinking about a potential 6-12 month delay in the sales pipeline, then delayed recognition of the software sale before the project can get underway.

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Sell Integrity

JANUARY 28, 2021

It’s important to understand what it’s really going to cost you when you lose a sales rep — and what steps you can take to minimize your turnover rates. Every sales leader can relate to that pit-in-the-stomach feeling when a star sales rep says they’re moving on. In some industries, average sales rep tenure is just two years.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2022

Our jobs, as sales and marketing professionals, is to drive change. Sometimes, it’s we that incent the customers to change, whether through our content at our websites, our customers talking to others, or our prospecting. first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this blog post, we’re going to delve into the art of generating referrals without resorting to traditional tactics and asking for them. Moreover, asking for referrals or offering incentives can result in artificial referrals that lack authenticity.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

How should the top sales leader in the company utilize this limited time? Download the SBI Sales SVP New Year’s Guide here. Let’s look at several ways sales leaders misallocate their year-end days. If someone scores a “1” in this area, haven’t you already coached them out? These competencies correlate to sales success.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” There are surveys asking for the one area sales managers should focus on. These cover things like comp/metrics, training, forecasts, hiring, sometimes even coaching. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process. We have to do the whole job.

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Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales operations (sales ops) and sales enablement are terms used often within an organization. But how do they contribute to sales productivity and overall business performance? Sales Enablement versus Sales Operations. Sales Operations Roles and Responsibilities. Managing sales tech stack.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

If Billy Beane were to take over a sales organization today, he would feel like he’d traveled back by about 20 years. Sales organizations today are dominated by metrics, but they’re rarely data-driven and even take actions counterproductive to the outcomes they desire. For years, I said call activity was the worst metric used in sales.

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

As the Sales Training Connection readership grows, we decided to reprint some of our most popular posts. In this post we combined two posts: Dispatching Three Myths of Sales Coaching and Best Practices for addressing them. Many great companies start sales coaching initiatives with commitment and vigor.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 14, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan First the links. The Huffington Post and the Hubspot Blog both published an article, by Dan Lyons about OMG and Kurlan and what it takes to succeed in sales. We recently evaluated a sales force where the salespeople had, on average, only 18% of the attributes of a consultative seller.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

That’s all it takes for a sales rep to jump ship and take their skills elsewhere. Tweaks here and there can be a necessary (and sometimes arduous) challenge for your sales and finance team, but these variables provide valuable internal data about which commission structures generate the most growth. Prioritize a positive sales culture.

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It shouldn’t be surprising that we spend a lot of time training sales teams and coaching the sales team leaders. Here are five elements that must be considered before any money is spent on sales training. Can sales training be embedded into a repeatable selling system and process within your CRM?

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Highspot

MAY 3, 2024

Imagine that only 28% of your sales reps expect to hit quota. As a sales leader, you’d probably scoff at this. But according to Salesforce, this is the reality for many businesses, and the pressure to hit revenue targets has companies looking to improve sales processes to boost performance. Interested to learn more?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. There is no room for failure in today’s competitive sales landscape. It can also offer insight into automating sales processes to free up more of your team’s time.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 15, 2021

Designing an effective sales onboarding program can be challenging. Finding a balance between the time new hires spend on self-paced learning, bootcamp or instructor-led training, on-the-job learning and one-on-one coaching seems like an impossible formula to perfect. Map sales process and activities to competencies and capabilities.

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The Spiff Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Throughout history, you see the best soldiers promoted to captains, the best athletes promoted to coaches, the best students promoted to teachers, and the list goes on and on. The variable component of success between great historic leaders and sales managers is exactly the same, and that variable is motivation. Be their advocate.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2023

In 2023, many sales organizations will focus on measuring and improving sales productivity. But first… What is sales productivity? Simply put, sales productivity is how efficient and effective your sales reps are at hitting a variety of revenue milestones and goals. Forrester’s 2021 B2B Buying Study ).

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

Do you manage a sales team or an organization that has a sales team? If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. Simply put, small tweaks have an outsized impact in sales. That way, your sales team is starting with an advantage.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 28, 2021

We are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. Your sales team is the backbone of your company, and your employees are just as vital to business success as your customers. Sales is a dynamic area of business that’s constantly in flux.

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Increase Sales

AUGUST 11, 2012

There are many how to increase sales marketing and selling strategies including: Business to Business networking. Follow up on sales leads. Expand sales referrals. However, my sense is this belief is keeping from actually realizing the goal to increase sales. Sales Cartoon. Sales Quote. Advertising.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Sales incentive contents can be a positive force to help motivate your sales people to new levels of productivity and loyalty. Alternatively, poorly constructed or inequitable sales challenges can result in anti-productive activity, resentment and rebellion. Beat the Boss. Lead By Example.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

Although all professions require a certain balance of skill and motivation, sales in particular relies more heavily on motivation than others. The reason for this is simple, sales is a numbers game. When a sales rep doesn’t have the necessary selling skills, leaders have options. Let’s jump into it.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 20, 2013

Sales teams in professional service firms. Team selling does not guarantee sales success. This can be a particularly important competitive advantage in the professional service sale. This can be a particularly important competitive advantage in the professional service sale. ©2013 Sales Horizons, LLC.

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CloserIQ

JULY 20, 2020

Your ability in retaining b2b salespeople hugely impacts the success of your sales teams. Many of your top-performing sales reps are being actively recruited by other companies. According to a Glassdoor survey , 68% of sales professionals plan to look for a new job within the next year.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. Tags: Attitude , Coaching , execution , Guest Post , Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training.

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