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How to Develop a Winning Sales Compensation Philosophy

The Spiff Blog

How well can you explain (or defend) the way your company compensates sales employees? In today’s world, where pay transparency and compensation fairness are increasingly in the spotlight, sales employees and high-quality job candidates want to know more than just “how” your sales reps are paid. Let’s get into it!

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Channel Sales for SaaS: What It Is, When it Works, and How to Build Your Own

Openview

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad. Channel – Cons.

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2019’s Top Channel Incentive Tips

Allbound

Incentive programs are critical to any successful channel sales model. Here’s some more advice to building a successful channel incentive program: 1.) That may mean thinking about how your partners are compensated: A flat rate may prove steady for your expenses, but it’s not likely to produce any excitement.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Entrepreneurial Enthusiasm with Chris Cabrera (S1:E10)

Alice Heiman

On this episode of the Sales Talk for CEOs Podcast, Alice speaks with Chris Cabrera, CEO of Xactly , which provides automated compensation for large sales teams. Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel. Chris’ life revolved around sales prior to becoming a CEO and it prepared him for starting his own company. .

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Sales Compensation Best Practices

Engage Selling

Before you know it, inside sales is battling with field sales, direct reps are at the throats of the channel team, and you’re caught in the middle of the fray. In 20 years of selling, I’ve never encountered a compensation plan that eliminated all conflicts. That’s no way to grow a company. Keep your plan simple.

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How to Motivate Employees in Tough Times

The Spiff Blog

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! Well, not exactly.

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How to Scare Your Top Sales Reps

SBI Growth

Will our compensation change? Almost the exact opposite of number 1. Have different senior leaders communicate via different channels throughout the project. Completely plan communication content, dates, channels, and communicators. Now the questions and rumors start: Who are these people and what do they want?

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