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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Motivation Hiring Compensation Incentives 75

OpenSymmetry

AUGUST 3, 2016

Today’s organizations are more complex; they sell through multiple channels, have complicated coverage models, and network of sales roles to sell their products, services, and solutions. The Strategic Account Manager is included in this group and is amongst the most difficult roles to compensate in sales organizations.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

By extending its use of our sales learning and enablement platform , the company created a knowledge and information hub to fulfill the training and onboarding needs of its employees and preserve its collaborative culture. said Elyssa Douglass, Sales Training Specialist at AssetMark. “So Creating a Knowledge and Information Hub.

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Hiring Microsoft Channels Compensation 112

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

Build a Multi-Channel Traffic Plan to Drive Inbound Candidates. We had a to build a multi-channel candidate attraction plan to drive candidate traffic. Passive job seekers are often the best talent – employees well valued and compensated by their current company because they are doing a bang-up job.

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Hiring Marketing Top of Funnel Cold Calling 222

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Target the right market segments: Decide which sales organizations, geographies and channels will deliver maximum performance for your incentive budget. For example, a channel program should never include a warehouse club in its incentive strategy. reaction you want. Some targets are especially appropriate; others make no sense at all.

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Incentives Incentive Strategy Penetration 195

Customer Centric Selling

JULY 8, 2013

Sales Training Article: Where Are the Great Sales Jobs? Salespeople in this industry earn average yearly compensation of around $100,000. However, there''s a huge difference in compensation between brokers, who are licensed to own a brokerage, and agents, who must work with a broker. That''s a valuable skill set. Manufacturing.

Real Estate 55

Real Estate Training Insurance Insurance 55

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Training: Have you given your team the right training? Some people just need the right information and training to become more productive. If budgets are tight, have your superstars conduct mini trainings. Channel / Routes-To-Market – Understanding BPM’s and Personas will provide a base line here.

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Top of Funnel Territories Scale Segment 296

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Last year I was able to buy the home I wanted which is on the train line into the office. Next, take your compensation plan and from that, understand what sorts of activities you need to accomplish every month to make those numbers happen. I’m adding to my retirement fund and plan to buy a vacation home in 5 years.

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InsideView Compensation Inbound Lead Rank 238

Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ll also explain some essential things like why a good sales candidate is so important, where to find good candidates, how to make an offer, and how to hire and train your sales team to create successful salespeople who will improve your business. Want to train and develop talent in your company.

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Hiring Paid Content Salary Sales Qualified Lead 98

Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ll also explain some essential things like why a good sales candidate is so important, where to find good candidates, how to make an offer, and how to hire and train your sales team to create successful salespeople who will improve your business. Want to train and develop talent in your company.

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Hiring Paid Content Salary Sales Qualified Lead 98

SBI Growth

AUGUST 13, 2013

Or a redesigned compensation plan. Or training to add emerging practices to your sellers’ skill sets. Or sales recruiting to staff a new go-to-market channel. Another company would contract external sales trainers for annual and ongoing sales training. They would record the training events for future use.

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Hiring Incentives Incentive Benefit 288

Xactly

JUNE 6, 2018

Nearly 70 percent of Xactly customers use Salesforce to manage their sales force compensation plans, and Salesforce is a long-standing Xactly customer (since 2010), using Xactly Incent to manage more than 15,000 payees on compensation plans. Partner Operations – enables partner channel.

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SalesForce Webinar Metrics Compensation Incentives 53

Score More Sales

MAY 30, 2013

Evaluating and prioritizing channels. Do you have cross-channel web, social, and mobile integration? I’ve been compensated to contribute to this program, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions. times Gross Profit growth and 2.4

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Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Survey 241

Increase Sales

JUNE 28, 2016

Yesterday in speaking with a salesperson who works for a $10 billion service solution provider, she shared with me there is no alignment between the different sales channels. She is expected to give sales referrals to other sales channels, but they do not have to reciprocate. If you disagree, just look to the turnover of salespeople.

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Hiring Referrals Cold Calling Channels 70

Sales Training Connection

MAY 12, 2014

They invest in sales training . They change compensation systems and territorial designs. Adding Channels. Increasingly companies are moving to multiple channels. Sales Training. Sales Training can help sales reps both become more effective and more efficient. ©2014 Sales Momentum LLC. .

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Funnel Inside Sales 112

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 16, 2021

Do we leverage channels and partners? Do we leverage electronic/web based channels/engagement? We develop strategies, processes, systems, tools, training, programs, and coaching to help us implement those strategies effectively and efficiently (in that order). Sales People Do What You Measure And Compensate Them To Do!

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Strategy Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Objections 90

The Pipeline

JUNE 8, 2011

As usual, I invite you to have your two cents, and view all our videos at Renbor’s You Tube channel Sell Better. Sales Compensation. Sales Training. Dave Kahle – Sales Training. From The Heart Sales Training Blog. TopLine Sales Compensation Solutions. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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Pipeline Cold Calling Hiring Compensation 224

Score More Sales

MARCH 8, 2012

Channel partners, strategic partners and referral partners all can affect revenue in your pipeline. There are many connections you have, whether in your channels, through other distribution arrangements, and with direct individuals who can impact deals and the bottom line. How do I compensate for the areas I’m weaker in?

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Pipeline Referrals Channels Buying Cycle 203

Score More Sales

JULY 30, 2014

What will you do this week to connect through social channels to those who can refer you, advocate for you, or collaborate with you? I’ve been compensated to contribute to this program, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.

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How To Ideal Customer Profile LinkedIn Twitter 230

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

She’d been there … as a customer of incentive compensation and a lover of performance management. Ellen is an engineer turned vice president of channel sales. Before any meeting or presentation, she conducts extensive research and structures her train of thought so she can speak with confidence. Ellen the Alpha.

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Cold Calling Loyalty Account Intent 266

Score More Sales

JUNE 29, 2012

They had someone (or a team) monitor social channels; listening for trigger events, learning about their existing customers and interacting with soon-to-be buyers. They onboarded new reps efficiently and effectively, offering them regular coaching on process, skills, and knowledge once their initial training was over.

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Pipeline Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 183

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2018

They dive deep into the various channels, tactics, and trends flooding the recruiting industry to help you decipher what will work best for each individual recruiter. 7. The HR Daily Advisor offers free webcasts, articles, and reports on topics important to HR and compensation professionals. Check it out!

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Hiring Resources Education Trends 170

Autoklose

MARCH 18, 2024

But as your company grows, the number of your team members will increase, too, and in order to keep the same standards and continue hitting your quota, you’ll have to find a way to scale your sales training efforts. Here are a couple of useful sales training ideas to help you build a killer sales team. Table of Content 1.

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Hiring Training Cold Calling How To 98

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success.

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Sales Operations Top of Funnel Hiring Scale 87

The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

To get more insight on that, you can read a related article “ Working Backwards From Your Goal To Get Ahead “ Look forward to your comments, and invite you to visit our YouTube Channel to view other SellBetter sales videos. Sales Compensation. Sales Training. Dave Kahle – Sales Training. Tibor Shanto.

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Pipeline Prospecting Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 222

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

You can control what you do and say on your company website, and link to your channel partners or other associates rather than somehow finding ads and links to competitor sites. Ultimately, your company owns its website and all the great content outside of your website resides on other people’s sites.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Microsoft Twitter 231

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A better way to compensate instead of commission. That we all know, especially since COVID that connect rates on the phone were down and email was being blown up and email responses and the efficacy of the channels to book meetings and those meetings to actually hold and convert to revenue is just declining. What You’ll Learn.

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Commission Quota Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank 88

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2013

Do they buy through retail stores, do they buy from company sales people, do they buy through distribution, do they buy through channels? I disagree with Anthony, independent sales agents, channels or other indirect forms of sales can be very effective. Likewise, the independent sales channel is very powerful and very well established.

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Hiring Marketing Channels Small Business 89

Pipeliner

MARCH 6, 2018

Strategic Component Three: Channel Strategy. Should the channel strategy be direct, indirect, or digital? Channel strategy drives selling costs down, drives revenues up, and potentially extends the market reach of a company. Salary heavy versus incentive heavy compensation plans.

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Strategy Salary Margin Compensation 45

Score More Sales

MARCH 26, 2013

In addition, these companies are growing their connection to the customer through social channels – so the natural progression of thought is to get more CRM applications social too. New insights into their customers, giving the company competitive advantages. •

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CRM Guidelines Data Compensation 235

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Hiring, Onboarding, and Compensation. The next step is to develop a training and onboarding program that will prepare them to start selling effectively and efficiently, followed by a compensation and rewards plan that will motivate them to continue performing. Train the sales team by making them wear customers’ shoes.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Hiring Hubspot 114

Mindtickle

MAY 29, 2020

This provides insight into what programs are working as well as a channel for additional topical ideas. Tip #3: Professional development roads lead to compensation. For example, withholding commission until all training is completed (or achieving an 80% or higher passing rate), including coaching is not uncommon in some organizations.

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Coaching Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face 88

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

As a salesperson, a big part of your compensation is variable. Create a YouTube Channel. If your city has local sales meetups, reach out and ask if you might be able to speak one week and tease your training or coaching services at the end. Create a YouTube channel. Closing big deals takes time. Take Up Photography.

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Social Media Channels Hiring Compensation 81

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

Salespeople Will Close 50% More Business By Changing This One Thing They Do!

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Hiring Sales Leadership Sales Forecasts Forecasting 149

Score More Sales

MAY 28, 2013

If you have not seen the survey results yet, take a look to hear about omni-channel shoppers and more. I’ve been compensated to contribute to this program, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions. Marketing Study Update.

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Company Film Study Lead Rank 208

Nutshell

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Capturing leads: By developing a lead generation funnel through your website and social media channels that captures contact information, you can turn cold calls into warm leads. Rethink your compensation strategy. Consulting a lead score: Many CRM platforms can help you quickly and clearly identify quality prospects.

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Follow-up 94

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

compensated, promoted, and terminated based on their effectiveness in achieving their goals. The more organizations leverage subcontractors and contract employees, the more all functions in the organization leverage social channels in doing their work, the inside/outside differentiation become meaningless. People are measured.

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Outsourcing Services Conversion Customer Engineering 80