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5 key strategies to run successful remote sales teams

Act!

Did you know that by 2025, 80 percent of B2B sale s interactions between buyers and sellers are predicted to happen virtually? That’s how fast the remote sales landscape is evolving. Virtual sales teams allow organizations to optimize costs, hire the best sales talent worldwide, and engage with prospects in different time zones.

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How to Develop a Winning Sales Compensation Philosophy

The Spiff Blog

What’s the difference between the “how” and the “why” of sales compensation? How you pay sales reps depends on the way you design your comp program, what metrics relate to what incentives, and so on— all the details we’ve covered in many past articles about comp plan design.

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A Day in the Life of an Effective Sales Compensation Manager

The Spiff Blog

A sales compensation manager– or similar roles such as incentive compensation manager or variable compensation manager– is responsible for the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of sales commission plans, along with the reporting and interdepartmental collaboration necessary to effectively manage sales compensation.

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8 Components of Effective Sales Strategy

Pipeliner

A strategy that identifies these individuals allows you to cover your bases by interacting with these four buying influencers to increase the probability of not only making a sale and making the sale at higher margins. Strategic Component Three: Channel Strategy. Should the channel strategy be direct, indirect, or digital?

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Four Reasons Why Sales Teams Miss Targets

Mindtickle

His success depends on his sales rep meeting quota but they are not always able to deliver. He continues to hire the best sales talent he can find and provides them with aggressive incentives. He is also considering replacing his under-performing sales reps. Not Having a Measurement Model in Place.

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Four Reasons Why Sales Teams Miss Targets

Mindtickle

His success depends on his sales rep meeting quota but they are not always able to deliver. He continues to hire the best sales talent he can find and provides them with aggressive incentives. He is also considering replacing his under-performing sales reps. Not Having a Measurement Model in Place.

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6 Ways to Make Your Sales Training Effective

CloserIQ

You can also get insights into how your sales team is using (or not using) content, if they’re nurturing leads, how quickly they’re following up with customer requests, what their daily behaviors are, and which channels they use most to communicate with prospects. Set challenging yet attainable sales goals. Actionable takeaways.