PandaDoc

JUNE 16, 2025

In sales, compensation plans often hinge on a number called OTE, or “on-target earnings.” For sales reps, it’s a benchmark. In this article, we’ll break down how OTE works in sales, why companies use it, how to calculate it, and how to make it work better for your team. What is OTE in sales?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Before that, he was the first non-founder seller at three startups, turning early traction into a repeatable sales motion. Discussed in this Episode: When to hire your first account executives Key traits to look for in early sales hires Structuring compensation for first sales reps Should you ‘hire the buyer’ to be your sales rep?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 21, 2025

Whether you love them, hate them, or simply tolerate them, quotas are synonymous with sales. But lately, many sales teams find that quota attainment has become harder than ever. Heres how to rethink performance management for modern sales teams. Misaligned Incentives Quota design matters.

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PandaDoc

MAY 12, 2025

Price is one of the most visible parts of any offer, and getting it wrong can cost more than just a few sales. But have you ever wondered why some customers chase after every sale while others will pay premium prices without batting an eye? See also What is the psychology of sales and why is it important? Lets get started.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2025

00:20:00] and, so we said maybe if we just like give them, you know, a little more of a push and a little bit more of an incentive to be sharing. And so, we’ll, we’ll even sometimes give them incentives and like fun swag and things to actually do it. Are you sales led? Primarily been a lot of, mostly organic. [00:20:00]

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SalesFuel

APRIL 30, 2025

Customer acquisition usually gets the spotlight, writes Lauren Kindzierski for Sales 3.0. This is primarily due to high expenses, such as advertising, sales and onboarding. Monitoring and quantifying things like engagement and churn rate simply take more time. And the research backs up this sentiment.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Otherwise, you may become complacent and miss out on subtle cues for pending churn. During the sales process, your organization did a lot of hard work to uncover your client’s needs and link a range of possible solutions to those needs. Over the course of a many-month sales cycle, that was refined into an acceptable solution.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 15, 2025

Core Functionality Stores customer records and manages sales pipelines. Benefits for Sales Teams: Overcoming Data Silos & Driving Smarter Selling Sales teams often operate with limited visibility into customer intent, relying on historical CRM data that fails to capture real-time behavioral trends.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 11, 2023

Your sales team plays an essential role in driving revenue and reaching goals that stretch across the organization. So should you be worried about churn in your sales department? Sales teams have higher-than-average turnover rates than other business units. Why do sales teams experience high turnover?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 24, 2019

What does he see as some of the biggest problems in sales teams and scaling them? Where Can You Tie Sales Comp Plans to Customer Success? The biggest problem Mark sees today in the sales world: sales doesn’t care enough about customer success. To Mark, a root problem is sales compensation. People talk the talk.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

Unclear sales goals are costly. These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. KPIs should match the specific needs of your sales team. The Sales KPIs You Need to Know.

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SaaStr - Sales Strategy

JANUARY 24, 2019

As you scale your salesteam, unless you are very careful whom you hire and how you train them, incentives being what they are in variable compensation, some negative behavior will creep in. Many call it “Churn and Burn” or other variants. Clawback sales commission for customers that churn quickly. It’s bad for everyone.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 2, 2018

Author: Theresa Thomas, VP Strategic Solutions, Hinda Incentives Have you ever daydreamed about cloning your top sales performers? No more endless recruiting to find a salesperson like Jane who qualifies and closes sales in record time. Their new multimillion dollar sales appear at the very top of the monthly new sales listing.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

Choose the right incentives. Plus, incentives motivate customers, as 50% of people say they’re likely to give a referral if offered a reward ( source ). But, we recommend you give more thought to your referral incentives. We aren’t here to tell you which incentives are effective and which aren’t.

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Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2021

Sales reps’ lives were built around the office — the environment, the energy, and the excitement of end-of-quarter blitzes. Then everyone went remote, and over the last year sales leaders and enablement teams had to come up with new ways to incentivize their reps. 4 Ideas to Incentivize Your Sales Team.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

In this article, I will discuss the challenges in the B2B SaaS customer experience and how to tackle these potential barriers upfront – rather than trying to do damage control months into the implementation when the customer is annoyed, disappointed, and on the path to churn. Top Risk Factors in B2B SaaS Customer Success.

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Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2021

Sales reps’ lives were built around the office — the environment, the energy, and the excitement of end-of-quarter blitzes. Then everyone went remote, and over the last year sales leaders and enablement teams had to come up with new ways to incentivize their reps. Enter the sales spiff. A Gallup poll showed that 51% of U.S

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2018

Sales Goals. Monthly sales goals. Below, find out how to set sales goals on an individual and team level. How to Set Sales Goals. Calculate your monthly sales goal. If you’re setting personal or team goals, they should align with annual sales goals. The incentive for your reps to meet their quota?

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 3, 2020

Let’s take a closer look at the challenges in the B2B SaaS customer experience and how to tackle these potential barriers upfront rather than trying to do damage control months into the implementation, when the customer is annoyed, disappointed and on the path to churn. Top Risk Factors In B2B SaaS Customer Success.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 26, 2018

Sales Promotion Ideas. Leverage Sales Promotions to Get Deals Moving Again. Sales promotions aren’t always necessary to close business. For sales leaders, promotions either make the customer’s decision easier or motivate the salesperson to work a little harder. So, are sales promotions necessary in 2018?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 21, 2019

From manual CRM updates, to uninspired training programs or hard-to-find content, the more roadblocks to seamless sales, the more staff becomes demoralized. That, in turn, leads to greater sales rep churn. If you have a community of sales reps who are frustrated and unmotivated, that’s a huge barrier to achieving revenue goals.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

Choose the Right Incentives Rewards are the most critical part of your referral marketing strategy. Plus, incentives motivate customers, as 50% of people say they’re likely to give a referral if offered a reward ( source ). But, we recommend you give more thought to your referral incentives.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

Have you been in an interview and asked your prospective employer which sales metrics they value most? What if I asked you if you’d ever questioned your interviewer about their sales velocity? So, what is sales velocity? Sales Velocity. Creating Sales Velocity. The four factors of sales velocity.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In Chapter 13 of their new book, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin talk about how to make a startup succeed despite their attrition sales. Sales culture is different than any other because companies assume that most people will sink or succeed on their own. Beating the Odds On Sales Team Churn Rates. It†s Not You, It†s Me.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s what selling without a sales dashboard is like. But a sales dashboard is only useful if it’s done well. What is a Sales Dashboard? A sales dashboard gives your team a fast and efficient way to see all the data that is most important to doing their job effectively. Why Use a Sales Dashboard?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Sales compensation is one of the trickiest aspects of the sales organization to get right. How to create a good sales comp plan. Sales comp plan types. Sales contests and SPIFs. How sales compensation should work. A sales compensation plan operates from a basic principle: Money drives behavior.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 29, 2020

The concept is simple, customers pay a monthly or annual fee to use the software, often hosted in the cloud, rather than a one-time sale, and they get access to new features and updates as they roll out. In this guide, we’ll explore the SaaS sales process and the steps you can take to improve your SaaS sales strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 19, 2018

The deal plan should cover whatever your prospect suggests but will generally encompass the remainder of the sales cycle, how to sell the product internally, and the implementation of the product. In most sales situations, the biggest challenge is inertia. Deal plans are also useful if you get stuck somewhere in the sales cycle.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Harnessing AI requires a strong alignment of incentives across departments, coupled with high-quality data and experienced resources to get the job done. The good news? With a foundation of the most comprehensive B2B data available, it’s possible to turn those challenges into opportunities with plenty of upside.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But you as a SaaS business want to sign them up for annual deals when possible since that's going to increase cashflow and predictability and decrease your churn. Because you want to understand churn first and see how long people stick around by choice. In their MRR churn study, Price Intelligently found that SaaS companies.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

When you look at sales statistics , you see that the CRM has already made a lasting impact on many organizations. In fact, the CRM is one of the most popular sales tools today (among social prospecting, data and list services, email engagement, phone, and sales cadence tools). Ask reps and sales teams to test different CRMs.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2021

More salespeople equals more sales, right? Scaling your sales team is crucial to growing a healthy business. Take a strategic approach to scaling your sales team, and make smart hiring decisions that will benefit your organization for years to come. Check out these 12 mistakes to avoid when scaling your sales organization.

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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. This article will show you how the right commission plan execution can retain your employees, reduce customer churn and increase trust between internal teams. . Prioritize a positive sales culture. One wrong commission payment.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Believe it or not, the new year is right around the corner– and that means it’s time to plan your sales compensation strategy for 2024. But, in this era of constantly shifting market conditions, it can be difficult to know what changes will best set your sales organization on the path towards success. Don’t worry, we’re here to help!

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

You wouldn’t run a modern sales team without a solid set of goals. These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. KPIs should match the specific needs of your sales team.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Organizations must be strategic when designing sales compensation plans. The goal is to strike a careful balance between incentivizing sales performance and protecting the company against financial crisis. A sales clawback clause is more than just a financial insurance policy for an organization.

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