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Sales Compensation Planning: Everything to Consider in 2019

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The start of a new year comes with a new sales plan—and that means you must reassess your sales capacity needs , align and balance sales territories , and create a sales incentive plan that drives sales performance. Pay mix—the ratio of base salary to target incentives (aka commission) that your sales reps earn—is an important part of this.

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New year, new goals: A checklist to empower your sales teams to close more deals in 2024

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Now, let’s talk incentives. Incentives, or spiffs, can really boost motivation. But here’s the key – structure your incentives to make your goals more realistic and achievable. This way, your team has a clear, reachable target and an added incentive to exceed it.

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A Holistic Approach to Compensation Structuring with Scott Barton

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He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Today we’ve got Scott Barton, VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent and a veteran of sales, revenue operations, and incentive compensation. Sales forecasts, territory design, quota management, and incentive compensation.

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April Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

I tried coaching, I tried demonstrating, and I tried setting goals and incentives. 3 Ways to Guarantee Referral Prospecting Success. Read “ 3 Ways to Guarantee Referral Prospecting Success.”). As I quickly learned, it was one thing to get people to agree to referral selling in principle and another to actually implement.

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How to Develop a Winning Sales Compensation Philosophy

The Spiff Blog

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. What’s the difference between the “how” and the “why” of sales compensation?

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How to Motivate Sales Managers with Compensation Strategy

The Spiff Blog

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. Coach them on how to be successful and offer consistent feedback along the way. Be patient and allow new sales managers to be vulnerable. Be their advocate.

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October Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Why is it that companies spend tons of money on client events, company celebrations, sales incentives, and work-life balance perks like childcare, but then they skimp on investing in building permanent, repeatable sales skills for their teams? 5 Questions to Guarantee Qualified Lead Generation. “ We chose someone else.”

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