Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Nearly every company gets to the point where they must realign territories, accounts or roles. Let's take John, who is being paid a $75,000 base salary and earns commissions of 10% on the revenue generated in the territory. Image Copyright 123RF Stock Photo. John will not be a happy camper.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

I found a position with one of my vendors at 100% commission, base against draw, plus expenses. I was to get a new territory. To create my prospect list, I went to the library and pulled out yellow pages for every city in my new turf. At the end of my first day on the road, one prospect worked late.

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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 3, 2020

Like most salespeople,you, too, might have faced a dilemma of cross-selling in your career while dealing with prospective clients. Are you familiar with cross-selling strategies for prospective buyers? Before you give up on a prospect, test the theory of cross-selling; you may surprise yourself. Divyang is an H.R.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 24, 2024

A prospective client had a 3×5 card, generally with their business card stapled to it, and this was used to keep track of activities. Of course, things can get complicated when you are juggling 100’s of clients, prospects, and active deals. More and better prospects. Customers vs. prospects. By territory.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 8, 2017

While I agree that the focus should always be about quality over quantity, the reality is that no matter the quality of your prospects, you will need a given (minimum) quantity of quality sales in order to meet, or better yet, exceed quota. And what makes it work are the numbers.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 11, 2019

Reps need to prospect, sell, and close -- and that doesn’t always leave a lot of time for administrative or big-picture work. Sales operations exists to help the team use technology effectively, implement training exercises, align sales and marketing, set territories, evaluate compensation plans, and more. Image source: EPIQSYSTEMS.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This is often compounded by the lack of visibility reps have when it comes to sales commission. The expectation to Always Be Closing: Sales teams often operate under the belief that the customer or prospect always comes first, even when it means the wellbeing of the sales rep takes the back seat. Perceived Lack of Control.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This ultimately allows for better sales, territory, and compensation planning; thus, a stronger sales organization as a whole. . This ultimately helps discover where deals are lost most frequently and understand how you can move prospects through sales funnel quicker. Sales Territory Mapping and Design. Sales Capacity Planning.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Complicated commission plans or unwieldy territory rules and exceptions cause a half-baked sales team. They need to track their buyers and clients through social platforms or by aggregated content specific to their industry niche, geographic territory, or through named accounts.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Commission only. Base plus commission. Absolute commission plan. Relative commission plan. Straight line commission plan. When to pay commission. For instance, if you want your reps to prioritize renewals over new business, give them a bigger commission for the former. Commission only.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

These could be industry changes, a new funding round announcement, a merger, or a prospect getting a new role. If you contact a prospect right after they buy an expensive competitive product, they're not going to bite. Set up alerts for prospect names or business names and get notified whenever they are mentioned in news on the web.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Take a hard look at the role of your business development representatives and ask yourself: Is business development the last stage of qualifying a marketing-generated lead — or the first stage of sales outreach and prospect engagement? Do they align to a market program or a selling territory?

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 18, 2018

This could involve seeing their territory sales improve, helping a new product through its launch or possibly farming an account for new business. Many managers miss out on the commissions available for sales, so if money is one of the sales person’s key drivers, they may miss out on a possible higher salary.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Let the answers to those questions guide how you describe your product to prospective customers. Thoroughly qualify your prospects. Are you sure you’re selling to the right prospects to begin with? When qualifying prospects, you want to reach those who are the best fit for your product, and are most likely to make a purchase.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 5, 2019

Commissions (how that applies, I don’t know, but it is an interesting discussion). We have to attract and engage prospects/customers, we have to help them buy, we have to support them and assure they create value, we have to grow our share of customer and territory. I will focus on B2B.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Sales performance management tracking can provide valuable data enabling your organization to forecast future sales trends and employee compensation rates — particularly for commission-based compensation structures. To measure sales productivity, look at the following metrics: Percentage of total hours spent prospecting.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

2) Don’t Ignore the Candidate’s Red Flags Perhaps your prospective sales rep has an impressive resume, one which lists a series of excellent sales positions with an exciting range of duties, goals, and accomplishments. What matters is the potential mentor’s approach to sales and prospecting.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

This means some territories are not producing to expected or potential revenues. Increase in Sales rep LinkedIn activity not related to prospects or customers. Look for profile updates and network connections that are not customer or prospect oriented. Sales reps are commission only. This one is obvious.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2022

The commission from the deal wouldn’t hurt either. We have our prescribed lists and territories. We’d let the prospect know that we’ll cease prospecting them. Some prospects loved us but couldn’t initiate a conversation with us. Their signature on our paper would be a talking point for the rest of our sales career.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

SDRs are responsible for outbound prospecting. SDRs usually do this by cold-calling or cold-emailing the prospects. The SDR then gives prospects a quick rundown of what the product is and what it can do for them. When an SDR has vetted a prospect, they'll pass the potential lead to Account Executives (AEs).

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

If you have territories, assign a sub-goal to each. Increase commission on referral sales by 5%. Identify 100 potential prospects and assign tiger team to each. That usually includes: Pay (salary and commission). Of course, you’ll probably have more than one goal. Strategies and tactics. Hold two executive-level events.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

Because sales is often commission-based and money-driven, stress and pressure run rampant. Think about this way, if you don’t make prospecting a daily habit and only focus on the deals at hand, how will you meet your goals next month or the month after that? Look into prospecting tools. Get the resources you need. Communicate.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? A sales pipeline is a representation of the stages that prospects go through as they become customers. A sales order pipeline is a series of stages that prospects progress through as they become customers. Sales reps need to be organized and focused in order to sell.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? For example, the territory you’re assigned to or how much access you havedon’t have within your company can be out of your hands. 1) “I just assumed pay along with commissions and bonuses would be enough sales motivation.” 2) Stressor: Lack of autonomy.

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CloserIQ

MARCH 1, 2019

Understanding how the company segments the market and assigns territories will help you get a better sense of its larger strategy and operations. You can ask how they define an enterprise account vs. an SMB These questions can serve as a launching pad for additional questions: How are territories assigned?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

So, he commissioned HR to design a new incentive compensation plan (IC Plan.) Culture at another firm required Sales Reps to do their own prospecting and sales. Most sales were incremental or competitive displacement when prospects were in an active buying cycle. The IC plan was changed to diminish Rep prospecting.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 17, 2014

As is usual this time of year, I’ve been involved in lots of discussions of incentive and commission plans–both last quarter as people plan for the new year, and now as these plans are being introduced at Sales Kick Off Meetings. The commission and incentive plan is just one of those tools. and the lists go on and on.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 14, 2021

RevOps is designed to provide a complete view of a company’s revenue stream from prospect marketing to renewals. explains that, “Sales Ops focuses on territory planning, deal desk activities, opp reporting, commissions and comp, SDR and AE handoffs, and managing tools like Outreach and Salesforce.

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Adaptive Business Services

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I began my B2B selling career back in 1977 when I went to work for a national company and I was assigned a geographic territory in Los Angeles where I was expected to make 30 in-person cold-calls each day. My comp program was straight commission. Our most popular model listed for $479.00 and I could make up to $145.80 on each of these.

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Vengreso

MAY 16, 2019

In short, sals engagement is the interactions that take place between a sales rep and a buyer that focus on how a seller communicates with the prospect and how effective that engagement is in moving the prospect toward a purchase. Learn how #sales engagement can break through the noise to reach prospects. Listen now!

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MJ Hoffman

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From compensation splitting and territory assignments, to the right way to ask for vacation and how to increase your potential earnings. You’re the rep covering the NYC territory, and your colleague is covering Chicago. Attempts to bring management into compensation issues when arguing on territory assignments or ownership are FUTILE.

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A Sales Guy

JUNE 21, 2012

create a new comp plan and commission structure. establish new territories. ” I hear more clients and prospects approach their problems with; “We just need to do create a new comp plan.” ” or “We’ll just change the commission structure.” You can’t just. implement a new CRM.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

What started as a manageable headache is now causing your organization to leak revenue— especially as you add more products, territories, and go-to-market strategies into the mix. Prospects aren’t in your funnel. Prospects can easily get lost in the shuffle— and valuable insights right along with them. Guess what?

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Cincom Smart Selling

JUNE 30, 2015

Indeed, I have carried a briefcase around a territory, lived on draws and commissions and also more recently actually looked after a group of inside sales agents. Engaging Prospects. As a consequence, sales folks are expected to deliver value to prospects from the beginning. Source: iStock | ThinkStock.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Inaccurate sales commissions paid in arrears, along with unfair territories, drive attrition — but replacing sales reps is disruptive and expensive. Use data to show sales reps their commissions in real time. Show ‘em the Money – Sales reps are incentivized by variable compensation, so use data to drive peak performance.

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Velocify

JUNE 28, 2017

4) Territory and Quota Management Solutions. Territory and quota management solutions assign leads to reps based on geographic areas. This is most useful for field sales teams who need reps to connect with customers in person and need a way to automate the process so they can scale effectively as territories shift and change.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

We treat our territories like our own businesses. Only catch was it was an all commission gig. Given I was getting 10% commission I figured I only needed to bring in 10% of the revenue I was currently bringing in to make the same amount. When John left in 2006, the company had 50,000 employees in 77 countries. Here it is.

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