The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Here’s why: the sales quota is a key variable in many of the equations that dictate core business functions. These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure.

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Apptivo

JUNE 14, 2023

Businesses can use it to monitor their sales performance, track progress towards sales goals, discover patterns, and make informed decisions to improve sales strategy. What are the different types of sales reports in Apptivo? It empowers them to make informed decisions, retain clients, and drive business success.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Having a sales performance management process in place is crucial for your team’s overall success. There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. Helps predict future sales trends.

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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. Unsustainable Workloads.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. A business plan lays out your goals -- a sales plan describes exactly how you’ll make those happen. Who writes sales plans? What is a sales plan template? A typical sales plan includes the following sections: Target customers.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

The SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) business model is one of the fastest-growing of the last decade. Because new software is being pushed into the market almost every day, the demand for SaaS sales professionals will only grow. Plus, you can move on from this role to become a sales manager or AE.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 3, 2018

While this may sound like a huge task to overcome, it can be done much more efficiently and effectively with sales rep management software. As a sales manager, it is also your responsibility to keep track of sales reps’ paths to ensure they are on the right course and/or make appropriate corrections when necessary.

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Velocify

JUNE 28, 2017

Percentage of participants who were unfamiliar with each type of sales technology. 1) Sales Gamification. Sales gamification software leverages game mechanics to incentivize rep performance. 4) Territory and Quota Management Solutions. 6) Incentives and Commissions. 6) Incentives and Commissions.

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Crunchbase

JULY 27, 2022

Often, sales ops oversee sales reps’ salaries, bonuses and other incentive programs that impact their current or future earnings. Parsing out territories. The assignment of territories to individual sales representatives is a significant function often relegated to the sales ops managers.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

We treat our territories like our own businesses. After a lot of cold calling, which by the way I loved, I managed to get an interview as a recruiter in San Jose. Only catch was it was an all commission gig. When John left in 2006, the company had 50,000 employees in 77 countries. Ankesh reminds me of John. Here it is.

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Cincom Smart Selling

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Organized my contact files and updated my rolodex (I know, dinosaur sales epoch). Updated my territory map, marking each customer location and products installed. I thought, wow, I bet my manager would be proud of all the stuff I’ve accomplished. I was a sales rep, and I had not done any selling. Yep, it was a busy day!

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The Data-Driven Sales Manager. The average tenure of a sales VP these days is just 19 months, according to Xactly CEO Chris Cabrera, who expects that number to drop lower as businesses become increasingly data reliant. Here’s how he sees data changing sales management.

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Xactly

AUGUST 30, 2018

Download the "2018 Sales Compensation Administration Best Practices Executive Guide," for incentive compensation trends, best practices, and tips to drive the right sales behaviors to kickoff your sales compensation planning. So what can sales managers do to help their teams meet quota?

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Xactly

OCTOBER 18, 2018

That means their quotas and targets should specifically take into account the potential of their territory. Manager control: Sales managers need the authority to adjust quotas after they are set to respond to major changes within a territory. Use metrics that measure results sales reps can control.

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Accent Technologies

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

It is true that sales reps are often apprehensive about learning and using a CRM. But fortunately for sales managers, there is no reason to believe their salespeople will “never” use a CRM. For example, we at Accent Technologies specialize in developing software that makes reps want to use their CRM. Quote management.

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Close.io

JANUARY 7, 2020

It’s set by the company leadership for a product line, a specific region, a sales team, or an individual rep. Achieving sales quota generally means that salespeople receive some kind of financial reward on top of their usual commissions. Why are sales quotas important? Method 3: Top management downward.

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Xactly

MAY 31, 2018

Previously, sales performance management (SPM) has typically been categorized as solely focused on incentive compensation management (ICM) and sales compensation planning. It is quickly transforming due to a variety of software tools aimed at helping improve day-to-day execution of the sales process.

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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 25, 2015

Likewise, the Field Sales Team evolved from just being excited about the new platform, to having data with drill-through reporting capabilities and accuracy of the results. While these lack some of the mapping functionality of specialist territory alignment software, they present a broader range of capability.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Improved teamwork Due to the more connected nature of inside sales, sales managers tend to work closely with their teams. This means that the whole team is responsible for getting sales closed and an individualistic mindset simply won’t cut it. Outside sales rely entirely on face-to-face interactions.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

A simple way to figure it is to take an individual’s base salary, plus commissions earned at 100 percent of quota, their potential bonus opportunities, and then divide by that salesman’s revenues to figure out the percentage that sales cost. 4 Types of Sales Compensation Plans. Profit-Based Plan. Balanced Plan.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

There is also a four-way division which can be grouped by: Geography/ territory. Geography & Territory Structure. When I was first starting out in sales, the industry standard for measuring success was by using an individual contributor’s revenue. Product/service line. Customer/account size. Industry/vertical segment.

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Close.io

AUGUST 7, 2019

Excerpt: “Professional sellers who think like owners of their territories take more accountability for their outcomes and success, no matter what’s going on around them. In doing so, they usually create higher value for their clients, higher margins for their organization, and maximize their commission checks. CloserIQ Sales Blog.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

By the end of a successful persona build, you should have a very clear picture of your ideal customer(s): their ages, lifestyle attributes, territories, and pain points. It’s something you must pursue actively when developing your new sales strategy. Start with your customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Scott Barton is the VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent, a leading provider of incentive compensation and revenue growth software applications for over 25 years. Scott Barton: We’re trying to automate and optimize the common challenges in revenue or sales operations functions. About Scott & Varicent [02:44].

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 4, 2016

Decades ago, while selling clients their first business computer systems, I learned a valuable lesson: Software is only as good as the data that’s entered. Implementing software within sales organizations such as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is a significant undertaking ( What is CRM?

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional. There are plenty of sales prospecting tools and sales management software to help automate your manual tasks while personalizing your outreach.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

Too many sales managers have trouble identifying the key questions to ask. As a result, sales interview processes extend way longer than necessary, with the company losing out on closed-won revenue until an offer is finally accepted. In sales today, it’s out with the transactional, and in with the consultative.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 13, 2020

That way, if your rep hits their target easily during month 1, they can look forward to a higher target (and higher commission) for month 2. Forecast Revenue Quota The forecast revenue quota uses historical precedents — for a territory, market share, or prior product — for its foundation. You can set a compound percentage target.

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Close.io

AUGUST 11, 2019

Sales operations best practices: Tips for success. 5 best software and tools for sales ops. Let's start with the basics and define sales operations. What is sales operations? Sales operations is the team that handles the non-selling processes and tasks inherent in the sales process.

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Nutshell

MAY 29, 2018

According to Sales Benchmark Index , a well implemented sales process can improve your team’s win rate by 24%, reduce your sales cycle length by 20%, and increase your average sale price by 15%. Your sales team is split into geographical territories, with each rep (or group of reps) responsible for a specific area.

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Apptivo

OCTOBER 7, 2022

It has to clearly chart out the roles and responsibilities of every member of the sales team. It sets the direction for how a business should pursue sales. Sales managers can build on various dimensions of the sales strategy canvas based on the laid-out path & direction. Monitor the progress of the sales team.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

For sales reps, a client management software or customer relationship management system ( CRM ) can do the trick. CRM is a software that manages all your relationships with clients and potential customers. That's why CRM software is important for your sales team. HubSpot CRM. Price: Free+.

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SugarCRM

MAY 2, 2019

It’s certainly cheaper than a sales seminar, that’s for sure. When it comes to their customer and prospect data, sales teams can be pretty territorial. These advancements actually make sales faster and easier and result in better prospect interactions and more closed deals. Switch to the Cloud. Everyone wins.

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LeadFuze

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Outbound sales prospecting technology not only helps locate more prospects in much less time, but it also ensures that those leads are of high quality, i.e., have a far higher probability to become prospects. The sales crew can take it easy now that automation has taken control. 14 Build reputation & establish credibility .

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Mindtickle

MARCH 24, 2022

I’ve had some companies that I work with that start with customer success, not with sales because they’re a find/try/buy model because they’re a software of some type. We don’t dock their pay, no tax or commission. And that’s what every sales leader should be thinking. Nobody is held to anything.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Sales Enablement. Membrain, the Sales Enablement CRM company, and Refract.ai, the UK-based Sales Conversations Intelligence company, have partnered up to help sales managers improve sales coaching. Sales Enablement. Sales Efficiency. Sales Enablement. AI Sales Solutions.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 20, 2019

You gave me this territory that’s been burned to the ground, there’s no way these clients are going to buy from us if I don’t repair some of this trust that’s been fractured here. If you’re just in there for a commission check, people can sense that. But I pushed back. THERE’S A LOT MORE AFTER THIS!

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