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Presidents Club Winner…NOT

Steven Rosen

For this to work effectively, quotas need to be set fairly against both large and small territories. Management needs to be able to understand opportunities and challenges in each territory when quota setting. By using percentage to quota they give smaller less developed territories a distinct advantage in rising to the top.

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Drinking Our Own Champagne: How Xactly Insights Data Improves Sales Performance Analysis

Xactly

Are we assigning effective territories? Despite the fact that we live and breathe incentive comp, we are not immune to the factors that affect every sales organization. In a world so focused on incentive compensation, Xactly Insights gives us a lot to think about. Is our pay in line with performance?

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Here’s What Every Business Should Know about Multi-Channel Sales Management

Cincom Smart Selling

This information will inform your decisions about future territory assignments. Sales/Marketing Programs – Compensation plans, incentive plans, territory plans, market segmentation and special campaigns should be well understood and in place prior to starting any sales activity with a partner. Effective Channel Management.

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7 skills you’ll need to become a sales manager

Close.io

Mentoring individual sales reps and administering incentive programs. Rejection is painful , and it comes with the territory in sales—which is why you’re doing yourself no favor when choosing someone who’s constantly sold products that are excessively easy to move. Monitoring progress in real-time and analyzing data.

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Unleashing the Power of Frontline Sales Management, Part 3: Institutionalizing Sales Management

Sales and Marketing Management

They must know how to motivate people and hold them accountable, how to coach and develop sales reps, how to structure territories and match them to a rep’s skill sets, and how to leverage data and use it to drive performance. Create incentives that drive the right behaviors. Provide meaningful training.

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How to Find Out What Your Competitors Are Doing That You Are Not

SBI Growth

Benchmarking allows a comparison of you against your peers. Compensation Plan : Did they change their compensation plan incenting more new business vs. account development? Territory Design : Have they realigned territories putting their best people where the most market demand is? And the outcome was pretty large.

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How to Build Effective Sales Compensation Plans for Any Customer Facing Role

Sales Hacker

Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. This is what the person would be paid annually and it has two elements; a base salary and a sales incentive held against sales, also known as variable pay. NOTE: We recommend refraining from calling any sales incentives a bonus. Determine Total On-Target Earnings (OTE).