The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

If you’re a sales compensation manager, we’re sure you’re familiar with this sort of AI-driven anxiety. On the one hand, you’d love to be able to automate the more tedious and time-consuming aspects of commission management. Recommended reading : A Day in the Life of an Effective Sales Compensation Manager 2.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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. In fact, optimizing territory design can increase sales by 2 to 7% each year ( source ).

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 30, 2017

These activities include territory and target setting, forecasting, approving commissions and bonuses and query management. Manual processes can be time-consuming, ineffective and, worst of all, inaccurate. Many tasks performed by a Sales Leader can involve large data sets, many excel sheets and many manual processes.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Crowded Territories. Staff misallocation may occur if the sales team grows too fast, that’s when you end up with crowded territories. To avoid that, before you decide to add headcount to a specific sales team, assess the territory’s potential, the pool of existing accounts and the current workload.

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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. One major stimulating factor in any sales reps’ career is compensation.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

COVID-19 has changed people’s buying habits, and that’s just as true for B2B buyers as it is for individual consumers. As we begin 2022, B2B buyers are more digitally inclined than ever. Strong pipeline management, deal optimization, and accurate forecasting are going to become even more essential to B2B organizations’ sales success.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2012

Sales deployment models get translated directly into coverage models, channel, account, territory development, sales process, funnel/pipeline management, opportunity management, forecasting, systems, tools, programs, training, compensation and incentive systems, metrics, and other areas.

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Highspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

This includes targeting things like sales productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness through analysis and a true understanding of the needs of both consumers and the sales team. Sales performance management is a series of interconnected and optimized sales processes that are used to improve a business’s overall sales performance.

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OpenSymmetry

JULY 15, 2015

This year’s edition features organizations that expand across the broad spectrum of the SPM and Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) continuum and offers options to help provide transparency across the entire organization for sales related processes. Territory and Quota Management.

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Xactly

JULY 30, 2018

Hiring the best often comes down to offering the right sales compensation plan , providing an accurate job description, and ensuring the right expectations are set. Download "Designing Sales Compensation Plans" to learn best practices for building incentive plans that drive the right behaviors. It builds confidence.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

I would add another disconnect that prevents sales training from achieving a positive return on investment is a lack of alignment between the organization’s strategies, structure, processes/operations, incentives and people. Sales Compensation. Territory Alignment. Selling to Consumers. Proactive Triggers.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

When we were testing different outsource sales team incentives, it was crucial to find out what motivates the person and why they might not be doing well. ” I found that knowing these things helps tremendously when designing a compensation plan. For example, do you specialize in consumer or business-to sell to other businesses?

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In engineering, the agile methodology means developing products in small— but still consumable— segments, which are then tested, improved, and iterated. Excel may be able to process limitless formulas, but it can’t customize them to reflect the complexity of your compensation plans. That’s not what it was designed for.

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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. However, the profile of your team breaks down, get together with each of your reps individually , and customize incentives within your sales strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The larger your annual contract value (ACV) and yearly quota, the higher annual compensation should be. For example, if your ACV is $50,000, and you expect reps to close $700,000 in new business per year, their OTE should be around $126,000 — assuming compensation is split 50/50 between base and commission. Social Media. Make an offer.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

By the end of a successful persona build, you should have a very clear picture of your buyers: their ages, lifestyle attributes, territories, and pain points. Establish company-wide performance expectations and giving your sales reps the incentives they need to excel. Step 4: Collate your info and define your buyer personas.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Use Freshsales to upgrade your contact management, lead scoring, email tracking, and territory management process. You can use NetSuite to make forecasts, upsell and manage compensation and incentives systems. Xactly You can (and should) align your compensation strategy with your growth targets.

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SBI

APRIL 29, 2014

We enable organizations to accelerate and maximize their lead to money process by identifying the right leads, ensuring proper territory and quota distribution, enabling sales forces, automating quote and proposal generation, and streamlining sales compensation. We believe in a consumer like user experience for all our customers.

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SBI

APRIL 28, 2014

We enable organizations to accelerate and maximize their lead to money process by identifying the right leads, ensuring proper territory and quota distribution, enabling sales forces, automating quote and proposal generation, and streamlining sales compensation. We believe in a consumer like user experience for all our customers.

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SBI

APRIL 29, 2014

We enable organizations to accelerate and maximize their lead to money process by identifying the right leads, ensuring proper territory and quota distribution, enabling sales forces, automating quote and proposal generation, and streamlining sales compensation. We believe in a consumer like user experience for all our customers.

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