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Territory Managers: A Look at Their Role, Skills, and Compensation

Hubspot Sales

They have to have a presence in various regions, and the managers tasked with making sure the sales efforts in those locations are carried out effectively are known as territory managers. The extent of a territory sales manager's influence leans heavily on the nature of their business, size of their teams, and structure of their sales orgs.

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How to be Indispensable as an Incentive Compensation Manager

The Spiff Blog

As an incentive compensation manager, you hold a critical role that keeps your organization running. In this day and age, no one doubts the importance of sales compensation when it comes to driving growth for a business. What does an incentive compensation manager do? Design compensation plans.

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Is Your Sales Compensation Driving the Right Behaviors?

SBI Growth

It's a critical time of year for sales compensation. If the compensation plan is not effective it will have profound negative effects. For example: selling low margin products because they maximize the compensation payout. A compensation problem may soon morph into a retention problem. Compensation: One Factor Among Many.

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Sales Compensation Best Practices

Engage Selling

In 20 years of selling, I’ve never encountered a compensation plan that eliminated all conflicts. The more complex the compensation plan, the easier it is to misunderstand or manipulate. The more complex the compensation plan, the easier it is to misunderstand or manipulate. Here are things to consider: 1.

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What’s Your Time Worth

The Pipeline

If you are a full-cycle rep, with a demanding client base in a defined territory, 23% is not bad. Based on the work they do, on an hour by hour basis, sales are usually compensated at a higher rate. While it may be realistic to expect inside sales teams to sell more than 23% of their time, it is not for others.

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A Get-Well Plan for Sales Ops in the New Year

SBI Growth

Don’t do a territory redesign project without knowing exactly who you’re targeting. Territory Design – Like structure and sizing, efficient territory design improves revenue and cuts costs. Sales Compensation and Quota Setting – A good comp plan with bad quotas doesn’t move the needle. The sequence you take is critical.

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How to Onboard, Pay, and Retain an All-Star Sales Team

Xactly

He may have a tough territory to work in, or he could be a poor hire. Watch the webinar, "Put the Darts Away: The Importance of Benchmarking Data in Sales Planning," to discover the importance of current benchmarking data for effective compensation plan design. Scenario #2: Gabe is new to the sales team. Watch Webinar.

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