The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

If you’re currently creating sales comp plans for the new year and are struggling to come up with compensation plans for your sales engineers, you’re not alone. In fact, compensation planning is something many leaders struggle with. Being a sales engineer means you are one of the most versatile tools in the market.

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LeadFuze

JULY 4, 2023

Understanding how to compensate structure real estate teams is a critical aspect of running a successful agency. A successful real estate agency requires a well-conceived compensation structure to attract the top talent and motivate them to do their best, resulting in increased profitability. How do splits work on a real estate team?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 20, 2012

HR leaders, get ready for the 2013 Sales Kickoff by fixing the flaws in your compensation plan today. Read this post to reframe what may be disguised as a compensation problem. And get your hands on a Competency Grader for compensation assesement providers as part of SBI's "Make The Number 2013.". Hold on for a moment.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Bravado’s 2022 State of Sales Compensation Guide showed that 54 percent of reps missed their quota.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This post will help you test a redesigned sales compensation plan to ensure cultural fit. Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. HR even brought in an expert compensation firm. But wait – this new incentive compensation plan could flop. Is the tool ready for easy entry?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 14, 2023

Share The GTM Newsletter “I’m an early stage founder looking for resources / templates / examples of SDR and AE enterprise commission and bonus structures that have successfully worked. Then create checks and balances across rest of exec leadership team compensation around cash or cost side metrics (in addition to top line).

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Example: If I am looking up a restaurant from my mobile device and am on the road, having a phone number right on the main page is critical because I may want to call for a reservation. This conversation continues with more about other mobile tools in a future post. The post Mobile Tools to Sell More appeared first on Score More Sales.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Few leading indicators are more predictive of a company’s future sales performance than its incentive compensation plans. As former Reliance Electric CEO Chuck Ames once said according to General Electric CEO Jack Welch, “Show me a company’s various compensation plans, and I’ll show you how its employees behave.”.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

MBOs can be an extremely useful tool in addition to your sales commission structure because they give each rep individual goals to strengthen the overall sales organization. Download our "Guide to Sales Team Compensation" to learn how to compensate each sales role. MBO Examples to Motivate Reps and Drive Performance.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 25, 2017

I always worry when a conversation with a sales executive starts with, “We need to fix our compensation problem.” ” The ensuing discussion usually focuses on, “We aren’t meeting our numbers, we need to fix the compensation/commission system in order to make our numbers.”

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 3, 2018

When it comes to benefits and compensation, transparency is an important – but challenging – goal to aim for. Good communication often leads to greater transparency, but also gives companies better tools for cases when transparency isn’t as viable. Being Transparent About Compensation. Here are some key recommendations.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

And sales leaders use these metrics to track progress toward goals, make decisions and plans, adjust compensation, award bonuses and incentives, and identify issues before they become large problems. Sales Process, Tool, and Training Adoption Metrics. How to Create a Sales Dashboard. Determine which sales metrics you'll track.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2012

A Tool for You. Download the CEO’s Time Management Tool to get started. For example, you set a goal to spend 15 hours per week in the sales bucket. Tip: Ways to take control of your compensation planning can be found here. Diagnose the root causes of the problem using the CEO Time Management Tool.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

With increasing focus on grit and many claims of meritocracies in organizations across the country, why does variable pay compensation even exist? On top of that, why are sales people some of the few employees subject to variable compensation structures? What is Variable Pay Compensation Anyway?

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2022

We do this through hiring the right people, training, giving them tools/processes/programs/systems to help them perform, providing the right support, eliminating barriers to their performance, and constantly coaching/developing them. And then we get to compensation. But we have other important tools to leverage.

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Xactly

JUNE 7, 2018

Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) solutions help companies manage their sales compensation plans and calculate commission payments. Today’s ICM solutions are aimed at optimizing more than just sales compensation, focusing on end-to-end sales performance management (SPM).

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Xactly

JUNE 27, 2018

Sales compensation plan can be a complex process. Those who work to create a plan for their company must develop a compensation process and incentive plan that will motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Time in sales compensation: 4 years. How were our Sales team compensated?

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

For maximum efficiency, the tools that make up your RevOps tech stack— including CRMs, sales enablement tools, analytics and reporting platforms, and so on— must offer the necessary automation and customization capabilities to support agile RevOps strategies. Maybe a tool no longer aligns with current workflows.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Are the compensation mechanisms driving the right behaviors?" To make your assessment easy, SBI has created a 10-point Compensation Inspection tool. This simple, free, downloadable tool reveals the vital signs of your plan. Read on to understand the mechanics of effective sales compensation. is over $800B per year.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. In addition to regular training sessions, coaching, and job shadowing, you should teach every salesperson how to leverage technology and use it as a tool to keep track of data and accelerate the sales process.

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Xactly

JUNE 27, 2018

Sales compensation plan can be a complex process. Those who work to create a plan for their company must develop a compensation process and incentive plan that will motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Time in sales compensation: 4 years. How were our Sales team compensated?

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Xactly

MARCH 22, 2018

Most of the time when I speak about the middle performers, it is because I am trying to convince a sales leader that there is value in focusing on the middle performers rather than explaining the sales incentive tools available to increase their performance. For example, I have been working with an energy company that pays retroactively (i.e.,

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 6, 2013

Are you changing the compensation plan? For example, organizations on a fiscal calendar year are finalizing and distributing quotas right now. Delivering support is the creation of tools and support mechanisms that increase selling time and effectiveness. One basic example of a tool is the compensation worksheet.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Getting into the swing of 2017, your company is ready to be liberated from the ancient tools handicapping your sales efforts to a mindbendingly slow pace. Take, for example, a bakery owner who recognizes that he’s losing money selling cinnamon rolls. Key questions to ask include: How easy is it to change the comp plan?

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 26, 2016

” I hesitated for a moment discussing this topic–sales compensation plans. I can barely scratch the surface on this topic, sales people, sales executives, and non sales executives invovled in compensation are likely to be unhappy. The compensation program is just one element of a performance management system.

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Motivation and compensation are tough to nail under normal circumstances and are even trickier during tough times. In this article we plan to resurface a few well-known, but often overlooked, principles of compensation and motivation that can boost you and your team during these tough times. Let’s get into it!

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 24, 2019

Compensation is an important factor in attracting and retaining employees, especially in sales. Imagine if almost half of your sales team left the company because of a poorly designed compensation plan. Will additional bonuses or incentives be a part of the compensation plan? Make your compensation and commission plan clear.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Begin today with the ideas and free tools offered in this post. First-rate compensation. Or maybe your compensation plan is targeted at the median level. For example, a weak comp rate is okay if the quota enables a top performer to earn accelerated commissions. First-Rate Compensation. Avoid a Myopic Focus.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Usually, LDRs are compensated for their efforts with a base + variable compensation mix. And how can HR keep the peace when LDR pay threatens Sales compensation? Typically, LDR compensation comes from one of these methods: Marketing reallocates budgeted funds. Sign up now and you’ll receive many useful tools.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Developing an effective sales compensation plan requires a lot of brain power. Too many organizations pull out the big guns to build comp plans, but fall short when it comes to clearly communicating compensation changes to reps. Document your current sales compensation processes. Let’s dive in!

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

An Example— The visual is an example of the Sales Strategy Blueprint. Your reps utilizing social and mobile tools consistently was not in your ’13 plan. Territory design, quotas and compensation plans. An Example. Change the compensation plan to incent new logo growth by adding an accelerator.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 15, 2024

Sales enablement (also referred to as revenue enablement ) is the practice of equipping sellers with the information, content, and tools they need to be effective and efficient in their roles and achieve their sales quotas. For example, imagine you’re rolling out a new CRM across the entire team. What is sales enablement?

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 28, 2016

For example, is investing more heavily in training a better option than the introduction of a content management or CPQ tool? What tools we are using to do our jobs. This is where effective compensation plans come into play, as they can make a big impact on driving behaviors through the “Why.” What we say to a client.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

The purpose of every incentive compensation plan is to influence the actions of sales reps. The post offers tools to make longer-lasting corrections, too. The post offers tools to make longer-lasting corrections, too. HR leaders should act now to align the compensation plan with the customer's interests. Mystery Shopping.

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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. Performance-based compensation. Informational interviews with sales leaders within their company.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2013

You will have access to guides, templates and tools. Included in this you will receive the Causes of Sales Manager Vacancies tool. Poor compensation. Part of the poor compensation may be the inability/difficulty to achieve incentives. Assess sales compensation plans to check comp vs. desired behaviors. A bad boss.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

We will talk more about all the tools you need to get started in social selling. I thought that I could hire salespeople without much effort because they would be so well compensated. For example, add “click here” in an area where it is possible for people to click and go directly onto your site. Experiment.

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