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Unleashing the Power of Frontline Sales Management

Sales and Marketing Management

From sales force training and compensation to investments in sales processes and technology, organizations relentlessly seek to pull the right levers that will drive revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. These results were due entirely to sales manager skills, independent of the skills of their salespeople.

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Base Salary: What It Is, How It Works, & What It Can Look Like

Hubspot Sales

Any professional, across every field and experience level, needs to have a solid understanding of how they're compensated — after all, that's literally the reason you're working in the first place. Your base salary is one of the key elements you need to account for when getting that picture of your compensation package.

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How to Optimize Sale Territories for a Strategic Advantage

Xactly

Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning. Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. Ultimately, if your sales territories aren’t optimized, you hinder sales reps’ motivation and performance.

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Sales Compensation Best Practices

Engage Selling

More fail when sales managers don’t explain their plans properly. Before you know it, inside sales is battling with field sales, direct reps are at the throats of the channel team, and you’re caught in the middle of the fray. Here are things to consider: 1. Keep your plan simple.

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Sales Performance Management: Not Your Parent’s Compensation Calculator

OpenSymmetry

Sales Performance Management (SPM) has truly evolved over the last 10+ years from the days of having an on-premise solution that primarily automated the compensation calculation process with basic reporting, to a new dynamic frontier with extended capabilities.

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The power of incentive programs lies in their structure

Sales and Marketing Management

Here are a few incentive structures to consider for open budgets : Do This Get That – Rewarding reps on every increment of units, sales dollars or gross margin dollars they write up during the incentive period is a great way to increase sales. It’s easy to measure. And here are a few ideas for fixed budget solutions….

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Are You So Busy Chasing Small Deals, You Are Missing The Important Deals?

Partners in Excellence

As a result, sales people spent all their time finding and pursuing those, and were completely missing the large deals. It turned out, the structure and the territory assignments of the sales people in these organizations, was a problem. Each sales person, had about 1000 customers in their territories.