Xactly

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? Sales managers and their reporting reps will have responsibilities in their roles, which means your compensation plans should be tailored to different roles. Constructing Commissions in a Sales Manager Compensation Plan. Base Salary.

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Xactly

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Compensation drives sales behavior, which means your sales incentive plan is a critical factor in sales performance and objective achievement. The incentive compensation planning team faces the challenge of balancing executive priorities and designing incentives that motivate reps. Set the Foundation.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 10, 2018

You need to start pulling together internal data from your incentive compensation management system, data from your CRM, and finally, information from financial teams on profitability and product revenues. Are you an Xactly Insights customer using empirical data to benchmark your incentive compensation? Watch Webinar.

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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. What can be done?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2019

If set correctly, incentives can have a positive effect on your team's behavior. The commission, bonuses, and sales performance incentive funds (SPIFs) you thought were inspiring your team can become more harmful than helpful if reps put their numbers ahead of their customers, who can feel pressured to buy. Source: PFX. He let them go.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

From territory planning to sales team organization, to sales coaching and leadership strategies to sales compensation planning, each element helps to create a strong sales plan. Sales Compensation is one of the most important steps because it drives sales behaviors and ultimately helps your company reach its goals.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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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Xactly

JULY 5, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? Sales managers and their reporting reps will have responsibilities unique to their roles, which means your compensation plans should be tailored to different roles. Annual Target Incentive. On-Target Earnings. Pay Mix (Base/Variable).

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Sales compensation is one of the trickiest aspects of the sales organization to get right. How sales compensation should work. A sales compensation plan operates from a basic principle: Money drives behavior. So before you can craft or adjust your sales compensation plan, you must know your business objectives for the next year.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It was a common practice pre-pandemic to measure each business area with different KPIs, metrics and compensation models designed to optimize each area of operation. Companies continue to digitally transform in hopes of becoming industry leaders.

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

Your sales commission plan is a portion of your sales compensation plan. When it comes to designing sales compensation plans , there are many factors that can affect the success of your plan. When it comes to designing sales compensation plans , there are many factors that can affect the success of your plan.

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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 16, 2016

The Territory & Quota Management Revolution – New Incentive Compensation Platforms Blazing the Trails to Greater Efficiencies. Growing up, my father was a career sales person that seemed to cover a broad array of industries and products. Territory Definition and Modeling.

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Xactly

JANUARY 3, 2019

Industry and planning-specific statistics also help guide sales planning and incentive compensation. You’ll find, these statistics tell a story about the sales industry: how it’s changing, what kinds of best practices exist, and where the challenges lie. When used properly, statistics should tell a story.

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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? The results wouldn't be pretty.

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OpenSymmetry

JULY 20, 2016

Sales in the pharmaceutical industry has been a rigid and consistent business. Tactics may have changed, but for the most part these sales teams still run on a commission or quota based metric determined by well-planned territories. On the other hand, there is the issue of actually shifting organizational values and goals.

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OpenSymmetry

JULY 20, 2016

Sales in the pharmaceutical industry has been a rigid and consistent business. Tactics may have changed, but for the most part these sales teams still run on a commission or quota based metric determined by well-planned territories. On the other hand, there is the issue of actually shifting organizational values and goals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 27, 2019

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.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This ultimately allows for better sales, territory, and compensation planning; thus, a stronger sales organization as a whole. . For example, if you notice that rep performance tends to drop off after they meet quota, you may need to examine if your incentives are truly motivating reps to meet and exceed their targets.

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Xactly

JULY 19, 2018

Commissions play a key role in your sales compensation plans, driving sales behaviors and motivating reps to hit their quota. Depending on your sales force structure and size, there are different sales commission structures that can be used in your incentive plan. Transforming Sales Compensation with Performance Data.

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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 ). Let’s start with the pros.

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The Spiff Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Despite significant innovation in the worlds of compensation management and financial modeling, sales commission remains one of the most difficult processes to solve for in modern business. Each of these team units and subunits is compensated for different behaviors and activities. Let’s get into it! You get the point.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Furthermore, the average sales professional turnover rate is 35% — a dramatic number compared to the average turnover rate of all industries, which is just 13%. Having clear, visible goals and incentives builds well-rounded sales professionals. Performance-based compensation. years , down by half from 2010. Image source: Xactly.

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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. Recommended reading : A Day in the Life of an Effective Sales Compensation Manager 2. It can highlight which sales strategies, products, or territories are most profitable. Accelerate the plan building process.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Watch the webinar "CXO Fireside Chat: 5 Ways Data Can Elevate Sales Performance Management in 2019" to hear how Xactly has transformed sales performance beyond incentive compensation a year into the process. He is responsible for incenting his sales team to model behaviors that align with the company’s executive goals.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

Essentially, achieving your goals is only possible with a full roster of sales reps who know their territories and are ramped to full productivity. Examine what factors are causing open territories in the first place. Is the territory just not capable of achieving that quota? Is compensation too low? Don’t be discouraged.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 1, 2018

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. Our goal was to give our sales leaders the same in-depth look at Xactly’s sales performance across our sales team and companies in our industry as our customers.

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Xactly

AUGUST 20, 2018

Companies in all industries are beginning to dip their toes into intelligent tools to grow their businesses. 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.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

An integral piece in your sales performance management process is developing a compensation plan that is data-based and results-driven. Your compensation plan affects everyone and everything in your company. What’s your background and experience with sales compensation and planning? View Webinar. Marc: I agree.

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Xactly

APRIL 16, 2018

There are many variables to consider, such as the customers in your market, the scope of the territories you’re accessing, your product offerings and sales cycles, the specific demands of your industry, and the skill and experience of the sales reps, among others. Or, keep reading for more sales plan ideas.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

As the forerunner in cloud-based incentive compensation management (ICM), Xactly identified data as a key performance driver from the very start. We continue to be the only company to provide benchmarking and AI/ML driven predictive analytics based on more than 13 years of cross-industry pay and performance data.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The composition, hierarchy, and primary role of sales ops may differ across industries and even across similar businesses of diverse sizes, but many of today’s sales ops leaders perform a standard core set of functions. Formulation of Incentives Program. Sales Territory Assignment and Growth Forecasting. Manage compensation. .

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The whole ecosystem of a business – independent of industry or operational model – and its sustainability relies on sales, the proverbial (money) rainmaking machine. Crowded Territories. Staff misallocation may occur if the sales team grows too fast, that’s when you end up with crowded territories.

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Xactly

JUNE 21, 2018

In the Sales Performance Management (SPM) industry, the use of data has caught on, and organizations are looking to use data to effectively plan, improve their compensation process, and optimize their sales performance. The Paradigm Shift in SPM.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 30, 2013

I’m reacting to a cumulative build up of a number of conversations about compensation planning, incentives, and “motivating” sales people. So many of the discussions focus on rewards and incentives for behaviors that should be conditions of continued employment. At company or industry events.

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OpenSymmetry

MAY 23, 2016

While, incentive compensation administration is still a main piece, the broader SPM technology concept is expanding more holistically to include other key aspects which directly impacts how a sales team might perform, including talent development, sales enablement, and territory and quota management. Steps to Success.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

You have to design and administer incentive plans, decide how the territory is divided up among your employees and plan for growth in order keep pushing performance over time. This means making time and budgeting funds for a good team, especially in terms of compensation. A company in the Financial Services or Banking industry.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It’s the responsibility of managers to design and implement quotas, incentives, territories, roles and responsibilities. With the cost of one lost salesperson being about two times their annual compensation, it’s important to think really hard before letting them go. See the pattern here? That spend money on Adwords.

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