Xactly

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. In this piece, we’ll take a top down approach and start by designing a sales manager compensation plan.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sales managers do what they ask others to do.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Scott Barton, Varicent’s VP of Industry Solutions & 20-year sales compensation industry pro, attended WorldatWork’s 2022 Sales Compensation Conference. Despite these advances, few industry pros currently use predictive or prescriptive analytics for determining sales compensation plan effectiveness.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Author: Tim Houlihan The best incentives have open budgets, meaning anyone who qualifies can win. Open budgets tend to lead to improved morale due to the general ability for reps to feel like they have a chance at winning and that will lead to more sales. For an outside route-sales-driver, that might be three to six weeks.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Join us for a great conversation about driving the right behaviors within your sales team. Building a compensation structure that works for both salespeople and the company. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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Xactly

JANUARY 7, 2019

The start of a new year comes with a new sales plan—and that means you must reassess your sales capacity needs , align and balance sales territories , and create a sales incentive plan that drives sales performance. Enter sales compensation planning. What is Pay Mix in Sales Compensation?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Compensation plans exist to help your business reach its goals. With all the changes happening in today’s economic climate, it’s hard to make sure your plans stay on track. So, where do you begin?

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Xactly

JULY 5, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. In this piece, we’ll take a top down approach and start by designing the Sales Manager compensation plan.

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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.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

If this is true, and no one has refuted me yet, why isn’t marketing management (and everyone in the marketing department) compensated in some manner on revenue the same way sales people and sales management are paid? In my opinion, it’s for this “generated interest” that they should be compensated.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This post will help you test a redesigned sales compensation plan to ensure cultural fit. Plus, you’ll find advice on compatibility with other sales effectiveness drivers. Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. HR even brought in an expert compensation firm.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Modifying sales reports and dashboards to enable sales managers to track new product sales. What about the sales compensation plan? The success of the product launch lies in the performance of the sales reps.

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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

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?

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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. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. Who should be responsible for sales compensation planning?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A post for Sales and HR Leaders to find root causes of Sales Manager (SM) vacancies. The Sales Manager position is the fulcrum between sales leadership strategy and sales force execution. Teams without effective sales managers lack morale and discipline. Poor compensation.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

With all that, shouldn''t the quality of sales, sales management and sales leadership candidates be on the rise? The darker dotted line is the trend for the percentage of sales management candidates that were recommended by Objective Management Group for the same time period. Yes, it should.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Yes, the tenets for success was still based on a formula of sales steps and conversion ratios from one step to the next, but. As I write this, maybe I should change the title to “Sales Managers – Why Isn’t Goal Achievement Easy?” Or, if you want to leverage our compensation model, you need to exceed this year’s goal by x.”

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 27, 2019

There’s a simple solution that will help streamline this issue and create more time for sales reps to spend actually selling the product or service: implement a sales and compensation system that’s transparent and easier to understand. Lack of transparency can also lead to inaccuracy within a company’s compensation calculations.

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Braveheart Sales

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The end of the year is when many leaders tend to consider transforming their sales compensation plan since a new year equals making a fresh start. If you are a leader contemplating changes, I would suggest that a real purpose be at the core of any new compensation plan. It leaves a lot of sales performance to chance for one.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Align Sales Compensation with Your Goals A compensation plan that works. Note: This week’s blog is an excerpt from my new book: “Creating High Performance Sales Compensation Plans”. Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans.

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Xactly

MAY 7, 2018

Sales compensation is one of the most important components of sales planning. Sales operations and compensation professionals must compile a team to piecing together metrics and goals, which carries an incredible amount of responsibility. Time in sales compensation: 11 years. Who: Padmaja Chavali.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 23, 2014

Note: This blog post is an excerpt from my new book: “Creating High Performance Sales Compensation Plans”. Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. Compensation plans shouldn’t be developed in a vacuum. Sizing It Up.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The latest interview between Jonathan Farrington, CEO of TopSalesWorld , and me is available here. We discussed why only 17% of all sales managers are effective at coaching and the conversation was very enlightening. DNA - They don''t have the DNA to support effective sales coaching.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Creating a Sales Compensation Plans. Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans.

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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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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What Makes a Great Sales Manager? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? Responsibilities of a Sales Manager Qualities You Need To Go From Good To Great Sales Management Strategy for Sales Managers The Importance of Sales Coaching And Training What Does Sales Manager Success Look Like?

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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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Xactly

APRIL 25, 2018

Picture this: the sales compensation design team has spent months analyzing performance, designing, re-designing, tweaking and modeling the upcoming year’s new sales incentive plans. Download our "Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation Planning," for everything you need for a sales comp plan design project.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s hard out there for your average sales manager. Sales trends like ever-expanding buyer expectations, changing sales methodologies and nonstop transformation initiatives have coalesced to make their role more challenging than ever. Implement a Rigorous Hiring Process for Sales Managers and Leaders.

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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? Set Metrics.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Join us for an in-depth conversation about scaling your company through incentives and employee retention, especially when facing a recession. Creating careers with incentive compensation to prevent off-shoring. Preventing off-shoring jobs through incentive compensation [8:59]. powered by Sounder.

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Xactly

MAY 10, 2018

Historically, sales performance incentives have been focused on individual recognition. Plans like individual sales quotas are designed to reward, recognize, and help retain high achievers, as well as motivate the average and below average performers to go above and beyond. Or, keep reading for more sales plan ideas.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2022

And then we get to compensation. We try to develop compensation plans that incent people to achieve those goals. Often, it’s very simple, some sort of compensation based on revenue, or possibly quota attainment. It can be the basis for getting promotion, or increases in compensation.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 20, 2017

A compensation plan that works. Note: This blog is an excerpt from my new book Creating High Performance Sales Compensation Plans. Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. Understanding Cost of Sales. Sizing It Up.

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