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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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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. Consider travel, time understanding the clients and market, generating leads, and more. Buyers know they will be offered price incentives to bring a deal in sooner, like “end of the quarter.”

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The Territory Optimization Revolution

OpenSymmetry

A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. The territory optimization and alignment element of salesforce effectiveness is vital for three reasons. Poor or excessive customer coverage if territories are too small, leading to missed revenue.

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Data Visualization: Putting the Design in Comp Plan Design

The Spiff Blog

The psychology behind compensation plan design usually focuses on behaviors to encourage or discourage. Data visualization is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal when it comes to creating compensation plans that motivate employees. Why traditional compensation processes are failing you. Let’s dive in! Think about it.

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10 Ways Data and Automation are Evolving Sales Planning

Xactly

To obtain and manage this data properly, sales organizations need automated sales performance management (SPM) solutions to help facilitate their planning strategically, from territories and quota allocation, to compensation planning and management. Design Fair, Balanced Territories. Take Sales Planning from Reactive to Active.

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How to Motivate a Sales Team to Improve Each Rep’s Performance (3 “Types” and 12 Tips)

Sales Hacker

This sales rep talks about money, commissions, bonuses, comp plans, incentives, and their numbers start to drop when they feel like something may affect their compensation negatively. When interviewing extrinsics, they may ask about compensation early and negotiate heavily to ensure the compensation matches their expensive lifestyle.

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Enterprise vs. Small Business: The Difference in Commission Structure

Xactly

Since sales is tasked with increasing revenues, incentives are an important part of achieving those goals. It’s important to structure your compensation plan with your end objective in mind. How to Compensate Your Sales Staff as a Small Business. For example, rewards should be given based on specified activity.