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The Pros and Cons of Different Sales Compensation Plans

Janek Performance Group

With any job, a primary consideration is compensation. With salary, commission, bonuses, and other incentives, sales professionals often have options and feel in control of the compensation they receive, which can be great for motivation and fulfillment. With commission-based compensation, reps earn based on what they sell.

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Territory Managers: A Look at Their Role, Skills, and Compensation

Hubspot Sales

They have to have a presence in various regions, and the managers tasked with making sure the sales efforts in those locations are carried out effectively are known as territory managers. The extent of a territory sales manager's influence leans heavily on the nature of their business, size of their teams, and structure of their sales orgs.

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Taking sales to the next level

Sales 2.0

Prospecting : Companies routinely run cold calling prospecting processes that fail 99% of the time, with 1 in 100 calls getting a meeting. Smarter approaches to prospecting are needed. One of the main reasons for this low close rate is that sales people miss decisionmakers in the prospect company. Where does this time go?

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5 Steps for Designing Territories for your Top Talent

SBI Growth

These strong reps may not be in the right territories calling on the right accounts. It may be time to assess whether your territories are optimally designed. When Sales Operations decides to take on a territory analysis , we care about 3 things: Determining the number of accounts, prospects and total potential for each rep.

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Is Your Compensation Plan Evolving with the Company?

SBI Growth

One of the core strengths of any small business is its ability to adapt and pivot with the market. Despite this luxury, the small company sales compensation plan is usually left on the backburner. To drive the right behavior and hit your targets, your sales compensation must evolve at the same pace as your company.

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Sales Compensation: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot Sales

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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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.