The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

If you’re currently creating sales comp plans for the new year and are struggling to come up with compensation plans for your sales engineers, you’re not alone. In fact, compensation planning is something many leaders struggle with. Being a sales engineer means you are one of the most versatile tools in the market.

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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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SBI Growth

JUNE 9, 2021

In years past, if you wanted to build out or strengthen your sales organization, you could simply offer higher compensation than your competitors. The higher sales cost would be greatly outweighed by the revenue that high-performing sales professionals would drive.

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LeadFuze

JULY 4, 2023

Understanding how to compensate structure real estate teams is a critical aspect of running a successful agency. A successful real estate agency requires a well-conceived compensation structure to attract the top talent and motivate them to do their best, resulting in increased profitability. How do splits work on a real estate team?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 23, 2023

More than 85 companies reported revenue performance, turnover rates and change in compensation costs, including incentive and total compensation increases, for Alexander Group's 2023 Sales Compensation Trends Survey. Here's what we learned.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

HR and Sales leaders face the challenge of maximizing the investment in sales compensation. The compensation calculator offered here will help you make smarter decisions about the economics behind motivating a critical component of your sales force. With proper structure and compensation , they can provide tremendous leverage.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2012

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 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. Bravado’s 2022 State of Sales Compensation Guide showed that 54 percent of reps missed their quota.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 14, 2023

I sometimes see companies put a large % on closed won revenue and I’m not a fan. Do you have any suggestions for structuring an incentive package to optimize for sales/revenue efficiency?” If their worth their salt and they’re a real CRO, they will manage efficient growth in this market by nature.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Sales compensation is one of the trickiest aspects of the sales organization to get right. Paying on profit vs. revenue. How sales compensation should work. A sales compensation plan operates from a basic principle: Money drives behavior. Here are some common ones: Primary goals: Grow revenue. Salary only.

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The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As another year comes to a close, go-to-market teams everywhere convene to begin their annual sales compensation planning processes. Key stakeholders from sales, finance, and RevOps will join meetings and analyze data in an attempt to create a sales compensation plan that satisfies each party’s needs. That’s a tall order.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 29, 2018

It’s December 25th, 2018. You are sitting around the Christmas tree with your wife, two kids and black lab—Duffers. You hear the crackle of the fireplace as another log gets added to the fire. The kids are smiling from ear.

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Openview

MAY 30, 2018

In this guide, you’ll find tips for designing sales compensation packages that yield results and actually scale. As most CEOs have discovered at some point, sales compensation is very often a delicate balancing act. Salary or Bonus-Heavy Compensation: Which Model is Best?

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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”. Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. Compensation plans shouldn’t be developed in a vacuum. Sizing It Up.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 7, 2023

My name is Parth Mukherjee, and I’m the Vice President of Product Marketing at Mindtickle. And that’s the chaos that we’re seeing in the revenue technology space. However, market valuation and investor pressures often drive vendors to create capabilities in many different areas. You have, of course, your CRM.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 23, 2018

Business leaders need to be able to meet a marketer or PR pro and say the same thing. The commission model for marketers. As a former CMO and CCO in large technology companies, I’ve worked closely with a lot of marketing teams and agencies. Those same marketers received sizable discretionary bonuses as a result.

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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”. Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them.

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CloserIQ

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Formulating a compensation plan for SDRs is one of the most important tasks sales VPs perform, one which will play a major role in SDR recruitment and retention. The compensation plan largely determines all of this. With the stakes so high, creating a compensation plan must be undertaken carefully. Revenue generated.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 17, 2018

You may feel we’re being a bit too generous here with the word “party,” but considering how much we love flawless incentive compensation, we think a celebratory vibe is just what your planning committee really needs. revenue increase that comes specifically from a new strategic product line). View Webinar.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 31, 2020

Sales teams are a particularly unique case as their compensation is likely to be highly leveraged and more sensitive to changes in the marketplace. Reevaluate Quotas to Fit the Changing Market . Adapt Compensation Plans to Reflect Reality. Is top sales talent at risk of leaving if they can’t earn commissions? .

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. It needs to provide fair compensation to employees in customer-facing roles. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Plan Compensation for Onboarding and Training. Example Compensation Plans. Establish Role Levels. Keep it Simple.

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 23, 2020

The chart shows the disproportionate distribution of revenue, between enterprise and small companies. There are so many small companies making a tiny share of the overall revenue and so few enterprise accounts making so much. Share of total US revenue by company size (number of employees). Areas of change.

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Xactly

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Commissions are the cost of doing business, but it’s easy to forget that sales compensation plans power your business. Choosing what sales compensation plans to implement, then, becomes an integral business strategy for sales and finance leaders. Hence, our ultimate sales compensation plans cheat sheet (videos included!).

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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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The Spiff Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As a business leader, you know that driving revenue growth is essential to the success of your organization. This is where Revenue Operations, or a “RevOps,” team comes in. RevOps teams are responsible for aligning and integrating the various business functions that are critical to driving revenue growth.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

Why are Sales Compensation Plans Important. Building sales compensation plans for them can be a difficult task. There are several factors to consider when putting a sales compensation plan together. 4 Types of Sales Compensation Plans. Revenue/Quota Based Plan. A company is nothing if it doesn’t have sales.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

How to build a realistic, achievable revenue plan. Revenue-based compensation is a resounding yes. About Mary Grothe & House of Revenue [2:57]. True sales & marketing alignment [6:17]. Revenue-based compensation [12:36]. Revenue-based compensation [12:36]. We’re on iTunes.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Creating a Sales Compensation Plans. Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. In short, sales compensation should be not just a tactical focus for your organization, but a strategic one as well. Sizing It Up. How long are your delivery cycles?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 6, 2021

As a growth-focused company, you want to ensure that all elements of your business are ready and able to support your scaling, especially those that impact revenue generation. This is where Revenue Operations, also known as RevOps, enters the picture. Leading a RevOps team is a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). General CRO Duties.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Few leading indicators are more predictive of a company’s future sales performance than its incentive compensation plans. As former Reliance Electric CEO Chuck Ames once said according to General Electric CEO Jack Welch, “Show me a company’s various compensation plans, and I’ll show you how its employees behave.”. View Webinar.

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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. Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. Compensation plans shouldn’t be developed in a vacuum.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Quota planning impacts nearly every aspect of a business’s GTM motion and revenue function. Thus, proper quota setting requires careful consideration of various factors including market conditions, sales trends, and individual employee capabilities. Then, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of several different quota setting methodologies.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 3, 2018

What does it TAKE to sell to the Chief Marketing Officer? Jill began this task by talking to Heidi Bullock , Chief Marketing Officer at Engagio , formerly GVP of Global Marketing for Marketo. Engagio is a B2B SaaS software company focused on helping marketers and salespeople drive the best business value for their company.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As a disclaimer, I’m a “sales guy,” and may misunderstand marketing. But I often see discussions about marketing needs to be measured on revenue. I think revenue might be a component of a marketing metric, but I wonder as we aren’t focusing too narrowly on a metric.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 26, 2014

94% of digital marketing professionals surveyed agreed that personalization is “critical to current and future success” according to an eConsultancy study. The post Personalize B2B Mobile Site to Grow Revenues appeared first on Score More Sales. But where to start? Here are some ideas to help you get going in the right direction.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A leading global financial technology (FinTech) client recently reached out with a big request: They wanted to completely overhaul their go-to-market organizational structure, roles and relationships. A poorly-structured organization threatens your revenue potential. Do they align to a market program or a selling territory?

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Compensation disputes, monthly reporting, new rep on boarding, SKO planning, forecast re-do’s, etc., It’s time to initiate a strategic effort that won’t just maintain revenue but will grow it. Done right, deploying or expanding inside sales will improve revenue and reduce costs. Push them higher up market and expand the team.

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