Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When it comes to recruiting, hiring, and retaining great sales talent -- few things are more persuasive and important than maintaining a competitive sales compensation plan. Incorporate a few of these tactics into your next compensation plan overhaul, and see them benefit the quality of your sales team and your company’s bottom line.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Are the compensation mechanisms driving the right behaviors?" To make your assessment easy, SBI has created a 10-point Compensation Inspection tool. Read on to understand the mechanics of effective sales compensation. How Important is Compensation? Too many companies treat sales compensation as a once-a-year review.

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Xactly

JUNE 13, 2018

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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Start your sales planning efforts with account segmentation to fill your territories with fruitful opportunities and increase your sellers’ ability to hit quotas. Consider leveraging predictive analytics to further identify buying patterns and buyer propensity to further maximize your sellers’ efforts. Territory profiles .

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Xactly

JULY 18, 2018

In order to manage your sales performance, you need effective sales territory mapping. Sales territory design must be a thoughtful process that involves data and a balancing act to ensure every sales rep has adequate sales potential within their territory. Use Data-driven Intelligence to Map Territories. Download Guide.

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Xactly

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sure, you know you need ICM to handle accurate and timely payments, but do you really need automated sales territory planning as well? Although automating technology for territory design can increase your sales up to 20 percent, territory planning is often categorized as a luxury in SPM—instead of as the necessity it is.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 25, 2017

I always worry when a conversation with a sales executive starts with, “We need to fix our compensation problem.” ” The ensuing discussion usually focuses on, “We aren’t meeting our numbers, we need to fix the compensation/commission system in order to make our numbers.”

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SBI Growth

JULY 14, 2013

Territories : The field of play. Are territories designed to maximize growth balanced with efficiency? Are you holding back performance based on territory design and assignment? Compensation : Akin to a pro athlete’s salary. Give your very best reps the very worst sales territories and suffer the consequences.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Total compensation, benefits, company financials and market position, for example. The company is making significant changes to your compensation plan. You’ve had average results recently because your territory is a real dog. Are the best performers given the best territories? What territory will you get as a new hire?

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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?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. Your compensation plan must align to your strategy. Are your territories designed to maximize time with customers and prospects? Evolve your perspective or suffer the consequences of missing the number next year.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

If your compensation plan rewards on units, focus the incentive on revenue or margin as long as those measures contribute to the business objectives you’re trying to accomplish. The (BIG) bad news about a minimum qualifier is that it may exclude certain territories or reps. It’s easy to measure. That’s an incentive.

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 27, 2016

A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. In order to maximize performace at the 100m, athletes train and diet – you will find that some do it through drugs, but that is like lying to the customer. New Concepts Driving Greater Performance .

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

You have a strong solution to go along with a solid stream of both inbound and outbound activity, which prompted you to split the team by each channel to maximize meeting creation (and hopefully pipeline!). For instance, they may be selected to support a specific territory with higher potential.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Are the compensation mechanisms driving the right behaviors?" To make your assessment easy, SBI has created a 10-point Compensation Inspection tool. Read on to understand the mechanics of effective sales compensation. How Important is Compensation? Too many companies treat sales compensation as a once-a-year review.

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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. . When data drives strategy, the end result is a strong, integrated sales plan that will maximize sales coverage, motivate reps to meet and exceed quota, and increase sales productivity.

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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. When done well, this process is proven to maximize return on sales resources.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

It turned out, the structure and the territory assignments of the sales people in these organizations, was a problem. Each sales person, had about 1000 customers in their territories. They were so busy addressing the opportunities in their territory, they were “missing” the big deals.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 6, 2013

Are you changing the compensation plan? Are you changing account or territory assignments ? One basic example of a tool is the compensation worksheet. Download the compensation worksheet here.) As a best practice we recommend all clients include a compensation worksheet when they deploy a new plan.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

You have a strong solution to go along with a solid stream of both inbound and outbound activity, which prompted you to split the team by each channel to maximize meeting creation — and hopefully pipeline. For instance, they may be selected to support a specific territory with higher potential.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Sales performance management (SPM) and incentive compensation management (ICM) are often used interchangeably. While at one time, these two terms did essentially mean the same thing, SPM now encompasses far more than just compensation. Fact #4: SPM can reduce territory planning time up to 75%. So what’s the takeaway?

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Complicated commission plans or unwieldy territory rules and exceptions cause a half-baked sales team. They need to track their buyers and clients through social platforms or by aggregated content specific to their industry niche, geographic territory, or through named accounts.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Sales performance management tracking can provide valuable data enabling your organization to forecast future sales trends and employee compensation rates — particularly for commission-based compensation structures. Performance-based compensation. Their areas of expertise include compensation planning and territory management.

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Xactly

AUGUST 20, 2018

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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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. With AlignStar , we provide the industry-leading territory design and planning software. Now, we’re raising the bar once again with a data-driven sales planning solution.

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The Bridge Group

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Option 3: Reduce the quit rate There are entire books and mountains of posts written on this topic but excluding company culture, compensation plans, inbound leads, territory splits and 50 factors that could influence your attrition rate, I'll focus on one. That can mean the difference between hitting your number or missing.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

As you'll read below, sales operations includes everything from lead management, sales strategy, and territory structuring and alignment to process optimization, compensation plans, sales automation, training, and data analytics and reporting. Sales Operations manages sales representative compensation plans and incentives.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

. • How to avoid discounting and sell at full-price. • The secret to successfully executing a price increase with existing customers. • Proven methods to grow business and maximize profits. Sales Compensation. Territory Alignment. TopLine Sales Compensation Solutions. What’s in Your Pipeline? Proactivity.

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Highspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

To truly maximize revenue, the sales team requires a style of management that uses collaboration, analysis, and a proactive approach. Sales performance management ensures that a sales team has a good grasp on what works, what doesn’t, and how they can best maximize leads to sales. Why is Sales Performance Management Important?

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SBI

MAY 11, 2015

It can route the leads based on territories and pipelines to ensure optimized distribution. If you want to maximize your sales performance go to calliduscloud.com today. The sales process begins when prospects visit your website. Then, Callidus ensures that the right content is served up to each rep based on each specific lead.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 13, 2012

These sales reps are looking to maximize the productivity of their territory. This not to lose mentality can often slowly invade a sales team over time due to a dysfunctional compensation system, non-engaged front-line management and/or poor leadership. A number of new competitors are entering the market.

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Xactly

APRIL 6, 2018

Sales burnout is sometimes dismissed as part of the job or coming with the territory—easy redirections for a difficult problem. Disruptions whether through new hires, departures, budget cuts, compensation adjustments or other forms of operational change all contribute to further exacerbating the following symptoms. Download Guide.

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Pointclear

JUNE 26, 2012

While I respect the need for specialization in a sales force, I simply don't understand why the "inside guy" can't be given more freedom to quarterback big deals and get compensated appropriately. This strikes me as an issue of convention and territoriality over talent and profit maximization.

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Xactly

MAY 3, 2018

Increase visibility: SPM solutions provide an in-depth look at market coverage, performance, and associated compensation models to provide a true view of sales capacity. A sales forecast can examine your pipeline and customer buying stages, but sales capacity planning maximizes resources.

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Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

This includes everything from implementing key sales technology to administering compensation. Growth forecasts of sales territories. Formulation and evaluation of sales incentive and compensation plans. To maximize both teams, organizations should recognize their differences and optimize areas of collaboration.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Compensation plans may include a profit component, but there is no formal system in place for sellers to be capable of consistently selling value. Compensation plans may include a profit component, but there is no formal system in place for sellers to be capable of consistently selling — then capturing (via price) — value.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

Typically the focus is on blocking and tackling: basic execution of a compensation plan, sales dashboards, sales crediting, and territory/customer assignments. A lead generation team could drive leads to the sales team reducing the overall cost of sale through a maximizing of sales time. All of these are basic necessities.

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