Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 31, 2020

And yet, some of the greatest fortunes in history have been made in times of crisis, and a window of opportunity has indeed opened up. This is the greatest opportunity to hire high-performance sales talent since World War II ended. Salespeople are essential to businesses. Change, which was once intimidating, may now represent hope.

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Score More Sales

JULY 11, 2013

It can take weeks or months for some in sales to truly qualify a sales opportunity. This exercise will help you determine if a sales opportunity is probable or not – it can save you hours or months of effort, and it can help you close business sooner. Increase Opportunities. Get those answers. Expand Your Pipeline.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 14, 2023

Measured by qual opportunities per month. 3x/3.5x… I’d also caveat it seriously depends on stage: every early role I’ve been in, it’s my job as CRO to define the metrics that drive revenue (with CEO sign off and exec buy in of course) and set up the tracking (ie the tools and sales process that generate those signals).

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 31, 2014

Total perfection in managing your time is impossible – so try for a 1% improvement in keeping this focus: Important activities that lead you to more / better sales opportunities and ultimately to new revenue. Have a note pad at your desk or use a tool like Evernote to track every commitment in one place. Increase Opportunities.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

When sales reps think about their compensation, the first thing they ask is “How can I make more?” Today’s post will give you a tool to decide if your comp plan is built to keep top players on board or push them out to a new job. Is your compensation plan well designed or driving top-tier reps away?

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Software Advice surveyed nearly 2000 sales professionals who use a mobile version of a CRM tool and found the following: Nearly all salespeople using mobile CRM (82 percent) say that accessing their system on smartphones and tablets greatly or moderately improves the quality of their CRM data. Increase Opportunities. Close More Deals.

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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. 2) “Is my compensation plan structured to motivate them?”.

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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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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Too much reliance on selling tools. There was no help, no tools to cover your ass. There was nothing to make up for or to compensate for any weakness you had. We’re putting too much emphasis on the tools and not enough on the selling skills. Sales is suffering from 9 brutal ills: Number 5 in this 9 part series.

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Xactly

MAY 16, 2018

The sales compensation planning process can be complex, and unfortunately, sometimes a headache. Luckily, with the right tools, sales operations can reduce the stress and time it takes to design, test, and implement a new compensation plan, and they can work to maintain and tweak the plan throughout the year.

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SBI

MAY 7, 2014

Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. Announcing the Top 40 Sales Tools of 2014 - a multi-media guide that brings you up to speed on the best tools to increase sale productivity. See which tools we chose for: Contract Management and eSigning.

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Xactly

JANUARY 2, 2019

The sales planning process can become quite complex, especially when it comes to designing sales compensation plans. Ultimately, the new compensation and incentive plans must successfully motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Time in sales compensation: 4 years. Who: Robert Walters.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. In addition to regular training sessions, coaching, and job shadowing, you should teach every salesperson how to leverage technology and use it as a tool to keep track of data and accelerate the sales process.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

In reality, sales professionals and managers need to have access to the best available sales planning tools to help them boost sales productivity and close more and bigger deals. Sales Productivity Tools. The HubSpot Sales Platform gives sales professionals the tools they need to sell more deals faster in one integrated suite.

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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? SPIFs vs Contests.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement. Performance Improvement: It provides the opportunity to explore weak areas and offer targeted training to improve sales performance at scale or on a case-by-case basis.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2022

We do this through hiring the right people, training, giving them tools/processes/programs/systems to help them perform, providing the right support, eliminating barriers to their performance, and constantly coaching/developing them. And then we get to compensation. But we have other important tools to leverage.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

For maximum efficiency, the tools that make up your RevOps tech stack— including CRMs, sales enablement tools, analytics and reporting platforms, and so on— must offer the necessary automation and customization capabilities to support agile RevOps strategies. Maybe a tool no longer aligns with current workflows.

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Xactly

JUNE 27, 2018

Sales compensation plan can be a complex process. Those who work to create a plan for their company must develop a compensation process and incentive plan that will motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Time in sales compensation: 4 years. How were our Sales team compensated?

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Creating a Sales Compensation Plan for 2017. 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.

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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. This simple, free, downloadable tool reveals the vital signs of your plan. Read on to understand the mechanics of effective sales compensation. is over $800B per year.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2022

Changing jobs can also mean more workplace flexibility, career growth opportunities, and more general satisfaction for employees. The Global Workforce of the Future report found that compensation and upskilling opportunities were some of the biggest factors in their decision to switch jobs. So what keeps employees around?

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Xactly

JUNE 27, 2018

Sales compensation plan can be a complex process. Those who work to create a plan for their company must develop a compensation process and incentive plan that will motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Time in sales compensation: 4 years. How were our Sales team compensated?

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Xactly

MARCH 22, 2018

Most of the time when I speak about the middle performers, it is because I am trying to convince a sales leader that there is value in focusing on the middle performers rather than explaining the sales incentive tools available to increase their performance. Why Focus on Motivating the Middle? Or, keep reading for more sales plan ideas.

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 16, 2020

But fear not: AI offers quite powerful opportunities for those sales organizations ready to invest in it. Sales Performance and Planning Another area where AI can assist is in sales performance and sales planning tasks like forecasting, territory management and compensation planning.

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 28, 2016

For example, is investing more heavily in training a better option than the introduction of a content management or CPQ tool? However, if training is reinforced with effective opportunity-level coaching, there is a higher likelihood of achieving sustained change and performance improvement. What tools we are using to do our jobs.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

We will talk more about all the tools you need to get started in social selling. I had assumed that a paycheck was enough to motivate my salespeople, but it turns out there are other factors such as job security and opportunity for growth. Social selling is a term that has been hotly debated in the sales world. Experiment.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Human resources professionals now rank recruiting and hiring as top concerns , and they are embracing new recruiting technology to meet those demands — tools that may become permanent parts of the HR toolbox. Building a stronger recruitment process with tech strategies In today’s candidate-driven talent market , timing is everything.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The most common mistake is failing to look at the job opportunity through the eyes of the candidate. Begin today with the ideas and free tools offered in this post. Here’s what top producers have told us they look for: Territory with abundant opportunity. First-rate compensation. First-Rate Compensation.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 18, 2024

Offer Competitive Compensation Packages Your compensation packages must be competitive within your industry to attract and retain the best talent. Also, consider non-monetary benefits like flexible working hours and professional development opportunities, which many candidates highly value.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Here are the most common underutilized CRM system formats we see: The Pipeline Tool: Sales reps record projected deals and opportunities in the CRM. The Rolodex tool: Customer contact information is entered, but opportunities are sparse. The Compensation Tool: Reps hang onto opportunities until the last minute.

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Zoominfo

MAY 12, 2020

However, these positive traits also make it more difficult to actively recruit them to your opportunities. Candidates who are content with their current job and are not looking for new opportunities. Candidates who are content with their current job but are open to hearing about new opportunities. Talk about opportunities.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2013

You will have access to guides, templates and tools. Included in this you will receive the Causes of Sales Manager Vacancies tool. One golden opportunity to find root causes is to consistently perform SM exit interviews. Poor compensation. Assess sales compensation plans to check comp vs. desired behaviors.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One way to support them is through AI-powered sales tools. But AI-powered new lead gen tools, such as Salesforce’s Einstein, are replacing customer-mining tasks, leaving salespeople free to pursue prospects and other high-value tasks. Bringing the benefits of the gig economy into your sales and compensation strategy will reap rewards.

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Xactly

JANUARY 16, 2019

Below are three key ways you can leverage ASC 606 as an opportunity for long-term growth. Not only will your compensation admins and sales ops managers thank you for it, but you will be able to rest easy knowing that the chance of costly errors is significantly reduced. ASC 606 is a Great Reason to Automate Commissions. Make Lemonade.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

From sales force training and compensation to investments in sales processes and technology, organizations relentlessly seek to pull the right levers that will drive revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. On the surface, the logical solution to a sales problem is to fix sellers or to fix the tools and processes around those sellers.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Incentive and Compensation Strategies Compensation, quotas, and incentives help attract top talent and motivate them. A well-crafted compensation plan is at the core of a productive sales team based upon the dedication it requires to meet those quotas, attain the compensation the sellers desire, and become the best of the best.

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