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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 to create a good sales comp plan. Sales comp plan types. Sales contests and SPIFs. How sales compensation should work. A sales compensation plan operates from a basic principle: Money drives behavior.

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How to Realign Sales Teams to Motivate a Remote Workforce

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales teams are a particularly unique case as their compensation is likely to be highly leveraged and more sensitive to changes in the marketplace. What happens to the sales force and their commission-based structure? Is top sales talent at risk of leaving if they can’t earn commissions? . Model Costs Accurately.

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On Measuring Sales Performance

Partners in Excellence

It’s becoming increasingly complicated to measure sales performance–particularly in complex B2B sales. I think we make the issue of measuring sales performance more complicated than it need be, because we confuse it with “compensating sales performance.” Who gets credit?

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“Fixing The Compensation Problem….”

Partners in Excellence

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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Message to Management: Make Referrals Your Priority

No More Cold Calling

Whether you are CEO, vice president, or a sales manager , you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition to referral selling—the only business-development strategy proven to convert prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time. And it all starts with you—the sales leader.

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20 Sales Planning Tools to Boost Sales Productivity and Close More Deals

Hubspot Sales

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. Gamifier makes sales performance fun.

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Top 5 Sales Rep Behaviors to Change in 2013 – with HR’s Help

SBI Growth

Can you count on your current Sales Rep behaviors to “Make the Number” in 2013? HR has a stake in this as the governor of company-wide behavior modification, including the Sales Department. Sign up for our Make the Number tour to learn more about how top performing companies will change Sales in 2013. says the Sales rep).

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