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How to be Indispensable as an Incentive Compensation Manager

The Spiff Blog

As an incentive compensation manager, you hold a critical role that keeps your organization running. In this day and age, no one doubts the importance of sales compensation when it comes to driving growth for a business. What does an incentive compensation manager do? Design compensation plans.

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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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Why You Can't Fill Your Open Sales Manager Positions

SBI Growth

A post for Sales and HR Leaders to find root causes of Sales Manager (SM) vacancies. The Sales Manager position is the fulcrum between sales leadership strategy and sales force execution. Teams without effective sales managers lack morale and discipline. Poor compensation. Weak sales strategy.

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How to Setup a Commission Plan in Six Steps

Xactly

Your sales commission plan is a portion of your sales compensation plan. Ultimately, your sales commission plan motivates reps to close deals and perform specific sales behaviors that align with your company goals. To help ensure you set your sales team up for success, here are six steps to setup a commission plan.

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Sales Leadership: 4 Keys to Successfully Promote a Rep to Sales Manager

Sales Hacker

RELATED: 5 Signs Your Star Salesperson Will Make a Terrible Sales Manager. Their sales territory loses proper coverage since the rep is now focusing on the transition into management. Without the proper training, they don’t have the necessary skills or tools to manage this critical business function. Compensation.

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Sales Leaders Got These Issues All Wrong

Understanding the Sales Force

A similar scenario faced hundreds of sales leadership executives. I reviewed the 2012 Sales Performance Management Report, published by the Aberdeen Group and gleened some interesting statistics. 21% want a better sales hiring process. 17% want their reps to better understand their compensation plan.

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The Pipeline ? Shrink Your Way To Success

The Pipeline

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. They say you can’t shrink your way to success, but perhaps there are situations in sales where you can. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense.

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