Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Scott Barton , VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent. He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Join us for a great conversation about driving the right behaviors within your sales team. powered by Sounder.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 1, 2024

These discussions, whether addressing underperformance, behavioural issues, or compensation adjustments, are crucial for maintaining a healthy sales environment and driving performance. A Look at the Stats Recent surveys and studies have revealed an uncomfortable truth: many sales managers regularly sidestep difficult conversations.

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SBI Growth

MAY 31, 2014

“This will never work in my region” Every sales trainer has heard this when conducting an international event. I recently spoke with a sales leader, Edward, who ran a global training event. The training covered updates to the Sales Process. Edward’s compensation was tied to these events.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Salespeople loathe sales training. As a sales enablement leader, you know when training is adopted it’s a win-win. Implemented training is directly related to real sales dollars. In turn, it makes training a success. Your value proposition is defined and justifies the need for future sales training.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This post will help you test a redesigned sales compensation plan to ensure cultural fit. Plus, you’ll find advice on compatibility with other sales effectiveness drivers. Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. HR even brought in an expert compensation firm.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Modifying sales reports and dashboards to enable sales managers to track new product sales. Focus on new product sales.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Salespeople loathe sales training. As a sales enablement leader, you know when training is adopted it’s a win-win. Implemented training is directly related to real sales dollars. In turn, it makes training a success. Your value proposition is defined and justifies the need for future sales training.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 26, 2021

Sales Manager’s Success Checklist. It is far too early to look at sales early. Here are the top 10 questions you should ask yourself and your sales managers to gauge if you/they have set the foundation for success. If you want your sales team to perform and perform well, you need to give them the gift of focus.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. In this piece, we’ll take a top down approach and start by designing a sales manager compensation plan.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Sales Compensation + Sales Strategy. Sales compensation systems and sales strategy have long been established factors that impact sales performance. There are countless books and articles on sales strategy. One answer is designing specific sales training to address the dilemma.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 29, 2021

Now more than ever it is important to have some sales training ideas to engage the remote or home based salesperson. Salespeople now have to figure out how they can adapt to rapidly changing selling conditions, and sales training must match those challenges. The Importance of Sales Training.

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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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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many companies tend to underestimate the importance of guidance, training, and support for their new hires, and that tends to be detrimental. Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members. And what did they do wrong?

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 5, 2011

With competition becoming fiercer, the economy sending fuel prices through the roof and buyers becoming more reluctant to telephone sales calls , more firms are choosing to employ their own in-house telesales staff to set appointments for the field sales teams. Commission on the Sale. However, the FSR does not close the sale! .

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The post Compensation Cookbook: Designing Comp & Territory Plans from Scratch appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Xactly

JULY 5, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. In this piece, we’ll take a top down approach and start by designing the Sales Manager compensation plan.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 28, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Before we discuss how to improve sales training, a quick promo for the latest and greatest taking place over at the ever improving Top Sales World. The June issue of Top Sales Magazine has been published and you can download it here. More on Baseball and Sales.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2021

This might not be all that mind-blowing to point out, but not all sales orgs are comfortably confined to their companies' corporate headquarters — operating under a group of managers that can come together to share stories over lunch every day. What does a territory sales manager do? They train reps across their territory.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 23, 2015

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

Author: Erik Charles When sales professionals look at artificial intelligence (AI), what do they see? And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. Before that happens, though, the AI has to be trained?—? Additional data sources.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 24, 2013

The post Jeffrey Answers a Questions about Sales Compensation | Real World Sales Wisdom appeared first on Jeffrey Gitomer’s Sales Blog. Tweet RSS readers may click here for the video.

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 16, 2013

Is your company and/or sales team in a bit of a sales slump? I know it may surprise you to hear me say this, but sales training is not always the solution. Unfortunately, training is often pegged as the solution for everything. Obviously, I do often see where organizations could benefit greatly from training.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The piece got decent traction, was fun to write, and produced some interesting perspectives on both sides of the argument — so I figured it might be worth it to try the process again with another hot-button sales issue. Argue from the perspective of 'sales commissions are ineffective and should be done away with.'

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 28, 2023

An OMG Sales Assessment will show a salesperson’s selling gaps in all 21 Sales Core Competencies, but in this case, it might not fully explain why one weak salesperson is failing while other weak salespeople at the same company are succeeding. Think Apple. Those are things that salespeople do.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 30, 2018

What would a 10 percent increase in annual sales mean to your organization? This is dollars left on the table due to ineffective processes for “defining, assigning, and managing territories, quotas, and incentives and compensation plans.”. Compensation plans need to evolve with organizational objectives and sales strategy.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sales managers do what they ask others to do. I’m including myself here.

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Membrain

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Most sales trainers and coaches have at least some familiarity with the topics of productivity, motivation, and psychology. Chasing states of optimal productivity, managers may invest in software, process development, and training.

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It shouldn’t be surprising that we spend a lot of time training sales teams and coaching the sales team leaders. Here are five elements that must be considered before any money is spent on sales training. Can sales training be embedded into a repeatable selling system and process within your CRM?

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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.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Salespeople loathe sales training. As a sales enablement leader, you know when training is adopted it’s a win-win. Implemented training is directly related to real sales dollars. In turn, it makes training a success. Your value proposition is defined and justifies the need for future sales training.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. December 2007. The Pipeline Guest Post – Jonathan Farrington. And actually I agree.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Just as Olympic athletes train to reach peak performance, so do sales teams. But, just as there are less obvious factors that contribute to an athlete’s performance, there are less obvious factors that contribute to a sales team’s performance as well. Today, we present to you, our latest infographic: Going for Gold in Sales.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Creating a Sales Compensation Plan for 2017. Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 25% Increase in Sales Training ROI – Sales eXchange – 115. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Hiring Sales Talent , Proactive , Proactivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales eXchange , execution. Given that, why train them?

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