Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

It would be unacceptable for them not to have territory plans, maximizing the growth within their territories. We invest millions in software tools to help do these things, we invest additional millions in training to do these things, we invest thousands of person hours in account and territory planning.

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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

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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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 24, 2019

Compensation is an important factor in attracting and retaining employees, especially in sales. Imagine if almost half of your sales team left the company because of a poorly designed compensation plan. Will additional bonuses or incentives be a part of the compensation plan? Make your compensation and commission plan clear.

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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. Sales Performance Management Software. Helps predict future sales trends.

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The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

If this sounds anything like your current commission tracking process, it’s time to introduce you to sales commission software , a category of software that automates even the most complex commission processes. There are many benefits to implementing sales commission software, but we’re going to focus on the four most important.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

From territory planning to sales team organization, to sales coaching and leadership strategies to sales compensation planning, each element helps to create a strong sales plan. Sales Compensation is one of the most important steps because it drives sales behaviors and ultimately helps your company reach its goals.

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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. In fact, optimizing territory design can increase sales by 2 to 7% each year ( source ).

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But remember that while the execs are driven by revenue and low customer churn, your sales reps are driven by their incentive compensation plans. What are you trying to achieve with this compensation plan? Different strategies in compensation can help in each of these scenarios and more. . Prioritize a positive sales culture.

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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 25, 2015

Sales Performance Management (SPM) has truly evolved over the last 10+ years from the days of having an on-premise solution that primarily automated the compensation calculation process with basic reporting, to a new dynamic frontier with extended capabilities.

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OpenSymmetry

DECEMBER 4, 2015

On November 19 th , 30 organisations gathered in London at the e-reward conference to discuss the benefits of compensation management software. OpenSymmetry’s (OS) focus was Sales Performance Management (SPM) software – how we define it, how we identify the business benefits and how to chose the right software.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. Planning for new analytics software, Business Intelligence platform or new/upgraded CRM? Your compensation plan must align to your strategy. Are your territories designed to maximize time with customers and prospects?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

Anaplan provides several cloud-based planning tools for sales: territory and quota planning, incentive compensation planning, sales forecasting, configure price quote optimization, and trade promotion planning. Plan 2 Win provides “the right strategic account, sales territory and pre-call planning tools for B2B sales teams.”

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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 planned effectively, sales teams understand their true capacity needs, can align and create balanced territories, and build incentive plans that are cost-efficient and boost sales performance.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the first scenario, the eager software sales rep wants to expedite the project start and does not want to introduce any delays in their sales pipeline. They are thinking about a potential 6-12 month delay in the sales pipeline, then delayed recognition of the software sale before the project can get underway.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

With a new year around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about your sales compensation plans for 2023. We came away with six key considerations to keep in mind while preparing your compensation plans and processes for 2023. They should cover things like account ownership, territories, SLA’s, and who gets credit for opportunities.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Territory design, quotas and compensation plans. Steve is a VP of The Americas of a large enterprise software company. Change the compensation plan to incent new logo growth by adding an accelerator. Compensation plans come last not first. Too many, you erode profitability. Improve new logo acquisition by 11%.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

It will help salespeople deal with a spiraling complexity of products, and with increasingly large catalogs, ever-more complex compensation plans that include SPIFs and bonuses, and financing options to help make bigger deals possible. This is unexplored territory?—?and Selling skills still matter. including the B- and C-players?—?to

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Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

To assemble this type of virtual sales force you will need to recruit, find, contract, train, incentivize and compensate them appropriately. Sources: 1 The Bridge Group – SDR Metrics & Compensation Report 2 Sales Performance Report – CSO Insights, research division of Miller Heiman Group 3 The World Bank – Current US$ GDP.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Selection of Enablement Software and other Technology Tools. Sales Territory Assignment and Growth Forecasting. Data Analytics Software.

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Xactly

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Using advanced planning software, such as Xactly Sales Planning, organizations can apply historical performance and product data to simplify quota allocation. Balancing Territories to Ensure Fair Quota Allocation. In addition to evaluating past performance, effective quota planning depends upon appropriate territory design.

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Xactly

MAY 31, 2018

Sales compensation is vital to sales success and company growth. For decades, companies have gathered different tools to manage compensation. Previously, sales performance management (SPM) has typically been categorized as solely focused on incentive compensation management (ICM) and sales compensation planning.

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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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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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Xactly

MAY 1, 2018

Download our guide, "Designing Sales Compensation Plans," to learn how to structure your plans. Software Puts Your Plan to Work. Software can do three critical things for you: extract the most useful data, removing the hassle involved, and make sure your forecasts are accurate. Sales Plans Need a Contingency Plan.

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Xactly

APRIL 23, 2018

Sales leadership, alongside sales operations and finance use forecasting for all aspects of sales planning, including building sales compensation plans, territory planning, and overall sales strategy. For finance, forecasting helps estimate future sales revenue and the associated sales compensation payments.

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Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

While enablement typically comes into play from the beginning, working with marketing to assist sales professionals through learning and prospect interactions, operations teams up with sales leaders to establish methodologies and stepping in for final negotiations and deal compensation. Setting territory structure.

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Growbots

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

When salespeople do leave a company, the top five reasons are : Salary and compensation. Avoid changing your compensation structure. Changing your compensation structure or rezoning your territories should only be done with extreme caution. Career growth opportunities. Company culture. Relationship with manager.

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Xactly

AUGUST 30, 2018

Download the "2018 Sales Compensation Administration Best Practices Executive Guide," for incentive compensation trends, best practices, and tips to drive the right sales behaviors to kickoff your sales compensation planning. One major stimulating factor in any sales reps’ career is compensation.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2012

It is impossible to outrun the drag of vacant territories. a provider of software to simplify and improve business operations and customer communications. Builders are comfortable in the role and may not yet be highly compensated. Last week I talked with two Steves who faced this challenge and developed a sustainable solution.

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Velocify

JUNE 28, 2017

Sales gamification software leverages game mechanics to incentivize rep performance. Sales teams can make faster and better-informed decisions with software that helps present complex business analytics into easy-to-digest, actionable insights. 4) Territory and Quota Management Solutions. 10) Quote and Proposal Software.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

As your sales ops team matures, however, the group will grow, and their focus will expand to other areas as well, including: Territory planning. Quota and compensation planning. She has helped build out the Sales Ops function at two Atlanta-based software companies and been part of $1.84B in acquisitions as a result.

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s also more familiar— you can jump right in to your next ASC 606 report without having to stop and learn a new software. White glove commission expensing operates on “bespoke” software that’s been heavily customized for your organization. Bespoke software is technically customizable— for your vendor’s engineers.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

We at Software Advice typically focus on sales force automation software , but we decided to broaden our focuse and see what is available on mobile devices to match the needs of a mobile sales force. You can see her articles regularly on the Software Advice blog. Sales Compensation. Territory Alignment. qualifying.

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SBI

MAY 6, 2014

Performance and Compensation. Territory & Account Planning. As President of Smart Selling Tools , she consults with many of the top sales productivity software vendors as well as end-user organizations looking to select the right tools. See which tools we chose for: Contract Management and eSigning. InsideSales.

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The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 17, 2018

SPM is Not Just About Incentives and Compensation Management. Sales Performance Management is often confused with the practice of lining up incentives and compensation plans with organizational goals. It’s Not Just About Software. More Effective Territory Management. Measure and Analyze the Right Things.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

The focus is on things like reporting, territory management and later stage tasks such as contract negotiations and finance approvals. Here, you can use your sales operations skills to get into your reps’ heads by creating compensation and incentive plans. Sales ops takes a high-level view of the sales organization.

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