SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

What about the sales compensation plan? To learn more about sales enablement and obtain our product launch sales compensation checklist sign up for our Q3 Make The Number Tour. The key lies in changing the compensation plan to drive the sales force to sell the new product. So how do we incent this behavior?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This post will help you test a redesigned sales compensation plan to ensure cultural fit. Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. HR even brought in an expert compensation firm. But wait – this new incentive compensation plan could flop. That would make 2013 worse than this year!

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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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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When it comes to recruiting, hiring, and retaining great sales talent -- few things are more persuasive and important than maintaining a competitive sales compensation plan. Incorporate a few of these tactics into your next compensation plan overhaul, and see them benefit the quality of your sales team and your company’s bottom line.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 10, 2018

When you wait until the end, you end up just running last year’s plan without any insights. You need to start pulling together internal data from your incentive compensation management system, data from your CRM, and finally, information from financial teams on profitability and product revenues. Watch Webinar.

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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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Xactly

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sure, you know you need ICM to handle accurate and timely payments, but do you really need automated sales territory planning as well? Although automating technology for territory design can increase your sales up to 20 percent, territory planning is often categorized as a luxury in SPM—instead of as the necessity it is.

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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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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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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 16, 2016

The Territory & Quota Management Revolution – New Incentive Compensation Platforms Blazing the Trails to Greater Efficiencies. Gone are the simplistic days of sales reps simply “having a patch” to cover for selling their goods and services. The importance of crediting transactions in the Incentive Compensation process.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Start your sales planning efforts with account segmentation to fill your territories with fruitful opportunities and increase your sellers’ ability to hit quotas. Consider new territory rules that reflect changes in the market (and your business). Related: Your Territory Model Is Hurting Attainment. Territory profiles .

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2020

Finding and hiring the right kind of people with the right mix of skills, developing a compensation plan, identifying training needs and aligning everyone with business goals can all be daunting. . . Author: Dave Gerry Building a winning sales organization is no small task. And that’s in normal conditions. Sales Takes the Lead.

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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? Step 2: Set Metrics.

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Engage Selling

APRIL 2, 2012

The result: everyone comes up with their own interpretation of the rules, and forms a unique opinion of which customers and commissions they share. Selling time is wasted, morale plummets and salespeople start to resign. In 20 years of selling, I’ve never encountered a compensation plan that eliminated all conflicts.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Has your Sales Ops planning kept up with the new realities? Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. If that covers most of your plan’s components, you better catch up.

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OpenSymmetry

JULY 20, 2016

Tactics may have changed, but for the most part these sales teams still run on a commission or quota based metric determined by well-planned territories. In some cases, incentive compensation (IC) methods have evolved to align with new regulations regarding specific sales metrics.

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OpenSymmetry

JULY 20, 2016

Tactics may have changed, but for the most part these sales teams still run on a commission or quota based metric determined by well-planned territories. In some cases, incentive compensation (IC) methods have evolved to align with new regulations regarding specific sales metrics.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Free Resources.

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Pointclear

MAY 14, 2018

Compensation Adjustments. Changes in compensation, especially done mid-year, often lead to disruption. Territory Adjustments. Salespeople expect there may be territory adjustments at the beginning of a year. It can be a temporary time suck for the entire territory, disrupting sales for 3-6 months. See item 5.

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

Your sales commission plan is a portion of your sales compensation plan. Often, it includes a pay mix , made up of a base salary and variable commission pay. When it comes to designing sales compensation plans , there are many factors that can affect the success of your plan. Gather as Much Data as Possible.

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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. How can an organization set themselves up for success by nailing the quota setting process?

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SBI

MAY 7, 2014

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. Mobile Selling. Performance and Compensation. Territory & Account Planning. Value Selling & ROI. See which tools we chose for: Contract Management and eSigning.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 6, 2013

How many changes do you have lined up for your sales organization to start 2013? Are you changing the compensation plan? Are you changing account or territory assignments ? Remember back when you were a kid growing up. Typically expert panels are made up of top sales representatives. What about quotas ? Frustrated?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Sign up for SBI''s free onsite research session here. You sell to a more informed buyer. You must match selling capacity with market demand. Territory design, quotas and compensation plans. Change the compensation plan to incent new logo growth by adding an accelerator. When should I replace my ‘C’ players?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In either case, hiring/training distractions chew up valuable time better used for selling. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. Poor compensation. Part of the poor compensation may be the inability/difficulty to achieve incentives. Poor territory.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Conversely, we’ve come across teams that throw their hands up in despair. All your data is rolled-up to a common definition of the customer. IT needs to step up here. Don’t do a territory redesign project without knowing exactly who you’re targeting. Messaging is focused, content is relevant, closing rates go up.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Here are a few incentive structures to consider for open budgets : Do This Get That – Rewarding reps on every increment of units, sales dollars or gross margin dollars they write up during the incentive period is a great way to increase sales. The (BIG) bad news about a minimum qualifier is that it may exclude certain territories or reps.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Often this is backed up by the in-house IT function which wants a new project to help underpin their roles for the next 2 years. Often a company has grown by acquisition which has created many anomalies, or the company has many business divisions and is seeking greater synergy and cross-selling through plan redesign. Future Vision.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 18, 2013

But they add up over time. It was a management change that eventually resulted in account and a compensation change. Account Assignments: Current customers were reassigned due to the new structure and territories. People were giving up established relationships. Compensation : Comp plans were revised from HR and Finance.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Looking to set your sales team up for this kind of success? 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.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

The HubSpot Sales Platform gives sales professionals the tools they need to sell more deals faster in one integrated suite. HubSpot Sales gets rid of manual data entry, a huge time waster in sales, so professionals can spend time selling. HubSpot Sales Platform. Pricing: Free. HubSpot Email Scheduling. Pricing: Free. Pricing: $15/year.

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The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

No more chasing down formulas in an Excel sheet or sending emails to confirm commission statements, keeping reps laser focused on selling. Sales commission software removes human error from the sales commission process and enables sales teams to focus on selling. Increased productivity across sales, finance, and RevOps teams.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 26, 2013

An example could be low selling time. Compensation – Overview of compensation models and exception handling. Territory Design / Structure Process. On-Boarding – Summary of process for onboarding, training modules, technology set-up, etc. Social Selling Guidelines. Redundant reporting platforms.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Complicated commission plans or unwieldy territory rules and exceptions cause a half-baked sales team. For a perfectly cooked main dish of deals that hit quota, keep things simple to understand and easy for sellers to sell. Keep it Consistent – baking is scientific, and so is selling. Train and coach frontline sales leaders.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

So how do you strike a perfect balance between business goals and the compensation needs of employees? How your compensation package (including commission structure) works tells a great deal about your organization. Selling is arguably a line of work where personal attachment matters the most. Let’s dig in.

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Mereo

APRIL 2, 2020

Yet with a well-oiled revenue engine, any challenges you come up against will be mitigated or side-stepped altogether. Sales operations are not the glamorous side of selling, why most get into the business. Yet, you can guess it or perhaps you are living it: Many selling organizations lack formal sales operations.

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