The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Although SPM strategy varies by company and industry, the most effective sales performance management strategies typically involve a combination of the same core pillars. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Simplify the Sales Process. Revamp your sales process to accommodate your hybrid team. If you streamline your sales process, team members can quickly and easily close deals. Let hybrid sales team members utilize digital versions of commonly used documents. Provide Incentives.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Sales Process Optimization Implement efficient sales processes that streamline workflows, reduce bottlenecks, and improve customer experience. Incentives and Recognition Reward top performers with appropriate incentives and recognition. Communication Foster open and transparent communication within the team.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s no secret that there are many benefits to gamifying your sales process. It can help onboard reps faster, encourage friendly competition, and improve overall team morale. Even if you don’t have a tool in place, it’s likely as a sales leader you’re already using it in some form. Ever organize a sales contest?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 20, 2020

Why Sales Contests? Sales contests are a tried-and-true tool in most sales managers’ arsenals and for good reason. When you run a strategic, goal-oriented sales competition, you can strengthen sales skills, build sales culture, and drive revenue — all at the same time. Nail Down Incentives.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2024

Efficiency Every MQL handed over to a sales representative requires a human review. In today’s fiercely competitive market, time is an invaluable resource that should be used wisely. This innovative approach bridges the gap between marketing and sales, ensuring no potential customer goes unnoticed.

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 29, 2024

Achievable quotas also encourage healthy competition within the team. Now, let’s talk incentives. Incentives, or spiffs, can really boost motivation. They can give your team that extra motivation they need to work towards and make achieving those sales targets even more rewarding. Next, cultivate a positive sales culture.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The Important Role of Sales Operations Common Problems With Sales Operations Practical Tips to Improve Sales Operations Supercharge Sales Operations With Highspot The Important Role of Sales Operations Sales operations (sales ops) works to ensure the sales team functions smoothly.

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The Brooks Group

JUNE 11, 2015

Competitive by nature, salespeople will be intrinsically motivated to climb to the number one position. By adding in a few carefully selected sales incentives, you can capitalize on this competitive streak and really get your team to race full speed towards sales goals. Tangible Sales Incentives.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 2, 2022

You want to highlight their best features, compare to the competition, and price to make a profit. Unless your product is revolutionary, like the first smart phone, it’s only marginally different from the competition. To create a winning culture, consider these tips: Encouragement Motivation Incentives Recognition Team Building.

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Pipeliner

MAY 9, 2023

Creating high-performing sales reps means supplying them with everything they require to reach their objectives, from motivation and professional growth. A well-functioning sales team can help a company generate revenue, acquire new customers, and stay ahead of the competition.

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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. Average Sales Cycle.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 9, 2022

The Sales Pod — an extension of the assembly line model where some combination of SDRs, AEs, and CSMs work together — with each salesperson fulfilling a specific responsibility that enables the level after them in the pod's sequence. Compensation is the most fundamental, powerful incentive for reps to perform.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

Technological advancements Because sales teams play such a critical role in any company, there are numerous business-related applications and systems aimed at improving sales, lead generation, and customer data management. In fact, technology is evolving at such a rapid pace that many sales teams struggle to keep up with the changes.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Additionally, be sure to equip your team with the necessary software to collaborate with each other from home, including a CRM and other sales enablement tools. Take this free HubSpot Academy course to learn how to move your sales process online, how to thrive at remote selling, and how to manage a remote sales team effectively.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But as much as I love how gloriously petty and competitive that particular Lombardi gem is, it's not my favorite thing he ever said. Could you be hands-off and still expect them to figure out your sales process? Sales excellence is often a measure of what a rep can do for your sales org beyond their immediate contributions.

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

In this thorough overview, we’ll investigate the significance of creating intelligent sales objectives and approaches that can assist you with accomplishing them. We will explore how past data analysis, future company changes consideration, and incentive programs implementation play a significant role in goal-setting.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 31, 2013

Did it incent the right behavior? The danger is that this is isolated from the dynamics of the whole sales framework. How do you know if comp-incented behaviors can move the needle? Sales performance is affected by a wide range of factors. A sales process that is not aligned to buying process.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 14, 2021

According to Charles Knauft, director of sales development at ZoomInfo, the organizations that are likely to succeed are the ones that acknowledge and respond to what’s actually happening. “In Strickland believes this will become increasingly commonplace as sales continues to mature as an industry. “Our

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2013

Sales Management must spend 50% of their time coaching salespeople like this: An enormous part of developing salespeople these days is helping them to differentiate themselves from your competitors. Effectively applying a consultative sales process helps to accomplish this. Step 2 – Can you articulate why it’s wrong?

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Salesmate

JUNE 4, 2021

Similarly, many other practices in sales have changed with the changing world around. One such practice is that of providing sales incentives to the salespeople. What are sales incentives? Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.” – Nikita Khrushchev .

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Let’s face it, being a sales executive has become increasingly more difficult. Chances are next year’s sales objective is going up and your budget is being reduced. You are facing challenges of do more with less, increased competition, pricing pressures, staff turnover, and increased expectations from customers.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Questions to consider: What separates your product from the competition? If you notice your sales volume is declining or seems sluggish, it could be a good indication that you need to refresh key aspects of your sales process — and ensuring you’re selling to the right people is a good place to start.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Helping manage client costs in a competitive environment. We partnered with a consulting firm to help us identify the right sales resources, define the sales processes, and determine the proper metrics and sales incentives.”. Cycle time – get customers their cars back quickly.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

After all, it is the seller’s job to guide the buyer through the sales process and present solutions that meet their needs. Here are 10 tips to help sellers maintain control of a sales negotiation to achieve win-win outcomes: Sales Negotiation Tips Preparation The more you know, the stronger your position.

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Close.io

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Create friendly competition with your team. And it’s a love of competition that inspired many to start their careers in sales in the first place. Yet many businesses avoid internal competition like it’s the flu. Competition in the workplace is not a bad thing if done right.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The advantage of creating a script like this is that it creates a repeatable structure to the sales process and makes it easier to train new additions to the salesforce. Understand Your Competition. Consider creating an incentive program to encourage your members to do just that. Offer a Personalized Selling Experience.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 19, 2018

Social selling is a sales technique that leverages social networking sites to identify prospects, build relationships, and ideally, close more deals. Social selling is more than just a hot trend, it’s an essential part of the modern sales process. There’s even a leaderboard to incentive employees to share content consistently.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

A sales process is crucial to any commercial organization looking to secure revenue and grow. However, since sales activities have been notoriously hard to measure in terms of performance, many business owners have adopted various commission structures to keep their sales reps motivated.

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Pipeliner

JULY 9, 2018

The company offers limited sales skills training and sales mentoring is non-existent. The sales compensation plan does not incent the desired behavior. The company does not have a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system in-place to record the sales team’s activity and results. And last but not least ….

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Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It’s the heart of your business’s growth and reflects the productivity and efficacy of your sales team and strategies. Several factors can affect sales performance, such as the competition, quality of your product or service, and consumers’ expectations. Why Analyze Your Sales Performance?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Additionally, a growing number of sales reps are individually investing in their own skill-building to keep up with the increased competition. These sales reps recognize that their income is tied to their skill development. Lifetime client value, customer satisfaction, and referrals are concepts foreign to some sales reps.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

And in the highly competitive world of real estate, prospecting can be challenging. You have to be proactive, build relationships and stay ahead of the competition. You can get creative with how you share your business through referral programs to offer advocates incentives for promoting your business to others.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 19, 2018

It also makes the sales process more manageable for a prospect who’s never gone through a major purchase decision before by taking a gargantuan task and breaking it up into little, achievable pieces. In most sales situations, the biggest challenge is inertia. Why You Should Create a Deal Plan. When to Create a Deal Plan.

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The Pipeline

JULY 16, 2012

This is easy to solve, some organizations I work with do double pay, a small price to pay to win customers and revenue, while keeping the competition out. They are able to stay focused on their territory, while earning some incentive for asking one extra question. Failing this, all too often money is left on the table.

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Xactly

JULY 26, 2018

While the ins and outs of sales compensation may complicated, sales operations teams can implement several best practices to navigate complex processes more successfully. Watch the webinar, "Sales Compensation Trends and Best Practices," to learn more about optimizing incentive compensation management.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Here, we’ll discuss several aspects of sales culture, what a good one looks like, how to improve yours, and how to scale it as your company grows. How to build a winning sales culture. Encourage healthy competition. While all of those characteristics are desirable in some way, not every sales culture embraces them.

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