The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement. Incentive alignment : Shared goals enable the design of incentive structures that motivate sales reps while aligning with the broader success of the organization.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 24, 2024

Understanding Micromanagement in B2B Sales Of course, a sales manager’s job is to manage a sales team. Of course, supervision and scrutiny are necessary to ensure the smooth operation of sales processes. Of course, managers must sometimes inform reps of suboptimal sales figures. But overstepping can feel like a lack of trust.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Unfortunately, “agree to disagree” also is a common tack inside many companies when departments like sales and marketing can’t see eye to eye over one of the many things they really need to tackle together. Collaboration is good, of course. Match up incentives. Collaboration vs. Alignment.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2021

This won’t happen with email marketing because there’s no third-party between you and your audience. But before you start cranking out top-notch marketing emails , you need to build a list of subscribers. But before you start cranking out top-notch marketing emails , you need to build a list of subscribers.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 13, 2017

Configure price quote software makes approving complex sales orders easy and fast. Trust Your Configure Price Quote Software. Are your reps pushing solutions based on incentives and perceived priorities based on inventory or sales performance goals? It Starts with Guided Selling Backed Up by Configure Price Quote Software.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Education marketing is a sort of marketing that promotes and assists institutions and individuals in utilizing important educational content. Courses, how-to videos, research papers, books, and software programs for desktop computers and mobile devices are all examples of educational content. Globally, there are around 3.2

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

Adoption of new technology: As technology plays such an important role in the modern sales landscape, it’s essential to evaluate how your reps use software such as a CRM to manage leads and how they deal with tech updates or changes. Motivate with incentives Keep team morale high through inter-team competitions and incentives.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 15, 2024

A well-crafted business plan outlines your business’s mission, vision, target market, competitive analysis, marketing strategies, financial projections, and more. Conduct a competitive analysis to understand your competitors’ strengths and weaknesses, allowing you to differentiate yourself in the market.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Setting Sales Targets Sales managers are responsible for setting realistic and achievable sales targets based on market analysis, historical data, and company goals. This involves identifying target markets, segmenting potential customers, and positioning products or services. Encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Today, of course, with the internet and social media, there are countless websites for greater reach. Of course, that’s not to say asking is easy—and there’s much that can go wrong. What specific incentives do you offer, such as discounts or special offers? Of course, referrals that lead to sales are short-term wins.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The average Sales rep relies on support from the account management, customer service, and Marketing teams. As such, it’s counterproductive for there to ever be a “ Sales enablement vs. Marketing ” dynamic, even though the departments are often full of competitive personalities. Sales Enablement vs. Content Marketing.

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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. Sales reps are trained to track dollars and revenue (yes, you’ve taught them well), so of course they’re going to track their own. Why are you changing the incentive compensation plan?

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Zoominfo

JULY 1, 2018

But—as B2B marketers and sales professionals—we have a lot to learn about social selling. According to DemandGen Report, here are the top B2B review sites: G2 Crowd: Offers online reviews on B2B marketing services as well as business software. Stay one step ahead by regularly checking your online reviews.

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Close.io

AUGUST 30, 2019

In the last few years, there has been a radical shift in the way people use and buy software. In other words, we are experiencing the product-led era that came as a replacement to the marketing and the sales-led one. How is product-led different than marketing-led? Give them the right incentives to keep using your product.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

OCTOBER 2, 2023

But getting the most out of your rebate programs involves a lot of work tracking, calculating, reporting, communicating through sales and marketing and of course collecting on rebates. Compared to using simple ERP functionality or spreadsheets, rebate management software improves your accuracy, speed and consistency.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It’s been a year of dynamic shifts, evolving markets, and new challenges in the ever-complex world of distribution pricing. Of course, our most popular page of the year with several thousands of hits is our solutions page. And through it all, you, our dedicated readers and supporters, have been with us every step of the way.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 3, 2021

What is Account-Based Marketing. Account-based marketing (ABM in the rest of the text) is a B2B strategy that focuses not on the attempt to reach a wide audience but to cultivate high-value relationships with specific businesses. B2B marketers identified “revenue generation” as the top priority for conducting such a campaign.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

The clip shows her, not in her typical role as a seller, but as a buyer evaluating a piece of software. Of course, we know the phrase “like a girl” is often used as a negative stereotype to imply that someone, usually a male, is performing a task or activity in a weak or ineffective manner. You throw like a girl.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

And while the precise definition can vary by team, GTM teams often have two high-level ways of categorizing leads: Marketing qualified leads (MQLs), who are early in the journey but have interacted in a way that indicates they could be ready for sales. At this point, the B2B buyer knows their pain points and is actively seeking a solution.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Today we’ve got Scott Barton, VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent and a veteran of sales, revenue operations, and incentive compensation. Sales forecasts, territory design, quota management, and incentive compensation.

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Allbound

AUGUST 6, 2019

Why Marketing Strategies are Crucial to Partner Success. Of course, selecting and on-boarding partners isn’t enough. Of course, selecting and on-boarding partners isn’t enough. Effective Partner Marketing: Help them to help you. Chances are) Your partners are not marketers. Share what you know is working.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Of course, this means salespeople are also hyper-motivated to negotiate to hit that all-important number. This is an example of a nice incentive to shop that is attractive to a buyer and provides a little extra perk. Our team is lucky enough to manage both the sales and marketing stack,” said Dyar.

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SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

More than 1400 sessions, more than 350 exhibitors, 18 keynotes, 20 parties, 2 rock concerts, and 5 opportunities to help charities on site, there is perhaps no bigger event for sales and marketers. Act-On Software. Use Act-On for all your online marketing campaigns. There is too much for anyone person to keep track of.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

How you pay sales reps depends on the way you design your comp program, what metrics relate to what incentives, and so on— all the details we’ve covered in many past articles about comp plan design. Accountability Of course, compensation plans hold individual sales employees accountable for their performance and behaviors.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

Author: Liz Pulice In recent years, many companies have implemented remote work arrangements, driven by financial incentives, recruitment/retention initiatives and other factors. Modules on the technologies reps will rely heavily on (screen-sharing, conferencing software, etc.), Have sales reps mastered the information?

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

With 2023 in the rearview mirror, business leaders find themselves reflecting on their Q4 results and simultaneously charting the course for the forthcoming year. is crucial, of course, but accelerating the ramp-up process requires as much applicable, interactive training as possible. What does this mean for sales teams?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

Market conditions. For example, HubSpot salespeople might primarily sell marketing software to CMOs and sales software to sales directors. This section of your sales plan can also change dramatically over time as your solution and strategy evolves and you find product-market fit. Marketing budget?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2022

Data via MIT Sloan Of course, not all companies are the same. Data from Indeed, the recruitment platform, indicates that between July 2020 and July 2021, searches for vacancies advertising such incentives increased by 134 percent. The study showed a broad range of attrition within specific companies in various industries.

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LeadFuze

MAY 26, 2021

Sales and marketing are a match made in heaven… or at least they should be. To make matters worse, there’s often a disconnection between sales and marketing, resulting in broken communications, blame, and frustration. However, the benefits of aligned sales and marketing are clear. 1 Create Unity Between Sales and Marketing.

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SBI

OCTOBER 23, 2017

There are over 3,000 sessions scheduled—936 if you filter by role for sales operations or sales professional, and 179 if you filter by Marketing /ABM as a role. The other thing to keep in mind is that not every solution provider caters to marketing or sales. Clearly, there’s a wealth of knowledge and networking to be had at the event.

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Pipeliner

JULY 29, 2021

To power up all your electrical systems, software, and servers you need a huge amount of electricity, and all this means somehow you are still relying on coal and petrol to for getting electricity and power up your systems. Moreover, you may even get incentives from the government for implementing this huge transformation in your business.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example: let’s say you want to build a new plan in which your mid-market account executives receive 5% commission on new business bookings and 6% commission on any multi-year deal. An incredibly powerful tool, of course, but one that only works with the right person operating it. It’s an instrument, not a conductor.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Companies adopt new finance solutions frequently, either replacing legacy software or filling a need with an entirely new solution. You might be a master of a budgeting software your company adopted years ago, but what happens if they decide to switch to a different solution?

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Nutshell

JULY 30, 2021

Email marketing can be captivating, persuasive, powerful, and a phenomenal tool for lead generation—if you know what you’re doing. Persuasive writing is one of the keys to email marketing success. Would you, for instance, rather buy a piece of software that everyone on LinkedIn raves about or some generic tool you found online?

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

After graduating, Samuel’s interest in building models and solving complex problems led him to start his career in software finance and sales operations. With a background as a software engineer and a career in customer success, she is excited for her future at Spiff as a Technical Customer Success Manager.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 3, 2018

While this may sound like a huge task to overcome, it can be done much more efficiently and effectively with sales rep management software. As a sales manager, it is also your responsibility to keep track of sales reps’ paths to ensure they are on the right course and/or make appropriate corrections when necessary.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

Here’s a list of the best lead generation tools on the market today. These solutions range from CRM tools to exit-intentlead capture to sales management tools to marketing software and beyond. Drift chatbots come in three flavors — marketing, sales or service. 1) Outreach.io Visit their pricing page to learn more.

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