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. It’s simple.

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Smooth Sale

MAY 26, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How to Enhance Your Business Approach to Customer Service. Our collaborative blog offers insights on ‘How to enhance your business approach to customer service.’ ’ Customer service is something that most businesses know they need to get right. Hire and Train the Right Skills.

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Smooth Sale

MAY 15, 2024

Merch, including branded Moleskine notebooks, wallets, and even leather belts, can help you do that, especially if you present them in distinguishable boxes with custom wrapping paper that incorporates your logo. This is because merch makes you feel like a more relatable, trustworthy brand that values its customers.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Sales training accounts for less than one-third of what you should be doing to enable sales. If your sales enablement initiative is not having a big enough impact, it could be because of the common mistake made by companies to confuse training with enablement. Most sales training is focused on the basics of a company and its products.

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Zendesk Sell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The customer experience today is more relational and less transactional than ever before. This is a great thing for customers, and it’s a great thing for businesses that want to build long-term relationships with those customers. In contrast, customer service teams are measured by: Reducing the number of tickets.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you consider sales training to be the first of several steps toward boosting profits, it’s easy to see why it’s such a crucial investment. Sales training lays the foundation for future revenues by increasing your team’s satisfaction, loyalty and competence, all of which improve their interaction with the customer.

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Highspot

MAY 3, 2024

It requires multiple teams including marketing, customer success, account management, and more to optimize the sales cycle and performance. Revenue enablement is a strategic function that provides all customer-facing roles with the tools, data, and knowledge to maximize revenue throughout the customer journey.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2022

We do this through hiring the right people, training, giving them tools/processes/programs/systems to help them perform, providing the right support, eliminating barriers to their performance, and constantly coaching/developing them. We try to develop compensation plans that incent people to achieve those goals.

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Smooth Sale

MAY 11, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Use The Seven Top Ways You Can Look After Your Customers? Our collaborative blog offers insights into the question, ‘Do you use the seven top ways you can look after your customers?’. If you are running your own business , you know how important it is to look after your customers.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This article will show you how the right commission plan execution can retain your employees, reduce customer churn and increase trust between internal teams. . Maybe your company is a start-up working in the customer acquisition phase and pounding the pavement hard. Why are you changing the incentive compensation plan?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 2, 2022

To create a winning culture, consider these tips: Encouragement Motivation Incentives Recognition Team Building. Similarly, most comp plans already consider incentives and bonuses. Sales Training. Training can provide a new perspective. Today, the field of sales training is vast. Organizations have many options.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 12, 2020

The ability to maintain steady customer satisfaction and customer support scores despite a delayed product release. Do these results and customer experience metrics sound unrealistic? FinTech Firm Engages Miller Heiman Group—Twice—for Guidance on Customer Experience Best Practices. Think again. Get the Case Study.

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OpenSymmetry

JULY 27, 2015

Fred Sass, Worldwide Marketing Executive for the Sales Performance Management (SPM) division IBM and Laura Roach, Senior VP of Marketing and Customer Success, OpenSymmetry invited Erin Harris, Executive Editor of Integrated Solutions for Retailers to join them in sharing their expertise in securing market share through Incentive Compensation.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2022

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 Good Jobs Institute works with business leaders to develop meaningful employment opportunities by creating more supportive cultures via training initiatives.

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The discussions revolved around how close we should get to a customer’s business and whether there is value in knowing how the customer really thinks about us. So I thought it appropriate to cover a few ideas that you could use if you feel that it’s very difficult to know what customers actually think about you and your services.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Ever heard of the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve ?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Product differentiation is not known by the customer. He focused on three key steps to make it happen: Know What the Customer Wants. Know What the Customer Wants. He conducted buyer research and asked his customers what their requirements would be. Cycle time – get customers their cars back quickly.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 8, 2019

Great customer service is a key part of any successful business. Poor customer service has the opposite effect. According to the NewVoiceMedia’s 2018 “Serial Switchers” report , poor customer service costs businesses around $75 billion a year. Only 5% did not share a negative customer service experience.

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 6, 2022

Continuing education in the workplace is the ongoing training and development of workers to improve relevant professional and or personal skills that will advance them in their careers. Improves employee retention rates. Another byproduct of the staff feeling appreciated and valued in the workplace is increased staff retention.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 21, 2024

Those in the creative arts tend to do best from things like Patreon subscriptions , which allow you to get paid directly by supporters and offer them things like exclusive background access or pieces that aren’t public as an incentive/reward. Learn more to train teams and join the advocacy program.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

Higher customer retention rates: With your uber-productive sales reps on the job, your customers will have a more enriched customer experience, instilling trust and loyalty. Sales teams have adapted to this, spending far more time interacting with prospects and customers via online channels.

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Sales Evangelist

JANUARY 9, 2020

The Next Wave: Customer-Facing Solutions With the new year, we are all looking towards the next wave in customer-facing solutions available for us. Next wave in customer-facing solutions The sales industry tends to move in waves. The next generation helps with the interaction and is referred to as customer-facing tools.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 14, 2023

It is especially true if you have a high-quality product or service for which customers are willing to pay more. One of the easiest ways to do this is by offering promotions or discounts to attract more customers. Improve Customer Service Improving your customer service can also help increase your profits.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

This includes roles that are complementary to sales like renewals, customer success, and solution engineering. The mandate of a VP of Sales is to maximize the organization’s revenue bookings, renewals, and retention by maintaining control of the entire deal pipeline, from SQL to proposal to negotiation, to commit, to close.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Greater areas of responsibility, including customer experience and financial results, without greater resources. Demanding customers who engage sellers later in the buying journey. Many organizations invest significantly in training their frontline sellers, given their proximity to buyers. Enable Sales Managers Directly.

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 9, 2023

Whether it’s a torrential downpour or an unexpected heatwave, unpredictable meteorological conditions can disrupt daily productivity and affect customer behavior. To counter this, consider using digital marketing techniques to increase visibility online: Offer special promotions and discounts to entice customers during periods of bad weather.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Additionally, motivation improves job satisfaction, employee retention rates, and overall workforce morale. This invariably improves customer experience, enhances client loyalty, and bolsters brand reputation. Training and development pave the way to attaining sales success. Secondly, let data guide your decisions.

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Sell Integrity

JANUARY 28, 2021

What’s more, truly effective salespeople spend time building up a deep understanding of and trusted relationships with their customers. They become the face of the organization and the partner in their customers’ success. Hiring, training and severance and bonus packages all figure into the hard-dollar costs.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Despite the fact that we live and breathe incentive comp, we are not immune to the factors that affect every sales organization. Our goal was to give our sales leaders the same in-depth look at Xactly’s sales performance across our sales team and companies in our industry as our customers. Are we assigning effective territories?

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Mindtickle

APRIL 30, 2016

Ask yourself, is your new hire training everything it needs to be to prepare your employees for today’s business challenges? If you have a feeling that your new hire training could be even a little bit better, consider these sobering statistics. For any business, training is an investment in your resources, money, and time.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Sales performance measures how effectively a sales team converts leads into customers and generates revenue. Analyzing and comparing sales performance with the expected customer service standards allows you to pinpoint areas that need enhancement. By doing so, you foster more robust connections with customers.

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

It not only drives revenue growth but also helps in managing customer churn and acquisition costs effectively. We will explore how past data analysis, future company changes consideration, and incentive programs implementation play a significant role in goal-setting. Motivation is the secret sauce to achieving your goals.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Generating demand inside these customers is different. Change the compensation plan to incent new logo growth by adding an accelerator. Increase base pay by 7-9% across the board to help with retention. Sales training. Shouldn''t the front line sales managers be leading the training and it be buyer centric?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Mike is a 20-year sales veteran, the last 12 of which have been at a Mimeo, where he oversees all of the new business acquisition or new customer onboarding throughout the company for their B2B segment. I oversee all of the new business acquisition or new customer onboarding throughout the company. You can customize it quickly.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 8, 2022

If your delivery service is not convenient, it is essential to know that this is one of the best ways to lose customers. It is essential to try and find a way to make it convenient for your customers to buy from you if at all possible. Do your best to give your customers the chance to choose a convenient option for receiving goods.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

Examples of sales goals include increasing customer retention (the number of first-time customers that turn into repeat buyers) or decreasing customer churn (the percentage of customers that stopped using your company’s product or service during a specific time frame). Create training and education opportunities.

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Sell Integrity

JANUARY 6, 2021

Money and incentives matter, but this year more than ever they’re only part of the sales retention story. Mindset and beliefs play a critical role in sales performance, yet they’re often overlooked or underestimated, especially when it comes to sales training. That’s what builds loyalty — among employees as well as customers.

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