The Spiff Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Welcome back to our Sell Like a Girl series– where we’ve spent recent weeks unpacking gender bias in sales. Today we’re continuing this conversation by sharing a preview of our latest research on sales commission. While the data we uncovered is concerning, it’s not surprising. Let’s get into it.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Believe it or not, the new year is right around the corner– and that means it’s time to plan your sales compensation strategy for 2024. But, in this era of constantly shifting market conditions, it can be difficult to know what changes will best set your sales organization on the path towards success. Don’t worry, we’re here to help!

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Related: How to Build Sales Compensation Plans for All Customer-Facing Roles – Templates and Examples. For those like myself who have practiced sales compensation for over 20 years and attended this event nearly as long, the WorldatWork conference is filled with familiar faces and themes. Cool stuff!

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

As the backbone of any business, the sales team needs to be efficient to meet targets and ensure the company remains profitable. Keeping an eye on your team’s sales productivity is one of the best ways to track performance and nip bottlenecks in the bud. Table of Contents What is sales productivity? What is sales productivity?

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SBI

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Brainshark is a data-driven sales readiness platform. That means you can prepare your client-facing teams with the knowledge and skills to perform at the highest level and the score cards to know what’s working and how to improve. Brainshark is a data-driven sales readiness platform. Sales Enablement.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Sales operations teams frequently encounter hurdles such as juggling too many tasks, outdated procedures, insufficient data management, and communication breakdowns. When sales performance starts slipping, it’s a call to action for a sales operations strategy makeover. As a result, data silos emerge.

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Impossible-to-reach quotas, a high-pressure sales environment, and a lack of transparency throughout Wells Fargo’s sales organization. Impossible-to-reach quotas, a high-pressure sales environment, and a lack of transparency throughout Wells Fargo’s sales organization. The driver of these practices?

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

That could crush your sales organization. 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. I have spoken to a number of sales executives trying to understand their most perplexing challenges.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds. The result?

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Xactly

OCTOBER 10, 2018

As part of the effort to make plan design easier, here are a few thoughts on the process (and a few other sales plan ideas too): 1. 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.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 29, 2013

Sales leaders will not Make the Number if they fail to rapidly onboard new talent. The sales environment is uniquely suited to take advantage of an innovation called “ gamification.” This post is for HR and Sales leaders who ask, "How can we accelerate the productivity of our new hires?". Slow ramp time for new hires is lethal.

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Xactly

MAY 7, 2018

Sales compensation is one of the most important components of sales planning. Sales operations and compensation professionals must compile a team to piecing together metrics and goals, which carries an incredible amount of responsibility. I was hooked into the space of Sales Compensation, but I had moved on.

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

Knowing how to set sales goals is a crucial skill for any business owner, sales manager or marketer. It not only drives revenue growth but also helps in managing customer churn and acquisition costs effectively. But setting effective sales goals involves more than just choosing an arbitrary number.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. Consider this: a recent survey ranked ‘sales account manager’ as one of the most stressful jobs in the US, with 73 percent of respondents rating the role as “highly stressful.” ” ( source ).

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SBI

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Social Selling and Big Data at the Upcoming Sales & Marketing 2.0 Next week, Sales Dot Two Inc., will host the Sales & Marketing 2.0 The focus is purported to be on the benefits of big data for B2B sales organizations with an emphasis on social technologies. The Sales 2.0 Conference.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members.

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LevelEleven

JANUARY 2, 2020

Looking to kick off a sales contest in the new year? This is usually the primary reason for any sales contest; spiking behaviors that will lead to results. Not only do they help motivate your team, they can do a lot of good for your organization beyond the competition itself, for a variety of reasons. Create coaching opportunities.

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 4, 2018

In this fourth post, we discuss how sales compensation administrators can streamline the incentives management process using SPM technology and in doing that transform their role from an administrative function to a business and analytical function. All of this leads to improved operational effectiveness and efficiency.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?. Scaling sales during the pandemic. How to build a winning sales team. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. powered by Sounder.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Research has shown that there are huge benefits to gamifying your sales process, including better worker productivity and retention when it comes to learning new things. It’s one reason that interoffice sales games have become a go-to strategy in most major organizations. Let’s jump in! People love to play games.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 25, 2019

In today’s competitive market, sales organizations need more than just talented salespeople to generate qualified leads. Sales development teams need the right tools to communicate and grow pipelines. Software-defined radio (SDR) technology empowers sales teams to drive communications forward. Overview of SDR metrics.

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Apptivo

MARCH 9, 2023

3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more! Bye-bye manual tasks, hello sales automation! However, at times no matter how long one stretches, sales tasks eat up a lot of productive hours. 3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more! Reap more with automation 2.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this article, we help you navigate the intricacies of sales performance metrics, guiding you on which ones are pivotal and how best to measure them. What Is Sales Performance? Sales Performance vs. Sales Metrics Why Analyze Your Sales Performance? By doing so, you foster more robust connections with customers.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 12, 2015

What is predictable is the challenges sales organizations face. Sales organizations are finding it harder and harder to deliver predictable revenue, and historical sales models are beginning to show cracks. Slowly but surely, sellers are lining up on one side of the sales cycle, while buyers line up on the other.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. Consider this: a recent survey ranked ‘ sales account manager ’ as one of the most stressful jobs in the US, with 73 percent of respondents rating the role as “highly stressful.” Keep reading!

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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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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

These are the luxuries afforded to the typical inside sales rep. But aside from the obvious environmental difference, there’s a lot more that separates inside from outside sales teams, and that’s what we’re going to explore here. What is inside sales? . Outside sales reps, by contrast, sell on the road.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Companies following Software as a Service (SaaS) business models can face challenges regarding generating revenue and growth. This enables you to collect data and create reports highlighting the value your service added to them during the contract. The issue is that success is tied to customer renewal rates.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Sales Ops: Table of Contents.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

It’s a driving factor for how the world gets work done and where future sales potential lies. McKinsey notes that B2B decision-makers are pushing to e-commerce and e-commerce-like sales cycles, and up to 80% prefer either digital self-service tools or to contact teams remotely. But that might mean overlooking a golden opportunity.

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Salesmate

JUNE 4, 2021

Sales isn’t the same as it used to be. And with this change in technology, advancements in sales methodologies have also taken place. One such practice is that of providing sales incentives to the salespeople. What are sales incentives? Types of sales incentives. Role-specific incentives .

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 21, 2019

The sales department grows frustrated because they don’t have the necessary material (i.e., blog posts, white papers, eBooks) to make a sale. Therefore, marketing may become annoyed when sales doesn’t even use what they produce. How will SQLs be passed on to sales? The result? Separate customer messaging.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Marketing/Sales Integration.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Accelerating sales is not only possible, but it’s a challenge the entire organization should accept, creating the sales equivalent of the “rally around the flag” effect. Let’s examine how to accelerate sales even when prospects aren’t biting. unexpectedly poor sales performance is debilitating.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

How has your sales leadership style changed this year? As companies are facing uncertainty with their ability to operate and sell their products, effective leadership may have a whole new set of requirements. It’s time to rewrite the sales leadership rulebook. Sales Leader Priorities for 2021.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 20, 2017

Every sales executive is constantly struggling to improve the performance of their organizations. The data on percent of sales people achieving their goals, percent of companies making plan, and so forth is appalling. Millions of person hours are spent in trying to understand how to drive sales performance.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

December around the corner also means your sales year is coming to an end. Therefore, it’s important to manage your time and plan accordingly. So, as a sales leader or manager, what do you do? I’ve faced this challenge as a senior sales executive, sales enablement executive and outside sales enablement specialist.

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