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Gamification: The Secret to Accelerate Onboarding

SBI Growth

The 4 primary characteristics that make it an accelerant to onboarding include: Competitive Environment: Top sales people are highly competitive. Incentive Compensation: Sales people are “coin-operated.” Remoteness: Field sales people are spread across wide geographies. Onboarding Goals Brought into Harmony.

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Old-School Territory Management is Dead: A Q&A with John Stewart, CEO of @MapAnything

SBI

What I got was an insight into modern, data-driven territory planning. The premise is that enterprises can no longer afford to design geographically equivalent territories that are unbalanced in terms of value of potential sales, number of accounts, and travel and schedule efficiency.

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Outstanding in the Field: ICM Self-Service Enablement for Field Reps

OpenSymmetry

Likewise, it’s no surprise that more companies are adopting that same mantra with employee self-service in regards to their field sales force. As mentioned in my previous blog , Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) solutions have moved far beyond being an automated calculator for determining commission and bonus incentives.

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Incentive Program FAQs

Sales and Marketing Management

For example, what caused pain points at the end of the program: reps changing territories mid-program, sales that were booked but not invoiced, clients who made verbal commitments but didn’t sign contracts, field sales managers that vouched for sales that didn’t get logged into the system on time, etc.?

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How to Capitalize on Sales Trend

Xactly

Why get stuck in a rut when you can move forward in the digital age with data-driven insights. Look for change whether it’s social or technological, such as the rise of data intelligence and machine learning. If you want to capitalize on a sales trend, then you have to see it before it becomes a trend. Watch Webinar.

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The 13 Least Known Sales Technologies

Velocify

Sales gamification software leverages game mechanics to incentivize rep performance. With features like real-time leaderboards, scorecards, and contests, sales managers can create a data-driven sales team that is motivated to reach their goals. 3) Data Visualization/Business Intelligence. 5) Predictive Analytics.

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Sales Performance Management: Not Your Parent’s Compensation Calculator

OpenSymmetry

Sales Performance Management (SPM) has truly evolved over the last 10+ years from the days of having an on-premise solution that primarily automated the compensation calculation process with basic reporting, to a new dynamic frontier with extended capabilities.