The Spiff Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

They haven’t been given the chance,” says Chris Smith, Spiff sales manager and co-chair/executive sponsor of our BIDE Committee (Belonging, Inclusivity, Diversity & Equity). You’re more likely to succeed if those goals are realistic, so do your homework and pull demographic data from different sources.

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Xactly

JUNE 20, 2018

For example, enterprises are using Xactly Insights, an advanced analytics offering based on 13 years of empirical incentive compensation data. This need for data places some important demands on any company: End the Need for Manual Processes: The need for AI should spell the end of any manually executed sales management activities.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Identify Opportunities You can uncover hidden gems by monitoring your sales performance metrics. Perhaps there’s a demographic you haven’t tapped into or a service angle you haven’t explored. This ensures you maximize the return on every dollar spent on hiring, training, technology, or sales campaigns.

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PandaDoc

MAY 26, 2022

By comparison, a sales strategy is more focused and offers a more specific set of guidelines around how sales reps should interact with customers. Despite these common elements, sales strategies are never a one-size-fits-all proposition. Ask yourself: What incentive are your competitors offering?

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Xactly

JULY 2, 2018

It can often feel like every sale comes with its own unique challenges, and closing can be the most difficult part of the process. However, sales objections aren’t always a bad thing. Watch the webinar, "Incentivize to the Power of Xactly: Life of a Sales Leader," to learn how to drive the right rep behaviors using Xactly Incent.

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Xactly

AUGUST 30, 2018

Download the "2018 Sales Compensation Administration Best Practices Executive Guide," for incentive compensation trends, best practices, and tips to drive the right sales behaviors to kickoff your sales compensation planning. So what can sales managers do to help their teams meet quota?

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Depending on the specific product you’re selling, certain locations and demographics will be more interested in your product than others. Therefore, sales leaders must be careful to mix and match territory assignments to give each rep a fair slice of the market. To combat the negative aspects of this model, we recommend two things.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

A sales process is a set of repeatable steps that your sales team takes to convert prospects into customers. Building a sales process is absolutely necessary to your company’s success, and is perhaps the most important thing you can do as a sales manager to impact your team’s ability to sell.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Capture as much key buyer information as you can during their interactions with your site; forms replete with information useful to a sales team are a good start (although, be careful not to overdo it — overlong forms can intimidate prospects). You need to base your personas on more than general demographic information.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

put together a sales go to market plan with clear objectives. It needs the incentive of bonuses as well. 3 3 Sales managers have an important role in coordinating all these efforts by setting goals that drive performance am. Case Example: Implications of a Two-Stage Inside Sales Organization.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 29, 2020

RELATED: 8 Techniques To Effectively Train Your Sales Team No matter what business you’re in, sales teams have a united goal of increasing profits through new or repeat business. The point of the arrow is the confident, tactical reps focused on sales and growing accounts. 7 Tips on Structuring Your Team for Success.

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 5, 2023

Based on this goal, you can break your targets down into more manageable goals covering the whole quarter. Following performance-related KPIs like this is just one of the many sales KPIs that can help you determine where to position your resources, which demographic to target, and which strategies to implement.

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Tenbound

JANUARY 3, 2024

Trends : This includes social-demographic and technology. Chapter 8: Leveraging the Right Tools Sales tools can assist sales professionals in the process to close more deals at a faster rate. Chapter 9: Managing Sales Development Professionals Remember to treat sales development representatives as human beings.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

It encompasses demographic data including: Job title Industry Tech stack Location Opportunity Data Opportunity data helps identify favorable conditions for a company to act on when sales prospecting. Others provide technographic data and demographic data. The vendor should be able (and willing) to provide specifics.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 26, 2022

Get creative with loyalty incentives. Generally, these can be divided into four segments: Demographic: Made up of two subsets: individual and firmographic. Like sports coaches, sales managers should regularly review the game tapes and the analytics. However, in many cases, they are easy to please. Seek new ways to help.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 27, 2020

You can use a single question to determine how experienced a sales manager is: “What has a bigger impact on your team’s success, sales skills or motivation?”. Newer managers tend to say the former, while more experienced ones pick the latter. Free Personal Development. Floating Trophy. Winner's Choice.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Let’s say you’re the head of sales in a small company that recently launched a product. Your task as a sales manager is to market it. But appealing to large audiences doesn’t help your business to reach sales goals, or generate and convert enough leads. As you can see, a vertical market is fully about market segmentation.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 4, 2020

Ideally, sales reps should have the task of creating an individual sales plan as part of their training. This will give them an idea of how to write and work with a sales plan template. Sales executives, sales managers, and entrepreneurs all benefit from having a sales plan. Target Market .

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Close.io

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Once your sales team grows beyond just one or two reps you can personally coach through the challenges that arise with their accounts, implementing a proper sales training workflow into your new hiring process (and ongoing rep development) becomes essential. Mentorship picks up right where management leaves off.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is unsurprising because 25% of sales managers are unhappy with their forecasting accuracy. Choosing the right predictive sales model can help you predict future revenue more accurately. The following post will discuss three sales forecasting models that have proven to be effective for us at HubSpot.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Without a repeatable process for generating pipeline — and ultimately creating leads — the sales team must generate their own leads. That’s rarely a formula for success and usually leads to frustrated salespeople, sales managers, and senior managers who can’t achieve their revenue goals. But have no fear.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional. There are plenty of sales prospecting tools and sales management software to help automate your manual tasks while personalizing your outreach.

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