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Sales enablement: what is it, and how does it work?

Close.io

First off, let’s make one thing very clear: sales enablement isn’t just another fun trend that’s here today and gone tomorrow. Just five years ago, CSO Insights ran a study about sales enablement and only 25% of the companies they surveyed had developed sales enablement for their teams. Today, we’ll see: ?

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End of Year Software Discounts: Savvy Cost Saving or Short-Sighted Business Move?

Sales Hacker

As such, steep discounts are often on the table in a way that can feel as thrilling as a 50% off Apple Watch on Cyber Monday. For example, in the reference above, Apple doesn’t technically discount their technology on Cyber Monday. And sometimes, a discount is just a discount, and you should grab it while it’s hot and save that money.

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For Sale, Not On Sale - The True Cost of Discounting and What to Do About It

The ROI Guy

By Mark Schlueter & Tom Pisello More sales execs are revealing that discount pressures are at an all time high, and as a result, they need more transactions than ever just to make the numbers. Procurement specialists’ incentive pay is now directly tied to the discounts they can extract from each vendor.

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HubSpot’s 2022 Sales Strategy & Trends Report: Data from 1000 Global Sales Pros

Hubspot Sales

Almost 90% of sales professionals try to upsell their customers. Around 80% of sales professionals cross-sell. While this can be accomplished by most of the strategies in this report, a few we haven’t touched on are sales enablement content, freemium/free trial options, discounts and promotions, and down-selling.

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Sales commission structures explained

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Depending on how experienced your sales team members are, they could opt for a base salary, higher commission rates, or something in between. So what can possibly be a better incentive than a performance-based bonus? Five typical sales commission structures 1. Well, offer more and bigger incentives!

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How to Find the Right Sales Compensation Plan for Your Sales Team

Chorus.ai

Having an attractive sales compensation plan is essential not only when adding sales talent to your team but also when retaining your top performers and fortifying your bottom line. Creating the perfect incentive compensation package for your team is no simple feat. How internally competitive are your incentives (i.e.,

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How to Find the Right Sales Compensation Plan for Your Sales Team

Chorus.ai

How internally competitive are your incentives (i.e., the difference in incentives offered to the lowest-performing sales rep compared with those offered to the highest)? How competitive are your incentives compared with the norm in your industry? Keep your plans aligned. Commission.