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Sales Incentives Aren't the Only Motivator. How One Company Got Rid of Them

Hubspot Sales

If set correctly, incentives can have a positive effect on your team's behavior. The commission, bonuses, and sales performance incentive funds (SPIFs) you thought were inspiring your team can become more harmful than helpful if reps put their numbers ahead of their customers, who can feel pressured to buy. Source: PFX.

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Sales Enablement In a Remote Work Reality

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Liz Pulice In recent years, many companies have implemented remote work arrangements, driven by financial incentives, recruitment/retention initiatives and other factors. These conditions can present challenges for sales organizations, where in-person meetings and events are typically part of “business as usual.”

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How to Create Sales Collaterals That Convert

Highspot

Who Creates and Distributes Sales Collateral? Collateral creation and distribution are a team effort. The entire creation and distribution workflow closely aligns with content governance, emphasizing regular updates, maintaining brand consistency, and tracking collateral usage.

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6 Steps to Setting Up The Perfect Remote Sales Contest

Sales Hacker

Nail Down Incentives. A lot of sales orgs set aside budget for incentives, but they offer the same prizes week after week, quarter after quarter. One of our best sales incentives that we come back to year after year is our billboard incentive. If your incentive funds got slashed, you’ve still got options.

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The Impact and Administrative Overhead of a Bad Sales Commission Process

The Spiff Blog

Distribute updated plans and address the inevitable errors that arise once they’re rolled out. You present these findings to sales leadership and ultimately decide to include a new accelerator clause to your comp plans. Transferring calculations into individual statements and distributing them to reps.

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Pam Dearen of @Bigtincan

SBI

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Using our remote learning capabilities, they are able to present industry-specific learning paths to streamline partner onboarding and training. Pam : Practice and be fully present!

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How to Communicate Your Sales Compensation Plan Effectively

Xactly

Picture this: the sales compensation design team has spent months analyzing performance, designing, re-designing, tweaking and modeling the upcoming year’s new sales incentive plans. You think the hard work of design is over, and the rollout can be done by simply distributing the plan documents. Think again….