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Sales Planning Fundamentals Part Four: Territory Planning

Xactly

In today’s post, I’ll talk about territory planning. Territory planning represents the foundation of sales performance management (SPM). You must have the right territory design in place to accurately allocate quotas. Accurate quota allocation impacts your team’s ability to achieve their anticipated incentive compensation.

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5 Steps to a Competitive Sales Incentive Plan

Xactly

Compensation drives sales behavior, which means your sales incentive plan is a critical factor in sales performance and objective achievement. The incentive compensation planning team faces the challenge of balancing executive priorities and designing incentives that motivate reps. Set the Foundation. Building the Framework.

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3 Reasons to Drop Manual Sales Territory Planning for Good

Xactly

Sure, you know you need ICM to handle accurate and timely payments, but do you really need automated sales territory planning as well? Although automating technology for territory design can increase your sales up to 20 percent, territory planning is often categorized as a luxury in SPM—instead of as the necessity it is.

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4 Sales Ops Lessons from the NFL

SBI Growth

Find out by downloading the Sales Performance Conditions Scorecard here. Territories : The field of play. Are territories designed to maximize growth balanced with efficiency? Are you holding back performance based on territory design and assignment? Assign the highest potential territories to your best reps.

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10-Point Inspection for Top Sales Performance

SBI Growth

This simple, free, downloadable tool reveals the vital signs of your plan. Erik Charles is the Principal Incentive Strategist at Xactly Corp. In a recent webinar , Erik noted that: "The total outlay for Incentive Compensation in the U.S. Step Two : Calculate personal income based on executing the Territory Account Plan.

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How to Setup a Commission Plan in Six Steps

Xactly

Download our "Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation Planning" for incentive best practices and everything you need for a sales comp plan design project. Formulate your new plan around the successful elements and structure incentives for new goals similarly. Ideally you need a sales incentive planning team of six people.

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Sales Incentive Optimization

OpenSymmetry

The Journey to Sales Incentive Optimization. A familiar scenario that salesforces experience is the excitement and optimism of the new sales incentive launch, followed by the realisation that: New rules have been introduced which limit the kind of high payouts experienced last year which made the plan unaffordable.