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Is a Sales Operations Career Right for You?

Sales Hacker

If you know that you love strategizing to increase sales but don’t want to be an account executive, sales operations may be the right place for you. What is Sales Operations? Any customer-facing rep who’s worked at a midsize or enterprise company is familiar with sales operations. Operations.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Operations in 2019

Hubspot Sales

The sales operations professional is like the coxswain for salespeople. Patrick Kelly, who led Xerox’s first Sales Operations group, describes the role as “all the nasty number things that you don’t want to do but need to do to make a great sales force.”. Sales Operations vs. Sales Enablement.

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2022 Sales Compensation Trends: Notes from the WorldatWork Conference

Sales Hacker

Having attended this year’s WorldatWork Sales Compensation conference in Chicago, I’m struck by two things: the resiliency of sales compensation as a relevant topic, and all that is new in the field. WorldatWork’s sales comp conference is the premier event for sales compensation professionals.

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5 Key Pillars of Effective Sales Performance Management

The Spiff Blog

Although SPM strategy varies by company and industry, the most effective sales performance management strategies typically involve a combination of the same core pillars. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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The 12 Step Compensation Plan Design Process

Xactly

You need to start pulling together internal data from your incentive compensation management system, data from your CRM, and finally, information from financial teams on profitability and product revenues. Are you an Xactly Insights customer using empirical data to benchmark your incentive compensation?

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Selling Like a Girl: A Look at Gender Bias in Sales

The Spiff Blog

Consider these statistics: In 2022, Sales was ranked as the occupation with the tenth highest wage gap between men and women– with women earning $.91 Although women make up just over half of the college educated workforce, they hold less than one third of B2B sales jobs ( source ).

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30 Sales Commission Memes to End 2023 with a Laugh

The Spiff Blog

Putting Your Degree to Good Use You know all that accounting and finance expertise you picked up in your many years of education? Spiff is designed to facilitate trust across organizations, motivate sales teams , increase visibility into performance and earnings, and ultimately, drive top line growth.