Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

Faster onboarding: After building more efficient and effective processes, you’ll have a fine-tuned prospecting, qualifying, and lead nurturing system that makes it easy for new recruits to get up to speed. Sales teams have adapted to this, spending far more time interacting with prospects and customers via online channels.

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LeadFuze

JULY 5, 2023

We’ll also explore how Sales Performance Incentive Funds (SPIFs) play a role in motivating teams. This not only improves performance but also attracts talented individuals within your sales force, enhancing business prospects significantly. Go the extra mile and offer incentives for those who go above and beyond.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 24, 2023

Here, we’ll examine two key activities, calling/emailing new prospects and proposals sent. Of course, top sellers vary the days and times of their prospecting calls. Perhaps, they have overcome initial objections and interested prospects enough to warrant a proposal. Here, organizations have the benefit of hard numbers.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 26, 2019

Career ladders help retain staff by providing an incentive to keep moving forward -- if they see a clear reward (i.e., Try this exercise with anyone interested in advancement (whether management or not): 1. Using an exercise like this to build a sales ladder for individual team members can be hugely beneficial.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 21, 2021

Not only are there are many external factors that affect motivation, every person requires different incentives and motivational tactics. Your team’s results are influenced by -- may even depend on -- consistent sleep, exercise, and a healthy diet. If they point to “exercise,” he’ll say, “Go for a walk.”. My reps love it.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 5, 2018

If you do, you’ll work with more qualified prospects and enjoy a much shorter sales cycle. You will also virtually eliminate objections of the ilk that the prospect doesn’t trust you. Offer Incentives. Offer incentives. Referral Role Play Exercises. Prospect: " Sure.". So, how do you ask for referrals?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 18, 2023

At the same time, it’s a clear signal to other prospects looking to conduct business with you: 49% of clients use online reviews as a basis for decision-making, while 60% also deem them trustworthy. That being said, asking clients for a review can easily become an awkward prospect to pursue. Need more info about PandaDoc forms?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Organizations across all industries are exercising greater caution given the macroeconomic uncertainty. It’s a complex number to calculate because it’s a hypothetical exercise, and the money never flowed. The logic is, “If the salesperson is not passionate about their product, why should the prospect be?”

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The Spiff Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

But, at the enterprise level, it may take hundreds of people and systems to move a single prospect through the customer lifecycle. The most successful organizations think about the customer life cycle as something that starts when a customer is still just a prospect. This helps your team to work smarter, not harder.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Both of these types of responses give little guidance to the sales rep — in fact it probably just makes them more frustrated with the exercise. Make it rewarding Incentives are a good way to encourage adoption, drive behavior change and reward participants. The rules and rewards can be as varied as any other sales incentive.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

They must be trainable (incentive to change) and coachable (not resistant to change). An exercise to help the salespeople apply what was learned must be assigned. They must know how much better they can become, how much more revenue they can generate and how much more money they can earn by making the necessary changes.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

Identify 100 potential prospects and assign tiger team to each. On a smaller team, this exercise helps people avoid replicating each other’s work -- and shifting blame around if targets aren’t met. Do you have a budget for sales contests and incentives? Run three-day referral techniques workshop. Hold two executive-level events.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 31, 2019

It allows the marketers and customer service reps to hear prospects’ questions and concerns. Schedule a meeting with managers, and outline the mutual benefits (touch on benefits listed above) and how the exercise aligns with overall company goals. Get your salespeople on board. Present the plan to your sales team. Product demos.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The expectation to Always Be Closing: Sales teams often operate under the belief that the customer or prospect always comes first, even when it means the wellbeing of the sales rep takes the back seat. These include exercise incentives, free mindfulness tools, and practical advice about relieving workplace stress.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

You can also get insights into how your sales team is using (or not using) content, if they’re nurturing leads, how quickly they’re following up with customer requests, what their daily behaviors are, and which channels they use most to communicate with prospects. Include sales incentives and recognition as part of an ongoing sales program.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Meaning that because you aren’t relying on inbound leads, you have the entire universe of prospects to call on. For most prospects, you will want to start out with a 15-minute phone screen. Do they have any long-term incentives that would keep them at their current job? Here’s my favorite ‘what if’ exercise.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

Selling is about providing value to your prospects without expecting anything in return. But you’ve got to really want to help your prospects. When one of our salespeople is struggling, I’ll typically ask, “ How’s your sleep pattern? ” “ Are you eating good food? ” “ Are you exercising? ” Practice Good Self-Talk.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 29, 2020

Everything, from conversational approach to presentation design to follow-up method to prospecting strategy, can come under the banner of sales training. A rep needs this balance while talking to a prospect in order to draw their interest. New approaches to sales conversations can improve outcomes in every phase of the sales cycle.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 17, 2020

Particularly in SaaS, where the most purchase-ready prospects are also the most informed, even a small knowledge/skill deficit can provoke a slump. Consider the rep’s personality profile and how this relates to their current incentives. Read more, socialize, exercise, and relax outside the work environment. It’s a lot to ask!

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LinkedFusion

OCTOBER 30, 2020

You can zero in on starting discussions and connections that help build relationships, without drawing your consideration from center business exercises. Seeming like a business framework is a significant disadvantage that is related to over-automating your LinkedIn exercises. It is a basic yet profoundly viable methodology.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

Get in the Door: Sales Prospecting Strategies & Tactics. The next time you’re walking the dog, commuting, exercising, cleaning, or doing any other task that doesn’t require mental energy, pop in your earbuds, press “Play,” and learn from sales leaders and experts. Linking Into Sales Podcast. In the Arena. The Sales Evangelist.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 30, 2020

A finely-tuned CRM tracks and utilizes all of the tiny pieces of data generated by prospects all the way from the tippity-top of the funnel until the moment they sign that sweet, sweet contract. If a prospect isn’t clicking anything, they might not be a solid lead. Incentives can be extremely lucrative when implemented correctly.

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ExecVision

JUNE 14, 2018

During this exercise, it’s also a good time to establish or re-establish a baseline for conversations at your org. How many interchanges (back and forth between the rep and the prospect) should a rep average? These types of incentive programs will motivate your reps who don’t always find themselves at the top of the board.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 24, 2019

It just doesn’t make sense to practice on prospects anymore. A professional sales person needs a place to take “batting practice” before getting out there and trying to hit the 90 MPH curve balls being hurled at them by prospects. 8 Highly Effective Sales Role Play Exercises. That place is role play. Learning is Listening.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 28, 2014

When I am asked to diagnose why an individual – or even an entire sales team - are not performing at optimum levels, I usually ask just four very straightforward questions: Are they visiting/talking to enough clients/prospects? Are they talking to the right people within those client/prospect organizations?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Rule 2: Run a filtering exercise. Make your SDR outreach about education not prospecting. Focus on being a “servant leader” for the customer/prospect. Value proposition: Focus on adding value to the conversations you have with your prospects or audience group. Level up your prospecting and sales process.

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It establishes the manner in which you should engage prospects and the language you should use with them. Once they are disclosed, sales representatives can determine if the solution is a good fit for the prospect. Prospects who advance beyond the qualification stage have a good probability of closing. Complete the transaction.

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Showpad

OCTOBER 1, 2019

But as a Sales manager, you’ll benefit greatly from balancing that with training visualizations and other exercises that staff can complete on their own. If you’re concerned about this, it might be best to offer individual incentives rather than fostering intrapersonal competition. Coaches can scalably train their teams.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Create an incentive compensation plan for every market segment. Present your prospects with all of their options, and don’t stop until they’re completely satisfied. Positioning is the way in which you describe your company to a prospect. This isnt true.

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The Bridge Group

MARCH 9, 2018

Next, they moved to mapping out prospect personas. When prospecting the mid-market, it’s much easier to swap out contacts as needs dictate. This accounts for roughly 40% of their incentive compensation. This is over and above their target incentive number. Questions included: what departments are key to our sale?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

The process of finding partners is almost identical to finding prospects: First, you need to define what an “ideal partner” looks like. Although training a partner requires more time and resources, it also gives them an additional incentive to work with you. This exercise will give you a framework for evaluating specific partners.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 24, 2021

Sales management must assess its sales team’s basic ability to find leads and nurture relationships with prospective clients when trying to improve sales growth, but it’s not enough by itself. New Incentives and Channels Creating new incentives is another great way of encouraging sales growth.

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 4, 2014

If your coaching program participants can’t tie coaching they're getting from their managers to their on-the-job selling reality, then sales coaching basically becomes an intellectual exercise. The rep is graded on how he or she used various aspects of the selling process with the prospect.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

A sales manager will work closely with managers of other departments, as well as communicate with prospects and customers on a regular or semi-regular basis. What information do you look for when you research prospects and how do you find it?”. If they fear the company is failing, there is zero incentive to stay with you.

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Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Assessing your sales team’s basic ability to find leads and nurture relationships with prospective clients is an important consideration when you want to improve sales growth, but it’s not enough by itself. New Incentives & Channels Creating new incentives is another great way of encouraging sales growth.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 7, 2019

They can refer to this to identify which prospects they are most likely to convert and encourage them to make repeat purchases. To avoid wasting opportunities, your sales reps must provide value and personalized experiences for each prospect and customer. Make sure that the incentives you provide will push them towards motivation.

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PandaDoc

JULY 11, 2022

Keep in mind that, while this is a great exercise to help you imagine your next key player, great salespeople come in all shapes and sizes. Make sure to include a thorough employment contract to protect both yourself and your prospect when explaining expectations during the sales hiring process. Select the right applicants.

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