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How to Realign Sales Teams to Motivate a Remote Workforce

Sales and Marketing Management

For example, incentives may shift to include focus on existing customers instead of net new sales and also could move towards a discretionary model with subjective KPIS rather than a formulaic commission driven plan. After all, an incentive plan cannot motivate employees if it is too complex for them to understand.

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5 Tips for Designing Successful Sales Incentive Compensation Plans

Xactly

Few leading indicators are more predictive of a company’s future sales performance than its incentive compensation plans. While multiple factors influence the effectiveness of your sales incentive compensation plans, 5 tips stand out: 1. Creating incentive programs that work require balancing multiple design choices.

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20 Sales Planning Tools to Boost Sales Productivity and Close More Deals

Hubspot Sales

Anaplan provides several cloud-based planning tools for sales: territory and quota planning, incentive compensation planning, sales forecasting, configure price quote optimization, and trade promotion planning. Pricing: $15/year. Pipeline Manager. Pricing: $1/person/day. A Sales Guy Consulting. Pricing: Free. Pricing: Free.

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The CRM Playbook for Manufacturing Enterprises

SugarCRM

This dynamic significantly reduces operational costs linked to market penetration and local transactions. How valuable this partnership is closely related to how well-aligned the enterprises are, the level of commitment, the incentives, the level of awareness, and the performance of both parties.

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28 Ways to Drive (not Hope) for H2 Sales Success

Emissary

Do your homework to build out specific penetration plans for a narrow set of candidates. No decisions” will doom your H2 forecast. E.g., If quotas are now increasingly unrealistic, you can install Q4 goals and incentives to avoid ‘sandbagging’ behaviors. Install forecasting tweaks. Re)install formal opportunity planning.

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Sales Leadership: 5 Steps to Exceed 2015 Quota

Your Sales Management Guru

Account Plans should at a minimum include a “strategy” and 5 tactical steps to either open or penetrate the accounts more effectively. Salesperson Business Plans should include more than simple forecasts; they need to include goal setting, training needs, marketing activities and business objectives.

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Programs to Increase Your Professionalism

Your Sales Management Guru

Building Predictable Revenue: Sales Management Systems, Forecasting and Building a Self-Managed Sales Force. This session will: • Review the importance of forecasting tools, their design, how effective sales managers use them to ensure monthly revenues are attained and appropriate content. . REGISTER: https://m360.salesassociation.org/event.aspx?