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Sales Compensation Best Practices

Engage Selling

For example, if your salespeople are assigned to geographic territories, be sure to develop and communicate clear guidelines on how they can sell to accounts that cut across territories, and how they’ll be rewarded for those sales. If you have a specific objective (e.g. Dedicated to increasing your sales,

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Should Sales People Be On Quota?

Partners in Excellence

He said his sales people never had been on quota, they had certain guidelines on things they should be doing (activities) and some metrics associated with those activities. I think it’s critical that everyone can directly see how they contribute to the company goals and objectives. (I’ll

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Managers Don’t Know What Their People Are Doing

Keith Rosen

The question was: With respect to observation of outside sales teams, are there other tactics to accomplish this other than joining them on a sales call? or the geographical dispersion of their sales team (no time), observation is the most important activity for any manager to engage in consistently.

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The Ultimate Guide to Channel Sales

Hubspot Sales

Do you need a partner with an outside sales team, an inside sales team, both, or neither? Process: Your partner’s sales process should be compatible with yours. Ideally, there’s a natural point in their sales or services process for introducing or upselling your product. 2) Communicate often.

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All you need to know about sales incentives

Salesmate

For example, if a prospect engages with a rep because of an automated targeted email series and then closes the deal with the help of the sales rep, then this representative will be rewarded for his efforts post lead qualification stage. In turn, this can also make curation of a sales incentive plan difficult. Show a bit of generosity.