The Spiff Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Real World Examples of How to Motivate Employees During Tough Times Let’s look at an example of how motivation and reward go hand in hand. Though we won’t go as far as comparing sales management to dog training, it’s an easy analogy that illustrates the same idea. Let’s get into it!

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Explore how they drive their team to achieve immediate goals while building loyalty for long-term business growth. This guide reveals how to lead with unparalleled skill. What Makes a Great Sales Manager? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart?

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s hard out there for your average sales manager. Sales trends like ever-expanding buyer expectations, changing sales methodologies and nonstop transformation initiatives have coalesced to make their role more challenging than ever. Implement a Rigorous Hiring Process for Sales Managers and Leaders.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 23, 2021

And you can provide team members with sales guidance, tips, and recommendations as needed. Invest in video conferencing software and other remote collaboration tools for your hybrid sales team. Teach team members how to use these tools, too. As a result, they can work together to drive sales.

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

Knowing how to set sales goals is a crucial skill for any business owner, sales manager or marketer. It not only drives revenue growth but also helps in managing customer churn and acquisition costs effectively. But setting effective sales goals involves more than just choosing an arbitrary number.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 9, 2020

Author: Tim Houlihan Sales managers need to produce results every month and every quarter, yet they know they can’t do the same things in the same way they have always done it. A savvy sales manager is always on the lookout for new practices, new tools, new ideas to deliver additional motivation and focus to the team.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

To help ensure you set your sales team up for success, here are six steps to setup a commission plan. Download our "Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation Planning" for incentive best practices and everything you need for a sales comp plan design project. Ideally you need a sales incentive planning team of six people.

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Xactly

MAY 7, 2018

Sales operations and compensation professionals must compile a team to piecing together metrics and goals, which carries an incredible amount of responsibility. The resulting incentive plan must develop a compensation process that will motivates the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Recommended reading : How to Develop a Winning Sales Compensation Philosophy Compensation Transformation Tip #3: Personalize your sales incentive programs. Personalizing sales incentives is a difficult task for a number of reasons. Luckily, sales compensation technology has evolved significantly.

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The Brooks Group

JUNE 11, 2017

By adding in a few carefully selected sales incentives, you can capitalize on this competitive streak and really get your team to race full speed towards sales goals. Sales incentives can be broken down into three categories. Sales incentives can be broken down into three categories.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In this article, we discuss how sales and marketing collaboration makes a difference and provide tips and tools for making this collaboration more efficient. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Enablement Content Enablement content sits at the crux of successful sales and marketing alignment.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 28, 2014

But once the task required “even rudimentary cognitive skills” a larger incentive “ led to poorer performance”. Other studies have supported these findings yet sales leaders have continued to use higher incentives to drive performance. I shared with him the research on sales mangers coaching and sales rep performance.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Her research points to important aspects of how rewards, the signals they send and their efficacy are affected by precision. In short, more precision is better for rewards used with incentives, while less precision is better for rewards used with recognition. Incentives. Reps Benefit From Incentives.

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Xactly

JUNE 7, 2018

Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) solutions help companies manage their sales compensation plans and calculate commission payments. How applications integrate with each other is critical to business efficiency and effectiveness.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Even if your sales team is already driving good results, establishing a sales process or improving your existing one can take your business to the next level of growth. Just keep reading to get started with creating a winning sales process. Why is it important to have a structured sales process? Read this first.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 9, 2022

Even the most seasoned, effective salespeople can struggle when hashing out how to lead a sales team. Taking the reins doesn't come naturally to everyone, and even born leaders might need a little guidance when transitioning into a sales management role. Leverage relevant technology, and make sure your team buys in.

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The Brooks Group

JUNE 11, 2015

By adding in a few carefully selected sales incentives, you can capitalize on this competitive streak and really get your team to race full speed towards sales goals. Sales incentives can be broken down into three categories. Sales incentives can be broken down into three categories.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Sales is the most important function with any company, and the sales manager plays a critical role within it. That said… The importance of your sales manager cannot be understated. The sales force drives the company’s revenue and it’s the sales manager’s job to drive the sales force.

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Xactly

MARCH 29, 2018

Rather than scheming up some pranks for the office (we’ll leave that to you), we’re focusing on how you can avoid being a sales management fool with these 10 tips! Download our guide, "Inspiring Sales Rep Performance," to discover top tips on how to inspire sales reps and maximize their selling power from 10 industry experts.

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Zendesk Sell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Easier to support customers with context from sales. How to Bridge the Gap Between Silos. As discussed, traditional incentives between departments are polarizing. This makes it difficult to connect the sales and customer service silos. A mindset alignment on the management level is first needed to address the disconnect.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The quality of your sales culture determines how much your salespeople sell, how productive they are, how long they stay with your organization, and what benefits can your sales organization expect to reap from how you’ve structured your sales team. How to build a winning sales culture.

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LevelEleven

MAY 17, 2018

Q & A with Derek Wong, Geopointe Sales Development Supervisor. Many modern sales teams are implementing a Sales Management System that integrates with their CRM in order to motivate, engage, and coach their teams around the behaviors that support their business goals. We’re in sales and salespeople like incentives.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 13, 2013

Whatever the Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE) improvement, it will require funds to get it implemented. This post will help you answer this question – and it includes the tool “SFE Funds Finder”. Through an informal or formal assessment, you’ve found sales improvement needs. Without one, Sales and HR should work to find funding.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

How do we start assessing problems and performance issues to make sure the organization has the ability to perform at the highest levels? We have to have a Sales Management Operating System. It enables us to understand individual performance issues and how to address those.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. A business plan lays out your goals -- a sales plan describes exactly how you’ll make those happen. Who writes sales plans? What is a sales plan template? A typical sales plan includes the following sections: Target customers.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Controversial panel titles included “Making the Case for 100% Base Salary in Sales” and “ Comp Plan Documents Released in the First Month of the Fiscal Year?”. Two truths remain unchanged: Comp is just one tool for motivating salespeople , and upstream planning is still key.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. QuotaPath built this free tool, the Quota:OTE Ratio Calculator to help.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Sales Ops: Table of Contents.

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Xactly

APRIL 12, 2018

In demanding circumstances, stress acts as our bodies’ physical fight or flight response, where the body releases the chemicals to help us decide how to act. In the workplace, stress is an important thing for managers to watch for. Recognizing Workplace Stress in Sales. Download Guide. Distress (Bad Stress).

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Accelerating sales is not only possible, but it’s a challenge the entire organization should accept, creating the sales equivalent of the “rally around the flag” effect. Let’s examine how to accelerate sales even when prospects aren’t biting. unexpectedly poor sales performance is debilitating.

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PandaDoc

JULY 11, 2022

But, while it’s true that data can improve sales, it’s no excuse for failing to hire the right sales experience for your team. In this article, we’ll talk about how to hire the right sales reps and — most importantly — how to keep them once they’re with you. Before you start: Sales reps by the numbers.

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Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. Why is sales operations important? What is the difference between sales enablement and sales operations? Sales operations roles.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

The Center for Sales Strategy found that CEOs can help their sales team bring in more revenue by implementing coaching. You’ll find the do’s, do nots, customer examples, and actionable tools and templates for implementing and improving sales coaching in this guide. Problems with sales coaching aka what NOT to do 1.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 17, 2020

Effective management oversight and a departmental culture that doesn’t over stigmatize underperformance can help. How to Get Out of a Sales Slump While it starts and ends with sales reps, responsibility for breaking a sales slump shouldn’t fall squarely on their shoulders. Are you playing to their strengths ?

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