The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As an incentive compensation manager, you hold a critical role that keeps your organization running. In this day and age, no one doubts the importance of sales compensation when it comes to driving growth for a business. As an incentive compensation manager, you manage or play a key role in the design of your sales commission plans.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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Autoklose

MARCH 18, 2024

Having a well-versed and highly-skilled sales team is an essential ingredient when it comes to the success of your entire business. When you’re starting out, and it’s just you and maybe another salesperson, it’s not difficult to make a sales strategy, implement it, and learn from the results. Improve Active Listening Skills 4.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 11, 2024

Most focused on efficiency, few focused on impact, differentiation, and value. Hacks for structuring and measuring an entire sales organization. If we understand our ICPs, we already should understand: (If you don’t, reassess your sales enablement strategies.) My feeds are filled with tricks and hacks.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

As the backbone of any business, the sales team needs to be efficient to meet targets and ensure the company remains profitable. Keeping an eye on your team’s sales productivity is one of the best ways to track performance and nip bottlenecks in the bud. Table of Contents What is sales productivity?

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In the competitive world of sales, transforming “maybes” into closed deals is the ultimate goal. But how do you achieve this consistently and create a predictable sales process? If you’re bringing unqualified leads into your pipeline, it’s no wonder they’re not converting.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This article explores sales habits—the good, the bad, and the science. ” For sales professionals, the more mental resources we free up with automatic behaviors, the higher our cognitive abilities will be. But in sales, we often overlook the basic habits that can make a substantial difference. Learners are earners in sales.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 9, 2018

Most sales executives realize the value and importance of sales coaching. They know that sales coaching is one of the most significant levers to drive superior sales performance. Here is what the data shows: Only 14% are spending enough time sales coaching. Only 7% are effectively sales coaching.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Creating a structured sales process is one of the most effective ways to boost your sales teams’ efficiency and results. With a formal sales process in place, your sales team has a framework to follow, and it’s much easier to stay on the same page, track results, and onboard new team members.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 15, 2024

As an entrepreneur, you face numerous hurdles in your quest for success. However, implementing the right strategies and adopting a proactive mindset can overcome these challenges and take your business to new heights. Steering your business in the right direction can be challenging without a clear vision.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 20, 2023

Most organizations recognize that their sales commission process isn’t perfect. Companies aren’t ignorant of this problem– many are trying to improve their commission process, as evident by the recent surge of businesses hiring sales compensation managers ( source ). You face frequent, urgent disputes.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 31, 2023

To get the full picture, you’ll need to understand: How data exists today in the majority of businesses Why the data management status quo is almost certainly harming your business How to break the restraints holding you back from making the best data-driven decisions What Are Data Silos?

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Highspot

JANUARY 28, 2024

You’ll learn about key metrics specific to content governance, discover the critical steps in establishing a compliant workflow, and get inspired by a real-life success story that showcases the powerful impact of a well-implemented content governance plan. What Is Content Governance? Why Do Businesses Need Content Governance?

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In today’s competitive business landscape, having an effective sales strategy is more important than ever. Many companies manage their sales teams separately from other departments such as marketing, operations, and customer enablement. The goal of sales is getting to revenue. The traditional SalesOps pipeline approach.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

A majority of modern companies are either using or planning to use AI in order to streamline business processes and save costs. If you’re a sales compensation manager, we’re sure you’re familiar with this sort of AI-driven anxiety. Here are a few of the specific ways AI can help you improve your sales comp management process.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 5, 2022

Readers might be a little surprised about the concept of Improv In Selling. Some would reflect on how overly scripted sales conversations are. Others would laugh at the concept of improv, saying that sales people are always winging it, shooting from the lip. He was a sales executive (working with my wife).

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Sales operations teams frequently encounter hurdles such as juggling too many tasks, outdated procedures, insufficient data management, and communication breakdowns. When sales performance starts slipping, it’s a call to action for a sales operations strategy makeover. As a result, data silos emerge.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When you’re in the depths of the sales process, how do you know what step to take next? Just focusing on the desired outcome—a new sale—won’t get you there. That’s where the next-action-based selling methodology comes in—an approach to sales that focuses on the activities that truly drive results.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Pipeliner

MAY 26, 2023

Sales enablement is a process that helps businesses equip their sales teams with the resources, tools, and information they need to improve their performance and close more deals. What is Sales Enablement? What is Sales Enablement?

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Managing sales compensation is both a highly complex and highly consequential responsibility. The design and execution of a sales compensation program directly influences the performance and morale of a sales organization, as well as the overall financial success of a company at large.

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MEDDIC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A Comprehensive Guide for Sales Leadership Within The MEDDPICC Framework In today’s fast-paced and increasingly competitive market, effectively managing and guiding sales teams towards success is more critical than ever. Building Your Sales Process: A structured sales process is the backbone of any successful sales operation.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Prompted by predictions of massive economic impact and the disruption of multiple industries, professionals in many fields are assessing how this new breed of AI tools will complement and complicate their working lives. Market Intelligence Understanding competitors and alternative solutions in your industry is time-consuming.

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Tenbound

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Salesloft and Outreach are two popular sales engagement platforms that help businesses streamline their sales processes and maximize their revenue. Understanding Salesloft and Outreach Salesloft and Outreach are both cloud-based platforms designed to empower sales teams and improve their productivity.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Are you a financial advisor looking to get more leads into your pipeline? Add cold calling to your sales outreach strategy. You can get up to 82% of buyers to accept a meeting by starting a series of communication with sales cold calls. Boosts Sales Rep Confidence Confidence is the key to making an impactful cold call.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. Start a free trial 3.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sales operations managers are the unsung heroes behind a high-performing sales team. They design sales processes, sift through sales data, and predict futures. Their role is to set up the sales team for success. What Does a Sales Operations Manager Do? To improve sales outcomes.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this article, we help you navigate the intricacies of sales performance metrics, guiding you on which ones are pivotal and how best to measure them. What Is Sales Performance? Sales Performance vs. Sales Metrics Why Analyze Your Sales Performance?

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Motivating a Small Business Sales Team Motivating a small business (SMB) sales team is paramount for sales success. Achieving sales targets significantly depends on motivation. Motivation propels them to surpass their quotas, directly impacting the company’s bottom line.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 29, 2021

Burnout is a real problem for many high-performing teams. It’s hard to find a “better” example than in sales, where the annual turnover rate in the United States averages at 34%. Sales is one of those jobs where you sink or swim based on your efforts. All of that can lead to a lot of pressure and stress on sales teams.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Incentives are natural motivators — and sometimes, some "natural motivation" is exactly what your salespeople need to perform to the best of their abilities. Incentive compensation plans often provide an effective avenue for sales leadership to motivate their teams and encourage overperformance. Incentive Compensation Examples.

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Marc Wayshak

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Are you a small business owner or a company founder who has found yourself in the role of the lead salesperson for your company? It’s a really common place to be because the reality is that sales is the driving force of any business, and we, as business owners, often have to master the process of selling what we do.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The answer lies in lead generation driven by sales development reps. To truly unlock their potential, a robust sales development playbook is vital. What Is a Sales Development Playbook? Benefits of a Sales Development Playbook How Do You Create a Winning Sales Development Playbook?

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 20, 2024

Understanding the Concept of Measuring the Impact of Outreach on Small Business Growth Measuring the influence of outreach on small business expansion is crucial to evaluating the efficacy of your marketing tactics. After establishing a firm understanding of your CAC, contrast it with the customer lifetime value.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 29, 2021

Every aspect of a sales process is prone to human error when carried out manually. As a sales professional, there's a good chance you've slipped up here and there. Or maybe, you struggled to find the right deck or piece of sales content to best convey your value proposition at the right time. HubSpot ) 2.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently.

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