The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

For maximum efficiency, the tools that make up your RevOps tech stack— including CRMs, sales enablement tools, analytics and reporting platforms, and so on— must offer the necessary automation and customization capabilities to support agile RevOps strategies. Maybe a tool no longer aligns with current workflows.

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Strategy Compensation Commission ROI 74

Partners in Excellence

JULY 20, 2017

Billions are spent on tools, training, consulting services all focused on improving the performance of sales people. In virtually every discussion, every popular blog post, the focus of all sales performance initiatives is the sales person. Do we have the right incentives/compensation?

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Maximizer Coaching Sales Enablement Face-to-face 61

Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Resource Allocation By assessing your sales performance, you can identify which areas demand more resources and which ones can operate with less. This ensures you maximize the return on every dollar spent on hiring, training, technology, or sales campaigns. However, this journey isn’t without its pitfalls.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Adapting to Changing Technology – According to Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing, “technology adoption among sales professionals has been well behind” other fields. CRM platforms, pipeline analytics, and candidate assessment tools can exponentially increase the productivity of your managers and reps.

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Sales Leadership Face-to-face Coaching Incentives 120

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

As you'll read below, sales operations includes everything from lead management, sales strategy, and territory structuring and alignment to process optimization, compensation plans, sales automation, training, and data analytics and reporting. Sales Operations vs. Sales Enablement. Sales Team Communications.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A sales performance management plan adds structure and accountability to your training process. Here are some elements that could be included in a sales rep development plan to help them build their skills: Required training for sales enablement tools. Supplemental reading from sales thought leaders.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

Author: Liz Pulice In recent years, many companies have implemented remote work arrangements, driven by financial incentives, recruitment/retention initiatives and other factors. For events (such as sales kick-offs), how can I preserve the pre-work, event work and post-work structure to maximize retention?

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 29, 2019

Attend this session to learn how LinkedIn is building a world-class, high performing sales organization by linking measurable customer-facing capability to incentive practices. . MindTickle powers the world’s most customer-centric organizations with the capabilities proven to grow revenue and maximize brand value.

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Conference Face-to-face Incentives Incentive 64

Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

Dooly, a customer information sales enablement platform, found that 51 percent of sales professionals said they’d quit if they found an opportunity with higher pay. When reps can easily understand their plan, they’re more likely to maximize their earnings. This is a win-win for your business and your rep.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 29, 2019

Attend this session to learn how LinkedIn is building a world-class, high performing sales organization by linking measurable customer-facing capability to incentive practices. . Mindtickle powers the world’s most customer-centric organizations with the capabilities proven to grow revenue and maximize brand value.

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Conference Face-to-face Incentives Incentive 52

SBI

MARCH 18, 2015

The weekly sales forecasting process is the heartbeat of a sales teams’ activities, and intended to be a roadmap for the selling period. Today, this vital business process is plagued by archaic tools, namely spreadsheets or simplistic and inflexible bolt-ons in CRM applications.

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Leveraging your LinkedIn profile is a great way to get sales referrals. When you use tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator, you’re able to see the connections you have in common with a potential lead, so you know whom to reach out to for a referral. What is a Good Sales Referral Strategy?

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Leveraging your LinkedIn profile is a great way to get sales referrals. When you use tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator, you’re able to see the connections you have in common with a potential lead, so you know whom to reach out to for a referral. What is a Good Sales Referral Strategy?

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Referrals Strategy Buyer Persona LinkedIn 78

Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Sales enablement is the process of making sales teams able to efficiently move customers through the sales process to the point where the customer can make a buying decision. Therefore, in this article, we’ll discuss: The primary factors that interfere with sales enablement. What Is Sales Enablement?

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

First off, let’s make one thing very clear: sales enablement isn’t just another fun trend that’s here today and gone tomorrow. Just five years ago, CSO Insights ran a study about sales enablement and only 25% of the companies they surveyed had developed sales enablement for their teams. Today, we’ll see: ?

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Hiring Face-to-face 85

ExecVision

APRIL 25, 2018

Along the way, we’ve discovered what it takes to maximize your ROI from CAS. Here is how your sales team can get the most out of ConnectAndSell: There are two key factors often overlooked when implementing CAS: Lists. Use CAS as an incentive for reps to improve their conversion rates.

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Ideal Customer Profile InsideView Cold Calling Maximizer 40

Partners in Excellence

JULY 27, 2015

It’s not only demoralizing and disempowering to the sales people; it’s wrong for the people and the business because every minute a sales manager plays Super Salesperson is a minute spent not doing their jobs. As such, they have to prospect, qualify, and manage deals through the sales process.

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Territories Hiring Maximizer Coaching 48

Mindtickle

AUGUST 29, 2019

Attend this session to learn how LinkedIn is building a world-class, high performing sales organization by linking measurable customer-facing capability to incentive practices. . MindTickle powers the world’s most customer-centric organizations with the capabilities proven to grow revenue and maximize brand value.

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Conference Face-to-face Incentives Incentive 40

Highspot

MARCH 18, 2024

Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI) sales tools – a breakthrough development in the world of sales. In this article, we’ll share everything you need to know about using AI sales tools. We’ll look at what these tools are, why they matter, how to use them, and what to ask when evaluating vendors.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2018

You might need a team to handle your entire sales process in a new region. Once you know exactly what your business needs are, it’s critical to understand how a potential sales provider’s processes, expertise, and tools can benefit your particular scenario. Train the extension of your sales team as you would internal hires.

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Outsourcing Services Hiring Sales Outsourcing Scale 57

LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

When we were testing different outsource sales team incentives, it was crucial to find out what motivates the person and why they might not be doing well. Inside sales will work better for smaller segments with simpler processes. This is not including any tools needed to do their job. 5) Dont Expect Immediate Results.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Outsourcing Hiring Lead Rank 52

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

When you notice one rep is using a strategy to great success, you can immediately teach the rest of your team to do the same thing, similar to how a HubSpot sales rep's success with video prospecting spread throughout his team. Think of sales coaching as a rising tide that lifts all boats. Sales Coaching Tools.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For instance, if you deployed a new sales enablement tool, instead of teaching reps everything they need to know about it, perhaps just focus on one new feature or functionality, like how to pitch content from within the platform. Before Your Sales Kickoff Event. After Your Sales Kickoff Event.

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Hiring Education Face-to-face Sales Enablement 52

SBI

APRIL 29, 2014

What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Leslie: CallidusCloud provides organizations with the leading sales and marketing effectiveness cloud software. We create a data environment for spreadsheets, documents, and emails with our simple tools to analyze the performance of the client’s sales force.

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Up-Sell Closing Lead Generation Revenue 135

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2016

There are 1000’s of articles, dozens of books on sales enablement. In the US alone, between training, technology, and tools, over $25Billion is spent each year on enabling sales people. But front line sales managers are the single biggest influencers of sales performance.

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Sales Management Maximizer Incentives Incentive 48

Allbound

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

What’s needed is a tool that brings the moving pieces of monitoring and developing a powerful channel program into a single application. But they can’t succeed if you don’t first empower them with the tools and content they need to do their jobs. Nurture Leads at All Stages of the Sales Cycle. cation and scoring systems.

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Pipeline Sales Qualified Lead Channels Lead Rank 57

DialSource

JANUARY 16, 2020

In this article, we’ve outlined six steps to help guide your organization through a digital sales transformation. These steps will maximize the effectiveness of your transformation initiative and help drive your sales team to new heights. At the end of the day, it’s as much about people as it is about tech.

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Lead Rank Face-to-face Scale CRM 36

Close.io

AUGUST 11, 2019

Sales operations best practices: Tips for success. 5 best software and tools for sales ops. Let's start with the basics and define sales operations. What is sales operations? Sales operations is the team that handles the non-selling processes and tasks inherent in the sales process. Sales forecasting.

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Sales Operations Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank 91

SBI

APRIL 28, 2014

What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Leslie: CallidusCloud provides organizations with the leading sales and marketing effectiveness cloud software. We create a data environment for spreadsheets, documents, and emails with our simple tools to analyze the performance of the client’s sales force.

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Up-Sell Closing Lead Generation Revenue 54

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

Action Plan: How to run a Sales QBR. Sales leaders at high-growth organizations conduct successful QBR meetings in a way that maximizes every single minute of the session. Before getting everyone together and interacting with your sales reps and leadership, spend some time figuring out the QBR’s flow.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Forecasting Quota 90

SBI

APRIL 29, 2014

What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Leslie: CallidusCloud provides organizations with the leading sales and marketing effectiveness cloud software. We create a data environment for spreadsheets, documents, and emails with our simple tools to analyze the performance of the client’s sales force.

Up-Sell 50

Up-Sell Closing Lead Generation Revenue 50

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A tool to scale up Targeting vertical markets can be beneficial for further developing a small or midsize business into a bigger one. Niche-specific channel identification An ability to identify the most efficient communication channels to reach the target audience to maximize the reach and engagement within the vertical market.

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Paid Content Marketing Outsourcing Services Lead Rank 52

Zendesk Sell

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

According to a 2009 survey conducted by McKinsey & Company , nonfinancial incentives were rated as more powerful motivators than financial incentives. Provide the right tools. Reps won’t be as motivated if they don’t have tools to get from Point A to Point B. Use this to your advantage.

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Motivation How To Survey Incentives 71

Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Businesses who not only understand their efficiency and effectiveness indicators but are able to maximize their reps achievement of them will achieve success. In the past sales managers focussed all their efforts on lagging and efficiency indicators to enable their team. After all sales. So what are we waiting for?

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Sales Management Coaching Sales Coaching Scale 52

Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Businesses who not only understand their efficiency and effectiveness indicators but are able to maximize their reps achievement of them will achieve success. In the past sales managers focussed all their efforts on lagging and efficiency indicators to enable their team. After all sales. So what are we waiting for?

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Sales Management Coaching Sales Coaching Scale 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This is the greatest time ever in history to be a sales rep. There’s more knowledge available to you right now as a sales professional than you can probably handle. Sales tools and automation capabilities are more advanced than ever before. – Max Altschuler , CEO of Sales Hacker.

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Trends Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing 96

Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

For the few big investments you’ll make in any given year, product teams have more incentive than ever to work together because it’s clear that they can deliver more value collectively across products than each team can deliver on its own. Sales Enablement. Here’s how this scenario plays out. wouldn’t change. DON’T PANIC!

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