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5 Steps to a Competitive Sales Incentive Plan

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Compensation drives sales behavior, which means your sales incentive plan is a critical factor in sales performance and objective achievement. The incentive compensation planning team faces the challenge of balancing executive priorities and designing incentives that motivate reps. Align all priorities and objectives.

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The Pros and Cons of Different Sales Compensation Plans

Janek Performance Group

With salary, commission, bonuses, and other incentives, sales professionals often have options and feel in control of the compensation they receive, which can be great for motivation and fulfillment. As a result, there can be reduced incentive to work harder or produce more. We all want to be paid fairly.

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How to Optimize Sale Territories for a Strategic Advantage

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Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning. Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. Ultimately, if your sales territories aren’t optimized, you hinder sales reps’ motivation and performance.

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3 Reasons to Drop Manual Sales Territory Planning for Good

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Sure, you know you need ICM to handle accurate and timely payments, but do you really need automated sales territory planning as well? Although automating technology for territory design can increase your sales up to 20 percent, territory planning is often categorized as a luxury in SPM—instead of as the necessity it is.

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Presidents Club Winner…NOT

Steven Rosen

Many companies I work with tie their program to sales vs. objectives. For this to work effectively, quotas need to be set fairly against both large and small territories. Management needs to be able to understand opportunities and challenges in each territory when quota setting. What to do?

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How to Setup a Commission Plan in Six Steps

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Download our "Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation Planning" for incentive best practices and everything you need for a sales comp plan design project. Formulate your new plan around the successful elements and structure incentives for new goals similarly. Ideally you need a sales incentive planning team of six people.

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What’s Your Time Worth

The Pipeline

If you are a full-cycle rep, with a demanding client base in a defined territory, 23% is not bad. Buyers know they will be offered price incentives to bring a deal in sooner, like “end of the quarter.” In the process telegraphing to the buyer that despite everything you said to this point, the real object here is your quota.

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