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Misunderstanding Comp

Partners in Excellence

In fact, we should revel when our people are into their overattainment accelerators–because it means they are blowing past their quotas and over achieving. Somehow we get away from the idea that our goal is to design a plan that incents people to achieve and overachieve their goals.

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Are We Underperforming Our Potential?

Partners in Excellence

We take a moment to celebrate, high 5 each other and revel in the success. Not just exceeding our quotas, but what if we reassessed what we do, how we do it, and realized that we really should be doing much better? It’s the end of the quarter, we’ve hit our numbers. We’ve met our goals!

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Is The Future Of Selling PLG?

Partners in Excellence

I get why sales people revel in this. Plus we aren’t measured on our customers’ success, we have quotas to sell products! How do we incent them to change and start the journey? I read a lot of commentary from “experts” about PLG–Product Led Growth. PLG is great for sales.

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Is The Future Of Selling PLG?

Partners in Excellence

I get why sales people revel in this. Plus we aren’t measured on our customers’ success, we have quotas to sell products! How do we incent them to change and start the journey? I read a lot of commentary from “experts” about PLG–Product Led Growth. PLG is great for sales.

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Your Sales Kick-Off Meetings Are a Waste of Time!

Igniting Sales Transformation

The surprising thing is that this is NOT a new revelation. The activity KPI’s we set today, which incent the wrong behavior? The skills that position your sellers to achieve their quota and deal profitability objectives in year ahead. It must be the right interaction that happens at the right time and in the right way.

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Are We Underperforming Our Potential?

Partners in Excellence

We take a moment to celebrate, high 5 each other and revel in the success. Not just exceeding our quotas, but what if we reassessed what we do, how we do it, and realized that we really should be doing much better? It’s the end of the quarter, we’ve hit our numbers. We’ve met our goals! But what if we could have done more?

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

What do reps like in terms of culture, product, incentive comp structure? How many people are hitting quota? Ryan Walsh: We hear anecdotally about quota attainment dropping, and I think it’s dropping worse than what we think. Ryan Walsh: To be clear that’s what is the percent of the team that hits quota.

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