Xactly

JANUARY 17, 2019

A strategic sales plan is a portfolio of ideas, processes, and technology that guides a sales organization’s strategy and provides the resources and tactics for reaching sales goals. To put it simply: in order to reach your sales goals, you need the right amount of resources. Processes: Are your sales territories balanced ?

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Xactly

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This ultimately allows for better sales, territory, and compensation planning; thus, a stronger sales organization as a whole. . For example, if you notice that rep performance tends to drop off after they meet quota, you may need to examine if your incentives are truly motivating reps to meet and exceed their targets.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As sellers, we have to manage our territories and accounts. We have to find as many opportunities as we can within those territories/accounts. Some have to be nurtured for some time, we try to incent as many as we can to change, qualifying them, helping them navigate their buying journey, ultimately making a decision.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the second scenario, the organisation has a strong HR or Sales leader driving the project who wants to look at a simplified process or wants a simplified incentives landscape before they start automating. Finally, 70-80% of companies will have no or at best inflexible technology to support incentives.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Resource Allocation. Those reps were covering an extensive territory and large customer base. The tools and resources in your organization play a large part in future success. Expensive sellers should not be handcuffed by second rate resources. As your products become more advanced, ensure your resources are keeping pace.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure. When done well, this process is proven to maximize return on sales resources.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Re-assign your sales territories. If your sales team relies on territory management as part of your strategy, you may want to take a look at how your territories are assigned to ensure you have your strongest sellers assigned to territories or accounts that have the most sales potential.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For instance, do peers use the person in question as a resource? The team lead needs to be more than a resource; they need to be a trusted advisor. The question is: are they resourceful enough to tackle the challenges, both known and unknown? When They Ask About Expectations and Incentives. Are they engaged?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Having clear, visible goals and incentives builds well-rounded sales professionals. Keeping track of this metric for each rep (along with an average for your team) can provide valuable data about the quality of your leads and if your team has the resources to properly nurture them for the sale. Performance-based compensation.

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Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Good reps map out their territory, understand each customer’s needs, and coordinate product logistics with local inventory managers and hospital personnel. . Sales territories and incentives restructuring. .” – Bear Bryant, Legendary head coach, University of Alabama. . The key to success? Planning. .

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Xactly

DECEMBER 3, 2018

My second blog looked at the need to evaluate rep ramp time and attrition to ensure accurate resource planning. A quota that is 10% too high might translate into no incentive pay at all. Balancing Territories to Ensure Fair Quota Allocation. It’s difficult to set achievable quotas if you’re relying on imbalanced territories.

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InsideSales.com

JULY 1, 2020

Sales acceleration is a crucial factor in ensuring that all aspects and resources of your business are moving forward. Sales Territories. An incentive system, such as on-target bonus earnings on sales revenue, is a worthwhile strategy to motivate the whole team. Sales Territories. How is your top sales-people performing?

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Xactly

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Are we assigning effective territories? Despite the fact that we live and breathe incentive comp, we are not immune to the factors that affect every sales organization. In a world so focused on incentive compensation, Xactly Insights gives us a lot to think about. Is our pay in line with performance?

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Erik Charles is the Principal Incentive Strategist at Xactly Corp. In a recent webinar , Erik noted that: "The total outlay for Incentive Compensation in the U.S. They roll out the draft plans in November, have a few meetings, adjust the territories and quotas, roll it out to the field and run off to the next challenge.".

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Software Firm: The annual Employee survey is overflowing with negative comments about the incentive plan. Conventional wisdom would lead the VP of Human Resources to the following: Define the Problem: Sales compensation is out of line with the market. Is the compensation model to blame? Digging Deeper. He had been amply rewarded.)

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For instance, do peers use the person in question as a resource? Discretionary and trustworthy The team lead needs to be more than a resource; they need to be a trusted advisor. The question is: are they resourceful enough to tackle the challenges, both known and unknown? Are they engaged?

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The Pipeline

APRIL 20, 2017

But many organizations seem to make different accommodations for their human assets than other key resources. We have seen organizations change the rules, incentives, quotas or other things, mid stream, just to accommodate an underperforming rep, or asset.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Today we’ve got Scott Barton, VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent and a veteran of sales, revenue operations, and incentive compensation. Sales forecasts, territory design, quota management, and incentive compensation.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 24, 2019

Luckily, I've compiled some resources for you to determine the best sales commission structure for your sales team or yourself. Will additional bonuses or incentives be a part of the compensation plan? Territory Volume Commission Plan : With this commission structure, salespeople work with clients in clearly defined regions.

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SBI

JULY 24, 2018

As we enter into the world of the next generation of buyers who are smarter and more resourceful than ever, sales reps need to keep up. Look at all of your sales processes: Territory & quota planning. Incentive compensation management. Instead, it’s only created more manual processes. It’s time for a change.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Sales performance management (SPM) and incentive compensation management (ICM) are often used interchangeably. Fact #2: Gartner estimates that 10% of annual sales are lost by enterprises that do not have optimized management of sales territories, quotas, and compensation plans. Fact #4: SPM can reduce territory planning time up to 75%.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As we start planning for 2023, the only thing we’re certain of is that we’re in rocky territory– some organizations more precariously positioned than others. This will provide a clear signal that you can afford to take more risks and allocate resources toward acquisition channels again. Don’t neglect retention after an upswing.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Today, we’re adding to that list of accomplishments with the acquisition of OpsPanda, which helps deliver an AI-based sales resource and capacity planning solution to our customers. As the forerunner in cloud-based incentive compensation management (ICM), Xactly identified data as a key performance driver from the very start.

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Commission Lead Rank Incentives Incentive 95

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

Factor in your product’s price, total addressable market (TAM), market penetration, and resources (including your sales headcount and Marketing support). If you have territories, assign a sub-goal to each. Team structure/resources. You should also include a description of your resources. Revenue targets. Team structure.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

Start small, and expand your incentive program as you learn and grow. Get the resources you need. When you break it down, stress is relatively easy to cure—you either need less pressure or more resources to handle the pressure. So if your team is feeling unusually stressed, they likely need more resources. Communicate.

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Mereo

APRIL 2, 2020

With this in place, uniting your leadership and teams, go-to-market activities become more streamlined and successful, pursuing new territory or different markets becomes achievable. With too many salespeople assigned to a territory, you set your team up for missed individual quotas and an inundated market.

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SugarCRM

JUNE 6, 2023

In this context, manufacturing enterprises struggle to retain and gain new customers and provide enhanced customer experience without massively compromising budgets and resources. Such tools consolidate data regarding dealers, territory, market, and fulfillment in a user-friendly, easy-to-use interface for dealers and manufacturers.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

2) Consistently evaluate training Collaborate with human resources and your training department to assess the current procedures offered to new hires. 5) Develop realistic goals Assess their sales territory and lay out the best course of action for each district or demographic. 5) Exit Interview: What Went Wrong?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

New tools make the process easier, however the resource allocation decisions. Most of my clients have been in non-stop planning meetings since mid-August and earlier. Long days of adjusting and readjusting budgets and expectations.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” Actually not, unless the sales manager has a personal territory, the only way the number can be achieved is through the people on the team. These include, making sure we have the right people on board, that they are deployed in the territory most effectively. It’s making sure they have the right resources and support.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

The process of sales planning also helps to optimize the use of your company’s resources — including time, money, and personnel. By identifying the most effective sales strategies and tactics, sales planning helps you allocate your resources in the most efficient way possible.

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OpenSymmetry

MAY 23, 2016

While, incentive compensation administration is still a main piece, the broader SPM technology concept is expanding more holistically to include other key aspects which directly impacts how a sales team might perform, including talent development, sales enablement, and territory and quota management. Steps to Success.

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Xactly

JUNE 21, 2018

To achieve these business outcomes, it’s essential for enterprises to continue to invest in optimal SPM solutions, which use data as an asset to effectively plan territories, design attractive sales plans and accelerate attainment of sales goals.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Formulation of Incentives Program. Sales Territory Assignment and Growth Forecasting. Implementation of Recommended Compensation and Incentives Program. Allocation of Accounts and Sales Territories. Territory design. Implement compensation and incentives program. Performance Metrics Analyses. Operations.

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Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

Setting territory structure. Ops also works with sales leaders to implement methodologies, training, compensation and employee incentives and much more. Sales operations teams work behind the scenes to ensure the team structure is optimized for sales productivity. Developing sales and revenue strategy. Establishing compensation plans.

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Some organizations incentivize training and e-learning by creating money or prize incentives. So if your enterprise has a special product catalog for the southwest sales territory, the search would automatically surface documents that apply to that territory. This makes microlearning a more efficient use of time and resources.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

The focus is on things like reporting, territory management and later stage tasks such as contract negotiations and finance approvals. If you love seeing results and helping sales teams get paid, focusing on performance and sales incentives is up your alley. Sales enablement is all about supporting the reps directly on the ground.

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