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Capturing the Yeti: Calculating and Optimizing the ROI of Your Sales Incentive Plan

OpenSymmetry

Much like the elusive yeti, the identification of Return On Investment (ROI) for a sales incentive plan is believed to exist by enthusiasts from the sales compensation design team, but met with much skepticism by others, namely the Finance department. So how do you prove the existence of ROI in your sales incentive plan proposal?

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The Beginner’s Guide to Referral Marketing

Zoominfo

Referrals Increase Customer Retention Rates As you’re likely aware, it costs more to win new business than it does to retain current customers. Referred customers have a 37% higher customer retention rate than other customers ( source ). Choose the Right Incentives Rewards are the most critical part of your referral marketing strategy.

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Drinking Our Own Champagne: How Xactly Insights Data Improves Sales Performance Analysis

Xactly

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. Are we creating competitive enough comp plans to attract and retain the right reps?

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6 RevOps Strategies to Get You Through Economic Hardship

The Spiff Blog

Identify the ROI of resource-heavy GTM campaigns and initiatives. Be sure to include ROI calculations and model “what-if” scenarios that illustrate the money your organization would either save or earn by eliminating or rectifying inefficiencies within your GTM organization. Prioritize customer retention.

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Leveraging Referrals to Build Your Network and Grow Your Business

Janek Performance Group

We hope you could tell him about our company and your success, including your 200 percent ROI.” What specific incentives do you offer, such as discounts or special offers? These include asking for referrals, sending reminders, offering incentives, and collecting feedback. Survey tools are great to gauge satisfaction.

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Quick and complete guide for sales teams: What to do, what not to do, plus sales coaching activities you can use right now

BrainShark

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Revenue At the end of the day sales coaching delivers ROI.

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Account Expansion: What It Is, Why It’s Important, and How to Ensure it

LeadBoxer

Time and time again, research proves retaining and selling to current accounts provides a higher return on investment (ROI) than acquiring new customers. In fact, research from Bain & Company indicates that increasing customer retention rates by 5% can grow earnings by 25% to 95%. Account Expansion Best Practices.

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