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How to Train a Sales Team on Products: Use Modern Software, Not Old-Fashioned Training Techniques

Bigtincan

Traditional product training for enterprise sales organizations and retail employees often includes hour-long training videos, reviewing lengthy recorded calls, reading through documentation, and a bunch of other time-intensive training processes that require your sales reps to absorb and, hopefully, retain product information.

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Unleashing the Power of Frontline Sales Management, Part 3: Institutionalizing Sales Management

Sales and Marketing Management

They must know how to motivate people and hold them accountable, how to coach and develop sales reps, how to structure territories and match them to a rep’s skill sets, and how to leverage data and use it to drive performance. Provide meaningful training. Create incentives that drive the right behaviors.

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3 Keys to Building an Effective Commission Plan

The Spiff Blog

Perhaps you’re an 8-year-old business focusing on retention– or maybe you’re finally in a phase of sustainable growth. But remember that while the execs are driven by revenue and low customer churn, your sales reps are driven by their incentive compensation plans. Does this include all territories and teams, or just a portion of them?

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

Xactly

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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Sales Operations and Company Growth: An Extensive Guide

Crunchbase

Sales ops often make their team available to help sales reps with less tangible soft skills development, such as providing training and tutelage in effectively managing their time and working collaboratively with other sales team members. Performance and incentive program management. Parsing out territories. Sales team advocacy.

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The Sales Leader's Guide to Performance Management

Hubspot Sales

Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. High-performing sales teams are twice as likely to provide ongoing training to reps than low performing teams. A sales performance management plan adds structure and accountability to your training process. years , down by half from 2010.

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Understanding the Fundamentals of Effective Sales Rep Management

Xactly

Consider your sales incentive plan –it works in the same way. Download our "Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation Planning" for incentive best practices and everything you need for a sales comp plan design project. A little can go a long way with incentives. Continue Training Reps After Onboarding.