The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Here’s why: the sales quota is a key variable in many of the equations that dictate core business functions. 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.

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Xactly

JULY 4, 2018

Creating sales compensation plans is a challenging task—it’s all about balance, but sometimes the perfect balance can be hard to strike. You need your incentives to drive the right sales behaviors in order to achieve sales objectives. Creating a Sales Incentive Compensation Plan.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Learn how to create a successful sales strategy plan for your business with these eleven tips. RELATED: 7 Sales Techniques That Actually Work. In this article: What Is a Sales Plan? Develop Your Market and Sales Strategy. Encourage Your Sales Team to Generate Their Own Leads. What Is a Sales Plan?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

A sales plan lays out your objectives, high-level tactics, target audience, and potential obstacles. It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. A business plan lays out your goals -- a sales plan describes exactly how you’ll make those happen. Who writes sales plans?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

So what can possibly be a better incentive than a performance-based bonus? Five typical sales commission structures 1. Territory volume Territory volume is a commission paid off based on revenue from a specific region. When a certain sales threshold is met, a rep is paid, say, 10% of the revenue generated.

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Xactly

MAY 31, 2018

Previously, sales performance management (SPM) has typically been categorized as solely focused on incentive compensation management (ICM) and sales compensation planning. It is quickly transforming due to a variety of software tools aimed at helping improve day-to-day execution of the sales process.

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SendBuzz

APRIL 22, 2023

In this post, we are providing some interesting, engaging, and fun contest ideas to cultivate a work environment that keeps your team inspired and motivated to reach their sales goals. So, are you ready to unlock your sales team’s full potential and watch your business thrive? Start implementing these ideas today.

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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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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

In this guide, you'll get an introduction to sales operations, why it's a critical piece of your sales puzzle, and how to build your own sales ops team (or make your existing one stronger). Download Our Free Sales Conversion Rate Calculator and Guide. Sales Operations vs. Sales Enablement. Sales Forecasting.

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The rate of retention is better than normal because sales reps are often pushing that new product or product line in sales conversations on and around the launch date. They’ll know how it meets the customer’s needs, pricing, their sales goals, and everything they need for effective sales that close deals.

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Highspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

Sales organizations need the ability to analyze data to optimize planning, improve sales processes, and align stakeholders across all of your sales functions to ensure that everyone is working in concert to smash sales goals. Sales leaders offer that direction. A sales team is only as good as its analytics.

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Apptivo

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Plans and strategies are vital for the growth and success of any business. Many sales techniques we use are not sales strategies neither can they be construed to be a plan. A proper sales plan helps businesses achieve their goals and objectives. What are the goals of a sales plan?

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

I’ve faced this challenge as a senior sales executive, sales enablement executive and outside sales enablement specialist. Pulling a rabbit out of the hat to close out Q4 is not a strategy. Closing out the last month of the year without a fully baked sales plan is a recipe for failure. Marketing is required.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Balance Market Opportunity with Sales Capacity. More specifically, territory opportunity will give you a good indication of what portion of the total goal should be allocated to each territory. The other half is the physical capacity of the sales force to close a certain amount of business.

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Close.io

AUGUST 11, 2019

Here's what we'll go over in this guide: What is sales operations? Sales operations team structure: Roles & responsibilities. 7 KPIs & metrics to track for sales ops. Sales operations strategy: Process, framework, & steps to follow. Sales operations best practices: Tips for success.

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Xactly

APRIL 2, 2018

Whether a company is trying to grow or has reached the Enterprise level, the right sales commission structure can be the difference between hitting your goals or falling flat. Since sales is tasked with increasing revenues, incentives are an important part of achieving those goals.

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Xactly

JUNE 4, 2018

Technology is becoming more and more important in corporate businesses as both an enabler for competitive advantage and a means to successfully reach sales goals and drive growth. Xactly CFO Elizabeth Salomon is responsible for the overall financial strategy and direction, supporting Xactly’s growth strategy.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Occasionally, organizations may run into roadblocks, as it relates to sales behavior, incentive compensation, system design, respectively, as well as finding and hiring the right talent. Do we have the right sales enablement to execute on the plan effectively? A critical component is having a future vision and strategy.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

When we were testing different outsource sales team incentives, it was crucial to find out what motivates the person and why they might not be doing well. Productmarket-fit evaluation is essential to your go-to market strategy in any new territory you want to enter. Building a repeatable sales model.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

More practically on the actual job execution level, sales managers are charged with several mission critical functions within most organizations. That includes activities like: Setting sales goals. Creating a sales plan and proactively experimenting to improve execution. Overseeing the organization’s sales training.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Lucidchart Sales Solution Lucidchart Sales Solution is a modern account planning platform that aligns your revenue team, serving as a roadmap to more effectively coordinate, communicate, and execute your account-based selling strategies. Execute your strategy with confidence, backed by SpringML’s predictive analytics.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2019

In sales, a quota is the financial goal individual or team sellers must reach by the end of a specific time period, usually one month or one quarter. Quotas are set by sales leadership and attainment of quota generally results in a performance bonus. The difference between sales quotas and sales goals.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

To participate in the next generation of sales tech, sales organizations will have to consider their data strategy. Sales Enablement. This in-depth demonstration of Unika's Sales Enablement platform provides insights on how you can implement a comprehensive Sales Enablement program that focuses on Strategy, MORE INFO.

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