The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Recommended reading : How to Develop a Winning Sales Compensation Philosophy Compensation Transformation Tip #3: Personalize your sales incentive programs. Personalizing sales incentives is a difficult task for a number of reasons. This sort of change may seem small, but it’s significant.

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Alice Heiman

APRIL 14, 2022

Many CEOs struggle to find sales leaders, including sales managers and VPs of sales. Patrick is launching new businesses all the time, yet he never struggles to find sales leaders. You’ll learn Patrick’s theory on promoting people from within and how he uses incentives to build up individuals and teams.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Some sales skills to continuously coach for are: Business Acumen Storytelling Active Listening Objection Handling Negotiation Skills Buyer Research Judgment Find more in 17 Sales Skills All Reps Need. Using “coaching” time for deal forecasting There tends to be confusion around what “sales coaching” really means. Get creative!

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The sales commission process plays an important role in motivating sales teams and therefore drives top line revenue growth— arguably the most important metric organizations track. Sales managers can also motivate their teams based on metrics like quota attainment , commission earned, and more! See Spiff in action!

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 17, 2022

The insights culminated in the Scale Your Sales Framework, which helps companies reimagine revenue growth through customer excellence and sales. Scale Your Sales continues to explore customer excellence and sales through guest interviews on Scale Your Sales podcast. Dynamic guests share their sales insights.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. Scale your own management process. Good luck, and happy managing! Assess your strengths as a manager.

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Over 70% of sales organizations report using spreadsheets to calculate sales compensation and commissions for sales team members, which may be susceptible to integrity loss as they are shared throughout the organization. What kind of behavior do current incentive compensation plans promote? How do you monitor churn rate?

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 29, 2024

Now, let’s talk incentives. Incentives, or spiffs, can really boost motivation. They can give your team that extra motivation they need to work towards and make achieving those sales targets even more rewarding. But here’s the key – structure your incentives to make your goals more realistic and achievable.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In short, more precision is better for rewards used with incentives, while less precision is better for rewards used with recognition. Incentives. Good incentives rely on high degrees of precision to generate motivation. This powerful device is optimal for the above-and-beyond incentives that are outside the commission plan.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

What are the incentives for B2B companies to invest in AI (other than their competitors may be doing so)? The benefits of such efforts could not be operationalized at scale. ConversationAI monitors reps’ sales calls and scores them based on best practices, such as listening more than talking and asking open-ended questions.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Scaling sales during the pandemic. How to build a winning sales team. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40]. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. I got the itch again and looked for companies with the ability to scale. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40].

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But remember that while the execs are driven by revenue and low customer churn, your sales reps are driven by their incentive compensation plans. Sales reps are trained to track dollars and revenue (yes, you’ve taught them well), so of course they’re going to track their own. Prioritize a positive sales culture.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The company that launches a new product and calls it disruptive before it scales sets the sales team up for failure. This mindset creates blind spots, and management never sees the failure coming. Commercializing the product at scale is second base and requires a repeatable sales process.

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LevelEleven

MAY 17, 2018

Q & A with Derek Wong, Geopointe Sales Development Supervisor. Many modern sales teams are implementing a Sales Management System that integrates with their CRM in order to motivate, engage, and coach their teams around the behaviors that support their business goals. We’re in sales and salespeople like incentives.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2021

More salespeople equals more sales, right? Scaling your sales team is crucial to growing a healthy business. Take a strategic approach to scaling your sales team, and make smart hiring decisions that will benefit your organization for years to come. Scaling your sales team almost always means bringing on new reps.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Organizations utilize marketing automation to scale awareness. Frameworks also help sellers determine buying criteria and modify the sales process. During and after the qualification process, reps wield Conversation Intelligence to analyze interactions, capture insights, and scale best practices across the funnel. .

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

No matter how confident you are in your sales strategies, it’s crucial to develop contingency plans for if and when something goes wrong. Consider each scenario that might affect your sales team’s ability to hit its targets. What if you experience a period of high sales turnover? What if a valuable sales manager leaves?

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Interestingly, 63% of a typical sales budget is dedicated to internal costs such as talent development, emphasizing the focus on customized training, which is essential in shaping a comprehensive sales enablement strategy. Incorporating sales enablement in your overall training program is vital for scaling sales organizations.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The quality of your sales culture determines how much your salespeople sell, how productive they are, how long they stay with your organization, and what benefits can your sales organization expect to reap from how you’ve structured your sales team. How to build a winning sales culture. Low turnover of reps.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 17, 2019

Now, look at his advice: To become a sales manager, you essentially need to become an extension of your HR team — something every employee can do to make a positive impact on the organization. Of course, I also wanted feedback from industry veterans — the folks who are training & coaching sales management teams around the globe.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 16, 2020

RELATED : XANT Introduces Industry’s First Mobile Sales Engagement Solution Improve Sales Training Onboarding Tackle Technical Issues Praise Employees Motivate Staff Complaints Statistical Analysis Customer Satisfaction Compliance and Regulation Maintenance, Quality, and Scale Final Note. Improve Sales Training.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

Some offer incentives for practices that can also be cheaper for you, such as filing information electronically. Business process outsourcing opportunities are scaling, allowing your customers to experience working with your brand while the behind-the-scenes service comes from local partners. COVID-19 Lessons Will Serve You Well.

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Showpad

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sales managers at any organization are in a position to guide and motivate those they lead, similar to the coach of a sports team. So it would make sense to give managers the proper training for sales coaching, right? Unfortunately, many sales managers do not know how to coach properly and aren’t being held accountable.

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LevelEleven

JUNE 21, 2018

This eliminates the need for users to navigate in and out of a multitude of applications that only slow productivity and further complicate your ability to customize and scale. How customizable is the solution and can it scale with your business? Here are a few examples: Salesforce – AppExchange. Netsuite – SuiteApps.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As leads pour in, it becomes challenging for your current sales reps to manage their book of business and properly prospect. As a sales manager, you have to ask yourself “Do I simply hire more salespeople, or is it time to implement an SDR program?”. Establish an incentive plan to motivate your SDRs.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The composition, hierarchy, and primary role of sales ops may differ across industries and even across similar businesses of diverse sizes, but many of today’s sales ops leaders perform a standard core set of functions. Sales Ops: Table of Contents. Building Sales Ops. Sales Ops vs Sales Management.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. Today, 68% of business leaders we surveyed believe it will help them scale in a way that would otherwise be impossible. Measure success.

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Xactly

MAY 31, 2018

For decades, companies have gathered different tools to manage compensation. As companies have expanded, they often find difficulty scaling their manual processes to drive further growth. 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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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

Learn about sales team management, creative business development strategies, time-saving sales tools, B2B strategic partnerships, aligning sales with marketing, effective prospecting, negotiation techniques, and more. Hosts: Sales trainer Bryan Neale and author, speaker, and coach Bill Caskey. Sales Gravy.

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Pipeliner

JULY 3, 2023

Top-level sales personnel are attracted to prospects where they see the potential to be more than just a functional cog in the corporate machinery and remain pivotal to a meaningful cause. Such strategic communication attracts individuals passionate about your company’s cause, not just the pay scale.

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 11, 2019

That suggests most sales reps aren’t getting the training they need to succeed which, in turn, can hurt the company’s bottom line. When the sales coaching process is broken, it prevents modern businesses from scaling kick-ass sales teams successfully. Implement a Coaching Culture in Your Sales Team.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This event will teach executives the most innovative and actionable best practices to scale revenue. The Revenue Summit 2018 is a must-attend event for sales & marketing professionals seeking to explode revenue and building high-velocity lead generation machines.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Having a sales performance management process in place is crucial for your team’s overall success. There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. Helps predict future sales trends.

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Closer's Coffee

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Sales professionals with increased job satisfaction. There’s a reason both sports and video games are such popular forms of entertainment on a global scale. Don’t introduce too many incentives at once, start small and see what works best. Individuals can control their own behaviors more than they can control specific numbers.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

These solutions range from CRM tools to exit-intentlead capture to sales management tools to marketing software and beyond. Features: Revenue growth Full customer view Reporting and analytics Price : Month to month plans start at $25 10) VanillaSoft VanillaSoft’s mission is to remove all barriers to sales productivity.

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Salesmate

JUNE 4, 2021

Similarly, many other practices in sales have changed with the changing world around. One such practice is that of providing sales incentives to the salespeople. What are sales incentives? Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.” – Nikita Khrushchev . Split incentives .

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