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If Done Right, Your Referral System Won’t Actually Cost a Thing

No More Cold Calling

A winning referral system is about multiplying trust. It’s also the ultimate sales advantage. It’s the key to a successful referral system. Sales has always gotten a bad rap, but it’s gotten much worse as sales channels have evolved. The problem is with typical sales metrics. Forget about incentives.

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How to be Indispensable as an Incentive Compensation Manager

The Spiff Blog

As an incentive compensation manager, you hold a critical role that keeps your organization running. In this day and age, no one doubts the importance of sales compensation when it comes to driving growth for a business. What does an incentive compensation manager do? The same goes for your relationships with sales leadership.

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A Foolproof Framework for Better Incentive Communication

The Spiff Blog

Developing an effective sales compensation plan requires a lot of brain power. It makes sense to focus on behaviors you’d like to incentivize, or pulling certain levers to impact other components of your sales engine. The only remedy is a formal incentive communication strategy. Let’s dive in!

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Sales Incentive Program Management as a Profit Center for CFO’s of Large Channel Members and Distributors

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: George Kriza, CEO, MTCPerformance For most large resellers or distributors, sales incentive programs for internal sales teams get little attention from top financial executives inside their organizations. Most multibillion-dollar reseller and distributor organizations attract millions of incentive dollars.

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Does Your Sales Incentive Plan Drive Customers Away?

SBI Growth

The purpose of every incentive compensation plan is to influence the actions of sales reps. Sales incentives can be like square pegs. Incentive compensation is intended to reward specific behaviors of the sales force. Here are some real-life examples of poorly designed incentives. This destroys trust.

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Renew Your Vows with The CRM System

SBI Growth

One of the biggest purchases a Sales Department makes is the CRM system. Companies that have successfully implemented a system tout benefits like: Increased rep productivity. More aligned sales reps and materials. Integration of multiple systems to automate routine tasks. And the system is buggy on rollout.

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5 Tips for Designing Successful Sales Incentive Compensation Plans

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Few leading indicators are more predictive of a company’s future sales performance than its incentive compensation plans. While multiple factors influence the effectiveness of your sales incentive compensation plans, 5 tips stand out: 1. Creating incentive programs that work require balancing multiple design choices.