article thumbnail

5 Steps to a Competitive Sales Incentive Plan

Xactly

Compensation drives sales behavior, which means your sales incentive plan is a critical factor in sales performance and objective achievement. The incentive compensation planning team faces the challenge of balancing executive priorities and designing incentives that motivate reps. Gather your previous and YTD data.

article thumbnail

Sales Incentives Aren't the Only Motivator. How One Company Got Rid of Them

Hubspot Sales

If set correctly, incentives can have a positive effect on your team's behavior. The commission, bonuses, and sales performance incentive funds (SPIFs) you thought were inspiring your team can become more harmful than helpful if reps put their numbers ahead of their customers, who can feel pressured to buy. He let them go.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Territory Optimization Revolution

OpenSymmetry

All companies are seeking the perfect combination of elements to deliver the highest salesforce effectiveness. A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. Poor or excessive customer coverage if territories are too small, leading to missed revenue.

article thumbnail

7 Things to Consider When Designing Your 2021 Comp Plans

Canidium

Many companies started paying draws, reducing quotas, increasing target incentives, or re-aligning territories to combat the economic impact from COVID-19. Yet the impacts of major events from the year will inevitably trickle into the early part of 2021.

article thumbnail

How to Optimize Sale Territories for a Strategic Advantage

Xactly

Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning. Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. Ultimately, if your sales territories aren’t optimized, you hinder sales reps’ motivation and performance.

article thumbnail

Sales Incentive Optimization

OpenSymmetry

The Journey to Sales Incentive Optimization. A familiar scenario that salesforces experience is the excitement and optimism of the new sales incentive launch, followed by the realisation that: New rules have been introduced which limit the kind of high payouts experienced last year which made the plan unaffordable.

article thumbnail

[Webinar Recap] Enhance Your Workforce Culture and Sales Performance through Incentive Compensation

Xactly

In the recent 2018 mid-market sales incentive study, CFO Alliance reviewed the relationship between Sales and Finance departments—and how this partnership can positively impact a company’s revenue potential. Incentive Compensation. Companies may need to begin to innovate when it comes to traditional sales incentives.