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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.

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

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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. In a recent webinar with CFO Alliance, we reviewed the findings of the study. Watch Webinar. Incentive Compensation.

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Sales Planning Fundamentals Part Four: Territory Planning

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In today’s post, I’ll talk about territory planning. Territory planning represents the foundation of sales performance management (SPM). You must have the right territory design in place to accurately allocate quotas. Accurate quota allocation impacts your team’s ability to achieve their anticipated incentive compensation.

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How to Optimize Sale Territories for a Strategic Advantage

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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.

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10-Point Inspection for Top Sales Performance

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Erik Charles is the Principal Incentive Strategist at Xactly Corp. In a recent webinar , Erik noted that: "The total outlay for Incentive Compensation in the U.S. They roll out the draft plans in November, have a few meetings, adjust the territories and quotas, roll it out to the field and run off to the next challenge.".

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Are You Using Your Sales Performance Data Effectively?

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This ultimately allows for better sales, territory, and compensation planning; thus, a stronger sales organization as a whole. . For example, if you notice that rep performance tends to drop off after they meet quota, you may need to examine if your incentives are truly motivating reps to meet and exceed their targets. View Webinar.

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How to Setup a Commission Plan in Six Steps

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Download our "Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation Planning" for incentive best practices and everything you need for a sales comp plan design project. Formulate your new plan around the successful elements and structure incentives for new goals similarly. Ideally you need a sales incentive planning team of six people.