The Spiff Blog

JULY 13, 2023

Recently, Ali decided to pivot their career from people ops/recruiting to a more technical role, where they can apply their people and analytical skills to create an outstanding user experience. After meeting some family friends who were software engineers, Jacob found himself wanting to learn how to write software.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Pivoting your focus mid-operating period rarely goes over well with the sales force.”. Recommended reading: The Definitive Guide to Recession-Proofing Your Sales Team. But, a larger team with a dedicated tool or commission software is likely able to handle plans requiring more flexibility. Final thoughts.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Here, we'll take a closer look at the concept, see some examples of what it looks like in practice, go over how you can put an effective incentive compensation plan together, and review some of the preeminent incentive compensation software on the market. Meaningful incentives influence behavior in any context, and sales is no exception.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Today’s winners are mastering virtual selling with an up-to-date approach to content, tools, and knowledge to help their sales teams succeed. But knowing how to pivot to a modern approach isn’t obvious. To find out more, I sat down with Allego’s Sales Enablement Director Mary Charles. Q: How did you get into sales enablement?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 24, 2023

Use tools such as your CRM or other sales enablement software to create a centralized content location for all your up-to-date training and coaching documents. Does your current sales enablement tech stack provide reps with what they need for valuable conversations that move prospects along that journey?

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

We were extra excited to speak with Andres this week to understand more about how a sales- and service -centric approach to growth is paramount to the logi stical side of sales operations for organizations looking to create a well-oiled go-to- market (GTM) machine. The Winning Framework to Building a Sales Team and Hitting Your Targets 1.

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A digital sales transformation needs more than just software. Defining your lead-to-revenue process is a crucial part in the digital sales transformation puzzle, so your objective should be to establish customer lifecycle stages so you can continue to support them. So, how do you get started?

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Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enter sales performance dashboards. What is a sales performance dashboard? Sometimes referred to as revenue dashboards, employee performance dashboards or sales operations metrics dashboards, sales performance dashboards are for everyone.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 21, 2019

However, your teams may need some pointers on how to write a useful monthly sales report for their own benefit. After you’ve brushed up on monthly sales report criteria, you can take your reporting software a step further. Sales performance data from any time period can be an extremely powerful reporting tool.

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Lessonly

MARCH 27, 2020

We leaned on 6 of our favorite sales coaches for their expertise, so kick back, relax, and get ready to learn how to be an exceptional coach in this season of remote work! Don’t be afraid to pivot. Our sales team is 80% remote (sometimes 100%), so it was really difficult to accomplish those two things well.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

I run a European-based sales agency for software and technology companies. In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about B2B sales outsourcing. W hat is Sales Outsourcing? Sales outsourcing gives parts of your own sales process to others (individuals or agencies). That’s not a sales topic.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Sales Operations Tools: Outreach , Drift. RELATED: Sales Hacker’s Massive Guide on B2B Sales Prospecting. Once you have delineated a clear inbound sales process, it’s imperative to create a transparent system of record to show how reps are performing and assess the overall quality of your process.

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Mereo

MARCH 23, 2023

In today’s tumultuous market with inflation headwinds and recession fears mounting, leading B2B organizations are pivoting from sales growth at all costs to sales efficiency. This includes your salespeople and your sales tools. Luckily, this tool exists: conversation intelligence (CI) software.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Whitney Sieck , Director of Revenue Enablement with Greenhouse Software, agreed that you need to meet the company where they are. She recommends a programmatic approach, working with the existing sales operating rhythm instead of creating additional work streams for enablement initiatives.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Companies adopt new finance solutions frequently, either replacing legacy software or filling a need with an entirely new solution. Digital dexterity refers to your ability to quickly pivot to new and potentially unfamiliar technologies.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 20, 2019

Then, of course, the first technology thing that I sold was at TalentBin, my recruiting software company. One of the sales organizations that I have a huge crush on is Greenhouse, the applicant tracking system, hiring software company. He ran the SMB sales team, but then they needed somebody to build and run the SDR team.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

Mental Selling: The Sales Performance Podcast Psychology plays a pivotal role in sales — which is why we kick off today’s list with a podcast called Mental Selling. The podcast, which launched in 2022, looks beyond the oft-repeated sales tips and best practices and instead examines the mindsets and emotions that drive success.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

fact, the average annual turnover rate in B2B sales is now 35% ( source ). Uncertainty in the market requires organizations to be agile and prepared to pivot and adapt quickly. That’s almost impossible when you’re scrambling to backfill roles on your sales team. This issue isn’t going away, either.In About Spiff.

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Gong.io

JULY 21, 2021

Revenue Operations vs Sales Operations: Same but different? The short answer: while they share the same goal, Sales Ops and Revenue Ops aren’t interchangeable. To begin, find out where your customer data lives at each stage of the sales cycle. You’ve just imagined Revenue Operations software.

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Showpad

MARCH 11, 2021

With a sales enablement program and software solution, you can identify that underperformance, address it with personalized coaching and then reap the benefits of a supercharged rep. What are the benefits of sales enablement? What constitutes effective sales enablement?

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Likewise, BANT empowers sales reps to disqualify leads faster if they don’t meet any of the big-four criteria— which mitigates the risk of wasting time on the wrong prospect and enables them to pivot quickly to more qualified deals.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 20, 2019

For most businesses, spreadsheet software is readily available and often free. Whether you’ve used a spreadsheet to manage your personal finances, or have spent countless hours building pivot tables for previous roles, chances are you’ve had some hands-on experience using spreadsheets. Seamless integration with other software.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. Asia Corbett Director of Revenue Operations, Postal.io. Brad Smith , Co-founder and CEO of Sonar Software / Founder at Wizards of Ops. Channing Ferrer , VP of Sales Operations and Strategy at HubSpot.

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Gong.io

APRIL 15, 2022

Jason van Ravenswaay, Bluecat’s Head of Global Sales Operations, uses Deal Intelligence for the team’s larger deals. “It Where does Revenue Intelligence fit into the modern sales stack? Sales coaching software. As of 2021, there are 1,078 enterprise sales products on the market. That’s what Bluecat does.

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Costello

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The incorporation of data and saved efficiency of the integration saves us time and positions us to pivot around key data points to increase revenue.”. It lets employees chat, video call, share files, and seamlessly work with lots of other software (including HubSpot). Activity can also be used for creating lists and workflows.”.

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales leadership can see the health of every deal, giving them an intuitive feel for the overall health of the pipeline. Sales managers can see exactly what reps have done and will do next with every deal, dive into details in seconds, and find out the moment a deal goes off track. Shortening sales cycles and improving win rate.

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SalesLoft

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As Robertson told the Demand Gen Report , “We are seeing a real inflection point and a commitment to truly making the pivot to the customer as we recognize it’s less effective to be product-oriented. Look out for our next post in the series on what Forrester 2020 Predictions mean for sales organizations in the coming year.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A committee of stakeholders should be involved in brainstorming and deciding what factors are important to include in the sales compensation philosophy: Executives – Executives provide a broader business perspective, helping to strike the right balance between financial sustainability and performance-driven incentives.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Figuring out how and where to leverage my lifetime of knowledge and body of expertise to solve problems and challenges outside the sales world. Founder & Chief Sales Operator of Alice Heiman LLC. How long have you been in sales? . I’ve been in sales for over 25 years. How long have you been in sales?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 31, 2021

Ajit: I wrote the book when I couldn’t really find enough literature on the topic of software pricing. But we never really discuss the monetization upfront and often leave this decision to either the rep, who’s the first time rep selling a product, or a sales operation person, which leaves money on the table.

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