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Sales Performance Metrics to Track
Tracking sales performance metrics plays a pivotal role in driving business success. This process helps you identify strengths and weaknesses to pinpoint areas where sales reps excel and areas needing...
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5 Ways to Ensure a Smooth Comp Plan Rollout
For those of us with sales backgrounds, what feelings did you experience when your leadership introduced a new sales compensation plan? Was it distrust? Frustration? Perhaps the jumpstart you needed...
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Sales Performance Analytics: Aligning Incentives with Goals
When evaluating and improving a sales team’s effectiveness, you need data – and you need to incentivize it. Data analysis using sales performance analytics helps businesses align their incentives with...
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Compensation Planning: Feedback & Communication
SaaS company leaders face many challenges in compensation planning; however, aligning compensation with company goals is their biggest challenge. This alignment is crucial for driving business goals achievement. But another...
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Leveraging Sales Intelligence to Boost Your Sales Productivity
Long gone are the days of staying ahead of competitors using traditional sales tactics. The modern sales toolkit has a new and crucial element: sales intelligence. Used wisely, sales intelligence...
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Q4 Compensation Adjustments: What Metrics to Pay Attention to
Q4 is the final sprint in the annual sales race. To keep energy and motivation up across their teams, some leaders drop a spiff or kicker. At the same time,...
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SPIFF Up Your Q4 Sales
Q4 is the final sprint in the annual sales race. Maintaining momentum, motivation, and focus is crucial to crossing the finish line. While base compensation plans provide a solid foundation,...
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What Do Reps Actually Want in Their Comp Plans
Aligning sales compensation plans with the needs and motivations of the sales team is crucial. If incentive plans fail to inspire desirable selling behaviors, quotas, and organizational objectives become more...
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What is Sales Performance Management? Why Do You Need One?
You have a great sales team. You have a great and varied product offering. So, why are your sales not delivering the results you would expect? It may all be...
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Sales Suspect vs. Prospect: 7 Ways to Differentiate for Better Pipeline Management
The best way to ensure smooth pipeline management is to know exactly how to optimize it. That means understanding every last step closely so you always know how to approach...
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What is the Industry Standard for Quotas and Commission
91% of sales teams missed quota last year, according to our 2024 Compensation Trends Report. Leaders attributed those misses to factors such as market conditions, misaligned sales activities, unstructured sales...
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Managing Multiple Sales Channels and Territories: A Guide
Managing multiple sales channels and territories in a growing SaaS company has its challenges. Competition and confusion can arise when different sales channels, such as inside and outside reps, target...