Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 21, 2025

Sales incentives Sales incentives are reward systems plans for sales teams to drive their efforts to sell products and reach goals. Well-designed incentive programs offer a two-fold benefit – helping sales reps earn more and the organizations generate more revenue.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

This KPI helps the rep understand which discounts are most effective, which can help reach sales objectives faster by attracting prospects with incentives that work. Customer churn rate measures the rate at which you lose customers, most often in the form of cancellations or non-renewals.

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Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel B2B Lead Rank 227

Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2021

Smart, strategic incentives that reward employees for achieving their goals is a great way to keep employees engaged, motivated, and willing to rally behind each other to succeed. This kind of incentive motivated individual reps to outperform their colleagues to get a grand prize that was well worth the effort they put in.

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Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2021

Smart, strategic incentives that reward employees for achieving their goals is a great way to keep employees engaged and willing to rally behind each other to succeed. This kind of incentive motivated individual reps to outperform their colleagues to get a grand prize that was well worth the effort they put in. Enter the sales spiff.

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Incentives Incentive Call-back Energy 130

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

In this article, I will discuss the challenges in the B2B SaaS customer experience and how to tackle these potential barriers upfront – rather than trying to do damage control months into the implementation when the customer is annoyed, disappointed, and on the path to churn. Top Risk Factors in B2B SaaS Customer Success.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

Choose the Right Incentives Rewards are the most critical part of your referral marketing strategy. Plus, incentives motivate customers, as 50% of people say they’re likely to give a referral if offered a reward ( source ). But, we recommend you give more thought to your referral incentives. Incentives were broken up into tiers.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2018

The incentive for your reps to meet their quota? So what’s the incentive for meeting these smaller goals? Don’t have the budget to offer monetary incentive? Provide an incentive that’s only awarded when everyone meets the goal. Incentivize goals. To receive their bonuses and/or variable compensation and keep their jobs.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 3, 2020

Let’s take a closer look at the challenges in the B2B SaaS customer experience and how to tackle these potential barriers upfront rather than trying to do damage control months into the implementation, when the customer is annoyed, disappointed and on the path to churn. Top Risk Factors In B2B SaaS Customer Success.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. This is what the person would be paid annually and it has two elements; a base salary and a sales incentive held against sales, also known as variable pay. NOTE: We recommend refraining from calling any sales incentives a bonus. Determine Total On-Target Earnings (OTE).

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Face-to-face Compensation Commission Lead Rank 110

Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

That statistic alone offers an incentive for brands to take a closer look at their email marketing strategy and to maximize return. Stage 4: Dormant Subscribers, Unsubscribers, and Churn In stage four, email can be used to determine which customers are no longer interested in your brand or doing business with it.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 21, 2019

That, in turn, leads to greater sales rep churn. Sales has a lot of incentive to bring in revenue, but they need the right tools to do it efficiently and effectively. From manual CRM updates, to uninspired training programs or hard-to-find content, the more roadblocks to seamless sales, the more staff becomes demoralized.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Commission SAP 136

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Beating the Odds On Sales Team Churn Rates. It’s the responsibility of managers to design and implement quotas, incentives, territories, roles and responsibilities. Who are these high-churning managers? That means you need to hire (and train and ramp) an extra 25 per year just to stay afloat. They’re easy to replace.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 26, 2018

Instead, leverage a healthy incentive focused on time savings or additional services. Because no one wants to land a client by giving a 15% discount, only to have them churn after six months. Unless you’re trying to meet stringent budget requirements, leave that +50% discounts for khakis at The Gap. Leverage: The Right Time of Year.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Harnessing AI requires a strong alignment of incentives across departments, coupled with high-quality data and experienced resources to get the job done. The good news? With a foundation of the most comprehensive B2B data available, it’s possible to turn those challenges into opportunities with plenty of upside.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This article will show you how the right commission plan execution can retain your employees, reduce customer churn and increase trust between internal teams. . But remember that while the execs are driven by revenue and low customer churn, your sales reps are driven by their incentive compensation plans.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 19, 2018

Once the prospect has invested time in creating a deal plan, they have more incentive to move forward so their work doesn’t go to waste. Your job as a sales rep is to find great prospects who will become great clients, which will reduce churn. Not only does a deal plan remove this hesitation to act, it also helps accelerate the deal.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

Never force a product or service on a buyer who doesn’t need it -- that’s a recipe for losing prospects and churning new customers. Length of Sales Cycle (measured in months) - This is the only sales velocity factor you don’t want to increase. Define these criteria early and keep it consistent when measuring sales velocity.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But you as a SaaS business want to sign them up for annual deals when possible since that's going to increase cashflow and predictability and decrease your churn. Because you want to understand churn first and see how long people stick around by choice. In their MRR churn study, Price Intelligently found that SaaS companies.

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, suggests “unchecked incentives” were the root cause of the fraudulent accounts, further elaborating, “Incentive compensation structures are common in businesses and they can motivate positive behavior. How do you monitor churn rate?

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Tenbound

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Website ChurnZero: Focuses on customer retention with features for onboarding, engagement tracking, and churn prediction. Sales Performance Management Xactly: Specializes in incentive compensation management and sales performance analytics. Website 16. Website 21.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

You need to consider everything holistically: website to trial user, trial user to paid plan, active trial users, short-term churn, long-term churn, and more. A high visitor-to-trial CVR ultimately doesn’t mean a thing if you’re not vigorously working to increase the other metrics and decrease churn. Create urgency.

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Lead Rank Customer Churn Segment 107

Nutshell

OCTOBER 8, 2018

KATHERINE MAYS, HEAD OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE “I was focused on keeping customer churn to a minimum, which meant preparing the CX team to have conversations with potentially frustrated customers, and identifying which of our Classic customers would benefit from some one-on-one outreach in advance.”. “A

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Churn Lead Scoring Lead Rank Cancellation 124

Sales Hacker

JUNE 29, 2020

I like to use Intercom to send an automatic email series over the course of a couple of weeks to everyone who has signed up for a free trial, educating them on ways to use EmailAnalytics and offering them incentives to upgrade to a paid account. Churn is the rate at which you lose subscribers. Rep knowledge/training.

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Lead Rank Strategy Scale Lead Scoring 106

The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Metrics to prioritize may include: Renewal rate Upsell rate Churn rate Average deal size Average contract value increase Products sold per customer Customer lifetime value Of course, an effective sales compensation transformation doesn’t mean shifting completely from new business to a retention-driven approach.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This metric is also used to pay out incentives to sales reps based on their individual or team quota achievement (this is likely the part your reps care about most). If you have fewer clients, the risk of churn is higher than if you have a larger client base. Most likely this will be measured by month, quarter, or year.

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Data Lead Rank Pipeline Lead Scoring 136

Allbound

OCTOBER 31, 2018

If the partners you do recruit aren’t the ideal fit, they are likely to churn. In fact, partners churn about 10% of their vendors per year. In addition to referral commission, helping your partners feel well educated and prepared to have conversations with your customers is a huge incentive. Get ‘em, tiger!

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Most clawbacks require a salesperson to return previously paid commission when a customer churns or cancels their purchase within a designated time period. The customer churns two months later, triggering the four-month clawback provision that the rep’s employer has implemented. That’s easier to enforce and understand.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

So you need to sell CRM software to your team — otherwise, they’ll behave like customers who churn. Offer an incentive for CRM usage. Any sales rep worth her salt knows the key to a sale is explaining value to a prospect. Introduce an, "If it's not in the CRM, it doesn't exist" rule.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Compensation is the ultimate incentive. Finally, review their average deal size and churn. A close rate of 25% in a new market doesn't do too much for you if your churn rate within it is 50%. If you can make existing reps more efficient, invest there before expanding your team. Using Out-of-Date Compensation Plans.

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Scale Hiring Compensation Territories 130

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I prompted ChatGPT, “Have a debate with me about whether the commission-based compensation structure is an effective incentive compensation system for salespeople. Bringing in customers who churn within a tight window is unproductive and costly, so a system that incentivizes those kinds of relationships might be counterintuitive.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

If you want them to stop selling to poor fit customers, institute a clawback so they lose their commission if the customer churns or returns the product within a set window of time. They get the security of a steady income with the economic incentive to sell. The "right" and "wrong" behaviors depend on your high-level company goals.

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Compensation Hiring Salary Commission 145

The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

For example, let’s say your number one priority as a business is to reduce customer churn. As a sales leader, it’s important to make sure your training and coaching sessions address the issues that ultimately lead to customer churn. What if unforeseen market conditions result in unexpected customer churn or a dip in revenue?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 10, 2018

We do the same things organizationally, sometimes churning through executives, management, people–wasting time, resources, opportunity because we are oblivious or in avoidance. They are wake up calls, they tell us something is happening and should incent us to consider doing something different.

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Churn Call-back Incentives Incentive 77

LeadBoxer

JANUARY 10, 2021

Therefore, it’s essential that account managers work to provide excellent service and ensure buyer success to avoid churn or the loss of customers over time. If your sales team is hustling to get anybody and everybody to sign up for your product or service, chances are they’re signing new clients who are destined to churn.

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Account Lead Scoring Lead Rank Commission 97

The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Your goal is to offer the right incentive to drive specific sales behaviors. That’s why commission plans often miss the mark— either offering a suboptimal pay mix that doesn’t drive performance, or overshooting incentives and driving unnecessary costs. For example, what’s the relationship between deal size and customer churn?

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Commission Compensation Incentive Incentives 77

Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

This KPI helps the rep understand which discounts are most effective, which can help reach sales objectives faster by attracting prospects with incentives that work. Customer churn rate measures the rate at which you lose customers, most often in the form of cancellations or non-renewals.

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Top of Funnel Lead Rank 100

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2025

00:20:00] and, so we said maybe if we just like give them, you know, a little more of a push and a little bit more of an incentive to be sharing. And so, we’ll, we’ll even sometimes give them incentives and like fun swag and things to actually do it. They’re sharing in Twitter, on LinkedIn, and, uh, that has.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Marketing 97