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 used to measure a sales team’s deliverables against a target set by the management team. 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). This metric is used to calculate risk in the business.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

And, strategic sales coaching is all about zeroing in on your most urgent sales priorities. 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.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

For sales organizations, this type of clause or provision enables a business to reclaim commission or other performance based compensation paid to a salesperson, under specific circumstances. But, the sales rep who initially closed the deal might’ve received a substantial commission payment. That’s easier to enforce and understand.

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Cience

OCTOBER 14, 2020

This metric is used to measure a sales team’s deliverables against a target set by the management team. This metric is also used to pay out incentives to sales reps based on their individual or team quota achievement. <double If you have fewer clients, the risk is higher with churn than having a larger client base.

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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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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

If you’re familiar with what a CRM is already, then you intuitively know that an enterprise CRM is basically a CRM solution tailored to larger (enterprise-level) companies with complex processes and large sales teams. Track your recurring revenue, upgrades, downgrades, and churn. Incentive compensation management.

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 21, 2022

Employee churn is costing your sales organization— big time. In B2B sales, the average turnover rate is a whopping 35% ( source ). Ways sales rep turnover is financially draining your organization. How to actually determine the cost of sales turnover. Why is turnover in sales so prevalent? Why so high?

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What’s the difference between the “how” and the “why” of sales compensation? How you pay sales reps depends on the way you design your comp program, what metrics relate to what incentives, and so on— all the details we’ve covered in many past articles about comp plan design.

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is particularly important in an environment where renewal accounts are growing, but churn rate is accelerating, too. A digital sales transformation needs more than just software. Just as customers are struggling to adapt to the new landscape, your sales reps are sure to have some issues, too.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 19, 2024

Building an effective sales process that includes mapping the customer journey, implementing structured sales cadences, and leveraging technology tools enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of sales operations.

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Xactly

APRIL 19, 2018

Unfortunately, commissions and Sales Performance Management (SPM) practices in general are often treated as a side project and do not receive the attention they deserve. Looker started out as an Xactly Express customer in 2015, later migrating to Incent in order to keep up with accelerated growth. Phil’s Compensation Mission.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Companies with high churn aren’t sustainable.”. The platform enables finance and sales operations teams to self-manage complex incentive compensation plans and provides transparency for sales teams. The post 2023 Sales Comp Planning: A Conversation with The Alexander Group appeared first on Spiff.

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The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

” Alfie Kohn, Author of Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise and Other Bribes. The moment of truth in sales is not when a contract is signed… the moment of truth is when someone makes up their mind and says “I will buy X” ”. Tito Bohrt , CEO of AltiSales.

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Highspot

AUGUST 26, 2024

It reduces customer frustration and enhances the overall experience, leading to higher satisfaction, loyalty, less customer churn, and, ultimately, more successful sales outcomes. How Does Revenue Operations Differ from Sales Operations? Sales ops concentrates on improving the sales team’s effectiveness.

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 7, 2022

Gone are the days when commission, bonuses, and incentive pay were accounted for as direct expenses. This can get tricky when you factor in customer churn, changing contracts, and employee turnover, all of which can significantly impact commission expensing. Think about it. ASC 606 changed the game when it comes to revenue reporting.

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Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This includes how sales documents are shared, stored, created, and accessed. It also includes how training materials are created and managed, training format (online vs. in-person), training incentives, and anything else related to training and training materials.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Your company can’t effectively upsell, cross-sell, manage renewals, or reduce churn unless your sales, marketing, and customer success teams are all on the same page. This can lead to operational inefficiency and compromise the customer experience. Departmental silos, however, often get in the way.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How do we see the role of sales ops evolving? How are technology trends shaping the future of sales and sales operations? Sales tech. Sales Enablement. Mediafly Unveils New Sales Enablement Platform Experience for the Future of Evolved Selling.™ Sales Incentives. Sales Efficiency.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Poor performance often stems from poor sales planning. When compensation plans aren’t well designed, it can become a race between sales, sales operations, and finance to point the blame. Really, the focus should be on how you can improve sales performance with well-designed incentive plans. 0% to 75%.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 24, 2021

This company’s sales operation needs a little course correction. Why Track Your Sales Growth? The first and most obvious benefit of tracking your sales growth carefully is that it tells you whether what you're doing is working. With that data on hand, you can make improvements to your sales strategy.

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