The ROI Guy

JUNE 29, 2015

There are several reasons why prospects are demanding higher discounts and making it harder for you to achieve your goals: Buyers are more empowered, with on-line / social resources readily available to research your competition and obtain competitive pricing. The key at this stage is motivating buyer’s as to “Why Change?”.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 29, 2025

All we need is your agreement on the proposal. The Scarcity Close The scarcity or incentive close must be genuine and real, plus the customer has acknowledged an intent to buy (from a competitor or you). After a prospect shows interest, you might ask, Whens a good time to get started?

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 21, 2025

Managing this process is a competitive advantage. Deploy CPQ to centralize configuration logic, enforce pricing rules, and generate proposals in real time. Centralize product, pricing, and proposal logic in a CPQ tool accessible by all teams. Align incentives e.g., shared OKRs for sales and finance based on margin + revenue.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 6, 2025

The contemporary competitive market poses a formidable challenge to maintain profitability across multiple sales channels. E-commerce: Offers transparent, self-service pricing, which must remain competitive yet profitable.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 3, 2012

The sales tool coaching plan can utilize field sales managers and / or champions to work hand-in-hand with sales folks to guide them specifically on when the sales tools should be used, how customer engagements should be conducted, and how resultant analysis proposals should be presented.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I wish I could say it’s all about incentives, but the truth is a bit more nuanced than that. Determine Additional Incentives (With Caution). You should really pick one metric like revenue vs trying to incentive multiple high level metrics. Step 7: Determine Additional Incentives (With Caution). Set Metrics.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 19, 2024

Investing in the onboarding and training of new sales reps, providing motivational incentives, fostering a positive work culture, and continuously measuring and improving sales performance contribute to the development and retention of a high-performing sales team.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2017

I’d propose an aggressive but realistic quota. I’d use sales contests, incentives, and other creative strategies to keep team morale high and hopefully boost results.”. I’m highly competitive,” which would translate into beating the team’s previous record or outselling another team. 7) “What’s a big risk you’ve taken?”.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It can help onboard reps faster, encourage friendly competition, and improve overall team morale. One contest that we run consistently for our sales team is a cash incentive for additional deals closed toward the end of the month. It’s no secret that there are many benefits to gamifying your sales process.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

The mandate of a VP of Sales is to maximize the organization’s revenue bookings, renewals, and retention by maintaining control of the entire deal pipeline, from SQL to proposal to negotiation, to commit, to close. To maximize these metrics, they need to think much bigger than a VP of Sales.

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 29, 2024

Achievable quotas also encourage healthy competition within the team. Now, let’s talk incentives. Incentives, or spiffs, can really boost motivation. But here’s the key – structure your incentives to make your goals more realistic and achievable. They’re like the cherry on top of the goal-setting cake.

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Sales Training Advice

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Contests, by their very nature, infuse a competitive spirit within the sales force and provide an excellent opportunity for management to recognize and reward top achievement. A successful incentive program is a delicate balance of three key motivational factors; reward, recognition and peer pressure.

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

That effort typically includes having new employees do everything from reading past proposals to learning to use the customer relationship management (CRM) system and other technologies to making presentations to multiple people, including the president. We typically advise our clients to establish a three-week on-boarding plan for new hires.

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Cincom Smart Selling

DECEMBER 8, 2016

As with any proposal, the IT manager will need to choose the software wisely. Some competitive groups may even be wary of tools that require them to share their contacts. As an IT manager, you need to explain why you are proposing the new tool, whether that be a CRM, a gamification platform, or a new VoIP system.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 12, 2020

Transforming a Competitive Customer Support Culture. While early adopters generated more incentive revenue than anyone else on the team, others balked because they felt that this program turned the customer support team into salespeople with quotas. But not all customer support reps embraced this change.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 25, 2019

In today’s competitive market, sales organizations need more than just talented salespeople to generate qualified leads. Start by allocating SDR expenses into three categories: fixed costs, additional expenses, and incentive costs. Incentive costs. See also: [Research] 5 ways to increase the close rate of your proposal.

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SBI

OCTOBER 31, 2010

solutions for lead management, proposal and quote management, sales enablement, marketing management, analytics and incentive compensation management. We hear the same question all over the country: “Is there a better way for creating a sustainable competitive advantage?”.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Jonathon Dunaway, director of sales at Veritas Logistics LLC , beats the competition with availability in Q4. Q4 is when the competition is taking the most vacations and holidays off, and the customers can be left without a transportation partner at a time of need as a result.

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Growbots

APRIL 11, 2018

If you are selling a very competitive product that is reordered frequently, it’s certainly to your advantage to sell a larger quantity and give yourself more time to strengthen the relationship before the next order rolls around. If the customer hedges, then you have discovered there is at least one other obstacle besides price to overcome.

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LevelEleven

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Salesforce gamification is the application of point scoring, contests and competition for activities that are logged in Salesforce. These activities can include actions such as dials, live-connects, in-person meetings, and even proposals issued or opportunities closed. What is Salesforce gamification ?

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 16, 2021

From the staff meeting agenda to project management templates to business proposals, documentation is a core ingredient to a companies success. A newsletter can relay the direction a business is moving in, layout mission statements, and announce events such as product launches, sales, discounts, and other incentives. Welcome Brochure.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 12, 2013

The sales tool coaching plan can utilize field sales managers and / or champions to work hand-in-hand with sales folks to guide them specifically on when the sales tools should be used, how customer engagements should be conducted, and how resultant analysis proposals should be presented.

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Salesmate

MAY 29, 2020

Map out the competitors’ strengths and weaknesses after in-depth competitive analysis. While the prospect is swinging between two offers, make the actual proposal. . For the sake of brevity, I’ll be mentioning 3 sales challenges: Lack of Motivation, Overzealousness, and Uniformity between Competition. They get demoralized.

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The Accidental Negotiator

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

At such times, you might think that the key to a win-win contract is to try to enlighten the other side about how the proposed goal will further the common good. First, you need to prepare to present multiple proposals—all of which you value highly—to the other side at the same time. It turns out that this view is wrong.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

Your products and services themselves can even be shaped by this information to ensure you’re always offering exactly what your TAM wants and expects — and staying one step ahead of the competition. For B2B lead-generation purposes, we propose something in the middle — a cold-ish calling method.

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Chorus.ai

MAY 7, 2020

You miss the competition style on the floor.” We’re mixing up the teams and running multiple incentives at the same time. Try to get those competitive juices flowing.” Tom’s team runs competitions around opportunities generated in the pipeline, proposals on a daily and weekly basis. They tend to run for a month.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Employee engagement increases when the incentives are worth the effort required to do well. These objectives can be positively reinforced through game mechanics, friendly competition, and performance management. When executed properly, contests can dramatically boost sales productivity by offering incentives for high performers.

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 19, 2024

Adversarial negotiations, a byproduct of this changed dynamic, are characterized by: Distrust Limited sharing Competition Defensiveness Short-term focus Today, research cited by Frontiers in Psychology shows 60% of adversarial negotiations are considered ineffective. This is vital to making concessions and adding value to proposals.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

July – August: hosting discussions to propose new changes. If there’s a sales incentive that only accounts for 5 percent of your reps’ variable pay, it is likely to become a “nice to have” bonus rather than something they are motivated to achieve. To ensure your organization is meeting the mark: offer competitive OTEs.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Add competition research to your sales content repertoire. Are there any new companies on the scene that could become competition? Knowing your competition gives your sales reps an edge when conversing with prospects. Who are your biggest competitors? How does your product compare to theirs? Let’s cut that in half.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Download the "2018 Sales Compensation Administration Best Practices Executive Guide," for incentive compensation trends, best practices, and tips to drive the right sales behaviors to kickoff your sales compensation planning. Be Competitive with Compensation. Offer PTO & Let People Use It. Embrace Your Inner-Child. Shuffle Roles.

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 22, 2013

In the same way sellers should beware when they issue proposals prematurely, so it is when closing before buyers are ready to buy. In such cases, sellers must ask for the business early, but it''s risky and the following outcomes are likely: You get the business, but often have to discount to incent the buyer.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 12, 2018

Wade out with your wits about you, always cognizant of the rip tides: competitive threats, status quo, 'do nothing,' point solutions and the homegrown, 'we'll just build it ourselves' approach. The height of folly is to deliver a generic proposal. She never crafts the proposal after the second call. Anchor the deal!

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BuzzBoard

JULY 26, 2024

Google Ad Extensions, which amplify Google ad copy with additional information and incentives, represent valuable and pragmatic tools in the paid advertising kit. They contribute to making your client’s listings more attractive, presenting potential customers with a more persuasive incentive to select their services.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

So what can possibly be a better incentive than a performance-based bonus? Here are some additional examples of why you structure commissions, depending on your specific objective: You want to encourage teamwork It’s always great when healthy competition within your sales team exists. Well, offer more and bigger incentives!

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

Percentage of deals: Calculate how effective your sales rep is by dividing the total of won sales by the total proposals sent over a specific period to get a closed rate percentage. Motivate with incentives Keep team morale high through inter-team competitions and incentives.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 11, 2016

Are our sales incentives working? After spending 20 years in the specialty vehicle industry, I have seen CPQ make companies much easier to do business with, and that’s a huge competitive advantage when you are talking about complex products. Are we sure customers are being quoted when we expect them to be quoted?

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