The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Developing an effective sales compensation plan requires a lot of brain power. It makes sense to focus on behaviors you’d like to incentivize, or pulling certain levers to impact other components of your sales engine. The only remedy is a formal incentive communication strategy. Let’s dive in!

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

What’s a sales plan? A sales plan lays out your objectives, high-level tactics, target audience, and potential obstacles. It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. A business plan lays out your goals -- a sales plan describes exactly how you’ll make those happen.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2019

But RevOps is a relatively new role in the sales environment, so there’s a lot of confusion about what it is and how it’s different from Sales Ops. In this post, I’ll explain what RevOps is, why it is suddenly so popular, and how it will impact the future of sales. or How is it different from Sales Ops? What is RevOps?

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Let's say you've spent weeks or months scouring the internet for a new sales job, but none of the job postings seem to match your skill set or career interests. Have you taken a step back and thought about a specific type of sales job you want? DRIs (directly responsible individuals) : Who's responsible for these goals?

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Pointclear

MAY 3, 2012

In the second post, we looked at elements of a complex sale that impact B2B lead generation costs. Their observations on trends include the following: Marketing’s mission includes direct responsibility for a higher portion of revenue. It adds costs when sales discovers many leads don’t meet criteria.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But early on in younger sales teams, most of the reps take on all the responsibilities in the sales process -- from prospecting to closing. The problem is that this leads to your sales team becoming “Jack of all trades, master of none.”. So, how do you go about creating this new and specialized sales team?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not.

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