The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

The only remedy is a formal incentive communication strategy. This post will show you how to deconstruct your current sales compensation process to ultimately build a more effective incentive communication strategy. Document your current sales compensation processes. Refine your documentation and communication channels.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Link some incentive to making the revenue goal. Complex scoping documentation and bureaucracy has to go. Enable Sales Ops to pay well for their positions. Let them to design the team that’s suited to the challenge. This means hiring hybrids that have great technical ability and business acumen. Valuable resources cost money.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 17, 2018

You may feel we’re being a bit too generous here with the word “party,” but considering how much we love flawless incentive compensation, we think a celebratory vibe is just what your planning committee really needs. So, how do you know if you have the right mix of attendees for your incentive compensation planning party?

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Selling Energy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Verify accurate input by third parties: Several years ago, a national retailer needed to file hundreds of incentive applications in the context of a planned portfolio-wide lighting retrofit campaign. Once the error was discovered, the client managed to retrieve the correct data and salvage the incentive.

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Highspot

MARCH 24, 2025

It depends on strong foundational pillars that drive improved workflows, rely on actionable insights, and align incentives with measurable business goals. Performance and Incentives Make sure compensation and incentives support GTM objectives to drive the right behaviors. Lets explore four pillars of GTM ops excellence: 1.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 28, 2017

These types of incentives align all employees on the growth of the business. An article in Chief Executive Magazine notes the rise of team-based incentives across organizations. There are different incentive types that can drive collaborative behavior; some will work better than others for your organization. .

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 24, 2019

Will additional bonuses or incentives be a part of the compensation plan? Documentation. The salesperson must agree to use documentation and tools that are approved by the company to keep track of their sales activities. commission, performance incentives, bonuses). What is the base salary? When a commission is earned.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Once you’ve conducted your interviews, compile your answers to these questions and document themes or trends. Now, that’s a real incentive from a company that understands the value of having a referral culture. What advice do you think your customers would give to you? What else would you like to tell me that we haven’t discussed?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2025

Motivate with gamification and incentives. Account Executive at Vanta (Hybrid – London) Enterprise Account Executive at Document Crunch (Hybrid – SF / Chicago / Washington DC) GTM Enablement Manager – APAC at Vanta (Sydney) See more top GTM jobs on the GTMfund Job Board.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Controversial panel titles included “Making the Case for 100% Base Salary in Sales” and “ Comp Plan Documents Released in the First Month of the Fiscal Year?”. For example, artificial intelligence enables the efficient and practical application of unstructured data for sales performance management and incentive plan design.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 9, 2025

However, at some point, these elements must be more formally addressed and ultimately documented. Also known as a business proposal, project proposal, or executive summary, it serves as a formal document that outlines how your offerings can solve a prospective clients problems or meet their needs. What is a Sales Proposal?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2021

We need to collectively understand the intricate details of the document so that every sales rep and sales leader is aware of the important elements to identify. Refer to this document while you’re going over your comp plan whenever you are being offered a new job or whenever your comp plan is being updated in your current firm.

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Xactly

JANUARY 2, 2019

Ultimately, the new compensation and incentive plans must successfully motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. After close to a year, we decided that Express was not flexible enough to handle our complex plans and increasing number of reps, so we decided to implement Xactly Incent in 2015.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Pre-designed templates provide convenient, time-saving blueprints for company newsletters, brand flyers, activity reports, business logo design , and every other piece of business documentation you can think of. Here are some templates worth considering for giving your documents a neat boost and to better convey your business communications.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2019

Sales coaching like this has many documented benefits – from reinforcing training, to culling and promoting best practices, to even positively impacting the bottom line. Coaches can attach rewards and incentives (e.g., Reps record a video of themselves completing the activity and submit it through their system for feedback.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 27, 2017

These aren’t brochures you’re sending out – these documents are being carefully evaluated. Complex documents can require the input of a lot of subject matter experts. Because many of them (rightly so) view this as secondary to their job, do what you can to change that with incentives.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Having clear, visible goals and incentives builds well-rounded sales professionals. A well-rounded performance review should include the following: Documented goals the employee is being assessed for - Talk to your reps about how they performed in regard to the specific metrics outlined in their performance review plan.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MAY 3, 2024

Manually creating customized communication documents like quotes, invoices, contracts, and reports is an inefficient process prone to human error. If you’re considering implementing a document automation solution for your organization, there are several key capabilities to evaluate during your search. What Is Document Automation?

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Allego

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Developing digital selling skills, processes, and incentives. Clear processes and incentives are crucial for aligning with digital sales goals. DSRs are an effective way to create a customized experience for each buyer, allowing you to share videos, documents, and other materials in a single, easily accessible location.

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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. A good deal plan can be a complex or a very basic document. If additional documentation or reviews are needed, how long will those processes take? How to Create a Deal Plan.

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SBI

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Digital, at the time was largely confined to typing and storing word processing documents and creating spreadsheets to keep track of sales forecasts and booked revenue. Then came a new type of “App” created by GRiD Systems for its proprietary GRiD laptop that allowed salespeople to do away with carousels of physical slides.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 10, 2021

Customers may expect to sign contracts, receive periodic updates, comprehensive documentation, and access to service reps when problems arise. Consequently, B2B startups sometimes offer customer support and training for free to those who need it as an incentive to buy. Don’t do this.

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A Sales Guy

JUNE 21, 2012

When we operate from the attitude of we’ll just create a new comp plan, we don’t document the desired outcomes of the comp plan and end up creating one that doesn’t incent the right behaviors. Just because you’ve identified the problem doesn’t mean the solution is easy.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Let hybrid sales team members utilize digital versions of commonly used documents. These digital documents can even allow team members to seamlessly process customer orders from around the world. Provide Incentives. Learn what incentives will push hybrid sales team members to give their all.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 28, 2017

These types of incentives align all employees on the growth of the business. An article in Chief Executive Magazine notes the rise of team-based incentives across organizations. There are different incentive types that can drive collaborative behavior; some will work better than others for your organization. .

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is a living document, created by the seller’s team with buy-in from the customer, that all parties use to define exactly what needs to happen, by wh en to get the deal to close. . This document will help keep you on track, identify potential obstacles, and help ensure you deliver the value you promise. .

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Zendesk Sell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As discussed, traditional incentives between departments are polarizing. Answer the following questions: What type of incentives and performance metrics are currently being used to measure employee success? Establish a documentation procedure. Easier to support customers with context from sales. Establish a Change in Metrics.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Documents the sales process. But scaling the sales strategy through word of mouth and scattered documents isn't exactly effective. You need to build all of that information into a system that documents your whole sales process — from its stages to its policies to its activities. Eventually, it makes its way to a piece of paper.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2019

Each operations specialist has different priorities, goals, and incentives. While much of this work revolves around tool implementation and administration, it also involves process design and documentation. Incentives. Instead, they have strong incentives to do whatever is best for their respective functions.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2019

How to excite your team (and incentive them along the way). Conga is the leading end-to-end digital document transformation suite. With Conga, you can simplify documents, automate contracts, and execute e-signatures so you can focus on accelerating sales cycles and closing business faster. It’s not about just incentives.

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SBI

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Docusign @DocuSign DocuSign is changing how business gets done by empowering more than 300,000 companies and 200 million users in 188 countries to sign, send and manage documents anytime, anywhere, on any device, with confidence. Salespeople spend more time closing business, not chasing leads.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

When hiring new employees, you want to align their incentives with the objectives of the company. A cap table isn't a legal document, but rather a snapshot of ownership information used to make decisions. Outline distributions to the founding team -- and use the cap table to facilitate the conversation on day one.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

For the record, I offered her a breakfast sandwich as incentive, but she declined. She said getting out of her rut was incentive enough. Document your goals and accomplishments each month. But beyond that, documenting your achievements gives salespeople an instant boost. 5) Practice Good Mental Self-Talk.

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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.

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Troops

OCTOBER 3, 2018

When changes happen, we communicate these changes with a variety of training resources like videos and detailed documentation in Guru, and alert our teams of the change and supporting documentation over email and Slack. incentive or, ‘Hey, send us your favorite joke and you’ll be featured in the next newsletter!’

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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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Close.io

JUNE 20, 2018

Without ambitious goals to strive for, they have no incentive to put their best foot forward. Create the processes, document them , introduce them during the onboarding of new sales reps , and make sure these documents are readily accessible at all times. Get the right tools for the job.

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