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Sales Incentives Shouldn’t Be Used as Motivation to Close More Deals

A Sales Guy

If you are using money to incent sales people to sell MORE, you have a big problem. I participated in this sales webinar yesterday; Best Practices in Modern Day Selling. One of the participants asked this question: What incentives have you offered your sales teams to help motivate them to close more deals? My answer was NONE!

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A Salesperson's Wishes from Marketing

Pointclear

Webinar attendees aren’t leads; get me leads.”. This doesn’t have to do with marketing, but why does management cap my incentive system? Webinar attendees aren’t leads. How about someone in Marketing forecasting the leads we need to make quota?”. “We We want qualified leads.”. We need e-mail addresses on leads.”.

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Or maybe you think that incentives have run their course and it’s time to drop them altogether. If you’re thinking of asking your reps what will make the best prize in the incentive program, stop. Are incentives obsolete? Don’t do it.

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5 Tips for Designing Successful Sales Incentive Compensation Plans

Xactly

Few leading indicators are more predictive of a company’s future sales performance than its incentive compensation plans. While multiple factors influence the effectiveness of your sales incentive compensation plans, 5 tips stand out: 1. Creating incentive programs that work require balancing multiple design choices.

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Sales Forecasting Accuracy: How to Put Your Data to Work

Xactly

When handled well, data can help ensure sales forecasting accuracy , but when handled exceptionally, data can drive alignment with sales and finance teams and even optimize your overall sales plan. So what can companies do to ensure data and sales forecasting accuracy? Watch Webinar. Poorly-handled data creates a bit of a mess.

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The Pipeline ? The REAL Problem with Sales Training

The Pipeline

I would add another disconnect that prevents sales training from achieving a positive return on investment is a lack of alignment between the organization’s strategies, structure, processes/operations, incentives and people. Communication Strategy. Sales Strategy. Buying Process. Cold calling. Communication.

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Top 20 Sales & Marketing Vendors to Follow on Twitter @Dreamforce ’14

SBI

Integrate your CRM, webinar management and more, most with one click. Transform your marketing & sales results with marketing automation, territory optimization, mobile learning, sales enablement, configure price quote and incentive compensation management, all in one suite, all in Salesforce with CallidusCloud. @ActonSoftware.

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