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10 Ways To Boost Your Sales Incentive Strategy

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: George Kriza, CEO, MTCPerformance Your organization wants to drive sales with an incentive program. Here are 10 of the most important elements in designing and deploying your next incentive campaign. Are they already in other incentive programs, or is yours the only one they’ll see? Gen X, Y or Boomer? How do they think?

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6 Marketing Strategies for B2B Customer Retention

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Serena Dorf Business-to-business marketing is one of the most challenging facets of the marketing industry. B2B marketing is more technical than B2C. To promote customer retention and strengthen your B2B marketing scheme, we’ve assembled this list of six key strategies you can use. Set and exceed expectations.

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No Product Differentiation? No Problem. A CEO Who Found Another Way to Grow

SBI Growth

This post is about a CEO of a $450M company who focused on winning large deals to double revenues in a flat market. If you feel product differentiation and hot markets are the only way to grow revenue, this CEO proved otherwise by refusing to accept these limitations. The collision repair’s “market” depends on wrecked cars.

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How to Compensate the Overlay Sales Specialist

SBI Growth

Market Specialist – penetrates new or divergent vertical markets. Ideally, the overlay specialist should eliminate their own role by training their sales people how to sell the new product or penetrate the new market without assistance. Motivating Specialist Behavior. This defeats a key purpose of their role.

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10 Questions Every Sales VP Candidate Should Ask the CEO

SBI Growth

If you can’t hit it, you’re not getting the incentive pay promised. Pie-in-the-sky market share figures determines quota. No historical performance, account penetration, or product maturity calculated in quota. This is contingent on how accurately the quota is set. Red Flags: Big gap between performance and quota.

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New Product? Don’t Forget to Update the Sales Compensation Plan

SBI Growth

Obtain market penetration projections. So how do we incent this behavior? Product Marketing and Internal Strategy have vital information. If the product doesn’t make up a minimum of 15% of the overall quota, there won’t be enough incentive for the sales rep to focus on it. Focus on new product sales.

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Hiring Sales Talent: A Tool to Help CEOs Get It Right the First Time

SBI Growth

Penetrating new markets. C ompensation – Your incentive plan will help you attract the best talent. Effective growth CEOs can balance working on short-term sales tactics and long-term business strategies. Growing the company means having time to focus on strategic business objectives like: Acquiring new companies.

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