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

SBI Growth

As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Modifying sales reports and dashboards to enable sales managers to track new product sales. Focus on new product sales.

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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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The Sales Coach - Lessons from Lincoln (Part I)

Anthony Cole Training

Despite the current widespread Lincoln mania, not a single person before has ever identified him as a great sales coach. Then again, not many people have my mindset of thinking about how every book, movie or song translates to something related to sales or sales management. Let me briefly take them one at a time.

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7 Leadership Interview Questions to Ask a Sales Manager Candidate

Hubspot Sales

The jump from salesperson to sales manager is extremely challenging. A manager has an entirely different job: Leading, inspiring, coaching, and training a team. But if the team is functioning well, an authoritarian manager will breed resentment and probably damage its performance.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Personality Study of 1000 Top Salespeople.

HeavyHitter Sales

Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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Sales Coach - Lessons from Lincoln

Anthony Cole Training

Despite the current widespread Lincoln mania, not a single person before has ever identified him as a great sales coach. Then again, not many people have my mindset of thinking about how every book, movie or song translates to something related to sales or sales management. Let me briefly take them one at a time.

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The Best Sales Managers Don’t Chase Revenue: 6 Steps to Get Goal-Setting Right

Sales Hacker

Imagine similar spikes in your sales metrics and you’ll see the glaring imperative for setting goals. So yes — there are few things more important to you as sales manager than to set goals. Skip right to the 6 steps to influence outcomes as a sales manager >>> Having Goals is NOT Enough to Break Through.