The Center for Sales Strategy

AUGUST 29, 2022

Every business needs a skilled sales team to generate a positive ROI, but on-the-job performance is rarely the product of training alone. There’s no one size fits all approach to motivational tactics, as every employee is unique and requires wildly different incentives to sell.

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Pointclear

MAY 3, 2012

While cost-per-lead measurement has been the only game in town for longer than we care to remember, we are seeing radical and positive shifts in how marketing is evaluating qualified leads. Correctly emphasize the ROI value of qualified leads over their cost. It incorrectly emphasizes cost over ROI value. Cost-Per-Lead.

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Allego

APRIL 2, 2019

Today’s sales training and enablement professionals can’t afford to be dismissive of ROI: if your sales training and coaching programs aren’t generating tangible results – in terms of higher revenues, faster ramp-up, shorter sales cycles, etc. – The post 3 Reasons Why Your Sales Training Fails To Produce ROI appeared first on Allego.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2025

GTM 143 Episode Transcript GTM 143 Episode Transcript Harmony Anderson: [00:00:00] With storytelling and messaging and positioning, like it’s never done. my advice for a lot of brands when they’re thinking about their messaging and positioning is what are the outcomes and ensuring that you have data to back up those outcomes. [00:01:00]

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

Choose the Right Incentives Rewards are the most critical part of your referral marketing strategy. Plus, incentives motivate customers, as 50% of people say they’re likely to give a referral if offered a reward ( source ). But, we recommend you give more thought to your referral incentives.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

How should you respond to a negative message, or a positive message? This attention to customer care will not only improve buying experience, it helps to build customer loyalty through positive experiences. Establish an Incentive-Based Customer Loyalty Program. Offer Incentives that Speak to Your Customers’ Values.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Let’s look at some benefits of reframing loss as a positive: Actionable insights and teachings become more readily available. Whether the prospect moves into a more senior role, changes companies all together, or revisits your solution down the road, it pays off for reps to have left on positive terms. Final thoughts.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 11, 2016

While cost-per-lead measurement has been the de facto favorite for evaluating marketing programs, we are seeing radical and positive shifts in how marketing is evaluating qualified leads. Correctly emphasize the ROI value of qualified leads over their cost. It incorrectly emphasizes cost over ROI value. Cost-Per-Lead.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2020

These moments of success give salespeople momentum and keep their focus on the positive. SPIFFs -- Sales Performance Incentive Funds -- are popular performance tools that challenge salespeople to sell a particular product. Limit the cost to 5% of an incentive budget. Refocus on professional development. Implement a SPIFF.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This week we are peeling back the layers and digging into which marketing channels have been driving the strongest ROI. Overall, from a blend of marketing leaders and advisors ranging from Seed to Series C these are 4 core channels providing for strong ROI: #1 In person events. So, what is ACTUALLY working?

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Allego

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Before implementing these competitions, it’s crucial to secure proper funding for rewards and SPIFFs [sales performance incentive funds]. Each team member had to play a different position: Quarterback (2.5x To keep things dynamic and ensure everyone contributed, players couldn’t play the same position in consecutive weeks.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 5, 2024

Join Jesse Williams and David Stillman , Co-Founders of Stori , to learn how you can use messaging and positioning to actually impact your bottomline. More for your eyeballs: David Sacks published a great piece about the dark side of sales , outlining sales incentive problems and elements of the sales compliance regime.

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Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

When your lead becomes a prospect and responds positively to outreach, they become a qualified prospect. Dangle the ROI carrot. Give a ballpark figure for how much ROI they can expect from your solution. Give a ballpark figure for how much ROI they can expect from your solution. Offer an incentive.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 26, 2019

Career ladders help retain staff by providing an incentive to keep moving forward -- if they see a clear reward (i.e., was covering training and salary without seeing ROI, and the AE’s were missing targets. When an employee meets a certain set of criteria, they’re eligible to move to a rung higher up on the ladder.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 25, 2022

Therefore, consider the following: Speak of their bottom line/ROI Be brief Know their pains and your solutions Get to the numbers quickly and Illustrate how much a solution costs/saves now and in the future. In fact, their positions often depend on the prudent use of their resources. In addition, they are highly budget conscious.

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 18, 2016

Our customers are seeing long-term success with implementing enterprise Incentive Compensation Management and Sales Performance Management solutions for their organizations. Kaizen, or the practice of continuous improvement, has a heightened focus that big results can come from small changes.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 11, 2024

How can they improve their position? Build rapport Display empathy Follow through A healthy rapport starts with a positive attitude. Empathy is the ability to put yourself in the prospect’s position. It’s showing the prospect you’ve been in comparable positions and what you’ve learned from the experience.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In 2019, B2B buyers ranked access to self-service tools as the most important factor in a positive customer experience, according to a survey by B2BecNews. With revenue intelligence technology working for them, companies have a much more complete picture of their customers, which always boosts ROI on any sales initiatives.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This idea originates from a positive reinforcement management style. Consider your sales incentive plan –it works in the same way. When reps complete the right behaviors, those actions are typically (positively) reinforced with money. A little can go a long way with incentives. Continue Training Reps After Onboarding.

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LeadBoxer

JANUARY 10, 2021

Time and time again, research proves retaining and selling to current accounts provides a higher return on investment (ROI) than acquiring new customers. Selling to current customers offers massive ROI and business growth potential, but expansion probably isn’t the right fit for every client. Account Expansion Best Practices.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 27, 2020

If finances allow, leaderboards, spiffs (immediate bonuses for a sale) and other incentives can still be a part of your sales team’s culture, and can easily be adapted for remote work. “ While it is important to stay positive and celebrate wins with shoutouts, our teams also need to be swift to recognize low performance.

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Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Scott Edinger also claims a similar result in Harvard Business Review : “In my work with clients, when I ask executives if the CRM system is helping their business to grow, the failure rate is closer to 90%. ” If the failure rate is that high, how can businesses achieve any return on investment (ROI) of their CRM? times more than the $5.60

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 15, 2024

Happy and loyal customers become repeat buyers and serve as brand advocates, spreading positive word-of-mouth and driving new business. Implement a loyalty program : Reward your loyal customers with exclusive offers, discounts, or incentives. Use this feedback to make necessary product, service, or process adjustments.

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Smooth Sale

MAY 15, 2024

Get merch right, and you might even find that it’s as much of an incentive for your niche to buy from you as your products, individually and collectively. And, when those same people start following you online or paying more attention to your physical marketing materials, ROI won’t be far behind.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Tip #2: Be Ready to Underscore ROI From Day One Speaking of the bottom-line, your preparation for selling to the C-suite should include lining up all your data points about the economic impact of the buying decision and the expected ROI. With economic decision-making taking place much earlier in the sales process, it’s all about ROI.

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Allego

JUNE 26, 2024

Proactive change management can reduce this risk and increase the odds of successful implementation, higher ROI , and improved morale. They should also be prepared to handle resistance by providing clear, consistent messages about the positive impacts of the new sales enablement software.

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 21, 2020

They should be glad to demonstrate the ROI they accomplish for their clients, and to show you how they do it. A sales training company with expertise in your industry is better positioned to customize your training to fit the specific needs of your team and to help them accomplish stronger results in your unique environment.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 27, 2020

This encourages your sales team to boost your customer retention and, therefore, your ROI. A sales contest centered around customer reviews essentially rewards the salesperson with the most or most positive customer reviews. A "most no's" sales contest is another unique yet positive one. Customer Reviews. Most No's.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 22, 2019

That’s especially true when incentives are based on things that don’t necessarily affect the bottom line — they’re just easy to manage without a lot of care. When you have a particular type of conversation, do your reps respond positively, or do they look for alternative ways to reach their goals? Get that buy-in.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

They use it to populate a template with the data, a review of the past 90 days, some generic ROI calculators, a few slides that overuse the words “value” and “ partnership ,” and finally some bullets which outline the next 90 days. It goes something like this: The customer success manager (CSM) grabs usage data from the analytics team.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2024

Without clear results, senior professionals see less incentive to integrate AI into strategic decision-making. And according to G2s Buyer Behavior Report , 83% of companies that purchased an AI solution in the last three months have already seen positive ROI.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JANUARY 31, 2025

Reward early adopters and recognize teams that embrace the changes, helping to foster a positive environment around digital adoption. Prioritize critical areas with the highest ROI, and scale gradually as budget permits. Collaborate with financial teams to secure funding and ensure ROI-driven decision-making throughout the process.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 7, 2017

So once you nail your process and ensure that it’s ROI positive, you can grow a long way. Do they have any long-term incentives that would keep them at their current job? Meaning that because you aren’t relying on inbound leads, you have the entire universe of prospects to call on. However, outbound has its challenges.

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Vengreso

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Successful implementation of a channel sales strategy requires careful selection, onboarding, support, and motivation of channel partners, along with continuous performance tracking and ROI assessment. Assessing ROI Evaluating the return on investment ( ROI ) of a channel sales strategy is crucial to gauge its effectiveness.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

How you pay sales reps depends on the way you design your comp program, what metrics relate to what incentives, and so on— all the details we’ve covered in many past articles about comp plan design. Relative pay positioning Relative pay positioning refers to how your organization’s sales compensation stacks up against market standards.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 7, 2021

Everything sounded so positive … what went wrong? Sellers often complain that buyers are totally focused on price, when they should be concerned about overall value and ROI. From a negotiation standpoint, a buyer may not be forthcoming in explaining the internal buying process because it weakens their position. Conclusion.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Even in the best of times, it’s best practice to keep tabs on the ROI you’re seeing from each and every sales solution you invest in. ROI : What kind of return on investment does each tool have? Creating a positive seller experience and an environment where reps can thrive is only going to benefit you in the long run.

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