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Does Your Sales Incentive Plan Drive Customers Away?

SBI Growth

The purpose of every incentive compensation plan is to influence the actions of sales reps. Sales incentives can be like square pegs. Incentive compensation is intended to reward specific behaviors of the sales force. Here are some real-life examples of poorly designed incentives. This destroys trust.

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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. Here are 10 of the most important elements in designing and deploying your next incentive campaign.

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How to Overcome Inconsistent Sales Rep Performance

SBI Growth

Most sales teams are composed of three groups: The Superstars – These gifted few need little oversight or incentive. Sales Leader Prospecting Account Segmentation Sales Enablement Sales Manager Sales Manager Resources' If they don’t, you will miss the number. They are your A-players.

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4 Sales Ops Lessons from the NFL

SBI Growth

There’s no denying that in sales, talent is a key differentiator. Today’s post is about how Sales Ops can create conditions that enable success. Today’s post is about how Sales Ops can create conditions that enable success. How well have you created conditions for sales success? Huddle Around A Sales Process.

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How to Compensate the Overlay Sales Specialist

SBI Growth

HR and Sales leaders face the challenge of maximizing the investment in sales compensation. Motivating the sales force requires careful adjustment of payout formulas, rates, accelerators, product eligibility tables and more. Overlay specialists can play an important role in supplementing the skills of the field sales force.

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A Sales Leader’s Blueprint for 2014

SBI Growth

Your Sales Strategy. It is one thing to have a sales strategy. VPs of Sales are asking the question “What have I done before?”. VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. This is flawed.

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Maximizing Motivation: Why Well-Intentioned Incentive Programs Don’t Work and How to Improve Them

Sales and Marketing Management

While on the surface, this incentive strategy had some validity, the results were not what the company predicted, or wanted. Second, many of these performers were married and the idea of travel, even incentive travel, meant their families would be on their own for a few days. Bob Nelson is president of Nelson Motivation Inc. ,