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The Sales Compensation Conundrum How to Develop a Truly Effective Sales Compensation Plan Developing a sales compensation plan can be a pretty intimidating undertaking. What are the most critical decisions you need to make? What compensation plan structure will motivate your salespeople to achieve the targets you set for them without producing unintended consequences? Sales performance expert Alan Rigg has helped hundreds of  more...

Motivating the Underachieving Employee How to have the tough conversation with employees who are not pulling their weight Employee underperformance affects team morale, productivity, and company profitability. If not addressed, the manager runs the risk of losing the respect of their team, making it even more challenging to achieve productivity goals. With companies running lean and mean, subpar performance must be addressed and your  more...

Performance-Based Sales Recruiting How to Hire More Top Sales Producers and Jump-Start New Hire Sales Performance How expensive are sales hiring mistakes? To answer this question, take a look at the difference in revenue, gross margin or profit (whichever number is most important to you) produced by your company s top sales producers and your bottom sales producers. Then add in the costs of recruiting and training new salespeople.  more...

Forecasting & Pipeline Management How to Eliminate Stalled Opportunities from Your Company s Sales Opportunity Pipeline What is the condition of your company s sales opportunity pipeline? How many of the opportunities have been stalled at the same step in the sales cycle for weeks or months? If sales forecasts and opportunity pipelines are inaccurate, or if opportunities do not close in predictable time frames, it can wreak  more...

Create an Accountable Workforce to Grow Your Bottom-Line Lead Don t Manage Your Employees to Success Searching for answers to fix your bottom-line? Don t panic -- the answer is right under your nose. Your most valuable asset your employees -- can come to the rescue. You can grow your bottom-line despite the economic woes if you build an accountable workplace. Leadership expert, Joel H. Head, former Partner with Ernst Young, LLC and Principal with  more...

How to Develop a Strategic Plan That Works For You The manager's key to creating competitive advantage Do you ever get the feeling that you are throwing darts while blind-folded? As a business leader, how can you expect to make this year your best year ever without having a well-defined plan? Perhaps, you have a strategic plan, but it s hiding under the cobwebs in your office. In these challenging economic times, having the right strategic plan  more...

The Secret to Closing More Sales Closing is certainly an important sales activity, as the time, effort, and resources invested in managing sales cycles are wasted if orders are not secured. However, the real secret to closing sales is doing a great job at the FRONT end of the sales cycle. In other words, it is the quality of the work that is done during the OPPORTUNITY QUALIFICATION stage of the sales process that determines  more...

How to Develop an Effective Sales Compensation Plan The most common sales compensation question my company receives is, 'What is the standard (salary, draw, commission percentage) for (an industry, product or service, geography)?' Unfortunately there are very few standards that apply to sales compensation. The variations in sales compensation plans are infinite, and there is little published research that provides compensation details (salary or  more...