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How Your Location Impacts Sales Success

Heavy Hitter

.  We’ll review the research results from over two hundred and fifty business-to-business field salespeople who completed an extensive forty-three-part sales persona survey including sales quota performance history. Previous Year Quota Attainment. Career Average Quota Attainment.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 240: Q & Brian Trautschold @BTrautschold

Heinz Marketing

From a personal, from a dad with young kids’ standpoint, from having to close offices and figure out all of that, it certainly felt long. They’d be like, Oh, I see these 10 opportunities, Brian, you have that are closing this month and are in pipeline stage five for a million dollars. No Duke, no Kentucky.

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Episode #081: Keep It Simple in Sales with Andy Paul

Jeff Shore

And so, you know, hey, I’ll accept a 20% close rate because we’ve got the ability now to harvest so many you know, “leads,” and put them into our funnel, and we’re just gonna slash and burn through many of them because, you know, it’s not appropriate, and I can get down to those few that I can sell.

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How Much Will Your Reps Make? Everything You Need to Know About On-Target Earnings (OTE)

Salesforce

It’s nearing the end of Q4, and your team has met their sales quotas — maybe even exceeded them. If your team is paid based largely on commissions, OTE will change depending on quota and likely quota attainment. And if they exceed the quota, they could make even more. Imagine this.

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What is a SPIFF in Sales? Benefits, Types, and When to Use

Salesforce

Your sales team is close to meeting their quota. For example, you might tell your sales team they can earn a bonus on top of their salary and commission, for selling [X] products above quota by the end of the month or for booking [X] demos in a quarter that lead to a sale. Imagine it’s the beginning of Q4.

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How to Use Clawback Clauses in Your Sales Compensation Strategy

Salesforce

But, the sales rep who initially closed the deal might’ve received a substantial commission payment. In other words: Their concern over potential clawbacks makes them less productive, impacting their ability to focus on closing new deals. Let’s say a sales rep closes a $150,000 deal for which they earned 5% commission, or $7,500.

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What Is Lead Qualification and How Does It Work?

Salesforce

The importance of lead qualification Common types of qualified leads A step-by-step guide for qualification Three lead qualifying frameworks Lead qualification checklist Drive pipe faster with a single source of truth Discover how Sales Cloud uses data and AI to help you manage your pipeline, build relationships, and close deals fast.