Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

There are a lot of posts, some of them very thoughtful, about whether “Quota” is a reasonable measure of sales performance. I have to admit, I’m torn by this issue, but tend to think Quota is an important measure–though not the only measure. That becomes a goal, which is sometimes called a “quota.”

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This guide unveils essential metrics such as lead response time, conversion rate, and quota attainment to help you understand where your team excels and where there’s room to grow. Quota Attainment Quota attainment is the ultimate measure of your sales team’s success. We will examine each of these metrics more closely.

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Product Quota Objectives and Key Results CRM 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Second, set sane quotas — and make sure most reps are hitting quota. Few things are more demoralizing when no one is hitting quota. This doesn’t mean lowering quotas (at least, not too much). It does mean setting sane quotas, and having fun when folks exceed them. And Not Buying a Panerai Watch.).

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Drivers/motivators Quota Pipeline Closing 91

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

I'll preface these tips by mentioning that many sales teams struggle to hit quota during the holiday season — and those issues come from a lot of different angles, including: It's a shorter quarter with weeks-long holidays for prospects. Break the cycle of pressure to hit quota by playing into the holiday season and spreading the cheer!

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Salesmate

DECEMBER 3, 2020

How to motivate the sales team when sales is low? Here is how you can motivate the team when sales is low. Only when you have a clear picture of their roadblock, you’ll be able to provide a solution and motivate them to work harder. . Some of the sales reps step on other’s feet to achieve their quota. Conclusion.

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Drivers/motivators Objectives and Key Results CRM Sales 123

Gong.io

MARCH 29, 2018

Over time, quota attainment becomes one of the clearest indicators of whether you’re setting the right sales goals, whether your team is able to achieve those goals, and if your revenue growth is consistent. However, finding the right sales quotas for your team is more than just mandating an ambitious number that keeps your team motivated.

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Quota Pipeline Drivers/motivators Gaming 85

Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Foster self-motivation: Cultivate a proactive mindset to stay motivated and driven in a remote selling setting. The post Virtual Selling: How to Excel and Crush Your Sales Quota appeared first on Highspot. Request a demo today.

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Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 14, 2023

You could also be well behind your quota, struggling to stay motivated and worried about job security. As a leader, your job is to motivate your teams, hold them accountable, ensure they’re performing at their absolute peak, and ultimately drive revenue. It can also be the hardest. I’ve been through plenty of year-ends as an AE.

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Quota Pipeline Drivers/motivators Negotiate 188

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One way to overcome the slog: finding inspiration in tactical and insightful sales motivational quotes. Here’s a list of top quotes to keep you going as you work toward those end-of-quarter quotas. ” ― Denis Waitley , motivational speaker “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 12, 2020

The purpose of this committee is to make decisions about your short-term sales compensation strategies and quota relief programs and review sellers’ performance. Whatever your approach, your goal is to keep your sales reps motivated so they continue driving toward their goals. Our Incentive Compensation Process.

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Gong.io

MARCH 30, 2018

You’ve established your sales process and you have a structure in place to help your team achieve quota attainment. This is not only a strong indication that your quota structure is working, but also that it’s growing in a positive way. Sales quota attainment will never be a one and done project. Be ready to iterate.

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Quota Cold Call Pipeline Follow-up 88

Outreach

JUNE 27, 2019

How can you make sure your SDRs stay motivated, happy, and meeting - no, exceeding - their quotas? Most of them exceed quota often enough to join the President’s Club, earn paid vacations so they can swim with whale sharks in Colombia, and consistently take home paychecks north of their on-target earnings (OTE).

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Quota Represent Drivers/motivators B2B 78

RAIN Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Some sales leaders believe that a quota and an attractive compensation plan are enough to ignite the hustle, passion, and intensity in a seller. It makes sense they think this way given recent Harvard Business Review articles with titles like "Motivating Sales People: What Really Works" that focus 100% on compensation.

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Drivers/motivators Quota Sales 107

Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, with increasing competition combined with a limited budget and sales personnel, reaching your quotas can be challenging. For each territory, the assigned party is responsible for identifying sales prospects, building customer relationships, marketing, and achieving set sales quotas.

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Product Territory Objectives and Key Results Sales 246

Tibor Shanto

JUNE 17, 2021

It relates directly to how goals, targets and quotas are set and hit. The challenge of setting hard goals is making the targets motivational. Psychological Safety is important for setting hard goals and hitting quotas. I have some research that makes this a great debate to have in your sales team right now. Useful Reading.

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Objectives and Key Results Quota Sales Drivers/motivators 293

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. You could even present it to the sales team as options one and two: We can continue hiring more salespeople and keep quotas the same. That’s the question you should ask yourself.

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Quota Finance Drivers/motivators GTM 98

SalesforLife

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Whether you or your organization is thinking about implementing a new sales methodology, technology or training, one key driver for success will be adoption. We’ve included articles on how social selling adoption rates impact quota and why sales training sucks.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

To keep your sales team motivated when things are tough, you need to reward them for their victories. Top salespeople can earn high commissions, and this high-earning potential is often a huge motivator for many sales professionals. The lure of higher commissions can motivate staff to increase sales activities and close more deals.

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Commission Territory Quota Drivers/motivators 104

Engage Selling

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Most sales leaders I meet make this simple mistake when setting quota. They set individual sales quotas to equal their exact sales budget! Setting your quotas to hit your budget will always lead to under performance because you have not compensated for the under performers and new hires.

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Quota Pipeline Drivers/motivators Sales 78

A Sales Guy

JULY 10, 2012

I like everything but the comment about quota, sales shouldn’t be about quotas “@iannarino: Solve Problems goo.gl/8NJz6 keenan it’s never about minimum requirements (quotas), that’s appropriate only if you’re paid a wage, commission sales are limitless/ cont. ” if there is no quota?

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Quota Commission Drivers/motivators Sales 112

Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2019

Clearly, new strategies alone aren’t enough to motivate a sales team. According to behavioral intelligence (BQ), it’s all about how you motivate your team. You see, BQ has found that motivation is a trigger for thoughts… which cause feelings… which yield action. Sure, these are all key motivators for your sales reps.

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Extrinsic Drivers/motivators Intrinsic Commission 85

Gong.io

MARCH 29, 2018

Over time, quota attainment becomes one of the clearest indicators of whether you’re setting the right sales goals, whether your team is able to achieve those goals, and if your revenue growth is consistent. However, finding the right sales quotas for your team is more than just mandating an ambitious number that keeps your team motivated.

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Quota Pipeline Drivers/motivators Gaming 48

Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. And, quotas have gotten increasingly harder to hit. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. Embrace accelerators.

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Commission Product Quota Drivers/motivators 86

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2021

The world of sales motivation has been flipped upside down, especially when it comes to President’s Club. It’s a tried and true method for motivating and incentivizing your sales reps, but there are a lot of question marks surrounding it as we progress through 2021. 4 sales motivation strategies you should follow.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Go-to-market (GTM) design and efficiency are sometimes overlooked, but they’re a critical driver of any SaaS business. And how can you double your magic number without reinventing the wheel for better quota attainment or cutting everything? Under this GTM combo, assume an 85% quota attainment. Let’s find out.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2020

But to a true sales professional, a successful one, really only two things truly matter at the end of the day to motivate them: They need to see the top reps making real money. strong quota attainment + revenue per lead). The post The Only 2 Things That Really Motivate a Salesteam appeared first on SaaStr. That it can be done.

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Drivers/motivators Quota Growth Promote 71

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 23, 2019

By approaching issues this way, the therapist puts the client in the driver’s seat, which allows them to reduce the impact of challenges moving forward. Call Me Crazy, But… The modern salesperson is more than just a quota-crushing machine. How It Translates To Sales. Cognitive restructuring sounds fancier than it really is.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2024

With SDRs, especially in the early days, they’re likely fresh out of school or in the early stages of their career, so you can’t point to previous work experience and ask if them they were hitting quota or top of the board. When talking about hunger and motivation, it’s not to be in sales or to make money. What should quota be?

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Quota Commission Networking Drivers/motivators 95

Gong.io

MARCH 30, 2018

You’ve established your sales process and you have a structure in place to help your team achieve quota attainment. This is not only a strong indication that your quota structure is working, but also that it’s growing in a positive way. Sales quota attainment will never be a one and done project. Be ready to iterate.

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Quota Cold Call Pipeline Follow-up 48

Salesmate

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A skilled sales rep needs recognition for his performance to stay motivated. The individual commission plan is targeted towards salespeople who have exceeded their sales quotas. Motivation for sales reps. Motivation is a driving factor for the success of any task. Individual commission. Reduced turnover.

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Commission Drivers/motivators Non-Profits Real Estate 52

Highspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

Through hiring, training, analysis, and consistent follow-up, a good sales manager can help and ensure salespeople hit individual sales quotas. Identify Your Drivers, Benchmarks, and Goal KPIs. The base of the pyramid is where you find your performance drivers: meetings, leads, referrals, sales plans, coaching, sales strategy, etc.

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Process Drivers/motivators Referrals Quota 52

Veloxy

JULY 14, 2023

It’s about finding the optimal path that seamlessly integrates with your sales strategy, empowering you to exceed quotas and surpass customer expectations. Crush your sales quotas and achieve unparalleled success. In the dynamic world of field sales, simply getting from client A to client B is no longer sufficient.

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Territory Gaming Drivers/motivators Gambling 130

Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Dave Kurlan, the founder of Objective Management Group , defines commitment to sales success as “T he willingness to do whatever is required to succeed in sales, at reaching quota, achieving goals and closing a particular deal or account- whatever it takes (ethically).”

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Adaptive Business Services

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

It’s not very often when an article gets me so agitated that I feel that I have to respond but, this one did … No Commissions, No Quota: the Future Model for Sales? There are three problems associated with eliminating quotas and commissions …. Motivating? Not on my watch and the same holds true for eliminating quotas.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2019

The key to truly motivate a sales team, to excellence, is two-fold: They need to see the top reps making real money. strong quota attainment + revenue per lead). The post What is the best way to motivate a sales team? Like, really good money. That will show everyone it is possible. That is can be done. But the top 10%-15% do.

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Lead Fuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The survey for sales team uncovered the top 5 motivators. What else would motivate them?â€. The reality is that most of your employees are motivated the same way you are. You need to help your employees stay motivated. A common way companies motivate and incentivize their sales reps is with money, but guess what?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2019

Keep reading to learn the top 5 motivators, as uncovered by the survey. What you do need to do is help them stay motivated. One of the most common ways companies choose to motivate or incentivize sales reps are monetary bonuses, but guess what? What are they motivated by? Why did my quota go up? Recognition.

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