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What Having Cancer Taught Me About Sales

Cerebral Selling

Indeed, from negotiating tactics learned from going a few rounds with my kids , to objection handling lessons from pandemic politics , there are so many valuable sales lessons that life can teach us if we remain mindful and open to them. The same is true when it comes to negotiating agreements at the end of your month, quarter, or year.

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How to Motivate a Sales Team to Improve Each Rep’s Performance (3 “Types” and 12 Tips)

Sales Hacker

People are motivated in one of three ways: Intrinsically. Intrinsically Motivated Salespeople. Intrinsic motivation stems from feeling accomplished through personal reward rather than rewarded through external means, like money. How to Recognize Intrinsically Motivated Sales Reps. What Are Motivational Styles?

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How to Be a Leader that Inspires Your Sales Team

Openview

If you expect them to stay late at the end of the quarter to catch up on quotas, you’d better stay with them. They’ll be intrinsically motivated to meet your expectations. A quota is a good place to start, but you can do better. Rewards should accelerate, not plateau, after quotas. Extrinsic Motivation.

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How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The straight forward individual commission rate without any built in incentives, the quota should be determined top-down by the founder, best guess that can be iterated upon in case it’s grossly wrong. The reason we did that was because we were finding that our reps were chronically under achieving their quota. So yeah, ICR.