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Incentives
Choosing the right sales incentives to motivate a team can be challenging. On the one hand, they need to be exciting enough to motivate a sales force to change their behavior, or at least point it in a certain direction. On the other hand, they also need to fit within an organization’s budget and not...
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For a sales manager, finding ways to motivate a sales team is a constant challenge. Because salespeople operate under considerable pressure, the occasional slump is inevitable. Slow periods in the business cycle, lack of consumer interest and personal stress can sap a salesperson’s enthusiasm. When performance is down, a sales contest can reignite the spirit...
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To drive sales performance, sales managers must carefully craft a team of sales people who can rise to meet the goals for the business. Sales incentive programs play a pivotal role in the achievement of these goals. The challenge is how to choreograph sales incentive programs that will produce the right types of behavior.  Sales...
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Sales professionals do not concern themselves with corporate budgets or annual revenue projections. Those kinds of numbers are “big picture” numbers that the sales manager should be concerned with. A sales professional concerns himself with producing revenue against his own quota to generate as much income for himself as possible. One of the most difficult...
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I came across an interesting blog post the other day about the evolution of sales CRM called, “SFA 15 Years Later: Now Every Rep’s Best Friend”. I don’t know that we are yet in the “best friend” stage with most salespeople and sales managers, but the industry sure has evolved rapidly. When I walked around...
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One of the common places a sales manager gets stuck is coming up with the right incentive to motivate their sales team. If you’re contemplating running  sales competitions, your head is likely spinning with stuff like: What prize or incentive would really fire up my team? What incentive will compel the team to change their...
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