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How Much More Should Your Sales Team Do … Than Just Plain Selling?

SaaStr

So in the earlier days especially, you’ll be tempted to lean on the sales team to do more than just … sell. It has some positives, the more you ask sales to do. You want your sellers selling for the most part, period. Sales reps will focus on where they get the biggest commission checks.

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5 Ways Companies Fail Their Sales Teams

A Sales Guy

Here are five ways companies fail their sales teams – Poor or Weak Value Propositions: Too often companies think sales people should be able to sell anything. What most companies miss is sales people sell what is given to them. Creating killer products with strong differentiation ISN’T sales job.

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Align Sales Compensation With Your Goals: ?A Compensation Plan That Works

A Sales Guy

Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. Are your sales goals orders- or bookings-based? What are your objectives: to secure new clients, increase average order size, reduce selling expenses? Understanding Cost of Sales.

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Sales Incentives Shouldn’t Be Used as Motivation to Close More Deals

A Sales Guy

It’s not uncommon for people to ask me what’s the best way to motivate sales people to sell more. If you are using money to incent sales people to sell MORE, you have a big problem. I participated in this sales webinar yesterday; Best Practices in Modern Day Selling. Poor sales leadership.

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How to Get Started With Channel Partnerships for SaaS Businesses

Sales Hacker

A channel partner is a company that sells products and services for a technology manufacturer or vendor. Channel partners basically onboard other people to sell your product for you. In the tech world, massive enterprise companies have entire sales channel departments who sell outside technology solutions to their clients.

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3 Things Sales Leaders Must do to Stay in Sync with Their Sales Team

A Sales Guy

You’ve built a killer sales portal the sales team never seems to visit. You’ve created an entire library of sales tools and yet the sales team creates their own selling tools. You’ve implemented Chatter, while your sales team has been using and continues to use Yammer.

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Why Sales Quota Must be Perceived as Achievable

A Sales Guy

When quotas are not perceived as achievable, sales people just give up and don’t even try. The reps don’t care about commission, about Presidents Club, about anything. Management doesn’t budge arguing the sales team is sandbagging, and the quotas are more than achievable. Sales Investments.

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