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Leadership
5 Cash Protection Levers: Safeguards for Comp Plans

Sales compensation plans are designed to reward performance, but they can expose your business to unexpected and outsized liabilities without the right safeguards.  A wildly overperforming rep, a misaligned deal,...

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Leadership
Q2 Pipeline and Attainment Discrepancies

Q2 often feels like a slump… even for the strongest sales teams. Let’s set the scene (although hopefully it’s not too triggering).  Your team came out swinging in Q1.  Fueled...

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Leadership
How to Build Ramping Comp Plans for New Hires (and Why It Matters)

Skip the blog and go straight to our free comp plan ramp calculator. When a new sales hire joins your team, the first few months can make or break their...

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Leadership
How Today’s Best Teams Build Sales Ramping Comp Plans

Ramping a new sales rep is one of the trickiest balancing acts in revenue leadership. Reps need time to build pipeline, but the business needs bookings. Enter ramping comp plans:...

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Sales
Give & Gets of Comp Plans

For reps, higher quotas often feel like a gut punch.  Just put yourself in the rep’s shoes. It’s the start of a new sales year, and you’re a top-performing account...

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Sales
Sales Compensation 101: Key Components Every Sales Leader Should Understand

For many, sales compensation represents a means of paying reps through performance. But what’s often left out is its ability to drive specific business growth by aligning sales behaviors directly...

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Leadership
Understanding the Role of Compensation in Cash Flow and Profitability

According to McKinsey, companies with incentive structures aligned with their strategic goals report 30% higher employee productivity and a 25% increase in overall profit margins. Yet, many organizations overlook compensation...

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Leadership
Compensation Software: Achieve Faster Financial Closes

Finance leaders feel pressure from their revenue teams to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant commission payouts. But outdated compensation processes consistently put that at risk. We found that 22% of...

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Leadership
How to Motivate Sales Teams with Transparent Commission Plans

Sales is a game of motivation.  And yet, many companies undermine their top performers with commission caps, inflated quotas, or unclear compensation structures. As Jamal Reimer, Founder of Enterprise Sellers,...

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Uncategorized
How to Support Your Moms Returning From Leave in Sales

Returning from maternity leave is a uniquely challenging experience for women in sales.  Unlike other roles, where a team or a contractor often supports employees in their absence, sales moms...

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Leadership
Streamlining Commissions for Better ROI: Why Automation is Key

Commission payouts are essential for driving sales performance, yet 80% of companies have paid their reps incorrectly at some point. Is this correlated to the fact that our biggest competitor...

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