The following tips can help you design compensation packages that will motivate your sales force managers most effectively.
TOP 6 Tips for Compensating Sales Managers
TOP 5 Ways to use Sales Compensation as a Competitive Weapon
When you follow this five-step process, you can design a compensation strategy that supports your business plan, positions your company successfully against competitors, and allows you to recruit and retain the sales force you need.
Top 4 Ways to Supercharge Your Sales Recruiting
Don't be intimidated if you pay less. Three-quarters of the time, sales associates leave a company for reasons other than money. Explain your value proposition; stress the services that you offer and the strengths of your firm.
Top 6 Considerations When Applying LEAN To Sales Force Compensation
The challenge of designing sales force compensation plans is to create an environment where sales people are motivated and a transparently business culture is created. It is vital as many obstacles as possible are removed from the process so sales people can maximize their results while ensuring the company’s greater goals are met. Those goals could include achieving profitability targets, increasing revenue, controlling expenses or recruiting and retaining a desired sales force.
From our experience spanning over 25 years, the below points are vital to enhance the process of successfully setting up LEAN to your sales force compensation plans.
Top 4 Tips To Ensuring 2015 Is More Profitable Than Last Year
You have closed the books for last year so now it's time to look at your results and see what changes, if any, need to be made for this year.
Tip #1
Obtain the following statistics for the past three years. If you don't already have them at your fingertips, they should be in the end-of-year information you get from your accountant:
•Total revenue
•Total expenses
•Operating profit
•Sales representatives ranked by production
Top 4 Things To Avoid When Applying LEAN To Sales Force Compensation
When compensation plans are structured correctly, it is possible to achieve all of your goals at the same time. Sales people can be paid the maximum possible while ensuring that corporate expenses are covered and profitability goals reached. Goals of the sales team and executive management can be aligned, with it being clearly in everyone’s interest to maximize revenue and control expenses.