Resources

Sales compensation overshadows other sales-related expenses, and at times dominates the sales organization's attention. Firms' ability to design, adapt, administer, and communicate their sales compensation programs is therefore a significant management concern. This research examines current sales compensation management practice, quantifies factors differentiating high and low performing firms in this...Read more

Focus areas for this research include: Identifying how sales operations function drive efficiency in core responsibilities like reporting. Measure the ideal and actual focus on strategic issues by sales operations departments. Cataloging emerging and innovative practices contributing to sales operations' success in balancing tactical and strategic responsibilities. Sales operations staffing...Read more

Using workflow automation to simplify selling effort and increase efficiency, Siemens realized improvements in customer satisfaction and well as productivity. Join us as Siemens shares there experience with sales workflows and details best practices for automating sales process.

Every sales manager needs to strike the right balance between recognizing top performers and incentivizing strong sales growth all while ensuring the incentive compensation plan is fair, competitive, and profitable for the business. With the complexity of sales commission structures, there is no single right answer for how to set...Read more

PNC Bank's Lending Business Intelligence team radically reconfigured the management reports it provided sales leadership, streamlining insights into a single, powerful dashboard. In this webcast, they'll review three techniques critical to their efforts, and will demonstrate the Tableau reporting tools used to transform their reporting environment.

Improving cross-selling and up-selling existing customers can dramatically impact overall sales growth, and represents highly actionable and profitable opportunity for most sales forces. This webcast explores how aligning sales efforts with customer success can improve cross-selling and up-selling success while also keeping your customers happy.

Learn how Tableau uses data to create a culture of accountability and foster a data-driven sales organization that routinely hits targets. Watch sales representatives explain what data drives their behaviors and even see the dashboards that they use most. Learn how to leverage data visualization within your sales organization to...Read more

Our five-part sales performance management series continues with a webcast on sales forecasting. Sales forecasting is an essential sales planning activity, but is too often characterized by guesswork, gamesmanship, and missed targets. This webinar focuses on ways sales leaders can drive transparency and accuracy in the context of a comprehensive...Read more