With a strong enough pipeline, sales teams can consistently hit their numbers. Where should sales leaders invest to ensure a healthy and sustainable pipeline? In this webcast, we help make sense of the dizzying array of pipeline investment alternatives, such as sales development roles, sales communication platforms, and account-based marketing...Read more
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Research Brief: Managing Sales Compensation 
5 January 2017
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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
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Case Study: Simplifying Sales Process with Workflows at Siemens 
19 December 2016
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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.
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Sales Performance Management Series Webcast 4: Motivating the Right Behavior with Incentive Compensation 
15 December 2016
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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
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PNC Bank Case Study: How a Single Dashboard Transformed Sales Management 
14 December 2016
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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.
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Improving Sales Growth With Cross-Selling and Up-Selling 
14 December 2016
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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