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The "100% Commissions Motivate" Myth
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| There's a good reason why over 97 percent of progressive companies and service industry firms that I've consulted, use a form of a "hungry base plus commission" compensation plan for their sales professionals, rather than employing a straight commission pay structure. The reason is simple, straight commission pay plans demotivate many more sales professionals than they motivate. Straight commissions reward a specific type of sales professional--the top three to five percent of the sales professionals in the top 20 percent bracket. |
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Top 5 Motivation Killers
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| Do you have peaks and troughs in your levels of motivation? What do you think the top 5 motivation killers are? What would change in your business if your motivation levels were at 100% all of the time? |
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States and Cities Compete for Green Jobs
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| A recent report by the San Francisco based Apollo Alliance concludes that the emerging green economy will no doubt create green jobs on all levels and will add value to our communities and create economic wealth. It just needs a little push and buy-in on all levels. |
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Sales Productivity: Manage Your Energy
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| What affects our energy levels? You already know the answer to that question. Nutrition, sleep, stress, physical fitness, attitudes, emotions, and environment are the major influencers of our levels of energy. How do you improve these aspects of our life so we maximize our level of energy? |
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Breaking Through Revenue Barriers - Increasing Sales Through Graded Levels of Commitment
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| If your revenue streams have slowed down or completely dried up, your solution may be as simple as creating graded levels of commitment for your current and prospective clients. Implementing graded levels of commitment (GLC) involves capturing the attention of prospects in different market segments with new product or service developments offered at different price points. Here are five steps to incorporate GLC into your business. |
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Why So Much Business Training And Development Goes To Waste
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| The effectiveness of so many training and business development programs is being limited by the fatigue and poor concentration levels of many of the participants. The fatigue is generally due to the participants being out of shape.Before embarking on business training programs, management should consider programs to boost the health and energy of their workers. The resultant heightened energy levels among the participants will increase their capacity to get more out of the training. |
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6 Steps to Sales Mastery
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| Salespeople must evolve through six levels of development before they can consistently and successfully execute any process, concept, strategy or tactic they are trained and coached to perform. The six levels are: |
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People Are Your Greatest Asset
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| People are your greatest asset. This is always true, but it is even more important during times of economic stress. The right people doing the right jobs can make the difference between success and failure. I think most business owners already understand this principle, but finding the right people, keeping the right people, and getting people to perform at their highest levels are constant concerns for business owners at all levels. |
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Global Employee Engagement Declining
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| Most recent study of employee engagement levels by Hewitt Associates found that engagement levels at the end of the June 2010 quarter represented the largest decline Hewitt has seen in 15 years. |
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Selling to C-Levels - 8 Interviewing Tips to Easily Close Sales
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| Interviewing questions open up C-levels and other prospects to reveal the triggers that will cause them to buy from that interviewer. Interrogative questions turn-off people like a light switch. So to win-over prospects and C-levels, follow these 8 suggestions.
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More is Said Than Done About Improving Customer Service
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| Effective teams, organizations, and leaders exist to serve others. And those who provide the highest levels of service/quality enjoy the richest rewards. That's not just some platitude or warm and fuzzy theory; it's become a well-proven fact. In Firing on All Cylinders I reviewed much of this evidence. I showed that those organizations with the highest service/quality levels have the highest levels of growth in revenue, customer satisfaction and retention, market share, productivity, safety, and employee morale while also reducing costs. So it's not surprising that the best service/quality leaders are also profitable leaders.
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