An article by Dennis Spahr and Jonathan Minor, titled "Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater: Subtle Adjustments Can Help Save Your New Sales Compensation Plans," appears in the 2nd Quarter 2008 edition of WorldatWork's Sales Compensation Quarterly. This article discuss how a systematic review of new sales compensation plans can identify subtle adjustments that will keep your sales people focused and the sales organization successful.

Read "Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater"

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Daniel G. Fries, Senior Vice President and Leader of Sibson Consulting, has announced that Shawn Rossi joined Sibson as a Vice President in the Sales Force Effectiveness Practice.

Read our press release

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An article by Joe DiMisa, a Sibson Consulting Senior Vice President and Sales Force Effectiveness Practice Leader, titled "How to Sell Your Sales Compensation Plan" appears in the December 2007 issue of workspan. This article gives managers guidance on communicating and "selling" a new sales compensation plan to employees. To view the entire article, please click here.

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Sibson Consulting is pleased to announce the publication of The Fisherman's Guide to Selling, by Senior Vice President and Sales and Marketing Practice Leader Joe DiMisa. For more information on the book and the author, or to order a copy, please click here.

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Are you looking to hire more sales people? Review these tips by Joe DiMisa, Sales Effectiveness Practice Leader, for help in selecting the right sales people to meet your business objectives.

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Is your organization in jeopardy of losing some of its top performers? Do you have a turnover problem in your sales force? If so, explore these examples of rep "burnout," which may help you combat such problems.

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Practices

Sales Force Effectiveness

To meet the demands of a dynamic market, companies often need to restructure their sales organization and evaluate their rewards strategy to gain competitive advantage and optimize individual performance. By utilizing best practices, companies can unlock additional efficiency gains and better align their selling efforts with firm strategy.

Sibson Consulting's Sales Force Effectiveness Practice helps companies clarify organization and resource requirements, prioritize goals, responsibilities and selling time, and motivate the right performance for the right rewards. We analyze the organization's strategic and financial objectives, competitive pay levels or pay practices for comparable and competing firms, pay mix, entrepreneurial or motivational components of the plan, performance measures, and contest or recognition programs.

Our Sales and Marketing offerings encompass both strategic and tactical methods of success:

    • Sales Organization and Program Audits
    • Sales Incentive and Quota Design
    • Customer Segmentation / Account Targeting
    • Channel Selection and Management
    • Sales Process and Job Design
    • Sales Support Infrastructure
    • Growth Management

Sibson Consulting develops solutions that are data and systems intensive, providing measurable impact. We collaborate with our clients to address their concerns about productivity, growth and cost control, talent retention, program effectiveness, return on marketing and/or sales expense, link between sales and marketing execution, market trends, and turnover.

When we work with a sales organization, we focus primarily on:

    • Sales performance improvement
    • Deployment of sales resources and sales performance metrics
    • Pay for performance correlations

When we work with a marketing organization, our approach adjusts to include:

    • Costs of sales and marketing programs
    • Customer segmentation and account management
    • Strategic linkage between sales and marketing

Sibson Consulting specializes in the development and implementation of customized solutions that maximize our clients' return on their human capital investments. Let us help you achieve your sales and marketing goals.


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