Hunt Big Sales Blog 3 Ways to Motivate Your Large Account Sales TEAM

In Daniel Pink's important book, "Drive," he convincingly shows that pay-for-performance is inversely related to complexity. Simply put, the longer and more complex a desired outcome is to achieve, the less pay-for-performance matters. A strong example is in the world of large sales. Large account sales require more time. If you want to keep sales people motivated in these longer and larger sales, you need to provide more compensation in salary.There are also additional people- not just salespeople, but your whole team. To land a big deal, you've got to load up your team with people of all skill sets (subject matter experts who can speak the client's language), because one person (a sales guy) out there on his own is not going to cut it. How do you keep those people engaged as well? If they're not seeing their efforts translate into money in a meaningful way (commissions, profit-sharing, bonus, etc), they'll too be distracted by the not-so-shiny-objects of their every day job.How to Take Action1. Pay more for big sales - and spread it around The sales representative is not the only person involved in the hunt. The fact is, after the initial interest is generated, the internal subject matter expert team does a lot of the heavy lifting.2. Put a trophy-bonus on the wallMake it specific and personal. At one point in my career, I had a competitor for which I had a personal distaste. I wrote up on the wall that competitor's top 10 clients and told my team, "I will pay a 20% premium on commissions for every deal we land from this list in the next 6 months." We got 3 and it tasted sweet.The post 3 Ways to Motivate Your Large Account Sales TEAM appeared first on Hunt Big Sales.