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Leaderboards

What a Weekly Reset Does to a Sales Leaderboard

A leaderboard that never resets trains your bottom 80% to stop competing. A weekly reset changes that. Here's the behavioural science behind why.

3 min readTim Schuitemaker
SPIFFs

How to Run a Sales SPIFF in Salesforce (And What to Add So It Lasts)

SPIFFs work. For about two weeks. Here is how to structure one properly in Salesforce, and what to layer on top so the behaviour does not evaporate when the payout arrives.

5 min readTim Schuitemaker
Sales contests

27 Sales Contest Ideas for Salesforce Teams (Organised by the Habit They Build)

Most contest idea lists give you the same thing: cash prizes, gift cards, rep of the month. These are SPIFFs with different packaging. Here are 27 ideas organised by the behaviour problem they solve.

8 min readTim Schuitemaker
CRM adoption

Why CRM Adoption Fails 6 Months After Go-Live

The go-live numbers looked good. Six months later, the data is stale again. This is not a training problem. It's a design problem.

3 min readTim Schuitemaker
Lead response

The 5-Minute Rule: Why Speed-to-Lead Is Your Easiest Sales Win

Contacting a lead within 5 minutes makes you 21x more likely to qualify them. Most teams respond in hours. Here's how to fix that without hiring more reps.

4 min readTim Schuitemaker
SPIFFs

Why Your SPIFFs Stop Working After 2 Weeks

The SPIFF cost you $5,000 and produced a temporary blip. Here's the behavioural science behind why they fade and what sustained motivation actually looks like.

4 min readTim Schuitemaker
Data quality

7 Salesforce Data Quality Metrics That Impact Forecast Accuracy

Your forecast model is sophisticated. None of that matters if the underlying Salesforce data is wrong. Here are 7 metrics to add to your weekly review.

5 min readTim Schuitemaker
Pipeline hygiene

The Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Stage Progression

When 30-50% of your pipeline hasn't moved stages in a month, your forecast is fiction. Here's why reps avoid honest progression and how to fix it.

4 min readTim Schuitemaker
Data entry

Stop Nagging: How to Incentivise Salesforce Data Entry Without Manual SPIFFs

If reminders worked, the problem would be solved by now. Here's why reps skip data entry and what actually fixes it.

4 min readTim Schuitemaker