Unkover your competitors’ Marketing Secrets
Say goodbye to wasting hours on competitor analysis by equipping your team with an AI-driven, always-on competitive intelligence platform.
Say goodbye to wasting hours on competitor analysis by equipping your team with an AI-driven, always-on competitive intelligence platform.
Stay Ahead with AI-DRIVEN Competitive Intelligence
Unkover is your AI-driven Competitive Intelligence team delivering critical updates about your competitors the moment they happen:
Track your competitors website changes
Why spend all day stalking the competition when you don’t have to?
With Unkover, you’ll know instantly when your competitors tweak their messaging or shake up their pricing. No more endless scrolling through their sites or second-guessing your strategies.
Let us do the heavy lifting for you, ensuring you’re always in the loop by notifying you the moment a critical change happens on your competitor’s pages.
Sit back, relax, and keep winning—Unkover makes sure you’re not just in the game, you’re always a step ahead.
Read your competitors emails
Companies love updating their customers and prospects about relevant news, product updates, and special offers.
That juicy info from your competitors? It’s yours too. Unkover will automatically capture all their emails and bring them right to your doorstep—accessible to your entire team, anytime.
[COMING SOON: Our fine-tuned AI will sift through these emails, extract key information and send them over to the best team within your org. Less noise, more signal!]
We hear you! Unkover’s goal is not to flood you with tons of data points that no one in your team will ever read. We gather competitive intelligence from thousands of data sources and use AI to highlight actionable information to the right team in your company.
Say goodbye to noise. We’re 100% signal.
ROADMAP
We’re excited to get Unkover in your hands as soon as possible and keep building the best competitive intelligence tool with your precious feedback. The roadmap for the next few months is already exciting, so take a look!
While we build and deliver, here’s our promise to you: as an early tester and customer, you’ll lock in an exclusive bargain price we’ll never offer again in the future.
Spy on your competitors’ full marketing strategy: social, ads, content marketing, email flows, and more.
Track competitive Win/Loss analysis and build battle cards. Get alerted at every pricing change.
Get immediate alerts when competitors announce new features or major releases. Identify strengths and weaknesses from online reviews.
Get the competitive intelligence you need where you need it: Slack, eMail, MS Teams, Salesforce, Hubspot, Pipedrive and more.
slack integration
Unkover’s Slack integration lets you keep your whole team up to speed with your competitors’ updates.
Join now to lock in an exclusive 50% lifetime discount
For startups and small teams, it’s the essential toolkit you need to keep an eye on a select few competitors.
Up to 5 competitors
50 pages monitored
10 email workflows
3-day data refresh
$39
/per month
$ 79
50% discount
Billed annually
For growing businesses, it allows you to monitor more competitors, pages, and email workflows.
Up to 10 competitors
100 pages monitored
20 email workflows
1-day data refresh
$79
/per month
$ 159
50% discount
Billed annually
For large companies, it is tailored to meet the needs of multiple teams needing granular insights.
Custom number of competitors
Custom number of pages monitored
Custom number of email workflows
Hourly data refresh
Custom price
Billed annually
Although sales sandbagging is widely practiced in organizations, you should avoid it at all costs since the downsides far outweigh the benefits.
In today’s post, we take a stand against the controversial practice and offer several alternatives to combat this problematic sales culture in your company.
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Sales sandbagging is a controversial move where a sales rep deliberately delays a sales deal until the following month, creating a false impression that they have outperformed their target.
There’s a mixed response with sales sandbagging.
Several sales representatives advocate it, citing capped commissions and bonuses for driving them to under promise and over deliver their deals. User Badgerst8, too, is a fan of the practice and justifies it on Reddit:
“ABS. Always Be Sandbagging. Management will grumble, but they'll happily take the revenue when they can get it.”
On the other hand, many C-suite sales executives are against it. Kyle Parrish, a VP of sales at MixMax, vents on LinkedIn:
“If you continually do this, you'll end up with a reputation as a sandbagger and it will cause your VP of sales to overestimate what you're going to close in that period.”
At Breadcrumbs, while we understand the reasons behind sales sandbagging, we recommend avoiding it at all costs. Here’s why.
Sales sandbagging and sales forecasting don’t go well together, period.
When sales reps sandbag their deals, it causes a lack of transparency in the sales pipeline, eventually leading to a wildly inaccurate forecast.
This inaccuracy often results in poor performance and unsuccessful revenue goals. According to Sage, accurate sales forecasts are linked to better year-over-year (YOY) performance.
There’s more.
Based on Gartner’s State of Sales Operations Survey, these sales forecast inaccuracies often lead to expensive consequences, such as:
Too much is at stake here. Sales sandbagging is largely based on intuition, and is never a good idea.
Sales managers often face pressure from the higher-ups to provide accurate sales forecasts to shape important business decisions.
Hence, the constant inaccuracies caused by sandbagging will eventually land them and the sales rep in hot water.
“[Sandbagging] might be fine in a normal month, but what about when you don’t have enough deals to under promise and over deliver? Your VP of sales will have counted on you over delivering because you consistently have in the past. This is where sandbagging can really hurt.”
Kyle Parrish, VP of sales at Mixmax, in a post about sales sandbagging on LinkedIn
It’s only a matter of time before the rep hurts their reputation, relationship with their manager, and the business’s bottom line.
Sales sandbagging also affects folks at the other end of the spectrum: customers.
Prolonging active deals lead to potential slow-downs and risk frustrating clients.
This is not to be taken lightly, given that 41% of b2b buyers said that issues with speed of delivery stopped them from completing purchases.
Never delay deals after scoring a prospective customer’s attention and winning them over. Otherwise, you risk changing their mind and switching to competitors.
Now that we’ve convinced you of the dangers of sales sandbagging, let’s explore how you can eliminate this culture in your company.
To start off, consider reviewing your sales commission plans.
You need a commission structure that lets your company remain profitable and attracts and retains top sales talent simultaneously.
Before updating your sales commission structure, analyze the average sales commission rates by industry (tip: here’s a great one from HubSpot).
Your comp plans should also reflect the current sales culture in your company.
For instance, if all your reps are reaching their targets consistently, opt for a tiered commission plan. On the other hand, if you work with long-term clients (think agencies and consulting firms), go with a residual commission structure. Another unique alternative is to reward sales reps who maintain a certain level of sales forecasting accuracy.
Finally, encourage everyone in the sales team to use the company’s CRM. Or a PLG CRM if your startup’s go-to-market strategy is product-led growth.
A PLG CRM platform combines your customer and product data in a single place.
Instead of a traditional CRM with siloed data that only the sales department can access, a PLG CRM suite is a central source of truth where everyone in the revenue team has instant access.
Having all customer insights in one place is vital to streamline your workflow and collaborate with other departments. Plus, it helps you refine the product experience, improves the user experience, and accelerates revenue without requiring you to click through multiple tabs.
Here’s what we mean. When you use a PLG CRM, the:
Companies with over 60% of the sales staff using CRMs are more likely to hit their sales quotas. Here’s how you can replicate their success:
Leads will score points when they fulfill your predetermined criteria.
Once they hit a threshold, Breadcrumbs will send all scoring information back to your PLG CRM, notifying you of the sales opportunity.
Likewise, you can review how users interact with your product without leaving the CRM ecosystem. You’ll be able to answer questions like:
Get a holistic view of all customer activity in one place. Book a 30-minute personalized demo with Breadcrumbs to connect all customer data across different touchpoints in a central source of truth today.
The downsides of sales sandbagging outweigh the advantages by a mile.
Not only does the controversial approach create a wildly inaccurate forecast and damage trust with the higher-ups, it also ruins the rep’s reputation and relationships with customers.
A better way is to review your sales commission structure and ensure your best-performing salespeople are rewarded while remaining profitable.
Last but not the least, encourage your sales team to use a PLG CRM in their existing sales stack.
Book a 30-minute personalized demo with Breadcrumbs to bring ALL your customer data in one place, identify your hottest leads, and achieve your sales targets by tenfold today.