Free Sales Contest Templates
There have been over 2,600 downloads of our performance boosting sales templates from managers
and sales leaders this year. Sales leaders across the globe are using our sales competition
templates to increase productivity and performance for their teams. Are *you* ready to get your
sales game on? Use our free sales contests templates to onboard reps faster, strengthen selling
skills and hold reps accountable to goals — all while boosting energy and accountability for
your remote or in-office team.
Atlanta Braves: Spring Training Sales Contest Template
See how the Atlanta Braves knock their quotas out of the park with this annual competition!
Ambition: Head-to-head Sales Poker Contest
Pump up core KPIs for 1 week when the chips are down!
Ambition "Wheel to Win" Contest
Move over, Pat Sajak: our Wheel-of-Fortune style contest gives every rep a chance to win big.
Our sales contest templates are created (and used!) by sales leaders from elite sales orgs you know and trust.
Download and run a fresh new contest today!
Highspot: 3-for-1 Sales Contest Template
See 3 different contests that Highspot regularly runs to keep their reps motivated and on track!
memoryBlue: "Assassins" Contest Template
Keep your team on their toes! Great for cross-team competitions. (Think: AE vs SDR!)
Ambition Gamification Frameworks Template
Get Blitz, fantasy-style, and sprint contest templates for your sales team!
Ambition Rejection Bingo
The perfect template for your SDR and BDR team to practice objection handling
🎃 The Nightmare Before Christmas
Get ready for a MONSTER Q4 with this fantasy contest template
What are Sales Contest Templates?
Sales people are oftentimes naturally competitive. Sales contests are a fun and effective way to motivate and engage your sales team while rewarding their hard work and celebrating accomplishments. Our collection of free sales contest templates are perfect for onboarding new sales representatives faster, strengthening and refining your team’s selling skills, and holding your reps accountable to their goals, all while boosting their energy and productivity. After all, who doesn’t like competing in a good contest?The contest templates make implementing sales contests easy and provide the general framework for how the contest can be run; however, they are flexible, and easy to customize to fit your team or culture.
Gamification - Ready to Download
Our curated collection of ready to use, office favorite Sales Contest Templates includes contest templates created and used by sales leaders across multiple verticals. All of our sales contest templates come preloaded with suggested contest metrics, easy setup instructions, contest rules, and even some fun prize and incentive ideas!There are templates that motivate more than the top finisher in a raffle style format to lift overall performance of more of your team and engage reps even when they know they may not come in first.
The templates can be downloaded into Excel, Numbers, or Google sheets so they can work wherever you do! Some of the contest templates have formulas to help you calculate points, some of the templates are seasonal themed, and *all* of them are ideas we have tried with our own teams or that our customers have used successfully.
Gamification has been shown by a number of independent publications to be effective in the workplace, particularly in sales. While Ambition automates the contests and calculates all of the metrics dynamically through integrations, these templates are a good starting point for those curious to get the concept.
Download the Contest Templates Now!
Each of our Sales Contest Templates provides different sales contest formats, allowing you to pick and choose which works best for you and your team. Choose the Assassin’s template for some mystery, choose the Wheel To Win for a raffle style, or play Spring Training like the Atlanta Braves. Ready to get your sales game on? Grab and use one of our contest templates today!
Frequently Asked Questions about
Sales Contest Templates
Once you use a sales contest template to prepare your sales contest, you’ll be ready to announce your contest to the team.
Announcing a sales contest could be as simple as blasting the contest announcement over your internal messaging service,
such as Slack or Teams. If your team prefers email, maybe send out a quick email memo with a fun little GIF to kick things off!
Regardless of your chosen announcement medium, consider sharing it broadly beyond the sales team to get your whole organization involved and cheering on competitors.
This ups the stakes and increases overall engagement and motivation.
When you announce your contest, you should include the date the contest starts and ends, the competition rules, the prizes, and who is eligible to compete, if applicable. Here’s a quick example of a communication you might send out to announce a contest:
Subject:January Master of Meetings Contest! 💥🏆
Body:We’re kicking off this month with a Master of Meetings Contest! The goal of this contest is to book as many meetings as possible. Could you be the #1 Master of Meetings? Get ready for this competition to find out.
Contest Starts: January 10th
Contest Ends: January 30th
How to win: Get the most meetings booked by January 30th! The contest will be tracked in Ambition, as always. So we’ll be able to see how everyone is measuring up.
Contest Prize: The winning rep will get 3 extra days of PTO to use at their convenience.
Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions, comments, or concerns you might have.
Good luck—and may the best Master of Meetings win!
Thank you,
Sales Manager
When you announce your contest, you should include the date the contest starts and ends, the competition rules, the prizes, and who is eligible to compete, if applicable. Here’s a quick example of a communication you might send out to announce a contest:
Subject:January Master of Meetings Contest! 💥🏆
Body:We’re kicking off this month with a Master of Meetings Contest! The goal of this contest is to book as many meetings as possible. Could you be the #1 Master of Meetings? Get ready for this competition to find out.
Contest Starts: January 10th
Contest Ends: January 30th
How to win: Get the most meetings booked by January 30th! The contest will be tracked in Ambition, as always. So we’ll be able to see how everyone is measuring up.
Contest Prize: The winning rep will get 3 extra days of PTO to use at their convenience.
Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions, comments, or concerns you might have.
Good luck—and may the best Master of Meetings win!
Thank you,
Sales Manager
Knowing the right sales contest cadence to consistently motivate your team is important.
You want to keep the competitions fun and encourage engagement without them feeling overdone or stale.
Different teams often find different contest cadences helpful—it often depends on your criteria for competition,
who is involved, and overall participation.
Some teams run smaller weekly, head-to-head contests, where they pair up reps over the course of the month and Ambition anthems for celebration, accolades for recognition, and bragging rights are among the coveted prizes. While other teams find it more beneficial to run monthly team-wide contests based on metric goals, to help boost motivation toward meeting key targets, using leaderboards and Slack triggers to see and share who’s in the lead and who’s lagging. Some teams even have several contests operating at the same time: weekly matchup contests are a great example of this, where there’s often pairs of reps competing toward various targets at the same time.
Depending on your goals, you may find it beneficial to consistently keep several contests in swing, with smaller celebratory prices—anthems, triggers, accolades—as the weekly competition winnings and larger, tangible rewards—extra PTO, bonuses, special lunches—as monthly or quarterly prizes for larger initiatives or contests that spring out of your weekly matchups. There are so many ways to run contests and so many cadences that work from team-to-team that it’s hard to recommend a regimented cadence, but whatever consistency you choose, a free Ambition sales contest template can help you get started.
Some teams run smaller weekly, head-to-head contests, where they pair up reps over the course of the month and Ambition anthems for celebration, accolades for recognition, and bragging rights are among the coveted prizes. While other teams find it more beneficial to run monthly team-wide contests based on metric goals, to help boost motivation toward meeting key targets, using leaderboards and Slack triggers to see and share who’s in the lead and who’s lagging. Some teams even have several contests operating at the same time: weekly matchup contests are a great example of this, where there’s often pairs of reps competing toward various targets at the same time.
Depending on your goals, you may find it beneficial to consistently keep several contests in swing, with smaller celebratory prices—anthems, triggers, accolades—as the weekly competition winnings and larger, tangible rewards—extra PTO, bonuses, special lunches—as monthly or quarterly prizes for larger initiatives or contests that spring out of your weekly matchups. There are so many ways to run contests and so many cadences that work from team-to-team that it’s hard to recommend a regimented cadence, but whatever consistency you choose, a free Ambition sales contest template can help you get started.