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10 Incentive Travel Facts You Can Put To Good Use

Sales and Marketing Management

The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), a private not-for-profit foundation that focuses its initiatives on pragmatic research highlighting the premise and the power of incentive and motivational programs, issued a list of 10 incentive travel facts to commemorate Global Meetings Industry Day.

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Or maybe you think that incentives have run their course and it’s time to drop them altogether. If you’re thinking of asking your reps what will make the best prize in the incentive program, stop. Are incentives obsolete? Don’t do it.

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The Pipeline ? The REAL Problem with Sales Training

The Pipeline

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. December 16th, 2011. December 16th, 2011. December 16th, 2011. December 16th, 2011. December 16th, 2011. December 16th, 2011.

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5 Popular Sales Metrics That Destroy Sales Performance

Hubspot Sales

Beane’s strategy -- as depicted in the 2011 film, “Moneyball” -- has traversed beyond the world of baseball to nearly all sectors of business and has become synonymous with making data-driven decisions. Structural incentives are those created by the structure of what’s being done. Call activity. Closing rate/win rate. Sales cycle time.

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Is It Time for B2B Sales Teams to Ignore Speed-to-Lead?

Chili Piper

First, it was published in 2011. Do you realize how much has changed since 2011? Lastly, there is an incentive for sales reps to take their time. If they submit a demo form, your reps should take the time to do a little research first. That was almost 7 years ago! Uber had only just launched (and it was called UberCab ).

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Is there a Way to Improve Sales Tool Adoption?

The ROI Guy

I n 2011 you worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. This is not imagined, but proven by research, and called the Status Quo Bias - a cognitive pre-disposition for maintaining the status-quo.

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The Truth About Gamification (The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly)

Lessonly

My personal journey with gamification started at a conference in 2011. Research shows that external rewards can even be a demotivating factor in engagement and satisfaction over time, leading learners to avoid tasks or simply “check the box” to get it done. Let’s see if we can learn from the past and use gamification to our advantage.