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Firing up the revenue engine post-crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

As organizations emerge from the pandemic crisis and fire up their sales engines, it’s clear that the channel must adapt?— Channel leaders have the unprecedented opportunity to invest in and improve channel automation systems, including sales incentive platforms, partner portals, digital training programs and through-channel marketing.

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Team incentives: 7 do’s and 2 don’ts

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: TIM HOULIHAN Do you avoid team incentives because you are worried about being fair? Teams perform better than individuals [ Kuhn, “Experiments on Motivation, Incentives and Rationality” 2007 ], and you and your bottom line can benefit from rewarding teams. Worry no more. Don’t deprive your teams of these two important tools.

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Group travel is down, but not out

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan According to an April survey by the Incentive Research Foundation, the top concern about participating in work or reward-related travel was the threat of an epidemic/pandemic at 33%, followed closely by severe weather at 29%. Incentives interrupted. This begs the question, what’s up with the weather scaredy-cats ?

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Rethinking Metrics: The Shift from MQL to Pipeline in Marketing

Sales Hacker

Check out this article published back in 2017: Marketing Qualified Leads Are Cool, But I’ll Take Product Qualified Leads Any Day. Speaking of sales, don’t miss this article next: 7 Successful Sales Pitch Examples and Why They Work. Ultimately, pipeline is a better-suited incentive for marketing to deliver superior outcomes.

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6 steps to adapt effectively

Sales and Marketing Management

Optimize your e-commerce channel to give buyers ease and convenience, and make sure all your sales channels are integrated and incented to collaborate with each other. Click on any of the articles below to read more from our special report. Firing up the revenue engine post-crisis. speed, transparency and expertise?–?from

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A new normal for meetings and events

Sales and Marketing Management

What does it mean for business events and incentive travel programs? Bauer : There’s no doubt this current crisis has changed the landscape for business events and incentive travel. Author: Paul Nolan The COVID-19 outbreak has changed the world’s concept of gathering. Have things been permanently disrupted?

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Some Additional Thoughts.

Sales and Marketing Management

In my work with sales executives from corporations large and small, I repeatedly see that team rewards are easily overlooked in favor of individual incentives. And while individual incentives are critical to the success of any sales organization, most companies are not fully invested in supporting the team environment.