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Firing up the revenue engine post-crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

Being well-prepared and truly understanding how to get your people, your operations and your sales back and running at full bore will be essential for survival. As organizations emerge from the pandemic crisis and fire up their sales engines, it’s clear that the channel must adapt?— Invest in partner success programs?—?

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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 ask team members to rate each other.

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E-commerce That Avoids Channel Conflict

Sales and Marketing Management

At Innovaxis Marketing, e-commerce for our B2B clients has risen from 5% to 15% or more of total sales. Without e-commerce, B2B marketers miss opportunities to sell outside their geographical area, expand into new markets and appeal to the increasing number of engineers, purchasing agents and others who want to buy without human interaction.

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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.

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5 Key Pillars of Effective Sales Performance Management

The Spiff Blog

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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Now Is the Right Time to Build a Hybrid B2B Sales and Marketing Team

Sales and Marketing Management

Whether we readily admit it or not, there has always been an underlying current of us versus them between the sales and marketing teams. Sales and marketing need to become one. This will benefit your business and position you for growth when the economy improves and we can return to a new normal. One leader. Make a hybrid team.

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How B2B Reps Use Social Debt to Get Sales Support

SBI Growth

B2B Sales Reps compete with their peers for sales support resources. Good Sales Reps consistently secure these resources and create their own virtual teams. You can cash in on Social Debt to build your virtual sales support team. The Sales and Support Relationship. Sales Reps have a sense of entitlement.

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