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Keeping close to channel partners

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan As with everything else in 2020, many B2B companies’ relationships with channel partners, which are critical to their success, have been disrupted. The “surprise and delight” treatment that is widely used to keep internal employees engaged is equally effective with channel partners.

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E-commerce That Avoids Channel Conflict

Sales and Marketing Management

However, according to the Episerver report, 54% of B2B companies are letting one obstacle keep them from selling online?—?potential potential conflict with their channel partners. Businesses don’t want to jeopardize the business that comes through channel partners?—?as Pricing Is Key to Keeping Channel Peace. Here’s how.

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Sales Incentive Program Management as a Profit Center for CFO’s of Large Channel Members and Distributors

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: George Kriza, CEO, MTCPerformance For most large resellers or distributors, sales incentive programs for internal sales teams get little attention from top financial executives inside their organizations. The result is unknown impacts on inventory positions and key vendor alliances. Number of Vendor Sponsors: 18.

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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. 38 percent of all U.S.

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5 incentive travel trends for 2019

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan Meetings and incentive travel professionals agree that Brexit will impact their industry, but they differ on what sort of impact it will have. The British-based C&IT Magazine recently summarized five incentive travel trends that will impact programs in 2019. We are moving from incentive travel to ‘Instatravel.’

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Re-energizing sales efforts in a virtual world

Sales and Marketing Management

Notably, the largest decline in employee engagement was among those working in managerial or leadership positions. employees across various industries to determine the strength of the relationship between employees, their managers and their companies. Not all sales incentive programs are the same. According to Gallup, the U.S.

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Technology can improve your recognition efforts

Sales and Marketing Management

As more people permanently transition to home offices, companies will need to change how they motivate and recognize employees. Taking a closer look at recognition programs, the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) reports that 26% of program owners say they’re communicating more frequently.