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Juuust right incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Sales leaders are always trying to figure out how to get the most out of their reps at the lowest cost, and incentives are excellent at revealing that sweet spot. Researchers have confirmed that paying too little is insulting and paying too much can cause reps to choke. Worse than nothing! These are critical.

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Juuust right incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Sales leaders are always trying to figure out how to get the most out of their reps at the lowest cost, and incentives are excellent at revealing that sweet spot. Researchers have confirmed that paying too little is insulting and paying too much can cause reps to choke. Worse than nothing! These are critical.

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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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How to be Indispensable as an Incentive Compensation Manager

The Spiff Blog

As an incentive compensation manager, you hold a critical role that keeps your organization running. What does an incentive compensation manager do? First, let’s cover the primary responsibilities of an incentive compensation manager. Recommended reading: A Foolproof Framework for Better Incentive Communication 2.

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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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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. Though cash may seem like an easy solution, research as far back as the 1970s shows that cash rewards are not as meaningful as non-cash rewards on a psychological perspective. Not all sales incentive programs are the same.

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Technology can improve your recognition efforts

Sales and Marketing Management

In April, Echo Market Research and Tango Card asked 500 newly remote employees how engaged they were feeling. Taking a closer look at recognition programs, the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) reports that 26% of program owners say they’re communicating more frequently.