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Negotiating a Deal In Crunch Time

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Andres Lares When Joe Mauer’s contract neared its expiration in 2010, the all-star’s agent sat with him and shared how his research revealed he could secure a contract of approximately $300 million over 10 years in the free agent market. The negotiation started with the Twins offering five years, $90 million.

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Incentive Gift Cards Continue to Delight

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: SMM Research from the Incentive Gift Card Council (IGCC) and the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) shows the majority of U.S. they can be used for both short-term and long-term incentive efforts?—?adds A lot of channel programs use a reloadable prepaid card as their incentive mechanism.

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Unlock Sales Potential with a Sales Training Strategy

Highspot

Achieving revenue targets can be tricky, and it’s tempting to overlook training. A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. Get practical advice for developing an effective, modern sales training strategy.

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Best Way to Reduce Discounting: Better Negotiating or Value Selling?

The ROI Guy

And Procurement is getting way more involved in every transaction, with specific incentives to extract discounts from every vendor proposal. Many companies have turned to Negotiation Training to help their sales reps and channel partners try to talk their way out of the discount. The advice from the research?

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Nobody Cares About Your Sales Training. Here’s Why

Mindtickle

Not all sales training works. In fact, research by Gartner found that sales reps only remember 13% of the information a month after their sales training. By adding ways to engage sellers with sales training, you increase sales quota attainment and the ROI of your sales training. Encourage failure and practice.

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The Pipeline ? The REAL Problem with Sales Training

The Pipeline

The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. It seems that every week we are being told that sales training is not working in a very high percentage of cases – 85-90% was one statistic I read just yesterday. JF Corporation.

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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.