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If Done Right, Your Referral System Won’t Actually Cost a Thing

No More Cold Calling

A winning referral system is about multiplying trust. It’s the key to a successful referral system. Put a referral system in place, with training, metrics, and accountability for results. How a Referral System Ensures Trust. I always advise clients against offering incentives for referral business. We all know why.

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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. You want to have access to the most impactful solutions and systems that improve your ability to do your job well— but you also worry about the perception that these powerful tools are more valuable to the company than you are.

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A Foolproof Framework for Better Incentive Communication

The Spiff Blog

The only remedy is a formal incentive communication strategy. This post will show you how to deconstruct your current sales compensation process to ultimately build a more effective incentive communication strategy. Map out an incentive communication step to align with each step of your sales comp process. Let’s dive in!

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Post-Implementation Challenges with Incentive Compensation Management Solutions

Canidium

Organizations with Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) often experience issues post-implementation. System lagging. Data redundancies. Integration problems. User training problems. Or maybe the solution feels clunky, but you can't identify the core issue.

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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. Most multibillion-dollar reseller and distributor organizations attract millions of incentive dollars. Reseller Benefit: $0.

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Does Your Sales Incentive Plan Drive Customers Away?

SBI Growth

The purpose of every incentive compensation plan is to influence the actions of sales reps. Sales incentives can be like square pegs. Incentive compensation is intended to reward specific behaviors of the sales force. Here are some real-life examples of poorly designed incentives. Product Launch Incentive.

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Renew Your Vows with The CRM System

SBI Growth

One of the biggest purchases a Sales Department makes is the CRM system. Companies that have successfully implemented a system tout benefits like: Increased rep productivity. Integration of multiple systems to automate routine tasks. In many of these deployments the CRM system exists in a silo. They give up.

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