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Training Incentives Are Vital in the Digital Sales Era

Sales and Marketing Management

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. My answer: sales training initiatives. Sales training has grown in importance in the past decade. their skills.

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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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10 Ways To Boost Your Sales Incentive Strategy

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: George Kriza, CEO, MTCPerformance Your organization wants to drive sales with an incentive program. Here are 10 of the most important elements in designing and deploying your next incentive campaign. Here are 10 of the most important elements in designing and deploying your next incentive campaign. Gen X, Y or Boomer?

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10 sales incentives that actually motivate sales teams

Zendesk Sell

Not all sales incentives are created equal. A sales incentive is effective only if it’s something your team actually wants. And while we’re all familiar with the typical cash incentive, some reps might need something new and exciting to truly motivate them. Travel vouchers. Tickets to concerts or sporting events.

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Don’t Neglect Channel Partner Programs

Sales and Marketing Management

Training is essential to having success with channel partners, and just as in-person sales calls shifted to virtual due to the global pandemic, so too has channel partner training. Georgia-based Incentive Team works primarily with home goods manufacturers who sell through channel partners.

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Bold predictions about what WFH will beget

Sales and Marketing Management

Working remotely allows us to surf or ski before work, travel more frequently and develop new passions. Editor’s note: This creates an opportunity for employers to be more creative with non-cash incentives and rewards tailored to each employee’s interests.). Meeting Death – Wasting two hours travelling to a meeting will end.

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Firing up the revenue engine post-crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

Channel leaders have the unprecedented opportunity to invest in and improve channel automation systems, including sales incentive platforms, partner portals, digital training programs and through-channel marketing. When it comes to channel engagement, the right mix of sales incentive tools is still the most effective and impactful.