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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.

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How to Use Clawback Clauses in Your Sales Comp Strategy

The Spiff Blog

In fact, research shows that between 2005 and 2010, the percentage of Fortune 500 companies who use clawbacks rose from fewer than 3% to a whopping 82% ( source ). Look no further than the 2017 Oracle lawsuit , in which the technology company was sued for $150 million over clawed back sales wages.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

And so the idea is that data has to be used at scale in this space, and there’s really no incentive for the buyer to kind of scale up if I’m looking at it from a transaction standpoint, right? And then in 2005, we’re very close to the place where the auto industry was required to receive a federal bailout.

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