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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. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. Are incentives obsolete? Don’t do it.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

It was sales. This was 2008. So going through the recession, but just in general, sales was not talked about in the curriculum in school. Other things, we had this financial plan that was showing 400 sales reps in 2017 or 2018. This is not the sales team that I want to run.” I know I’m going to.