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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.

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The Pipeline ? The REAL Problem with Sales Training

The Pipeline

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution.

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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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Is there a Way to Improve Sales Tool Adoption?

The ROI Guy

I n 2011 you worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. This is not imagined, but proven by research, and called the Status Quo Bias - a cognitive pre-disposition for maintaining the status-quo.

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The Truth About Gamification (The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly)

Lessonly

There is a lot of talk about gamification and how it can make our training programs more engaging and motivating for reps. My personal journey with gamification started at a conference in 2011. The goal of all training programs is to encourage or change a behavior. However, a training program is just a means to an end.

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PODCAST 136: From the Opera to the C-Suite: Taking the Leap and Founding a Company with Matt Klepac

Sales Hacker

But doing the research to find the company that was here and talking with that services business and convincing them that they had a product. And then kind of making fools out of those that don’t jump on the train. So that was also a big piece of it. Family’s a big backbone of what we do here and in my family.

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Seismic Acquires Percolate to Create Exceptional Content Experiences at Every Point in the Customer Journey

SBI

Founded in 2011, Percolate has grown into one of the leaders in the enterprise content marketing space, with customers that span both business and consumer brands including DHL, Electronic Arts, VMWare, and DocuSign. One of the great things about working for a relatively small company is that it trains you to be very pragmatic.