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Incenting the Reseller of the Future

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2015-02-27. Author: Dan Hawtof, Vice President of Business Solutions, Global Channel, Blackhawk Engagement Solutions. Teaser: As systems and networks become more complex, customers don’t just need a salesperson, they need a consultant — and are more than willing to pay a fee for this expertise.

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Video: Combating Chaos in Channel Sales with CPQ

Cincom Smart Selling

As a channel manager, you know that your indirect sales channel can be an excellent source of revenue. Unfortunately, it can also introduce new elements of chaos into your organization that extend beyond the channel management team. Channel Challenges. Are our sales incentives working? So what’s a manager to do?

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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. Go To Customer/Sales Deployment Models/Inside/Outside/Channel/Web/Hybrid. Incentives/Compensation. Customer Engagement. Performance Management/Metrics.

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Building a Sustaining Partner Community: a Channel Strategy

Your Sales Management Guru

Channel Strategy: Building a Sustaining Partner Community. -A What I would like to do in this blog is attempt to document and tell the story of one Worldwide channel focused software organization that did it the best– at building their channel. Constantly invent new sales or partner incentive programs.

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Best Way to Reduce Discounting: Better Negotiating or Value Selling?

The ROI Guy

And Procurement is getting way more involved in every transaction, with specific incentives to extract discounts from every vendor proposal. Many companies have turned to Negotiation Training to help their sales reps and channel partners try to talk their way out of the discount. The advice from the research?

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The Criticality of SPM Technology

OpenSymmetry

While, incentive compensation administration is still a main piece, the broader SPM technology concept is expanding more holistically to include other key aspects which directly impacts how a sales team might perform, including talent development, sales enablement, and territory and quota management.

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Through CPQ, Marketers are Creating a New Vision for Success

Cincom Smart Selling

This is important to all businesses, but especially to businesses that depend on multi-channel distribution. CPQ is one technology that will help you pull the data—the hard numbers—to facilitate analysis and decision-making related to selling incentives, product features, benefits and pricing options.