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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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Team incentives: 7 do’s and 2 don’ts

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: TIM HOULIHAN Do you avoid team incentives because you are worried about being fair? Teams perform better than individuals [ Kuhn, “Experiments on Motivation, Incentives and Rationality” 2007 ], and you and your bottom line can benefit from rewarding teams. Worry no more. Organize the team to maximize effectiveness.

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Improving Company Culture Starts With Wellness

No More Cold Calling

In fact, 72 percent of companies in the Society for Human Resource Management’s 2016 Employee Benefits survey said they currently offer some form of wellness program, . A survey from Health IT Outcomes reported that 90 percent of employees surveyed said they wanted their company to provide a wearable device for tracking as an incentive.

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Serving Others Never Goes Out of Style

Sales and Marketing Management

Helping others as a team is invigorating and bonding, which is why corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to be a popular component of offsite meetings and incentive travel programs. Comparing the results from 2015/2016 with 2017/2018, CSR is actually up two points across all regions.

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Sales Incentive Optimization

OpenSymmetry

The Journey to Sales Incentive Optimization. The recent e-Reward conference in London (May 12 2016) had a number of important messages for the Compensation and Benefits community. Be more strategic about incentives design, think more broadly about what will motivate and retain salespeople. Sales Incentive Design.

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When it’s OK to give a customer a gift – and when it’s not

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

It’s complicated According to two studies on the subject, gift giving in sales can get complicated. To see what that means, let’s consider those two studies. Now, this study was conducted in an industry where lavish gifts – for example, an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Hawaii — had once been the norm.

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Sales productivity – time to push the more button

Sales Training Connection

Emma Brudner reported the results of a sales productivity study where sales reps spent only 33% of their time selling. Other studies have reported the figure to be a low as 10%. There are incentives for all sorts of sales activities. ©2016 Sales Momentum® LLC. How great is the opportunity? Substantial.