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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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Engaging B2B Customers Through Immersive Experiences

Sales and Marketing Management

Conferences/expos/tradeshows. For example, at the 2017 Internet of Things World Conference, T-Mobile sponsored an “unpool” party to tie in to its “uncarrier” tagline and transformed the entire pool area into an immersive winter wonderland. has nearly 20 years of experience in the event, incentive and recognition arenas.

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Want to Create Amazing Experiences? Start With Design Thinking.

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Pete Dufner As a creative director in a past life, I witnessed Natasha Jen’s “Design Thinking is Bull ” presentation back at the HOW conference in 2017. We use it to create meetings, events and incentive programs, but it’s really at the core of everything we do. Alexa, what’s design thinking?

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Anatomy of a Virtual Conference: The Inside Story of BOUNDLESS 2020

Nutshell

On March 6th, 2020, Nutshell hosted BOUNDLESS 2020, our second annual virtual conference. (If Here’s the story of how the Nutshell team put BOUNDLESS 2020 together, and what we learned while trying to take BOUNDLESS from a humble one-off event to one of the greatest sales and marketing virtual conferences in the world.

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Ten 2017 Sales Kick-Off Meeting Ideas

Your Sales Management Guru

Ten 2017 Sales Kick-off Meeting Ideas. . While working with a client last week it became obvious that we are moving into the time to finalize 2017 budgets, compensation plans and something most sales managers don’t take enough in developing their 2017 Sales Kick Off meeting. see previous blogs for ideas).

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Ending the Silent War Between Sales and Sales Ops

OpenSymmetry

A lack of clear, timely communication prevents a relational safety net from forming — so if a new incentive compensation plan is rolled out and salespeople don’t like it, you may have to do some major disaster recovery. ” Sample 2: “The new incentive compensation plan will include these new modules: x, y, and z (what).

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Sales Hacker’s Top Sales Trends & Predictions You MUST Be Aware Of In 2018

Sales Hacker

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. It’s that time of year again. So what will you do about it?

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