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Performance Platforms

Sales and Marketing Management

Online retail is expected to grow 8 to 12 percent in 2017 — three times higher than the growth rate of retail overall. Software is eating the world,” stated Marc Andreessen in a 2011 Wall Street Journal article. Not your father’s incentive program. “We males age 18 to 34 and 33 percent of U.S. Source: DDB Worldwide).

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Frank Cespedes: How to Build and Manage Your Multi-Channel Marketing

Cience

interview with Krim in The Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2018) . But the number listed as salespeople in 2017 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is 14.5 First, no channel manages itself , even when the partners have complementary products and the right incentives. It must be actively managed on an on-going basis.