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Don’t Neglect Channel Partner Programs

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan In today’s buyer-centric world, salespeople need to create value more than ever or they won’t get in front of prospects. If your go-to-market strategy relies heavily on channel partners, that’s one more step you are removed from your ultimate end-user.

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Incentive Gift Cards Continue to Delight

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: SMM Research from the Incentive Gift Card Council (IGCC) and the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) shows the majority of U.S. are increasingly using gift cards as a reward tool for multiple groups (channel, sales, employee and customer), and that investment in gift card rewards is both significant and growing.

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Firing up the revenue engine post-crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

As organizations emerge from the pandemic crisis and fire up their sales engines, it’s clear that the channel must adapt?— shifting and aligning priorities (support), implementing new, more impactful channel strategies (enable) and leveraging the right solutions (engage). Reinforce channel support.

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A Guide to Building a Referral Network for Your SMB

Act!

Today’s buyers are spoiled for choice when they have to make a purchase decision. A devoted referral network can help you stand out in such a buyer-driven market. Case in point— 89 percent of buyers trust personal recommendations and testimonials from people they know. That’s what makes referral networks a marketing goldmine.

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TSE 1113: Leveraging Sales Incentive Data to Increase Performance and ROI

Sales Evangelist

Sales is equal parts art and science and one of the keys to success is leveraging sales incentive data to increase performance and ROI. Jason Atkins is the founder of 360 Insights, a software platform that enables large brands to execute all of their channel incentive strategies. Then align the incentives across the journey.

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3 Facts About B2B Buyer Experience You’re Probably Ignoring

Sales Hacker

This article outlines the results of a B2B Buyer Experience survey by TimeTrade. For many of us, that’s also the primary channel through which we make an increasing number of purchases. Industry research consistently shows that buyers want the same easy experience they now routinely enjoy in their private life. The bottom-line?

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7 proven ways to increase customer engagement (and sales, too)

SalesLoft

Customer engagement is the relationship between a consumer and a brand, the quality of that relationship, and the level of interaction. Customer engagement strategies, like loyalty programs, can help develop relationships as they’re deployed through various channels, such as social media or email marketing campaigns.

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