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Keeping close to channel partners

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan As with everything else in 2020, many B2B companies’ relationships with channel partners, which are critical to their success, have been disrupted. The “surprise and delight” treatment that is widely used to keep internal employees engaged is equally effective with channel partners.

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10 Ways To Boost Your Sales Incentive Strategy

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: George Kriza, CEO, MTCPerformance Your organization wants to drive sales with an incentive program. Here are 10 of the most important elements in designing and deploying your next incentive campaign. Are they already in other incentive programs, or is yours the only one they’ll see? How do they view your company?

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5 incentive travel trends for 2019

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan Meetings and incentive travel professionals agree that Brexit will impact their industry, but they differ on what sort of impact it will have. The British-based C&IT Magazine recently summarized five incentive travel trends that will impact programs in 2019. We are moving from incentive travel to ‘Instatravel.’

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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. Are you digital-ready?

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TikTok-Like Videos Have Multiple Applications

Sales and Marketing Management

This approach doesn’t have to be restricted to social media. By utilizing the personality aspect video has to offer, trust and connection can be built quicker and more effectively with customers, prospects and channel partners. Video engagement works in emails, on websites and in e-newsletters. Video has team-building applications.

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5 Proactive Ways to Increase Sales Online in 2021

Sales and Marketing Management

Also, make sure to include a contact page and a form, along with links to your social media profiles so that your audience can engage with you. Choose a primary content channel (like a blog, social media platforms, or a podcast), and focus on creating content that is: High-quality. Build Your Brand on Social Media.

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If Done Right, Your Referral System Won’t Actually Cost a Thing

No More Cold Calling

Sales has always gotten a bad rap, but it’s gotten much worse as sales channels have evolved. Now they have a wide-open platform on social media and email. Until something changes, salespeople will continue to cold call , harass strangers on social media, and (in the process) erode trust in our profession. Trust should.

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