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Don’t Neglect Channel Partner Programs

Sales and Marketing Management

If your go-to-market strategy relies heavily on channel partners, that’s one more step you are removed from your ultimate end-user. Training is essential to having success with channel partners, and just as in-person sales calls shifted to virtual due to the global pandemic, so too has channel partner training.

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E-commerce That Avoids Channel Conflict

Sales and Marketing Management

potential conflict with their channel partners. Businesses don’t want to jeopardize the business that comes through channel partners?—?as B2Bs can’t let channel conflict get in the way of serving customers,” Ed Kennedy, senior director of commerce strategy at Episerver, states in the report. as much as 90%?—?for

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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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Sales Incentive Program Management as a Profit Center for CFO’s of Large Channel Members and Distributors

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: George Kriza, CEO, MTCPerformance For most large resellers or distributors, sales incentive programs for internal sales teams get little attention from top financial executives inside their organizations. Each vendor runs their own program and strategy, often with zero visibility to reseller executives. Reseller Benefit: $0.

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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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Re-energizing sales efforts in a virtual world

Sales and Marketing Management

Notably, the largest decline in employee engagement was among those working in managerial or leadership positions. This doesn’t bode well for your long-term reward and recognition strategy, and doesn’t do much to excite and motivate your team to help you reach your business sales goals. Not all sales incentive programs are the same.

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9 Customer Engagement Strategies to Help Improve Conversion Rate

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If you lack one, this post delves into diverse customer engagement strategies to effectively engage your customers. Try out these nine strategies to build an effective customer engagement plan: 1. For B2B sales, this strategy will do magic to improve conversion rate and increase customer satisfaction.