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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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Channel Partner Training Software: 5 Features to Consider

BrainShark

Channel partners are more likely to sell products when they are familiar with them and recognize their value. So to increase mindshare, you need to make it really easy for your channel partners to learn about your products as part of their daily workflow. The right channel partner training software can help with this.

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The Ultimate Guide to Channel Sales

Hubspot Sales

What is channel sales? In a channel sales model, a company sells through third partners -- affiliate partners (who get commission on each purchase), resellers, value-added providers (who typically bundle your product with their own), or another entity that doesn't work for it directly. The Definition of Channel Sales.

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4 Tips to Motivate Your Sales Team at Year-End

Sales and Marketing Management

Keep the standings and ranks visible through an office whiteboard, company social channels and announcements during company meetings and conference calls. Create a holiday incentive program. . Set up different timeframes from end-of-day, week, and month -- to flash-sales incentives during one to three-hour blocks, etc.

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5 Ways These Remarkable Channel Leaders are Improving Their Partnerships

Allbound

Being a channel manager isn’t an easy job. While a Google search will provide plenty of “best practices” for channel management, we wanted to take a deeper dive. In this post, we sought advice from leaders that are on the front lines of channel management. We spoke with three channel leaders from different industries.

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

Cience

Why has a multi-channel approach become more important? Buying is now a continuous and dynamic process in most industries, not a linear funnel ; it’s an on-going motion picture, not a selfie or snapshot in one channel. Multi-channel selling is required here and in most industries. Retailers are a good example.

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The 4 Types of Channel Marketing Partners

Allbound

The 4 Types of Channel Marketing Partners. Navigating the world of channel marketing can be tricky, especially when common industry terms overlap. Channel Partnerships, Untangled. There are four different types of channel-marketing partnerships: 1. This doesn’t mean that you can avoid financial incentives entirely.