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Is Your Incentive Plan Driving Activity or Performance?

The Pipeline

But having been at the game for a while the one thing that never changes is the view and approach to incentive or commissions. And while it is easy to get people to agree that incentive drives behavior, it is a bit less easy to validate. Is your incentive plan driving activity or performance? He had a brilliant incentive plan.

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A new normal for meetings and events

Sales and Marketing Management

What does it mean for business events and incentive travel programs? We spoke with Carina Bauer, CEO of IMEX Group, which connects meetings and events businesses with customers through annual tradeshows in Germany and Las Vegas. Are we looking at a new normal for the meetings and events industry?

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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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10 Incentive Travel Facts You Can Put To Good Use

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: SMM On April 6, leaders from across the meetings and events industry came together to support the second annual Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID). GMID events were held across the globe to demonstrate the measurable impact that meetings have on businesses, economies and communities. 38 percent of all U.S.

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3 Must-Haves When Designing a Modern Sales Incentive Program

Crunchbase

When it comes to keeping sales reps happy and quotas attained, what worked over the past few years is no longer working One solution is the introduction of a sales incentive program that encourages reps to work toward a goal and receive recognition. A client of ours that sells hardware was having trouble driving revenue to a new product.

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Group travel is down, but not out

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan According to an April survey by the Incentive Research Foundation, the top concern about participating in work or reward-related travel was the threat of an epidemic/pandemic at 33%, followed closely by severe weather at 29%. Incentives interrupted. This begs the question, what’s up with the weather scaredy-cats ?

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Re-energizing sales efforts in a virtual world

Sales and Marketing Management

While not all sales teams may be struggling with demand (in fact some technology companies are experiencing record years), disen­gage­ment seems to be prevalent across all organizations and industries regardless of financial success. Not all sales incentive programs are the same. Not all sales incentive programs are the same.