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Juuust right incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Sales leaders are always trying to figure out how to get the most out of their reps at the lowest cost, and incentives are excellent at revealing that sweet spot. Finding the sweet spot for an incentive is like how Mama Bear’s porridge was juuust right. The best duration of an incentive is no longer than 90 days.

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Juuust right incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Sales leaders are always trying to figure out how to get the most out of their reps at the lowest cost, and incentives are excellent at revealing that sweet spot. Finding the sweet spot for an incentive is like how Mama Bear’s porridge was juuust right. The best duration of an incentive is no longer than 90 days.

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A Forthcoming Shift of Pharmaceutical Sales Compensation Plans?

OpenSymmetry

Sales in the pharmaceutical industry has been a rigid and consistent business. In some cases, incentive compensation (IC) methods have evolved to align with new regulations regarding specific sales metrics. When the effect of OxyContin(c) was not lasting as long as expected, sales reps encouraged doctors to increase dosage.

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A Forthcoming Shift of Pharmaceutical Sales Compensation Plans?

OpenSymmetry

Sales in the pharmaceutical industry has been a rigid and consistent business. In some cases, incentive compensation (IC) methods have evolved to align with new regulations regarding specific sales metrics. When the effect of OxyContin(c) was not lasting as long as expected, sales reps encouraged doctors to increase dosage.

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4 new ways to engage your sales force

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Is HR telling you your millennial sales reps don’t like their incentive plans? Are you really going to have a different incentive for the 26-year-old white female than the one for the 45-year-old Asian male? and it is a common foundation for incentive plans. We never stop acquiring.

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Performance Platforms

Sales and Marketing Management

With those numbers in mind, if you are a sales manager, HR director, marketing manager or other executive charged with increasing employee engagement or driving customer loyalty, what tools do you think make sense to use as your starting point? Not your father’s incentive program. “We (Source: National Retail Federation).

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Applying the 4-Drive Model

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Kurt Nelson recently leveraged the 4-Drive Model with a global pharmaceutical firm that needed to revamp their sales incentive trips. The trips were pure fun with virtually every imaginable expense covered by the company.