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Protecting Your Best Accounts from Competitive Encroachment

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

During difficult economic times, it is especially important for distributors to protect against competitive encroachment. As the focus shifts from growth of new accounts to maintaining and nurturing existing accounts, distributors must protect their turf and ensure that rivals don’t successfully steal away customers.

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5 Ways to Build Up Customer Loyalty

Zoominfo

How to Build Customer Loyalty Offering high-quality products is no longer enough. Today’s customers have an abundance of good options, so why should they stick with your brand over another? Further increasing competition for brand loyalty, customers trust brands far less than they once did.

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Expert Tips for Improving Sales Operations Efficiency

Highspot

Failing to keep pace can impact the sales cycle, resulting in missed opportunities and competitive losses. For example: Misaligned resources: An overestimated forecast can lead to excess inventory and underutilized staff, whereas an underestimated forecast might result in inventory shortages and insufficient staff to meet customer demand.

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Do You Want Seven Proven Strategies to Achieve Total Business Success?

Smooth Sale

We can define a core competency as any expertise or skill set unique to your company that gives it an edge against its competition and allows it to provide outstanding services or products to customers. Doing so allows them to focus on strengthening these areas further and dedicate resources towards improving them.

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[Webinar Wrap-Up] Incentive Compensation in Retail: 5 Bottom-Line Benefits

OpenSymmetry

Fred Sass, Worldwide Marketing Executive for the Sales Performance Management (SPM) division IBM and Laura Roach, Senior VP of Marketing and Customer Success, OpenSymmetry invited Erin Harris, Executive Editor of Integrated Solutions for Retailers to join them in sharing their expertise in securing market share through Incentive Compensation.

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Culture vs. Quota: How the ‘Great Resignation’ is Changing Sales

Zoominfo

Others have introduced signing bonuses, tuition support, and retirement contributions to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive recruitment landscape. Data from Indeed, the recruitment platform, indicates that between July 2020 and July 2021, searches for vacancies advertising such incentives increased by 134 percent.

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How to Avoid Wasting Money on a Compensation Assessment

SBI Growth

Sales turnover is high and the competition is stealing the top performers away. Software Firm: The annual Employee survey is overflowing with negative comments about the incentive plan. Rumors abound that competitive reps make a lot more money. Conduct a competitive earnings benchmark. Is the compensation model to blame?