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Serving Others Never Goes Out of Style

Sales and Marketing Management

Helping others as a team is invigorating and bonding, which is why corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to be a popular component of offsite meetings and incentive travel programs. Comparing the results from 2015/2016 with 2017/2018, CSR is actually up two points across all regions.

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Sales Incentive Optimization

OpenSymmetry

The Journey to Sales Incentive Optimization. The recent e-Reward conference in London (May 12 2016) had a number of important messages for the Compensation and Benefits community. The conference emphasised a strategic approach from two perspectives. Sales Incentive Design. Incentivising Salespeople. Technology Progress.

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When it’s OK to give a customer a gift – and when it’s not

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

It’s complicated According to two studies on the subject, gift giving in sales can get complicated. To see what that means, let’s consider those two studies. Now, this study was conducted in an industry where lavish gifts – for example, an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Hawaii — had once been the norm.

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Capturing the Yeti: Calculating and Optimizing the ROI of Your Sales Incentive Plan

OpenSymmetry

Much like the elusive yeti, the identification of Return On Investment (ROI) for a sales incentive plan is believed to exist by enthusiasts from the sales compensation design team, but met with much skepticism by others, namely the Finance department. So how do you prove the existence of ROI in your sales incentive plan proposal?

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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

Pointclear

Christopher has served as editor-in-chief or senior editor with Meeting News, Corporate & Incentive Travel, and Life Extension. Click to start video at this point — Christopher references studies that show direct mail is increasing in popularity, and he comments this may be because the email inbox is so crowded today.

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PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

Pointclear

Chris has served as editor-in-chief or senior editor with Meeting News, Corporate & Incentive Travel, and Life Extension. Click to start video at this point — Chris references studies that show direct mail is increasing in popularity, and he comments this may be because the email inbox is so crowded today.

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Building a Sustaining Partner Community: a Channel Strategy

Your Sales Management Guru

A Case Study-. What I would like to do in this blog is attempt to document and tell the story of one Worldwide channel focused software organization that did it the best– at building their channel. Constantly invent new sales or partner incentive programs. Future blogs may go into greater detail.