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Training Incentives Are Vital in the Digital Sales Era

Sales and Marketing Management

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. A closer look at a sales training incentive program. Why is this a trending incentive initiative? their skills.

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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). firms over $1MM in revenue use incentive travel to motivate their people and partners. firms spend over $14B annually on incentive travel.  38 percent of all U.S.

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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. they can be used for both short-term and long-term incentive efforts?—?adds A lot of channel programs use a reloadable prepaid card as their incentive mechanism. businesses?—?fully

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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. Sustainability.

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3 Must-Haves When Designing a Modern Sales Incentive Program

Crunchbase

During the past two years, sales professionals have faced budget and hiring freezes along with multiple bouts of layoffs across industries — especially in tech. Incentives serve as a form of acknowledgement of an employee’s hard work and can make reps feel a sense of belonging. Why the disparity?

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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. In late 2019, we surveyed more than 3,000 U.S. In late 2019, we surveyed more than 3,000 U.S.

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Technology can improve your recognition efforts

Sales and Marketing Management

Taking a closer look at recognition programs, the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) reports that 26% of program owners say they’re communicating more frequently. This is excellent news, as industry best practices show that programs perform better with clear and frequent communication.