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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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How to be Indispensable as an Incentive Compensation Manager

The Spiff Blog

As an incentive compensation manager, you hold a critical role that keeps your organization running. What does an incentive compensation manager do? First, let’s cover the primary responsibilities of an incentive compensation manager. Recommended reading: A Foolproof Framework for Better Incentive Communication 2.

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A Foolproof Framework for Better Incentive Communication

The Spiff Blog

The only remedy is a formal incentive communication strategy. This post will show you how to deconstruct your current sales compensation process to ultimately build a more effective incentive communication strategy. Map out an incentive communication step to align with each step of your sales comp process. Let’s dive in!

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Does Your Sales Incentive Plan Drive Customers Away?

SBI Growth

The purpose of every incentive compensation plan is to influence the actions of sales reps. Sales incentives can be like square pegs. Incentive compensation is intended to reward specific behaviors of the sales force. Here are some real-life examples of poorly designed incentives. Product Launch Incentive.

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How to Secure More Sales Comp Resources During a Recession

The Spiff Blog

Convincing your boss to sign off on more resources for sales comp can feel like an uphill battle. Making your case for more resources will be easier if you approach your boss with your talking points already prepared. The post How to Secure More Sales Comp Resources During a Recession appeared first on Spiff.

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Technology can improve your recognition efforts

Sales and Marketing Management

No longer considered nice-to-have resources for a subset of workers, these tools have become vital to all employees and will continue to support formal and informal functions for both remote and in-office workers. Cindy Mielke is the director of channel marketing, incentives at Tango Card.

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Firing up the revenue engine post-crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

providing them with resources, knowledge and tools to achieve those established objectives. Channel leaders have the unprecedented opportunity to invest in and improve channel automation systems, including sales incentive platforms, partner portals, digital training programs and through-channel marketing. Are you digital-ready?