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This Year’s Most-read Articles on Distribution Pricing Journal

Distribution Pricing Journal

Additionally, offering custom pricing contracts helps build trust between the distributor and their customers, fostering stronger relationships and long-term loyalty. SPAs are a common vendor program that provide a special framework for offering exclusive pricing and incentives to strategic customers.

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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? Software is eating the world,” stated Marc Andreessen in a 2011 Wall Street Journal article.

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100 Years – Huzzah!

Sales and Marketing Management

That life span is unheard of in this digital era and rare even in the halcyon days of print journalism. Today, gift cards are the most commonly used incentive (outside of cash) to drive performance and to reward top performers. I am honored to have served as its editor since that time. Our “Trends In.”

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Five Bottom-Line Benefits for Incentive Compensation for Retailers

OpenSymmetry

One Wall Street Journal article reports that in 2014, the average turnover for part-time sales associates was 66%, while full-time was less at 27%, with the availability of benefits as the contributing factor to why full-time employees tend to stay. The second transformation relates to driving performance.

Retail 40
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Pricing challenges posed by a pandemic

Sales and Marketing Management

As Square co-founder Jim McKelvey explained to The Wall Street Journal, “We have a lot of tools that a lot of people need. Providing incentives for loyalty can also strengthen relationships while decreasing incentives to switch to a competitor. Financial technology company Square Inc. So we said, ‘Here, they’re all free.

Margin 194
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How Effective Rebate Management Drives Distributor Growth

Distribution Pricing Journal

The Benefits of Effective Rebate Management Distributors and their supplier partners are familiar with how rebates can drive new sales, improve customer loyalty and provide incentives that lead to greater profitability. Dead net cost is the actual final cost of a product after you consider all discounts, rebates, and other incentives.

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How Defining Your Processes for Special Pricing Agreements Can Improve Margins and Drive Profitability

Distribution Pricing Journal

SPAs are a common vendor program that provide a special framework for offering exclusive pricing and incentives to strategic customers. Special pricing can serve as an investment in the loyalty and long-term profitability of strategic customers. Sometimes you need some extra help closing strategic customers.

Margin 52