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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. SPAs also foster closer collaboration between manufacturers and distributors, aligning their sales and marketing strategies with strategic accounts. That’s where a special pricing agreement can help.

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Unleashing Profit Potential Through Rebate Automation

Distribution Pricing Journal

The distribution industry traditionally faces low margins in each sale. How Rebate Automation Changes the Game Some distributors count on rebates for as much as 60% of their total margins. These promotions are a favorite with suppliers and customers alike; however, when managed poorly they can be a margin killer.

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5 Steps to Simplify Your Sales Incentive Plan

MarketJoy

An ideal sales incentive plan should be simple. Simple sales incentive plans are easy to administer and offer motivation. How to simplify your sales incentive plan. Here are a few tips on how to simplify your sales incentive plan: 1. Avoid Altering The Incentive Plan. For a Sales Incentive Plan, Less is More.

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E-commerce That Avoids Channel Conflict

Sales and Marketing Management

At Innovaxis Marketing, e-commerce for our B2B clients has risen from 5% to 15% or more of total sales. Without e-commerce, B2B marketers miss opportunities to sell outside their geographical area, expand into new markets and appeal to the increasing number of engineers, purchasing agents and others who want to buy without human interaction.

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Incentive Compensation Design in the Retail Sector

OpenSymmetry

What does the Future for Incentive Compensation Design in Retail Hold? Before designing an incentive plan, organizations must first define the criteria that relates to the area of responsibility for each role, or what we compensation experts call “line of sight”. Employee motivation is a critical factor in the Retail sector.

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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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How to Maximize CRM Return on Investment

Pipeline

This blog will answer this question along with some other topics about CRM ROI, namely how to calculate the ROI, some basic sales and marketing KPIs to consider, and three effective ways to maximize your CRM return. You’ve got a pretty reasonable profit margin. How Much Can a CRM Increase Revenue? times more than the $5.60 Learn more.