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10 Incentive Travel Facts You Can Put To Good Use

Sales and Marketing Management

The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), a private not-for-profit foundation that focuses its initiatives on pragmatic research highlighting the premise and the power of incentive and motivational programs, issued a list of 10 incentive travel facts to commemorate Global Meetings Industry Day. 38 percent of all U.S.

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25 Sales Experts on the Importance of Coaching Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

The people they report to, Senior Sales Leadership, either Sales VPs, CROs or CSOs, aren’t providing the time, framework, incentive, motivation, guidelines, expectations or requirements for Sales Managers to coach. It’s simply incomprehensible that sales managers aren’t picking up the clue phone. Well, not really.

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Financial literacy training promises improved performance and higher retention

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Why do high-performance organizations train employees in financial literacy, even if they don’t handle money for the organization? Withstanding the shocks Of course, financial education and training isn’t a panacea. For example, SHRM says, M&T Bank reports that its financial literacy program has spurred $5.1

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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

Sales Managers (salespeople report to them) are not only unaware of their own shortcomings, but have no clue about the sales-specific weaknesses of their salespeople. They can look at lagging indicators and identify non-performers, but that doesn’t help them understand the reasons behind underperformance.

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5 Key Pillars of Effective Sales Performance Management

The Spiff Blog

These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement. Incentive alignment : Shared goals enable the design of incentive structures that motivate sales reps while aligning with the broader success of the organization.

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Firing Up the Revenue Engine Post-Crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

Companies like Lenovo and Xerox recently made changes to their partner programs by offering revenue and rebate target flexibility, as well as increased training, marketing and engineering support – all in an effort to ensure greater partner viability and to strengthen partner loyalty.

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Firing up the revenue engine post-crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

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. When it comes to channel engagement, the right mix of sales incentive tools is still the most effective and impactful.