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The Psychology Behind Unexpected Rewards

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Luke Kreitner The element of surprise has been proven to be a powerful motivational tool. Scientific studies show that unexpected incentive rewards stimulate areas of the brain connected to behavior development and learning. In short, surprise incentive rewards are powerful because they’re universal.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Personality Study of 1000 Top Salespeople.

HeavyHitter Sales

« Top Five Sales Presentation Mistakes | Main. Personality Study of 1,000 Top Salespeople-Harvard Business Review.   If you ask an extremely successful salesperson, “What makes you different from the average sales rep?” Favorite Sales Blogs & Web Sites. (My August 2011. Posted at 09:49 AM | Permalink.

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Top Ten Ways to Immediately Improve Sales Tool Adoption

The ROI Guy

You’ve worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year.

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Is there a Way to Improve Sales Tool Adoption?

The ROI Guy

I n 2011 you worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. So how do you get the much needed sales tool adoption to occur in 20012.

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Expert Tips for Improving Sales Operations Efficiency

Highspot

Practical Tips to Improve Sales Operations Dealing with the complexities of change management and overcoming resistance requires simple, practical solutions. We’ll talk about how good leadership, special sales incentives, and clear jobs can help make sales ops better.

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Sales productivity – time to push the more button

Sales Training Connection

Companies spend a tremendous amount of time, money and effort every year to improve the productivity of their sales teams. The intervention strategies range from sales training efforts to coaching initiatives to sales tools to marketing materials. Other studies have reported the figure to be a low as 10%.

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7 Tips for Retaining Your Best Salesperson

Growbots

READ 7 Highly Effective Best Practices for Sales Reps. This situation can be financially devastating considering a recent DePaul University study that found that the average turnover cost of a salesperson is $97,690. Most salespeople are driven by financial incentives. Offer non-monetary incentives as well.