Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Choose a primary content channel (like a blog, social media platforms, or a podcast), and focus on creating content that is: High-quality. Your social media posts should also be directing traffic back to your site, where you can prompt visitors to share their contact information for an incentive. Informational. SEO-friendly.

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Openview

MARCH 15, 2019

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad. Channel – Cons.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Focus your efforts on the appropriate channels. Focus your time and budget on the channels that will best help you meet your goals. By producing high-quality, original content, you give potential customers the incentive to engage with your company on social media. Check out our top 7 tips below. And yes, we’re guilty of this.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2019

Consider all review channels: From Yelp to Glassdoor to G2 Crowd, there are so many platforms your customers can use to leave reviews. When you send review requests, alternate between these channels so you can generate a more comprehensive collection of reviews across the web. Leverage user-generated content.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 20, 2020

As was common at the time, the main sales channel was an on-the-ground sales force. Yet as the digital age dawned and consumers gained on-demand access to any product imaginable (including food storage products sold by competitors), Tupperware continued to rely heavily on offline channels. Inspire them. Develop a content strategy.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 8, 2012

Channel partners, strategic partners and referral partners all can affect revenue in your pipeline. There are many connections you have, whether in your channels, through other distribution arrangements, and with direct individuals who can impact deals and the bottom line. Do they have any incentives to work hard? It is job #1.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

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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Zoominfo

JULY 1, 2018

Even better than trying to control negative reviews, offer an incentive to customers who leave positive reviews of your product online. This concept extends beyond review sites to social channels. Check out our recent blog post for a more comprehensive guide to social listening. Implement a social listening strategy.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

In today’s blog post, we discuss 30 B2B marketing tools you can’t live without. The robust reporting options display important marketing metrics at a glance: Pipeline by account type, leads driven by campaign, top marketing channels, and unspent marketing dollars. Keep reading! Market Intelligence.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2018

Author: Kostas Chiotis Picture this: your company wants to boost its sales with an incentive program. Here’s the thing: in this ever-changing digital landscape, marketing and communication channels can work together like peanut butter and jelly. What do you do? How to Use PR to Build Quality Links.

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Allbound

APRIL 1, 2020

It’s one of those buzzwords that’s thrown around a lot in the channel world. And what specifically should you be doing to build a channel ecosystem? The same goes for a channel ecosystem. A healthy channel ecosystem is interconnected, cohesive and supportive. Utilize incentive programs like SPIFs and MDFs.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 9, 2025

Identifying the primary goal is crucial as it directly informs the structure, incentives, and overall dynamics of the contest. For more insights on leveraging sales metrics, check out our blog on Top Sales Metrics Every Successful Team Needs to Track. Use this analysis to refine future sales contests and implement best practices.

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Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

That statistic alone offers an incentive for brands to take a closer look at their email marketing strategy and to maximize return. In fact, for the past ten years in a row, email has been the channel that produces the highest ROI for marketers. Building trust is essential to convincing customers to buy more than once.

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Lead411

JANUARY 23, 2025

Offer Value: Provide solutions to your audiences pain points through blogs, eBooks, videos, or webinars. Step 4: Engage on the Right Channels You dont need to be everywherejust where your audience hangs out. Step 2: Create Content That Converts Content is king, queen, and the entire royal court when it comes to lead generation.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2018

Boasting an ROI of 4400%, or $44 for every $1 spent ( source ), email marketing remains the go-to channel for leading organizations. Today’s blog post explains why email hygiene is so important, and the steps you can take to maintain your email lists. Email hygiene is a crucial, yet often overlooked, element of email marketing.

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Vengreso

JULY 29, 2024

Have you heard about how important channel sales partners are? In this article we cover different kinds of channel sales partners, why they’re good, and how to work well with them. Plus, working with channel sales partners has other benefits like growing your market. Each one has a special job in selling products.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In many ways, managing multiple sales channels is like climbing that mountain—it looks easy until you really get into the process, and then the challenges and difficulties become all too apparent. If you currently manage a multi-channel operation, you know how naïve this statement sounds. You Need Channel Management.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

There are more answers to that question than ever before, thanks to the variety of tools and channels at a modern marketer’s disposal. We touched on this phenomenon in a recent blog post about word-of-mouth marketing. Simply ask customers for their feedback using your business website or customer marketing channels.

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Vengreso

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In this article, I delve into channel sales —a strategy that involves leveraging third-party intermediaries such as dealers and affiliates to distribute products—enabling companies to penetrate new markets without relying on a sizable in-house sales team. Discover how in our latest article by @M_3Jr!

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Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

Christopher has served as editor-in-chief or senior editor with Meeting News, Corporate & Incentive Travel, and Life Extension. Often their own salaries and their bonuses are tied to revenue and increases in pipeline channel.” But it’s maturing, if you could say that about a marketing channel that’s 300 years old.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 1, 2016

As a manufacturer, you know the important role of your channels. The ability to sell indirectly through channels gives you the ability to focus on what you do best: developing, designing and producing a product. Channel managers face many challenges, but some are more prevalent than others. Lack of visibility into the channel.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In a recent blog post, we offered some tips on using Reddit to conduct market research. But, beyond that particular use case, marketers can also convert Reddit into a successful marketing channel. If you’ve never considered incorporating Reddit into your marketing strategy, today’s blog post is for you. Let’s get into it!

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2018

The incentive for your reps to meet their quota? So what’s the incentive for meeting these smaller goals? Don’t have the budget to offer monetary incentive? Set a goal of having them share one article per week on your team Slack channel or internal communication portal. Incentivize goals. No problem.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

In today’s blog post, we discuss 31 B2B marketing tools you can’t live without. The robust reporting options display important marketing metrics at a glance: Pipeline by account type, leads driven by campaign, top marketing channels, and unspent marketing dollars. Keep reading!

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Not only has the economy provided an added challenge, but there has been a general drop in the effectiveness of most traditional marketing channels. This week we are peeling back the layers and digging into which marketing channels have been driving the strongest ROI. So, what is ACTUALLY working?

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 11, 2016

As a channel manager, you know that your indirect sales channel can be an excellent source of revenue. Unfortunately, it can also introduce new elements of chaos into your organization that extend beyond the channel management team. Channel Challenges. Are our sales incentives working? So what’s a manager to do?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2024

MQLs aren’t created equal Depending on the channel or entry point, MQLs convert to pipeline at vastly different rates. Similarly, direct traffic and paid social channels yield significantly different outcomes. Kevin reminds us of the relevant words of the late Charlie Munger, “Show me the incentive, and I’ll show you the outcome.”

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Xactly

JUNE 7, 2018

Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) solutions help companies manage their sales compensation plans and calculate commission payments. Using Xactly Connect, organizations can easily extract data for use in downstream systems, such as payroll, data warehouses, and other reporting applications as well as export data to general ledgers.

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Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

Chris has served as editor-in-chief or senior editor with Meeting News, Corporate & Incentive Travel, and Life Extension. Often their own salaries and their bonuses are tied to revenue and increases in pipeline channel.” But it’s maturing, if you could say that about a marketing channel that’s 300 years old.

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CRM Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Social Media 133

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today’s blog post breaks down key steps to regain trust and create an even stronger relationship with your customer. After every customer service interaction, send out a service through your various communication channels to determine how satisfied each customer is with the help they received. Offer an additional incentive.

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Allbound

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The 4 Types of Channel Marketing Partners. Navigating the world of channel marketing can be tricky, especially when common industry terms overlap. Channel Partnerships, Untangled. There are four different types of channel-marketing partnerships: 1. This doesn’t mean that you can avoid financial incentives entirely.

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SBI

APRIL 29, 2014

Welcome to our biweekly blog feature. To align with the needs of sales CallidusCloud’s Lead to Money suite automates lead generation, mobile learning, sales coaching, sales enablement, configure price quote, sales gamification, incentive compensation, and channel management to generate more deals, for more money, in record time.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In this article, I’ll walk you through my step-by-step process of setting goals for sales reps — with a special focus on retail employees and the power of sales incentives and gamification. Maintain 99%+ customer satisfaction on all channels. But, let’s not forget about gamification as a strong sales incentive. Stretch goals.

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Apptivo

MAY 18, 2021

Whether your business is small or large, Email marketing holds the same importance for everyone just because every other marketing channel isn’t much reliable. So in this blog, Apptivo brings you the best ways to utilize your email marketing tools and Email Marketing Software in a way that helps you grow your subscriber list.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2022

To build a strong brand as an employer, you must craft a comprehensive, multi-channel content strategy to engage your target candidates. You can use this information to create a short video of your marketing team working together or a blog post that explains your values around working together within the organization.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Direct mail gifting is a demand generation tactic that assists other channels by cleaning up after them,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Corporate direct marketing channels commonly include highly personalized physical mail, email, social media, and texting campaigns.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 10, 2016

Channel Strategy: Building a Sustaining Partner Community. -A What I would like to do in this blog is attempt to document and tell the story of one Worldwide channel focused software organization that did it the best– at building their channel. Constantly invent new sales or partner incentive programs.

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