Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 6, 2025

The contemporary competitive market poses a formidable challenge to maintain profitability across multiple sales channels. Understanding the Pricing Complexities in Multi-Channel Sales In the hyper-connected marketplace, businesses sell through multiple channelsdirect sales teams, resellers, e-commerce platforms, and distributors.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 27, 2020

While some companies spend countless hours devising business plans that encourage new customers to buy, join or stay, others manage to devise schemes that leave customers with little or no choice but to move to competitive offerings. And incentives can take many forms -- economic (via your pricing structure), psychological (image, brand, etc.),

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Author: STEVEN KELLAM While government and business leaders around the globe debate when and how the economy will turn back on, waiting for the proverbial green light will be too late and your organization will immediately be at a competitive disadvantage. Reinforce channel support. are aligned in a post-coronavirus world.

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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. A comprehensive referral marketing program treats referrals like any other marketing channel— which means it includes strategic preparation, targeted decision-making, analysis, and iteration.

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Salesmate

JUNE 4, 2021

One such practice is that of providing sales incentives to the salespeople. What are sales incentives? Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.” – Nikita Khrushchev . In simple terms, sales incentives are something that motivates your team to wake up in the morning and get to work.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

What is channel sales? In a channel sales model, a company sells through third partners -- affiliate partners (who get commission on each purchase), resellers, value-added providers (who typically bundle your product with their own), or another entity that doesn't work for it directly. The Definition of Channel Sales.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 9, 2025

This guide will walk you through the essential steps and strategies to create a sales competition that energizes your team and drives real success. Identifying the primary goal is crucial as it directly informs the structure, incentives, and overall dynamics of the contest.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The recruiting landscape is now a candidate-driven and highly competitive environment. 89% of HR professionals agree that a strong employer brand gives you an advantage over your competition ( source ). To build a strong employer brand, you must craft a comprehensive, multi-channel content strategy to engage your target candidates.

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Allbound

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Incentive programs are critical to any successful channel sales model. By inspiring or rewarding certain behaviors in your partners, incentives can help steer the course for any successful business relationship. Bronze partners may need stronger incentives than those offered to your gold partners. Switch up the reward.

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Pointclear

JUNE 27, 2011

In 2010, Karen was one of CRN’s "Power 100: The Most Powerful Women of the Channel," and CenterBeam was recognized in 2009 as one of five finalists for the Marketing Department of the Year award by the American Business Awards. What have been your experiences around lead quality and lead quantity? Watch out for pay-for-lead approaches.

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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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Allbound

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Being a channel manager isn’t an easy job. While a Google search will provide plenty of “best practices” for channel management, we wanted to take a deeper dive. In this post, we sought advice from leaders that are on the front lines of channel management. We spoke with three channel leaders from different industries.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2025

Motivate with gamification and incentives. Create healthy competition within your team using leaderboards and contests. Integrate cold calling into a multi-channel outreach strategy, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints, including email campaigns and social selling. Align cold calling with broader sales strategies.

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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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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. A comprehensive referral marketing program treats referrals like any other marketing channel— which means it includes strategic preparation, targeted decision-making, analysis, and iteration.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

During the hiring process, one of the key traits we look for in SDRs is their competitive spirit. This competitive nature is a powerful force that, when properly channeled through, can transform ordinary tasks into engaging challenges that drive extraordinary results.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Further increasing competition for brand loyalty, customers trust brands far less than they once did. Invest in Multi-Channel Customer Service. Today’s customers interact with brands through a variety of channels, and they expect high-quality service on each one. Establish an Incentive-Based Customer Loyalty Program.

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LevelEleven

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Luckily, sales reps are often competitive by nature. When harnessed and enabled properly, internal sales competition can drive big wins for the entire business overall. To get the most out of the information, companies can use these numbers to enable a competitive spirit. Something about the “win” invigorates and excites them.

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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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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. In today’s fiercely competitive market, time is an invaluable resource that should be used wisely.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

As a result, many companies are looking to channel partners as a more efficient revenue source. A survey reveals that the majority of B2B firms are now generating 60% of their revenue through indirect channels (The 2112 Group). Help them lead conversations that establishes their personal credibility better than your competitors.

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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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Allbound

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Even for the most channel-centric companies, partner conflict is inevitable. To increase channel sales, it’s vital to keep your product top of mind with your partners. In competitive industries like IT and software, partners rely on trust and loyalty. There are two sides to preventing channel conflict.

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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. How is the competition? Maintain 99%+ customer satisfaction on all channels. Competitive team goals. The market potential and trends.

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BrainShark

JULY 9, 2022

Channel partners are more likely to sell products when they are familiar with them and recognize their value. So to increase mindshare, you need to make it really easy for your channel partners to learn about your products as part of their daily workflow. The right channel partner training software can help with this.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

An ecosystem of related products and channel partners exist around every B2B product. If you look at the 10 largest SaaS companies and the five leading cloud providers , for example, 14 out of the 15 have hundreds or thousands of technology and channel partners.

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Troops

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Utilize Competitive Transparency. It’s visible for the entire business development team, and it’s meant to be competition-based. Teams know that their numbers are on display and will be posted in this channel at 4 p.m. incentive or, ‘Hey, send us your favorite joke and you’ll be featured in the next newsletter!’

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2018

However, in today’s competitive business environment, companies can’t afford to field a mediocre team for long. Incentives are part of most every salesperson’s salary structure, but intangibles play a large role in retaining top talent. That is as impactful as compensation or incentives. Engage and retain.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 15, 2024

Our guest blog offers seven success tips for small business growth in today’s competitive landscape. A well-crafted business plan outlines your business’s mission, vision, target market, competitive analysis, marketing strategies, financial projections, and more. Seven Small Business Success Tips 1.

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Sales Hacker Training

APRIL 1, 2025

The exact playbook to move from SMB to enterpriseincluding partner enablement, segmentation, and incentive design. Um, and, uh, we bought that company and, uh, we also bought another small company out of Europe for ERP, and it was almost all channel, in fact, probably safe to say, 90% through channel. Was it different?

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Proper CPQ training empowers sales teams to generate professional, precise, and competitive quotes, enhancing customer satisfaction and improving win rates. This reduces turnaround times, allowing sales teams to respond to customer inquiries faster and stay ahead of the competition.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 9, 2020

While that’s a positive thing for the industry and course creators, it will inevitably make the space more competitive. If you’re a course creator already established in your space, that means the coming years will bring more competition. Why Webinars Are The Best Channel for Selling Your Online Course.

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SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Transform your marketing & sales results with marketing automation, territory optimization, mobile learning, sales enablement, configure price quote and incentive compensation management, all in one suite, all in Salesforce with CallidusCloud. See clearer and farther than your competition. @CallidusCloud. CallidusCloud ToolSkool.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 9, 2022

Compensation is the most fundamental, powerful incentive for reps to perform. If you want to get the most out of your team, they need to know how they're being compensated — with respect to base salary, commission, and any other financial incentives you might be offering them. Create a healthily competitive atmosphere.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2022

The recruiting landscape is highly candidate-driven and competitive for recruiters, who have been fighting tooth and nail to capture the candidates’ interest. To build a strong brand as an employer, you must craft a comprehensive, multi-channel content strategy to engage your target candidates.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2012

We address issues of the overall customer experience, the sales deployment and go to market strategies, organizational structure, overall goals and metrics, positioning with competition, overall cost of selling and the value of the sales organization within the organization.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You should encourage your viewers through incentives like discounts or limited time offers. At HubSpot , we use video to set us apart from the competition. This platform makes it easy to create personalized videos and distribute them through multiple channels. Lastly, you'll want to finish with a call to action. Hippo Video.

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