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Training Incentives Are Vital in the Digital Sales Era

Sales and Marketing Management

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. A closer look at a sales training incentive program. Why is this a trending incentive initiative?

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Incentive Gift Cards Continue to Delight

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: SMM Research from the Incentive Gift Card Council (IGCC) and the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) shows the majority of U.S. are increasingly using gift cards as a reward tool for multiple groups (channel, sales, employee and customer), and that investment in gift card rewards is both significant and growing.

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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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5 incentive travel trends for 2019

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan Meetings and incentive travel professionals agree that Brexit will impact their industry, but they differ on what sort of impact it will have. The British-based C&IT Magazine recently summarized five incentive travel trends that will impact programs in 2019. Sustainability.

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E-commerce That Avoids Channel Conflict

Sales and Marketing Management

potential conflict with their channel partners. Businesses don’t want to jeopardize the business that comes through channel partners?—?as B2Bs can’t let channel conflict get in the way of serving customers,” Ed Kennedy, senior director of commerce strategy at Episerver, states in the report. as much as 90%?—?for Here’s how.

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If Done Right, Your Referral System Won’t Actually Cost a Thing

No More Cold Calling

Salesforce research brief, Trends in Customer Trust, says fostering trust is the new business imperative. Sales has always gotten a bad rap, but it’s gotten much worse as sales channels have evolved. I always advise clients against offering incentives for referral business. Forget about incentives. We all know why.

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Corporate Gifting: The Action that Generates a Positive Reaction

Sales and Marketing Management

Tangible gifts are a means to reward employees, channel partners and other business associates outside of pay for performance. Here's a look at best practices and current trends in using incentive merchandise.