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Stretch Your Incentive Budget with Channel Partner Co-Sponsorship

Sales and Marketing Management

Co-sponsoring an incentive program with a channel partner not only distributes the financial load but also enhances the program’s impact. The post Stretch Your Incentive Budget with Channel Partner Co-Sponsorship appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Incentive Program FAQs

Sales and Marketing Management

Q: Why not use quota as a bar to require reps to pass before they’re eligible to earn in the incentive program? A: Of course, the sales manager’s job is to adopt the company’s mandated goals, but the reality is that sales managers don’t love their distributed-from-Mount-Olympus goals any more than reps do.

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5 secrets to channel incentive success

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Ric Neeley Over $7 trillion in products are sold through wholesale distribution channels in the U.S. Distribution channel partners are vital for most companies to get their goods and services to market. companies spend over $17 billion on channel incentive awards each year, according to the Incentive Federation.

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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 Secrets to Channel Incentive Success

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Ric Neeley Over $7 trillion in products are sold through wholesale distribution channels in the U.S. Distribution channel partners are vital for most companies to get their goods and services to market. companies spend over $17 billion on channel incentive awards each year, according to the Incentive Federation.

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KPI’s – What Are They To You?

The Pipeline

” It doesn’t help when sales leaders are incented on meeting KPI’s rather than result. I hear reps say “well I delivered against the KPI, I got eight meetings every week this quarter.” Or “what do you want me to do, get sales or complete the KPI’s you gave me?”

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A Foolproof Framework for Better Incentive Communication

The Spiff Blog

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!