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How to Keep Your Sales Kickoff Energy from Fizzling

Sales and Marketing Management

In this episode, we talk with two leaders of incentive program providers about the science behind keeping the energy and enthusiasm generated by sales kickoffs going throughout the year. The post How to Keep Your Sales Kickoff Energy from Fizzling appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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4 Ways to Design Successful Sales Incentive Programs

Hubspot Sales

Nothing boosts your sales team's excitement and energy more quickly and reliably than an incentive. These four strategies will increase the impact of your incentives. After all, most salespeople are born competitors -- adding a compelling reward to the mix makes them even more enthusiastic. Implement Personal SPIFs.

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5 Things a Sales Leader Must Do to Survive

SBI Growth

Tremendous time and energy is poured into understanding the buyer’s journey. Consequences & Incentives. Similarly, reiterate incentives related to desired performance. On the Process side, investments are commonly made in sales processes and CRM tools. I’ve seen great processes built with incredible tenacity.

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The Secret to Sales Rep Motivation

Steven Rosen

But once the task required “even rudimentary cognitive skills” a larger incentive “ led to poorer performance”. Other studies have supported these findings yet sales leaders have continued to use higher incentives to drive performance.

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Sales Lessons We Can Learn from the 2024 Olympics

No More Cold Calling

While companies spend tons of money on client events, company celebrations, sales incentives, and work-life balance perks, many skimp on investing in building permanent, repeatable sales skills for their teams. And I’m willing to bet that your team needs more practice than you’re currently committing to.

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Group travel is down, but not out

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan According to an April survey by the Incentive Research Foundation, the top concern about participating in work or reward-related travel was the threat of an epidemic/pandemic at 33%, followed closely by severe weather at 29%. Incentives interrupted. This begs the question, what’s up with the weather scaredy-cats ?

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You Can’t Motivate Your Sales Team! But…

Steven Rosen

The Business Dictionary defines motivations as; “Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to make an effort to attain a goal.” incentive programs and contests) creates a vicious cycle of having to top the last program. External factors have a place in motivating reps.