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Firing Up the Revenue Engine Post-Crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

Organizations of all sizes must begin planning now for jump-starting their revenue engines when we emerge from this crisis. When it comes to channel engagement, the right mix of sales incentive tools is still the most effective and impactful. This may include creative story-telling, original content, digital training videos, and more.

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Firing up the revenue engine post-crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

As organizations emerge from the pandemic crisis and fire up their sales engines, it’s clear that the channel must adapt?— Channel leaders have the unprecedented opportunity to invest in and improve channel automation systems, including sales incentive platforms, partner portals, digital training programs and through-channel marketing.

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Team incentives: 7 do’s and 2 don’ts

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: TIM HOULIHAN Do you avoid team incentives because you are worried about being fair? Teams perform better than individuals [ Kuhn, “Experiments on Motivation, Incentives and Rationality” 2007 ], and you and your bottom line can benefit from rewarding teams. Worry no more. Don’t deprive your teams of these two important tools.

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A Foolproof Framework for Better Incentive Communication

The Spiff Blog

It makes sense to focus on behaviors you’d like to incentivize, or pulling certain levers to impact other components of your sales engine. The only remedy is a formal 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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23 Questions to Ask While Researching Sales Incentive Software

The Spiff Blog

So, you’ve realized commission spreadsheets are actually evil, and that sales incentive software will vastly improve transparency, efficiency, and your personal sanity. After all, the last thing you want is to sink time and resources into a brand new sales incentive software, only to find yourself struggling to use it. Problem solved.

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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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Game the Plan – With Chris Cabrera

The Pipeline

Almost everyone in sales will tell you that incentives drive behaviour, but beyond that there is often little agreement among the pundits as to what the right incentive plan is. One aspect of the incentive where the pendulum of opinion swings back and forth is between simplicity and complexity of a plan.