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Negotiating a Deal In Crunch Time

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Andres Lares When Joe Mauer’s contract neared its expiration in 2010, the all-star’s agent sat with him and shared how his research revealed he could secure a contract of approximately $300 million over 10 years in the free agent market. The negotiation started with the Twins offering five years, $90 million.

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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. they can be used for both short-term and long-term incentive efforts?—?adds A lot of channel programs use a reloadable prepaid card as their incentive mechanism. businesses?—?fully

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Transparent Negotiations: The Counterintuitive Way to Negotiate More Valuable and Predictable Deals

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Todd Caponi Negotiating an agreement with a client is often perceived as requiring the development of a completely different selling muscle: During the sales cycle, we’re doing things to add value to the buying journey, building trust and providing the information a buyer needs to make a confident, informed decision. .

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How to Assess and Sequence Your Sales Initiatives

SBI Growth

I got out-negotiated. Will it strengthen your position in the market? Let’s incent everyone to sell more new logo business” he said. Incenting new logo business only further frustrated the sales force. To say he was concerned about hitting the number would be a huge understatement. He was practically in a panic. "I

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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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A Blueprint for Your Disruption: How to Become the Next Kodak, the Next Blockbuster, or the Next Taxi Cab Medallion Owner

Sales and Marketing Management

And incentives can take many forms -- economic (via your pricing structure), psychological (image, brand, etc.), Call in for better deal: Many customers then called in to try to negotiate a better deal. At this point the customer had to call customer services back and once again try to negotiate a better deal.

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Sales Managers – Why Isn’t Goal Setting Easy?

Anthony Cole Training

Or, if you want to use incentive travel/excursions to motivate people to higher levels of performance, you raise the bar required for people to qualify for the “President’s Club” trip. I have inquired about incentives and changes in overall production of a sales team. What are the objectives/goals in their life that are non-negotiable?