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The Psychology Behind Unexpected Rewards

Sales and Marketing Management

Scientific studies show that unexpected incentive rewards stimulate areas of the brain connected to behavior development and learning. Let’s take a closer look into the psychology behind the element of surprise and how it can be used as part of a larger sales incentive strategy. How to start applying this to your sales team.

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10 Ways To Boost Your Sales Incentive Strategy

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: George Kriza, CEO, MTCPerformance Your organization wants to drive sales with an incentive program. Here are 10 of the most important elements in designing and deploying your next incentive campaign. Are they already in other incentive programs, or is yours the only one they’ll see? Gen X, Y or Boomer?

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Re-energizing sales efforts in a virtual world

Sales and Marketing Management

This doesn’t bode well for your long-term reward and recognition strategy, and doesn’t do much to excite and motivate your team to help you reach your business sales goals. This allows you to reward your team with award points after they reach their sales goals. Not all sales incentive programs are the same.

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Is Your Sales Rep Compensation Plan Pushing You Up or Out?

SBI Growth

They make sure that support functions like Marketing are financially motivated toward improving sales results. With no alignment of the support groups to sales goals. Does executive leadership refer to key annual sales goals (customer retention, new product sales targets) that are not part of your compensation plan?

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Eyes On the Prize

Sales and Marketing Management

Teaser: Companies frequently run into trouble by failing to create the right balance between sales goals and the actions they tie incentives to. Companies frequently run into trouble by failing to create the right balance between sales goals and the actions they tie incentives to. read more'

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How Your Go-To-Market Strategy Is the Secret Sauce of Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

For some it’s an actual product: a unique amalgam of ingredients no other chef has yet discovered or marketed. In a competitive market, what pushes companies ahead isn’t just what they sell – it’s also how they sell. Today, winning in the market isn’t just about having the best product. Your product is a known quantity.

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How To Incentivize Your Sales Team to Hit Their 2020 Goals

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Leeatt Rothschild Sales managers are racing to hit their 2020 goals, which are likely higher than last year’s. It’s no secret that by setting effective sales incentives and pay structures you can dramatically increase your team’s success rate. Treat your sales team. The takeaway here? 18 percent lower.