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Incentives and Rewards: A Closer Look

Sales and Marketing Management

Her research points to important aspects of how rewards, the signals they send and their efficacy are affected by precision. In short, more precision is better for rewards used with incentives, while less precision is better for rewards used with recognition. Incentives. Reps Benefit From Incentives.

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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. are increasingly using gift cards as a reward tool for multiple groups (channel, sales, employee and customer), and that investment in gift card rewards is both significant and growing.

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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? See Michael Ahearne , PhD’s research on Stars-Cores-Laggards. Stack ranking is not the tool to accomplish weed out the poor performers – what you need to do is manage. Confidence. Q: Why conduct a post-mortem?

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Technology can improve your recognition efforts

Sales and Marketing Management

In April, Echo Market Research and Tango Card asked 500 newly remote employees how engaged they were feeling. Video technology tools like Zoom and Slack were reported helpful in fueling connection and engagement. It’s often an area that companies overlook, however, due to lack of time, money or technology tools.

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Inside the Mindset of Users and Non-users of Incentive Travel

Sales and Marketing Management

Teaser: When Sales & Marketing Management magazine and the SITE Foundation initiated a comprehensive survey on the use of incentive travel, they knew that some of the most illuminating information would come from non-users of this motivational tool. read more'

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11 Sales Compensation Complaints to Address Before Next Year

SBI Growth

To get this tool, sign-up here. This also gets you access to SBI’s Annual Sales & Marketing Research. At no cost, an expert from SBI will present the full research findings. You will get access to more guides and tools to help sales compensation planning. Let’s say sales weren’t spectacular in 2013.

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10 trends impacting incentive travel use

Sales and Marketing Management

Teaser: The Incentive Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds research and fosters education on all aspects of the incentive travel industry, has identified 10 trends that will help users understand what’s in store for the future. read more'

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