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Research and Resources

Sales and Marketing Management

Associations that serve the incentive travel and non-cash recognition industries publish valuable research that can help sell a group incentive travel program to the C-suite. It’s helpful to understand emerging trends, participants’ preferences and key elements of program structure.

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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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5 secrets to channel incentive success

Sales and Marketing Management

companies spend over $17 billion on channel incentive awards each year, according to the Incentive Federation. Channel incentive programs are designed to gain the time and discretionary attention of your partners by: • Gaining increased shelf space by encouraging distributors to shift inventory away from competitors to your products.

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Rebate and Incentive Tips, Part Three

Selling Energy

Now that we’ve covered a handful of tips and tricks for maximizing rebates and incentives, we’re going to explore some useful resources that can help us track down the most relevant rebates and incentives for our projects.

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How to be Indispensable as an Incentive Compensation Manager

The Spiff Blog

As an incentive compensation manager, you hold a critical role that keeps your organization running. What does an incentive compensation manager do? First, let’s cover the primary responsibilities of an incentive compensation manager. Recommended reading: A Foolproof Framework for Better Incentive Communication 2.

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5 Secrets to Channel Incentive Success

Sales and Marketing Management

companies spend over $17 billion on channel incentive awards each year, according to the Incentive Federation. Channel incentive programs are designed to gain the time and discretionary attention of your partners by: • Gaining increased shelf space by encouraging distributors to shift inventory away from competitors to your products.

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A Foolproof Framework for Better Incentive Communication

The Spiff Blog

The only remedy is a formal incentive communication strategy. This post will show you how to deconstruct your current sales compensation process to ultimately build a more effective incentive communication strategy. Map out an incentive communication step to align with each step of your sales comp process. Let’s dive in!