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Training Incentives Are Vital in the Digital Sales Era

Sales and Marketing Management

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. My answer: sales training initiatives. Sales training has grown in importance in the past decade. their skills.

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CROs: Stop Chasing Clicks—Start Building Connections

No More Cold Calling

Employees nod, wait for the next trend, and carry on as usual. They will only do that if referral selling is built into the sales processwith training, metrics, and accountability for results. Fostering this kind of sales culture requires CROs to: Shift incentives toward long-term success. Emphasize mentorship and coaching.

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New Data: The Top 5 Unacceptable Sales Performance Findings

Understanding the Sales Force

I read the majority of the reports, studies, white papers, and books related to sales development because others in the field might stumble onto a trend, an insight or a statistic of which I was not aware. One interesting finding that I read was that “53% of respondents believe collaborative and team-based incentives is another trend.”

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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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10 Incentive Travel Facts You Can Put To Good Use

Sales and Marketing Management

The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), a private not-for-profit foundation that focuses its initiatives on pragmatic research highlighting the premise and the power of incentive and motivational programs, issued a list of 10 incentive travel facts to commemorate Global Meetings Industry Day. 38 percent of all U.S.

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The Best Sales Coaching Software Tools in 2025

Zoominfo

From refining your teams techniques to reinforcing best practices, coaching tools are essential to how modern teams train, grow, and win. Analytics & Reporting : How deep are the insights into performance trends and behaviors? Vendor Support : Is onboarding, training, and customer service included?

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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

Companies are spending more money on sales force evaluations, sales training, consulting, sales leadership development, sales process, infrastructure and sales recruiting services than 5 years ago. There are probably twice as many books on the subject than just 10 years ago. And selling has changed more in the past 5 years than ever before.