Incentives they work, are you using them?

Many of you are in postitions of sales for your company, and in most cases in a leadership role. Whether you are a branch manager in charge of a sales team, or the president or the CEO of a company. So you are not directly on the firing lines, but look at the macro ways to motivate your teams to dig deeper and bring in that extra revenue. Sales people are a competitive bunch, they are aggressive and that is why they have chosen the profession of selling, and as a leader you want to channel that energy and maximize it to reach your revenue goals and objectives. How can you do that? INCENTIVES!

Take these cards for examples these are a great way to have some fun with your sales team. Each time somebody achieves a sales objective they get one of the cool cards, they scratch them off and win great prizes. Or you can introduce a points based program similar to an American Express Membership Rewards. Where points accumulate over time for each new account, each new sales, revenue etc.

These points are then redeemed for great prizes from jewelry to stereo equipment and much more. Some may say "WHAT ABOUT CASH?" Isn't cash king? Cash satisfies basic needs which does not motivate behavior. Cash is the currency of compensation and pricing. Use cash and it becomes part of an individual’s compensation package or a customer’s pricing program. Invariably, if you offer a cash incentive to any audience, internal or external, it becomes a benchmark against which future compensation and pricing issues get measured, leading to a condition known as “program addiction.” Because cash quickly gets mingled with other compensation or expenses (in the case of customer cash expenses) Major Oil Company Study Summary Non-cash outperformed cash by 46% Non-cash: 37% increase in product mix ROI Cash: -20% Every $1 invested = an $0.80 return Non-cash: +31% Every $1 invested = a $1.31 return Thank you for reading our blog Derek Miller 609 807 8856