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What Motivates Channel Sales Reps? 5 Surprising Tactics By Jen Spencer VP of Sales and Marketing https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenspencer @jenspencer
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What Motivates Channel Sales Reps? 5 Surprising Tactics

Apr 16, 2017

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Page 1: What Motivates Channel Sales Reps? 5 Surprising Tactics

What Motivates Channel Sales Reps? 5 Surprising Tactics

By Jen SpencerVP of Sales and Marketing

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenspencer

@jenspencer

Page 2: What Motivates Channel Sales Reps? 5 Surprising Tactics

What Motivates Channel Sales Reps? 5 Surprising Tactics

You need to encourage them to believe in the product themselves, while also making it easy for them to sell.

You will also see a bump in sales figures when pride and internal recognition are on the line.

What Motivates Sales Reps?

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What Motivates Channel Sales Reps? 5 Surprising Tactics

Confidence in What They’re Selling• What motivates channel sales reps the most is having a product that they can actually stand behind.

• Give the partner sales reps a chance to see value in your offerings, and they’ll use this optimism to increase sales in the channel.

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What Motivates Channel Sales Reps? 5 Surprising Tactics

Ease of Sales• Make it easy for the sales

reps to do whatever they deem necessary to lock down sales.

• This could be calculating their margins in the channel to determine how best to make an attractive deal, or creating multiple quotes to provide options for a picky customer.

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What Motivates Channel Sales Reps? 5 Surprising Tactics

Incentives• You need to reward high

sellers, but not to the point where the diminutive size or outright lack of reward for the lower ranks turns into discouragement.

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What Motivates Channel Sales Reps? 5 Surprising Tactics

Recognition• Sometimes, an incentive

doesn’t serve so much as a motivator on its own, but provides a platform for high-performing sellers to be recognized.

• Sometimes that’s more important than the value of whatever incentive is tacked on.

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What Motivates Channel Sales Reps? 5 Surprising Tactics

Pride• Sales Reps can take pride in

the fact that they outsold last quarter’s numbers, or are within the top 25% of the sales team, or any other metric that they find to be motivating.