Thought Leadership
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4 ways to motivate your channel sales
By building the proper groundwork, along with giving the proper time and attention, you can maximize your indirect channel sales partners’ output.
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5 key channel marketing trends
For manufacturing companies, sales partners and distributors are the lifeblood for their products and solutions. Supporting them with training, communications, rewards, recognition and analytics is vital to the relationship. Over the past few years, organizations have evolved their strategies and support to make sure their message and solutions reach the right people.
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5 recommendations for supporting customer advocates
Customer advocacy is the premier indicator of true customer loyalty. What your best customers say about you and what information they share with others is extremely valuable. So, what can you do to encourage and facilitate greater customer advocacy about your brand, products or services?
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5 ways gifting can inspire your customers and employees
Surprising and delighting customers and employees can elevate your brand. So can the packaging.
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5-point plan to increase enrollment in customer loyalty programs
If your business has a customer loyalty program or if you’re thinking of starting one, you will need an effective enrollment campaign to get it launched and growing.
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Connecting gamification to business results
Beyond the inherent engagement that gamification and performance-based recognition bring to your organization’s programs, one major advantage of using gamification is the incredible amount of data that can be generated naturally within the program.
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Authentic recognition in an artificial world
There’s something very authentic and real about the connection created by every individual recognition moment. But with artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly growing and evolving, how do you make sure recognition stays authentic? We don’t expect AI to write evocative, meaningful and celebratory content. But we do expect it to assist in creating something detailed, accurate and relevant.
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3 strategies to drive learner engagement
Expectations for digital learning experiences are high, but the attention spans of learners are short. Keeping learners engaged and inspired while customizing courses to fit your company’s needs is an important aspect of learning, but you need more than that to keep learners interested.
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The seven principles of a successful gamification program
A persistent misconception surrounding gamification in the workplace is that it means introducing games or turning tasks into games. In reality, true gamification is the process of incorporating game-like elements into non-game contexts and tapping into the psychological drivers that make games engaging to motivate employees and customers.