Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Recently, that meant introducing everyone to local small businesses for their amenities, including a fragrance company, a cookie maker and a coffee vendor. To that end, Encore has invested in technology, people—9,000 in 18 months—and training to catch up to the needs of meeting professionals who came back quickly.

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inVOYAGE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So, what is it that sets Kempinski Muscat apart when it comes to incentives and high-end corporate groups? The staff is trained to anticipate and cater to the needs of high-end corporate groups, ensuring a seamless and memorable experience throughout their stay. inVOYAGE: Destination plays a vital role in creating incentive trips.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 26, 2023

Most of the larger hotels here are locally owned, the Space Needle is locally owned, so there’s an added incentive for the businesses community here to work together,” adding that many community leaders and those involved have either grown up or continued to live in Seattle and are passionate about guiding the city to a prosperous future.

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ITA Group

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Here’s what I mean by focusing on elements you can add to segmentation analysis that would help increase engagement and sales: Characteristics That Help the VENDOR Sell More. Which area should I build more training and enablement?”. Products/Solutions sold on top of vendor elements. Rewards and incentives. Enablement.

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Vendor Certification Incentives Training 84

Bizzaboo

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

A premier B2B event in the Baltic Sea Region for the meetings industry that will accelerate the interest in, and demand for, holding meetings, incentives, and conferences in the area. Global Meeting and Incentive Travel Exchange. The ultimate training conference on the ultimate marketing discipline: experiential marketing.

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ITA Group

APRIL 5, 2022

Required or optional partner training. Field managers rely on data, so push dashboard data directly to their inboxes by scheduling training, sales and goal progress reports. Consider adding an incentive and behavior program to encourage similar outcomes among all your channel account managers. Program structure changes.

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ITA Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The best channel incentive programs identify and replicate their best partners. Partner with a channel incentive company to provide relevant solutions for all roles that reward for both sales and non-sales behaviors. As a channel incentive company, ITA Group designs research-based partner incentive programs using these services.

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Business Traveler USA

JULY 19, 2021

By focusing on these impact areas, the new framework is designed to foster collective action across departments, business vendors, and suppliers,” according to a statement from the hotel giant.

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ITA Group

JULY 15, 2021

Training Engagement/Certifications Attained. Core Brand Training Pieces (think pieces you want everyone to know about). These analytics help track progress toward goals, prepare for future growth, adjust sales compensation, award incentives and bonuses, and identify any strategic issues. Remind and incent people to use them.

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ITA Group

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Focus Incentives on Rewarding Channel Behavior, Not Sales. Smart vendors are moving away from rewarding partner reps solely for finish line results. How to Implement Skills Development Training Programs for Employees & Partners: Upskilling, Cross-Skilling, Reskilling.

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Gavel International

MARCH 1, 2022

This often results in minimal time to locate and vet candidates and a lack of time to train new hires. For example: A sales position in a company with established training and processes is quite different from a company creating a new sales position. Internal customers include workers/employees, vendors, and so forth.

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Bizzaboo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

☐ Train all team members and stakeholders on ESG and appoint an ESG leader to ensure follow-through and policy adherence. Here’s your checklist: ☐ Ensure the vendors you work with use sustainable sourcing and delivery practices. ☐ Partner with venues and vendors with third-party sustainability certifications (e.g.,

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ITA Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Reward Desired Behavior: Include an incentive such as a raffle, product discount or other free content. Event attendees are generally interested in seeing what vendors have to offer. Personalize Calls to Action: Make your CTA web link a show-specific, targeted information or an option to setup a one-on-one meeting.

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Sponsors Virtual Events Advertising Platform 62

Social Tables

AUGUST 18, 2022

Book multiple local food trucks and other mobile vendors for the event, giving residents a variety of cuisines to try. Offer food, drinks, entertainment, and incentives to attend. CPR training. Resident event ideas for large properties. Food truck rodeo. Organize a rodeo-themed food truck fair for residents. Supper club.

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Gavel International

JUNE 14, 2022

As noted, time alone doesn’t reflect employee performance issues that are due to workplace culture such as hiring practices, training/education, morale, workload balance, team dynamics, accuracy, etc. (See An employee is better educated, trained, or has more experience. See model below.). Organization Perception. Ideal Worker.

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Gavel International

JULY 5, 2022

For example: How does your organization work with vendors and other strategic partners during challenges such as supply chain issues, financial bottlenecks, mandates/regulations, etc.? Does this include training? Is the training formal such as in a classroom environment or one-on-one? How long is the onboarding period?

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Gavel International

JUNE 28, 2022

While data can help learn about customers, employees, vendors, market trends, and more, it’s also critical to decision-making. It can also help resolve delays, build stronger vendor partner relationships, ensure promises are delivered and resolve conflicts between teams and stakeholders.

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ITA Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

91 Invaluable Sales Training Resources for 2021. That requires an incredible amount of training. And that sales training is never over. Share this list of sales training resources with your team to keep them razor sharp this coming year. But after adopting four new training methods, they increased new sales by nearly 70%.

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Gavel International

JANUARY 15, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes An effective travel incentive program, one that truly inspires employees to work harder, offers many benefits for employee engagement and performance. What is a travel incentive program? Here are the key attributes of travel incentive programs that inspire employees. Why spend money on these trips?

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ITA Group

MARCH 11, 2021

This week’s Insight features channel and incentives expert Ellen Linkenhoker interviewed by Max Kenkel discussing partner experience, how you define it, why it’s important, what’s included in the partner experience, where you can start improving today, the value of personalization and how you can measure partner experience.

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ITA Group

AUGUST 12, 2021

Industry Outlook – The Evolving Impact to Channel & Incentive Programs. Program Impact: Programs that have gates, thresholds, requirements and other layers of qualifiers to receive an award used to be the norm, but clients are acknowledging the need to simplify the incentive design to increase and maintain engagement as well as motivation.

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ITA Group

JANUARY 13, 2022

Are You Overlooking These Critical Channel Partner Training & Enablement Components? Evaluate Channel Training Needs. Some partners, such as vendors or franchisees, might need general training in marketing your products. These incentives can be tracked on leaderboards to encourage friendly competition.

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ITA Group

APRIL 8, 2021

Examples of Adding Personalization to Channel Incentive Programs. The next level of personalization can be to make promotions, incentives and rule structures relevant to partners based on what they sell and how they sell it. A micro-incentive, like this example, offers a small reward for taking an action. Promotions. Engagement.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

as one of the largest and most influential full-service meeting and incentive travel management companies, and we are rated as one of the Top 50 Event Companies by Special Events magazine. LABOV Fort Wayne, IN LABOV is an entrepreneurial firm that specializes in launching, marketing, training, inspiring, and selling.

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Gavel International

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Reading Time: 7 minutes Like many other industries, staff shortages can have an impact on in-person and group incentive travel events. 2) Offer Cross-Training and Seek Talent with Multi-talented Skills. Cross-train existing staff in a different area of expertise to enable them to do each other’s roles if needed.

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ITA Group

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Leaders need to ensure their program strategy, incentives, processes, engagement efforts and systems are evolving to meet the demands of indirect partner organizations. In turn, program updates also help vendors and brands create an improved customer experience. Channel Incentive & Portal Technology Is Embracing Personalization.

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inVOYAGE

MARCH 14, 2024

One key initiative is the promotion of public transportation, which includes an extensive network of buses, metro lines, and suburban trains. Event organizers often provide information and incentives for attendees to carpool, such as designated carpool parking areas or preferential parking rates for car-poolers.

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Sustainability Transportation Certification Promotion 52

Gavel International

JUNE 21, 2022

Trained employees who are good at the job, well-liked, and productive are leaving for a reason. The right candidate isn’t just about matching the education, training, or past job experience with job requirements. Training should be ongoing, and not just when hired. Train and measure long-term knowledge retention.

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ITA Group

MARCH 24, 2022

Tiering (program levels inside a vendor channel program) dictates the requirements, awards and benefits partners earn based on their performance. Tiers were developed so vendors could easily manage and prioritize partners in their ecosystem. Are there additional incentives and promotions? Let’s Start With Tiering Fundamentals.

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ITA Group

OCTOBER 21, 2021

But one of the best ways to build channel relationships is through events: summits, roadshows, tradeshows, conferences, incentive travel, expos and anything else that brings people together. Related: Without the right planning, reaching sales incentive program goals can be challenging. Relationship building – to build brand advocates.

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CSI DMC

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This extra layer of support can be invaluable during shortages, ensuring qualified staff, material shortages or vendor overwhelm can be more effectively mitigated. A well-structured approach to employee onboarding, continuous learning and development, and regular skill-based training across all parts of the organization support its position.

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Gavel International

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The airlines are consolidating the number of flights, scaling back on operations, and scrambling to train and hire new pilots. The meetings, incentive travel, and events industry significantly impacted by the pandemic is quickly rebounding. It isn’t all bad news, however. There’s an App for That. Agile Plan Modification.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 11, 2019

She’s a household name when it comes to vendor-buyer relationships, and she has quite a bit to teach us when it comes to event strategy and consulting. But they don’t have time, and so we need to train the teams to generate the conversations and to lead the conversation. Helping Suppliers Make More Sales.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Imagining what might be is a gift and it’s also something we can train. It means that vendors can show more than they could fit in the physical environment,” he said, demonstrating the “both/and” way of thinking. Einstein once said imagination is more important than knowledge. We must live in two worlds. No, not at all.

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Stova

MARCH 17, 2023

Other indirect factors may funnel the attendee on the path towards your event, such as searching for management training and finding your event fits their criteria, noticing that contact is exhibiting at your event, checking out the what's on guide for a local venue or realizing that an influencer they want to hear is talking at your conference.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 18, 2022

Most recently, she founded The Vendry , a community-driven marketplace that helps connect corporate event planners with venues and vendors for their events. In her spare time, she enjoys fellowship with other believers in Jesus, experiencing the outdoors (camping and hiking), and the great indoors (HIIT and strength training).

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Social Tables

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

See if you can attend some networking or vendor functions. Make sure you carve out some time and attention to think about the rewards and incentives you might want to have in place for your more innovative, or steady referral partners. Some networking is best done in an unfamiliar pond. It may surprise you to see what grows.

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