The Incentive Federation Inc. has commissioned a survey involving current users of merchandise and travel items for motivational applications. The Center for Concept Development (CCD) was asked to analyze the data collected in this survey and to prepare this report on the survey findings.
This article takes a look at the Incentive Federation's 2007 U.S. Incentive Merchandise and Travel Marketplace Study.
The Incentive Federation contracted with GfK, an international market research company, to develop and conduct a market sizing study of the U.S. marketplace for incentive travel and merchandise. Results showed that, overall, 34% of companies used either incentive travel or merchandise incentives in 2006, spending a total of $46.1 billion on incentive programs. Breaking down that total, the study finds that companies spent $13.4 billion on incentive travel and 32.7 billion on merchandise incentives. In addition, more than half of the study participants expect their future spending on incentive programs to increase.
Feed Your Eagles offers advice on how to successfully motivate your sales force and ultimately increase sales. The author examines the positive motivators sales managers need to make their sales team successful as well as the negative motivators which can hinder performance.
With this guide, trainers and managers now have a one-stop reference for practical evaluations of the best videos on the market, written by the practicing trainers, consultants, and line managers who use them. Paper. DLC: Employees Training of.
Determining the right mix of compensation, benefits, training, and rewards & recognition
How do you determine the right mix of compensation, benefits, training, and rewards and recognition. This article offers some suggestions.
The month-long "Ford Family Days" promotion was developed to build consumer awareness of the Ford Windstar and other family-oriented models. The "Project KidCare" tie-in increased traffic for the final day of the promotion.
A recent Think Tank sponsored by the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement explored how to deal with a disengaged workforce and found that engaged employees are 20 percent more effective than those who just "show up."
This book addresses basic management issues applicable to almost any organization and manager. It provides a simple approach summarized as "select, direct, evaluate, and reward," but is in no way short of details. It includes extensive information on every aspect of the process, including benefits of cash and noncash awards.
Frequent Flyer publishes the J. D. Power Airline Awards in its May issue.
This book puts marketing on the most personal, one-to-one level by identifying the elements of friendship and relating them to business relations. Using dozens of real-life examples, the author shows how building relationships is the key to business development and personal fulfillment. It has little to do with technology, but everything to do with sales techniques.
Offers a good introduction to the new thinking about market research. It's a handbook of the latest trends, strategies, and techniques of marketing in today's global community. Blackwell illustrates his points with examples from companies that already employ such practices, including Kinko's, The Limited, and Banc One Corporation.
The Gallup Summit Spring 2010 provides leaders the opportunity to share best practices and discuss the crucial issues that affect maximizing performance in their organizations. It also offers organizations the opportunity to benchmark their management practices against the world's best. It will include a look at best practices in managing employee and customer engagement and best practices in recruiting, hiring, and developing talented employees.
A recent Gallup survey offers some good news for U.S. companies. It finds that 33 percent of workers are involved in and enthusiastic about their work. That's up from 29 percent in 2008.
Games That Drive Change shows you games and excercises that will help focus on change management. With 100 ready to play activities to reduce people's anxiety about change, this book is perfect for anyone in a leadership position.
GE Lighting Systems, a division of General Electric Lighting, designs, manufactures and markets a complete line of lighting fixtures for illuminating streets and highways, industrial and hazardous location facilities, parking lots, building facades, parks, and sporting facilities.
Provides a clear analysis of how successful companies turn partnering into a reality. The book breaks down and makes sense of the revolution that is taking place in supplier-customer relationships today. Offers new strategies on creating profitable relationships with customers.
While most people would agree that gift card consolidators are a significant force in the incentive industry, there seems to be some confusion about just what a gift card consolidator is and who stakes claim to the title.
With popularity and customization options on the rise, gift cards are a go…
This article provides an overview of enterprise engagement - why it matters, the prerequisites of engagement, the tools, and the role of rewards and recognition.
Golf Digest offers instructional articles and golf-related product reviews.
Golf Illustrated offers instructional articles, profiles, and product news and reviews.
Golf World is your grip on the game. Every month we present the very best variety of innovative features and investigations, star player interviews, expert instruction, new gear launches and course reviews.
This book looks at how companies can profit from a commitment to a corporate culture characterized by collaboration, innovation, and joy at work.
Good to Great discusses the findings of the Good to Great study that studied what made a company go from good to great. This is the study of several companies and conclusions are made based on case studies and research. This book is good for any entrepreneur or person in a leadership position.
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Author Levinson applies his proven guerrilla philosophy to advertising in Guerrilla Advertising. This step-by-step guide will help you develop advertising strategy, design effective ads and copy, maximize advertising effectiveness, focus your audience and much more.
This is great for small businesses, but anyone can benefit from the "guerrilla" point of view. Gives a great view of basic database and research goals.
A Revealing Q&A with Motivation Guru Chester Elton
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