Printed pens, promotional mugs and other sales incentive items can play a key role in setting the tone for your promotional sales meetings. When you use promotional items like printed pens, t-shirts and other items to reinforce the main message of your sales meetings, you'll see results that you never dreamed possible.

Motivating your sales force can be a full time job in itself. When you manage a team of sales people, a major part of your income is derived from how well you motivate them to sell. Pumping up your sales team requires more than just picking out prizes for them to earn. The key to motivating your sales team is to excite them and keep them excited about your products, their efforts and being a part of your team.

One of the best ways to pump up the excitement among your team is with regular sales meetings designed to recognize their hard work, introduce new sales techniques and products and raise their level of commitment to the team. Motivational meetings are a cornerstone of inspiring your team to sell more. Daily contact with your sales team is important, and so is the personal pat on the back. Motivational sales meetings take sales management to the next level, and can help you send your sales team's profits soaring through the roof. Motivational sales meetings provide you with the opportunity to:

-Build product and customer knowledge

-Demonstrate new sales techniques

-Sharpen and perfect their listening skills (an essential sales skill!)

-Improve their sales presentations

-Energize and boost their self confidence

Your sales force should leave the meeting re-energized, with new skills and new commitment to your products and your company. Organizing a successful sales meeting is a matter of logistics. It's the little things that can make a big difference in the overall effect. Here are seven tips for using motivational sales meetings to pump your sales force to new heights of excitement.

1.Choose a meeting focus. Is your goal to increase sales of a particular product, increase overall sales, introduce a new product? Pick one, and focus on it.

2.Create a marketing message just as you would to sell to the public. Remember, before you can sell your product, you have to sell your people.

3.Give your message a slogan to create a theme for the meeting.

4.Choose a memorable venue.

5.Reinforce your meeting theme. Put your slogan on printed pens to hand out at the door, balloons to float in the meeting hall and streamers to hang across the front of the room. The more ways that your message gets across, the more it will stick in the minds of your people.

6.Build workshops that focus on educating and motivating. Include presentations, role playing and other techniques that make the event multi-sensory.

7.Send your employees home with your message. Make sure that every one of your sales staff goes home with a great stash of promotional items. Pack goodie bags with printed pens, car stickers, mint tins and one or two special goodies ? and hand them out at checkout instead of check-in to give them maximum impact and extend the excitement all the way home and beyond.

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