The Ascent of Incent for Marketing

Sales people, cynics have said, are coin operated – driven solely by financial incentives.  Marketing people, on the other hand, are generally salaried and have their attention fragmented across a range of different activities including some with only remote ties to revenue generation.  Yet marketing and sales are co-dependent functions and their coordination is critical to any company’s success.  One pragmatic way of bringing the two into line involves rethinking the approach used to compensate Marketing people who, like their counterparts in Sales, also respond to incentives.