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Have you ever gone across a "promo" in the supermarket, where a product being sold includes another free product when you buy it? Many consumer goods and services often use this kind of sales and marketing tactic. If you're not familiar with this, this is called incentive marketing. With this strategy, the consumers are offered particular "rewards" when they buy particular goods or services. The main objective of this is to urge the customers to buy an item that's useful to them, while getting an incentive at the same time.

Most consumers fall for this because they believe that it is better to buy a product that you are bound to buy sooner or later, since there is an offer for something else to come along for free with the purchase. The customer was actually forced by the freebies to buy now, instead of at the customer's ideal buying time or shopping schedule.

The other target of the incentive marketing process is the sales person. Usually incentive marketing products equal to a particular sales quota. If the sales person manages to reach that quota, he or she will get incentives as well. Because of the incentive waiting, he or she becomes more motivated to keep selling the products.

Incentive marketing is becoming widespread. There are even reputable institutions that aim to advance the interests of this marketing strategy. One example is the Incentive Marketing Association or IMA. This group is focused on helping people understand the good points of incentive marketing, and how they play an important role in the upward movement of a business, especially in the trade landscape. Groups like the IMA are also very credible and helpful sources of information especially in business development and education.

Incentive marketing groups also help individuals be in touch with one another, as well as let them stay in touch with other companies that also work towards the same marketing goals. These include travel-specialist, marketing and performance improvement companies. They create a contact network that continues to grow.

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