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Is Business Formulaic?
You can either engineer your business by design or let it evolve by default. While the choice is clearly up to you I would strongly suggest the former over the latter. Creating a formulaic approach to business is not only logical, but it is without question the best practices approach.Read more…Managing Leads: 3 Actions You Can Take While Waiting for IT to Deliver Your CRM Solution
It starts when someone first raises their hand, saying, "OK, I'm interested in your offer. Tell me more." If all goes well, it ends with a sale and a satisfied new customer.Read more…Great Sales Managers Make Less than all their Sales People
Are you a great sales manager? Well if you really are a great sales manager then every single one of the sales people under you should be making more than your salary, unless your company is paying you an additional stipend on the total amount of sales on your team.Indeed my company always did that and we always watched our sales climb higher and higher year after year.Read more…Career Tip #1: Act Like You Own the Place
I’ve owned my own company since 1988, and often hear people say they’d like to own a business. When I ask why, they give answers such as “So I can set my own hours”, “To make what I’m really worth”, or “So I won’t have to answer to anyone”. I tell them not to go into business for themselves, because they don’t understand what owning a business really means.Read more…Sales Management and Managing Sales
For those engaged in sales management and trying to control a group of self-starter type sales people you can just imagine how hard it is. In all the commotion, chaos and controversy they have to manage in shear terror of handling all that is coming at them.Indeed sales management is not for everyone and managing sales is certainly not as easy as it looks, nor is it suppose to be really.Read more…Business Lead Lists
Business lead lists can be classified into a number of categories. They can be based on the various characteristics of the customers, such as age, sex and education. They can also be based on the geographical and other characteristics of the markets.Read more…Top Ten Strategies Large Corporations Use Against Small Businesses & Their Countermeasures
1) Fighting attritional battles—a common practice of giant corporations is to start a price war to drive down profits. With more capital, they can afford a loss for longer than their smaller competitors. Incorrect Response—when smaller businesses cut prices it actually helps the corporation because their greater resources eventually insure they’ll win.Read more…The Poker Selling System
Teaching salespeople how to use and balance the four communication methods is important. The Poker Selling System came to mind when I was losing at Poker. This playing card system will work for you and increase your sales team's results!Read more…Sales Manager Tip #47; Interested Prospects and How you can tell
A good sales manager needs to train their sales Force to recognize when someone is interested in what the company is offering. A good salesperson should notice this instinctively. If a prospect is interested in what you are selling or what your company is offering then the salesperson should spend time with the prospect and answer all their questions and work on handling any of their objections.Read more…Sales Manager Tip #28; The Informed Prospect
A good sales manager must stay in touch with each and every salesperson in the sales force that is working for the company. It is essential to find out from the salespeople what prospects are saying to them and which objections that the salespeople are getting in the field from potential customers and prospects.A good sales manager knows what the competition is doing and what they are offering.Read more…Sales Management Tip #9; Do Not Let Your Sales People Act Like Children
As a sales manager for the company you need to make sure that your salespeople on your sales force do not act like children. Many people believe that children are the world's best sales people because they are good at twisting and manipulating their parents feelings and generally good at getting what they want.Whereas this may be true, as a sales manager you need to understand that the salespeople on your sales force represent your company and your products or services and you cannot have them running around like a bunch of children even if they may sell a little bit more.Read more…Finding the Perfect Sales Rep
Finding the perfect sales rep makes all the difference when you're building a successful business. If you have a company that produces a small line of products or just one original product, chances are you need a sales representative, also know as a sales rep.When searching for that perfect sales rep look for theses qualities:1. One who is willing to be a road rep rather than just a showroom rep.Read more…Is your Sales Plan Engineered by Design or by Default?
One of the most critical choices that an executive or entrepreneur can make is to determine which sales/revenue opportunities to pursue vs. which ones to pass on. How do you determine where you will allocate your time, your resources and your talent?Read more…Sales Management by the Numbers
If you ask me how much Bobby will sell this month, there is only one way to tell. It isn’t by what Bobby wrote on his forecast sheet. However, with the right information, this is an equation I can get into.Read more…Your Sales Team Must Leverage Your Brand to Sell More
If you are a sales manager then it behooves you to leverage your brand name to sell more and your sales team needs to understand this and use this to their advantage. This is where a good sales manager can really make the grade and increase the company’s sales.When a company has a strong brand the customers will already have considered doing business with your and wish to discuss what you can offer them.Read more…The X Factor in Sales Management
Do you know how to apply the power of the X factor for Sales Management? The X factor is the simple multiplication of events and sales strategies that lead to sales. If business or salespeople apply this equation to sales contacts, they are released from the bonds of time and energy.Read more…Sales Manager and the Phone Book Prospecting Trick
You know there are still some sales managers out there who instead of insuring proper amounts of qualified leads for their sales force will instead throw a new salesman or woman a darn phone book and say good luck, there is the phone? Oh great the new salesperson thinks.Now-a-days you cannot call people on Do Not Call Lists, so instead these phone books only work when calling government white page listings or yellow page business sections.Read more…Fake Sales Calls from Competitors; Note to Sales Managers
Have you ever been shopped by your competition and they call up and ask questions and you put a salesperson on it to see if they can answer all their questions and turn the incoming call into a sales call. They ask all sorts of questions and your sales person answers to the best of his ability, even often kind of over stepping company policy bounds of the information given to hopefully make the sale and not sound rude?Well imagine how the sales person feels after he figures out the hot prospect is nothing more than a dirty rotten competitor trying to trick them?Read more…Sales Management and Cold Calling Programs
Most people who are in sales do not really like cold calling much and I suppose that makes sense, yet if you are very knowledgeable about the industry for which you are calling you should not worry much and actually come to enjoy talking to like minded business folks. Indeed you may find they actually enjoy talking with you.Having been in the franchising business for a decade or more, we always helped set up marketing campaigns in the new franchisee’s territory and some of the marketing was geared towards cold calling various companies to offer our services.Read more…Tracking Your Sales; The Sales Managers Most Valuable Tool
If you are a sales manager you need to have the company and the front line workers always ask customers who come in and buy; How did you discover our company. Have you ever filled out a customer survey and there is always a box or lines to fill out which ask; How did you hear about us. This is most essential for marketing purposes, but even more important it can be a sales managers greatest and most valuable tool.Read more…
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