Sales Recruit Failures Cost $000,000s

Sales tracking limits disappointing sales results. Sales staff members should be knocking on doors. When this isn't happening, Sales Management probably has too much on their plate and off goes the sales staff, pretty much on their own.

Differentiation - The Key To People Remembering You And Your Game

How do you differentiate yourself from everyone else? I used to be in the contract labor business for the tradeshow industry. So I sold labor – right? Wrong – what I sold was peace of mind. What I sold was the comfort that the customer would have by using us for his/her labor needs.

Sales Managers: Post Your Sales Results Conspicuously!

There is nothing quite like peer pressure to make a sales force manage itself. How can you unleash people’s competitiveness? One of the simplest and best ways is by posting sales results in places where everybody can see them, recommends Dr. Gary S. Goodman, Fortune 1000 consultant, top speaker, and best-selling author of 12 books, including HOW TO SELL LIKE A NATURAL BORN SALESPERSON and YOU CAN SELL ANYTHING BY TELEPHONE!

How To Achieve Sustained Sales Growth - Efficiently, Reliably And By Design

The Sales Cabinet concept is a sophisticated process for analysing, planning, directing, and monitoring the activity of a sales team. It is an essential tool for setting sales policies and the management, at whatever level, of a sales team, if not every sales call produces an order and there is a time lag between the first contact with a potential customer and that company placing an order.

Strategic Selling Begins In The Boardroom

In most industries today, a handful of ideal customers have become universal targets. Nearly every industrial salesperson dreams of calling on the CEO’s or managing directors of those top companies, which logically means that there are maybe 500 customers for a million sellers. With such intense competition, conventional approaches are not equal to the challenge. Salespeople need to develop strategies that distinguish their products, services and their organisations in the mind of the customer.

How To Become An Inspiring Sales Leader

The best leaders promote a culture where their people value themselves, each other, the company and the customers. Everyone understands how their work makes a difference. This helps to build a commitment to higher standards where everybody is always looking to do things better.

Are You Setting Your Team Up for Failure?

Changing your recruitment process will change your organization and the people within it. Rather than constantly replacing your staff, you’ll attract talented salespeople and become a successful company just by letting your sales team be themselves.

Contract & Interim Marketing Management Makes Sense

Many companies over the last 5 years have been forced to cut their marketing staff and eliminate positions that were critical to their operations. Those positions include director, vice-president, and other marketing management positions including product management and product marketing. To counteract this trend and to overcome this shortfall, many companies are increasingly looking to outsource their marketing management functions to firms that can provide contract or fractional marketing managers at different levels of their organizations.

Sales Performance Planning

Does your company have a good sales performance planning process? Are your people on your sales team fully benchmarked against a measurable set of annual goals? Do they understand exactly what it is that they’re tasked with over the next year, to drive revenue growth for your company?

People Skills and Public Speaking

You want your people skills to be so polished that they invariably permeate your presentations. You want every audience member to feel like you're reaching her/him individually.

Managing a Car Sales Lot

Many customers when they are out shopping for cars go to a car sales lot and walk up to the front. The first thing they see is about 10 guys nicely dressed standing there like vultures trying to sell them a car. At first glance they look rather lazy and waiting for easy prey.

Sales Lead Management

Sales lead management is one of the key foundations of good sales. If you are a business owner, it is essential for you to have proper sales lead management tools in order to convert prospects into clients. Without some sort of sales lead management system, it will be very hard for you to keep track of follow-up calls, meetings and many other details relating to target clients.

Sales Managers Should Dump Their Weak Sales People

Sales are much different than other departments in a large corporation. You must make sales and if someone is not pulling their weight you need to dump them and replace them with a seasoned sales person who WILL make lots of sales. There is no room for political correctness. Just because a salesperson is a certain gender, nationality, religion, sexual preference, color or creed should not make any difference, all that counts are sales; lots of sales. Provided of course they are not over promising what the company can deliver.