Sales Process Integration & CRM

Lots of companies fail to see the connection between developing a well defined sales process that's repeatable and scalable and the actual recording of sales activity, tracking and forecasting of sales results in a customer relationship, management or CRM system, also known as sales force automation or SFA.

Managing Sales Mavericks

Mavericks can have a huge impact on bottom line for your company, but they also can be a big drain on your organization. Often times, these mavericks won't follow the company's policies and procedures when it comes to sales process, selling methodology, reporting forecasting, using your CRM tools, etc. What do you do with these mavericks and how to you manage them to a better result?

Shifting the Sales Compensation Paradigm

How do you protect cash positions while balancing the seemingly contradictory problem of keeping cost of sales under control and your sales force intact while revenues decrease. Compensating sales efforts appropriately is one solution for protecting margins, profit and cash. Solving this issue may take creating a new paradigm for sales representative compensation.

How to Get the Most Out of Best Sellers

Each product category in your store has a best seller. This product will not necessarily be the cheapest or lowest gross profit item, but it will be the favourite product purchased by your customers in that category. You can use this to your advantage if you introduce some simple management strategies...

Persistence at the Start Really Pays Off

We all have a tough time Prospecting. It is especially difficult to begin a prospecting process when you aren't used to it. Persistence at the beginning of any prospecting program is critical tot the success of the program.

Motivate Your Sales and Marketing Team using this New NLP Game

Using subtle NLP observations and techniques you will be able to make profound changes in yourself and others to improve your life, sales and leadership skills. A step-by-step guide of how to motivate your sales team and yourself.

6 Danger Signs You May Be Headed to Micro-Management

Do you 'manage people' or Mentor and support competencies and activities? Here are some 'Macro' tips to avoid the pitfalls of sales micro-management.

Powerful Routines; Identifying Sales Scenarios and Developing Best Practices for Improvement

There are only a finite amount of scenarios in any selling process and if you identify them, train to them and measure your results you are on your way to excellence. This article will help you do just that.

What to Do When You Hit the Invisible Sales Revenue Ceiling

Have you ever hit a level of revenue that you just couldn't seem to break through? If you have, then you know how frustrating it can feel. You may even spike above this ceiling periodically. But, like water seeking its own level, your revenue results seek a sub-par level. Sales leadership had failed to understand their meaningful business metrics. This was the primary reason, as it is in most cases. They hadn't isolated the essential competencies and components. Therefore, their people couldn't self-compete to reach and maintain revenue goals. They failed to develop practices and processes that allow an individual to identify, train to and measure their own competencies and performance metrics.

Auto Sales Training

The time for the internet car buyers has come! Read about how they differentiate themselves from their offline counterparts and how you can benefit from knowing those differences.

Sales Effectiveness: How to Raise Performance of Your Sales Staff

How much revenue did your outstanding sales professional deliver to your organisation last year and what would it be worth to clone that performance across your entire salesforce?

Sales Prospecting and a Targeted Selection Process

Who Are You Calling On and Why? What’s a Targeted Selection Process? As related to prospecting, it is a process or system of defining whom you want to call on and performing the due diligence of data procurement to understand who you are calling on and why you have chosen them. But here’s what’s important to understand. Your Targeted Selection Process is a separate component of your sales strategy. It stands by itself. But it is directly allied with your other Sales performance indicators. The degree of success you’ll have in the business of sales is proportional to raising and maintaining these success indicators to a level more proficient than the industry norm. And the direction you decide to travel is strategic to the outcome. I call it the ‘Playing Field’. Because that’s where it all starts… it’s where the game begins.

The Highest Form of Persuasion Revealed

Influence is a key element in mastering the techniques of Magnetic Persuasion. Influence is the highest form of persuasion. With influence, people are spurred on to action because of your character, not your maneuvers. Persuasion is what you do or say, but influence is who you are.