Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Buyers Dont Care About Your Sales Process!

Buyers don’t care about your sales process!  That’s fine because chances are your sales process doesn’t care much about them either! self serving 7 steps no reference to the buyer’s buying process 83 slides no reference to the buyer’s business case 5 meetings and no clear picture of the buying team that is a pretty snap shot of what can go wrong with sales process. don’t know enough about buying underestimate just how sophisticated it has become The People Who Matter Most Care Least About Your Sales Process




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Buyers Dont Care About Your Sales Process!

Buyers Dont Care About Your Sales Process!

Buyers don’t care about your sales process!  That’s fine because chances are your sales process doesn’t care much about them either! self serving 7 steps no reference to the buyer’s buying process 83 slides no reference to the buyer’s business case 5 meetings and no clear picture of the buying team that is a pretty snap shot of what can go wrong with sales process. don’t know enough about buying underestimate just how sophisticated it has become The People Who Matter Most Care Least About Your Sales Process




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Buyers Dont Care About Your Sales Process!

Applying Business Improvement Principles To Sales

The latest buzz word is sales process and for good reason to.   Sales teams and budgets have been cut during the slowdown and to accelerate into growth Managers are compelled to do more for less, often a lot less. In the boom years a certain amount of waste and inefficiency could be tolerated, after all customers were  as plentiful and marketing budgets were deep




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Applying Business Improvement Principles To Sales

Applying Business Improvement Principles To Sales

The latest buzz word is sales process and for good reason to.   Sales teams and budgets have been cut during the slowdown and to accelerate into growth Managers are compelled to do more for less, often a lot less. In the boom years a certain amount of waste and inefficiency could be tolerated, after all customers were  as plentiful and marketing budgets were deep




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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Welcome

Welcome to Sales Management the home of 100's of tips, tools and techniques for sales managers on their teams.  Here you will find insights on the following key priorities for managers:

1. Sales Effectiveness
2. Sales Productivity
3. Sales Process
4. Sales Skills
5. Sales Techniques

Confused by any of these terms?  Well, don't worry.  The underlying motivations are familiar to all managers - finding new customers, closing more deals and protecting margins.

This site is provided by The ASG Group - a specialised team of sales consultants, helping managers and their teams to boost sales.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Everybody Is Talking About Sales Process

This years hot topic among sales managers is the issue of sales process.  Now, process is not a term that one associates with manufacturing, or other areas of business, much more than with sales.  However that is changing fast. Sales once focused on the sales person, that is the individual that could ‘sell sand to the arabs’, or ‘ice to the eskimos’.  It was a art, rather than a science, indeed a black art.  However, art, even great art, is unpredictable, even unreliable – something that is very much inconsistent with meeting next quarters numbers. Terms such as ad hoc and unstructured, once traditionally associated with selling, are clearly gone out of fashion.   Managers are putting how they sell under a microscope and applying a consistent and repeatable process to optimise all aspects of winning the sale




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Your Sales Process Won’t Save You!

Longer and more complex buying decisions mean it is more difficult to predict what deals will close and when. To tackle this uncertainty, sales managers have stepped up the search for a more consistent and repeatable process for converting leads to orders




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Sales Process – Avoiding The Pitfalls

Question:  Do you want a fully documented sales process for your sales team to follow?




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Sales Techniques: The Quest Gains Momentum

Searching for The Holy Grail of Sales Techniques? Last year’s sales techniques are struggling in the present market conditions and the search for the most effective sales technique has gathered pace and the search for the most effective sales technique has gathered pace.  With fewer opportunities on the ground, the pressure is on to improve win rates.




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Maybe Sales Is A Numbers Game After All

OK, sales is not a numbers game , but simply increasing conversion rates may not be enough to delivery the results that you need.  We see sales activity and sales effectiveness as two sides of the same coin – you must have one with the other.




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Sales Is Not A Numbers Game!

In a difficult marketplace the quest for more effective sales techniques and campaigns has gained momentum.  As marketing budgets have been cut and sales teams trimmed, managers must do more with less. Sales Is Not A Numbers Game Clearly sales is not a numbers game – after all too many sales leads, meetings and even proposals go nowhere




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