You’re the CEO of a startup company and you’re ready to pass the sales baton to someone else. Here are best practices for creating and implementing a sales playbook that will help guide your new sales person or future sales team.
Drive Your Sales Team To Attaining Predictable Growth
Are you resigned to the fact that you are not going to make quota? Or just plain scared? If either of these sounds like you, then let’s see what we can do about it. Here are four easy steps to ensure you get you to quota and well beyond. What is your basis for determining that a client meeting was a success? Think preparing for each and every buyer interaction is too time-consuming, arduous or boring? Then you’re probably not focusing on this one important thing. You are in sales, even if your job title says something else. Learn how your role impacts the customer experience, especially when you make the buyer’s perspective central to your sales process. Closing is one of the hottest sales topics, which is why we talk about it so darn much. It’s not only a selling activity in the sales process − it is also a skill. Here are some tips to help sales people close deals better. Do you take a different road to work once in a while, or do you drive the same route every day? In life and in sales, stepping out of your routine or comfort zone can lead to greater productivity and success – if you’re willing to try. Should you focus on the middle of the funnel, or the front? It’s not always an area that many sales organizations look at, yet so much happens there. Here’s a simple way to know when to focus on the middle of the funnel, and when not to. There’s a big difference between value sales people and tactical sales people. Maybe you sell what you have in your bag. Or maybe you sell value to your customer or prospect. Do you know which one you are? Let’s take a look at both types. Sales and marketing need each other and must figure how to provide value on both sides and achieve common goals. So why is there still a love-hate battle between sales and marketing? Much of the rift has to do with marketing not understanding sales and sales not understanding marketing. But it can go deeper than that. Change is hard, but small, tactical sales changes can make a positive impact on sales team effectiveness. This is not about big, strategic sea change here, nor the Prosci ADKAR Model for Change. Here’s why you need to stop cringing and start embracing change.
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How Taking a Different Road Can Put You on the Right Course
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Why Value Sales People Always Win the Big Deals
How to End the Love-Hate Battle Between Sales and Marketing
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