Your CRM system has been in place for several years, and countless hours have gone into implementation, training, tweaking and campaigning for its use. Management has been able to use CRM, at least to some degree, to track sales, and other departments such as tech support and customer service have been using it as well.
If your sales process is inefficient or it fails to add value, you’ll find it will frustrate your sales reps on the ground, make management of those sales reps more challenging and harm your ability to close deals. In comparison, if your sales process is designed to reflect best practice, empower your sales people and ...
A radical change is occurring in the world of B2B sales. With 65 percent or more of the buyer’s journey having happened before a buyer ever speaks with a salesperson, it is clear that the era of lead, qualify, pitch, close is rapidly fading. With buyers who have already educated themselves on their issues and, through ...
By the time a company is implementing a CRM solution, much has transpired. Traditionally, the IT department has researched various CRM applications, has obtained requirements from various concerned departments and personnel in the company, has pitched the solution to executives, has obtained purchase approval, and is now putting the application to work. Now comes the crucial operation: ...
As you know, a sales process is a systematic, repeatable series of steps that map out and track interaction with your prospects from their first point of engagement with your business through to a close. Now, if you’re responsible for sales, one of the most valuable tools you have at your disposal is your sales process. That’s ...
Recent statistics that have been making the rounds in sales strategy seminars seem somewhat alarming: that 70 percent of buying decisions are made in advance of ever contacting a salesperson; and that 57 percent of the buying process is completed prior to engaging with any sales rep. If a buyer is so educated by the ...
We had a great 2013 and we are on target to make this one even better… With a great start to this year and last year behind us, it is time to look forward. We are still firmly set on our path of commitment to provide even more educational methods and to assist salespeople. Our ...
Retirement services is a very specialized industry. You are assisting individuals in planning the security of their retirement years—the time in which they will no longer be working for a living and will depend on maximized investments to fully support them. Retirement services sales is, to say the least, a demanding occupation. On the one ...
