Secrets of Persuasive Behavior Part 1 Persuasion is a word that is very often misunderstood. People associate persuasion with high pressure sales or manipulation. When I talk about persuasion here – I’m talking about assisting your clients in doing what’s in their own best interest. The ability to persuade your clients is critical in any ...
Why is it that despite carefully crafted sales processes, advanced sales intelligence technology, that CSO Insights research found that the average sales forecast was 45.9%? More than half of the forecasted sales aren’t happening. According to their 2015 Sales Compensation and Performance Management study, only 54.6 percent of sales professionals actually meet the quota. Process ...
For our final 2 blogs in this series on sales management pain points, I want to discuss what is a very fundamental quality for someone’s successful conduct in life—that of virtues. Perhaps more than other more average fields, you really need virtues in sales management. The bottom line: if you don’t clearly understand how a ...
Many times during the planning stages of the implementation of a CRM system we have found that clients struggle as they have not defined their detailed sales process. For example, knowing when to change or move the “stage” of the sale forward becomes critical; do you move the stage forward when you “book” the next ...
With today’s technology we can get in contact with a great deal of potential customers online. But the one problem most businesses experience is the conversion of the actual customers. And this is because they fail at engaging with them. In the past businesses could sound a sales pitch through radio and simply wait for the ...
In the previous chapter, we covered the measurement of success in managing a social sales team. We discussed the importance of tactics and their desired outcomes being tied directly to your team’s important, strategic business objectives. And we went over the purpose and real value of engagement over social media between seller and buyer: making ...
In our continuing series on the pain points of sales management, we have explored the categories of sales management, the primary pain point of being a sales manager, the technology required by sales management, the vital subject of management, and specific pain points of sales management at a new company (part 1 and part 2). Most ...
Let us assume that Sales is not going as per plan. The numbers for the quarter don’t seem to be achievable now. How to get out of this situation? All of us are susceptible to failures and that includes the most efficient of us all as well. But what we learn when we are in ...
