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Lead generation used to be quite different than it is today. A company could do some research about potential clients, create some materials, send them out, and count on a certain percentage of leads coming back. When contacting those leads the sales force could have some confidence that the prospects, for the most part, wouldn’t ...

We’ve all been there. A sales forecast is done and a corresponding sales quota set for a quarter or a year. About four-fifths of the way through that sales period everyone realizes that without a few miracles the quota will not be met. In the last few weeks, miracles are indeed brought about—and the sales ...

It used to be that a sales rep making halfway decent numbers had a future. But in today’s highly competitive marketplaces and internet-assisted buying, it takes more than just numbers for a salesperson to truly survive. A topflight sales force must be composed of experts in every area of their craft. Here is the recommended ...

Throughout the years manufacturing has taken efficiency to a fine art. Precision metrics throughout a manufacturing system measure efficiency at every stage, providing real-time feedback with which to accurately gauge quality as well as quantity. Problems can be anticipated long before they happen, materials needs can be constantly satisfied and the process can be consistently ...

When CRM solutions first came on the market, they were much of the time an afterthought. A company and sales force were more or less operating on some kind of established pattern of sales, and the CRM application came in after the fact. CRM did little to nothing to actually enhance business and sales processes—it ...

Instability and turnover within a sales force can be one of sales management’s worst nightmares. When a sales rep resigns, it leaves a hole that must be rapidly filled. And it’s not like someone can just walk in and take over where the old rep left off: even the new (although experienced) salesperson must learn ...

Lead generation is the act of stimulating interest amongst your target audience for a particular product or service so you can draw them into your sales pipeline. Because lead generation helps to feed the early stages of your sales process, a robust strategy is essential to successful sales. Despite this, too many businesses fail to ...

Sales performance management is anything but easy—just ask anyone who has done it. The sales manager is supervising people who are innately self-sufficient loners and who really don’t want to be supervised. Salespeople make their own observations and conclusions and commonly don’t take directions too well. Add to all of that the lack of accurate analysis ...

Do you know what is the hockey stick sales curve chart? Hockey stick sales curve chart is a fairly common descriptive term that describes: a revenue graph that creeps along the bottom or the middle of the graph for most of a period, usually a quarter, and then in the last few weeks jumps up to ...

Do you want more success from your sales pipeline? If so, you need to equip your sales reps with a sales playbook. It’s a proven way to enhance the performance of your sales process and attract more leads, make more sales and increase your profits. Let me explain how…