In a recent blog post we touched on the types of sales which are being mostly automated, and highlighted the fact that in the higher-ticket B2B sales, human sales techniques will always be required. Expanding on that point further, it can be seen that today—thanks in a large part to technology—“sales” can no longer be lumped ...
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There is a lot of buzz currently circulating on the subject of “predictable revenue”; there are various authors and pundits who claim that revenue can be predicted with accuracy. In some isolated cases this might be true, but in most cases—especially in the higher-end B2B sales arena—it is a fallacy. There is considerable difference between sales ...
By now, you know my obsession with strong Selling Processes. It’s important, but misunderstood aspect of sales effectiveness. One of the things I’ve discovered as a result of my diatribes, is many sales managers really don’t know how to reinforce the sales process in their coaching and development of their sales teams. I’ve gotten a ...
Sales management is a challenging, exhilarating (often stressful) role — but you don’t need me to tell you that! With so much pressure (and emphasis) on achieving targets, it’s far too easy to get distracted by the headline number. As a result, you risk overlooking other performance indicators that increase your team’s performance and help ...
Operational risk in Sales is a primary source of corporate financial risk — a result of inadequate sales process or pipeline opportunity inaccuracies. When Sales Management can increase the accuracy of the sales pipeline, risk is reduced. Here are three ways to reduce risk in your pipeline: 1. Risk goes down by increasing the efficiency ...
There’s been a lot of talk in the last decade about the importance of the sales process—that series of steps a sale travels through from lead to close and beyond. For sales velocity and many other factors, a sales process is certainly vital. But how is a workable sales process evolved? A sales process should ...
As previously noted in this blog and in many other places, the B2B sales landscape has changed dramatically in the information age. Thanks to the plentiful information available online, some 70 percent of a buyer’s decision is made before ever speaking with a member of a sales force. It means that sales reps must be ...
In this series of articles on economic philosophy applicable for the sales force and sales management, we’ve been stressing certain entrepreneurial principles and their importance in sales and commerce. We have seen how empowering it can be to understand some of the root economic principles that guide sales and commerce, and how that understanding can ...
Continuing our series on economic theory and its application to sales, we here take up an extremely important factor: sustainable value. As you will see, it has an intrinsic application to commerce, the sales force, and in fact personal lives and even the activities of nations – and is one of the key aspects in ...
