Your organisation operates in a competitive space, so optimising your sales process is essential for growth. Dive into our comprehensive guide, as we walk you through the 21 crucial stages of a sales improvement audit. Learn how to identify bottlenecks, uncover hidden opportunities, maintain sales optimisation and boost your sales performance
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There are at least 135 levers to pull to improve sales results from your sales team. Every sales leader looks for areas of improvement in their sales reps performance….and in doing so, often overlook the real control they have in terms of helping the reps deliver higher conversions, revenue and profit There are at least…
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How to Boost Sales Revenues and Profits – 10 Ways You Could Be Leaving Money with the Buyer… You’ll know I’m a keen advocate of delivering exceptional value – just check out these two posts to see what ‘delivering value’ is and what it could mean for your business if you decide to go down…
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Selecting your sales metrics, your sales key performance indicators (KPI), can make a big difference in how your sales team perform, how they thrive and how they build efficiency and effectiveness into their every day sales activities, habits and sales mindset. This is especially useful in any sales improvement or sales turnaround situation, but also critical around any sales training intervention or coaching situation. If you’re not actively managing the critical sales metrics – how will you know what you’re doing is working, and what to do to make it work better?
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Sales ROI is your biggest safety net as a sales professional Sales is one of the fastest evolving industries….and it’s not likely to slow down anytime soon And with that realisation, add in that Buyers are getting more demanding Competition is increasing Budgets are getting smaller AND No-one wants to make a decision for fear…
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How to Close Profitable Sales – Because it costs you a lot to close cheap business! Discover how to close profitable sales because it: Get it wrong and welcome to: Knowing how to close profitable sales is the difference between a high stress low margin sales environment and a solid, stable sales machine. How to Close…
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High Converting Sales Pipeline or Sales Plug Hole? What have you got… High converting sales pipeline, an ok-ish sales pipeline, or a sales plughole? It’s ok if you don’t know. Many organisations don’t. It’s a classic failing in under performing sales functions. Sadly, that’s an opportunity missed to really extract the highest level of sales…
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Handling sales objections needs to be a key skill if you want to succeed in sales, and you want to enjoy being in sales. It’s a simple skill to master, sales rejection is not real, sales resistance is legitimate so discover how to work with it and benefit from those prospect objections
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Simple Sales Forecasting helps sales leaders to drive continuous sales improvement and remove the peaks and troughs from sales performance. Stabilise sales performance and sales results
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I should write a book on Sales Improvement BUT I don’t have the time, so I thought the next best thing is a free sales improvement guide…. Following a very long drive back from the South West earlier this week I had the opportunity to reflect on some of the most common findings from the…
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Sales results tell a story… In fact, the world is built on stories. Yours, mine, everyone’s world is based on a collection of stories. It’s how we make sense of things we don’t immediately understand. Stories help us learn. Help us process information. Hard wire information into our memories. It’s how we relate to each…
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Sales bonus schemes can cause some heated discussions, that’s for sure. Earlier this week I had a half day session with a business owner to review the bonus and reward structure for the sales team next year. The conversation came out of a separate meeting two weeks ago when we discussed the overall sales performance,…
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Sales Management Training Courses courses often conjure up the picture of long courses filled with lots of great theory and knowledge building, folders three inches thick, flip charts and pages of great ideas. That’s great. But how many of those great ideas make it back into the business? How much of that great theory ever…
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The first rule of being a sales professionals is that you achieve sales targets, consistently, ethically and predictably. That’s the basics, just to be in the sales game. But it takes effort. The very best sales pro’s make it look (almost!) effortless. Some get there by sheer hard work, some by talent and most by…
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