Getting the right things done at the right time is critical to success. But in a sales team hitting key targets is a constant pressure, and lack of delivery is very visible. Move to sales leadership and the task list gets bigger – the question is how to you juggle all of those demands, deliver on time / budget and keep everyone happy? Sometimes working with a Sales Accountability Partner can help you get the distance and clarity you need…
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Sales improvement is a big challenges,for anyone is a sales leadership or sales management position especially when it comes on the back of having to run the day to day sales function. That’s why Morton Kyle have designed a suite of sales improvement and sales trouble shooting solutions to help you navigate to the easy wins, repair the costly sales leaks and start the process of introducing continuous sales improvement and sales performance management into your business development function
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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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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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The rules of predictable sales performance science will save you being caught out. Giving you sight and full control of the sales results your sales function deliver.
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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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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 last batch of sales audits. Of course, every business is unique, but the issues that stop the sales functions fully thriving are often very similar, here are…
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Sales Improvement in the Business Development function via Sales Audits, Sales Training, Continuous Sales Improvement Structures and carefully monitoring the key sales metrics. Building growth and success into every sales and business development function using continuous sales improvement
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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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Benchmarking sales performance is where is it all starts. Undertaking any kind of sales improvement initiative without first getting a base line of what your current sales function is achieving, and by what means they are achieving, is akin to map reading in the dark! Why Should You Be Benchmarking Sales Performance? Because it’s the…
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Sales management training and sales leadership training is a key stepping stone in helping sales managers and sales leaders to get the most from their sales teams. Sales management training is the fastest way to get new ideas, insights and wisdom into your business. After all, helping key sales team leaders to fully unleash the…
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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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Questions to Ask Your Sales Trainer Before You Spend Your Training Budget…Perfect for when you want Sales Training that delivers an agreed up lift in sales results. Sales Improvement solutions are so much more than just sales training courses, how that sales training is designed, structured, delivered and aligned with internal ways of working is critical for the success of the sales training course and the sales team being trained. For a sales training course that delivers the sales performance outputs you need, with a full sales support package to help managers and team leaders align their activities to support Continuous Sales Improvement – talk to Morton Kyle
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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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Sales Process Audit and Sales Analysis to drive continuous sales improvement in ambitious B2B sales teams – high impact, giving you the focus you need to make the changes to create stability and growth within your business
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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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Customer Centric Selling – been around for ages, but more and more sales people often need reminding. Here’s a quick reminder. Customer Centric Selling – What is it? Put simply, you put the buyer at the heart of your sales pitch and sales process. Your agenda, your need to sell, your ego and your portfolio/brag…
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The Free Sales Health Check – it’s the 101 of great sales performance! I offer it because without doubt, I’d like everyone to realise / understand that sales is super simple. And it’s super simple whether you’re wining the sales game or you’re failing miserably and daily dying a thousand deaths… So, call me, let’s get…
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What is not having a system that delivers predictable sales results costing your business? Every firm is seeking continuous sales improvement. They would like to achieve that on zero budget. Every firm seeks predictability and stability. It’s the Holy Grail because once you’ve cracked that formula for your sales lead generation and closing, then you can simply…
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If You’re Not Using Sales ROI…. When Sales ROI is such a powerful sales tool then you are a fool! I wish there was an easier way to say this, because it’s not nice, but well there isn’t. If you’re offended then hopefully you’ll think about working differently. Hopefully you’ll be offended enough to do…
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Business Development Coaching for Ambitious B2B Sales Professionals Business Development coaching is powerful, strategic and one of the fastest ways to bring about a positive change. Sales professionals will engage in coaching either for themselves or the team for many reasons, but here are some of the most common: The sales results are typically ok,…
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Sales Insight – Do You Have It? Every business leader craves real, meaningful and timely sales insight. If you’re still struggling with this then check our Sales Insight Audit out. If you’ve got your sales management information all sorted and relevant then carry on reading, because, quite simply, you’re on the fast track to continuous sales improvement….
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In Sales YOU have as much chance of winning as losing. Where you engage in meaningful and relevant sales activity… You have as much chance of getting a customer as getting a rejection. You have as much chance of succeeding as failing. Your chances are equal. Need more proof? The Equal Odds Rule was published…
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Demonstrating ROI is Critical Demonstrating ROI is really that important? Yes, it really is critical. If your business, your sales team and their sales pitch can’t demonstrate ROI, then you’re leaving business on the table, and most certainly you’re leaving chunks of cash there too. Without demonstrating ROI, you can’t demonstrate value, explore risk or…
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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 and it: Saves time Builds turnover Protects margin Enhances reputation Cripples your competitors Effectively uses business resources and… Keeps you sane!! Get it wrong and welcome to: Inaccurate sales forecasts Deals left wide…
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Risk, Value and Price Risk, Value and Price, and how your explore these areas with the buyer are the cornerstones are sales success. Or sales failure. The relationship between risk, value and price in the eyes of the buyer/prospect is complex. That’s a fact. The relationship between risk, value and price in the eyes of…
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Sales Conversion Rates: The Ultimate Sales Metric…or is it? Lots of sales leaders and sales people monitor their sales conversion rates since it’s a good top line indicator as to how things are going…from staying steady to gently increasing or, heavens forbid, heading south. But, I also know some firms who don’t pay that much…
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10 Ways to Get the Most From Your Sales Pipeline Sales Pipeline Abuse! Let start off by explaining what a sales pipeline is, it is: Your pay check for the next 12 months and beyond. The difference between you going on holiday or having to explain to the family why it’s another staycation. Choices and options – do…
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