Tracking Your Sales; The Sales Managers Most Valuable Tool

If you are a sales manager you need to have the company and the front line workers always ask customers who come in and buy; How did you discover our company. Have you ever filled out a customer survey and there is always a box or lines to fill out which ask; How did you hear about us.

Your Sales Team Must Leverage Your Brand to Sell More

If you are a sales manager then it behooves you to leverage your brand name to sell more and your sales team needs to understand this and use this to their advantage. This is where a good sales manager can really make the grade and increase the company’s sales.

Is your Sales Plan Engineered by Design or by Default?

This article walks through the best practices approach to engineering a winning sales plan.

Are You Really A Leader - Or Merely A Manager?

You can buy someones physical presence, but you cannot buy loyalty, enthusiasm or devotion. These you must earn. Successful organisations have leaders who focus on the future rather than cling to the past. Leaders bring out the best in people. They spend time developing people into leaders.

Is Business Formulaic?

This article describes the many benefits associated with using a formulaic approach to business process engineering.

Why Do So Many Potentially Good Sales Managers Fail?

The single most common mistake that organisations make is promoting their number one salesperson into the role of sales manager, thereby depriving themselves in a single stroke of their best producer and hamstringing their sales force with an ineffective manager. The skills required for managing, mentoring and developing a sales team are totally different from those required for selling. As a result, it’s not uncommon to find newly promoted sales managers who regret having taken a management position and may even leave to get back into sales.

Positional Authority

Those who have authority based on the position they hold in the community have Positional Authority. This includes your boss, the U.S. President, or a police officer.

How To Develop A First Class Sales Team

For a group of people to remain consciously competent at optimum performance levels, they require frequent injections of stimulation, motivational guidance, prompting and directing, otherwise they can easily lapse into becoming unconsciously competent or worse, unconsciously incompetent

How To Create An Effective Business Development Strategy

The Business Development Strategy is used to underpin your main Business Plan and essentially it sets out a standard approach for developing new opportunities, either from within existing accounts or by proactively targeting brand new potential accounts and then working to close them.

Savvy Sales Managers Know Call Backs Don't Count!

Recently, you hired someone who seems to have all of the enthusiasm in the world. In tracking his performance you can’t help but notice that he has (1) Either no sales, yet; or (2) Very few sales; fewer than expected. You ask what’s up, and he replies that he has “A ton of call backs.” Well, because he’s so upbeat, you figure that he’s on track, and his optimism will be rewarded with a good number of sales, as he calls into his growing database of leads. But you’re probably being conned, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, Fortune 1000 consultant, top speaker, and best-selling author of 12 books and more than 750 articles.

The Importance Of Up Selling And Cross Selling To Increase Margins

To increase the revenue and margins of an order by selling products and services at a higher price i.e. up-selling or by selling additional products and services i.e. cross selling, we must be able to prove to the customer that there is something in it for them. We must show them increased, i.e. added value.

6 TIPS - Wheelchairs and Trade Shows

Well, let’s just be honest. Those folks in the chairs know that they are in the chairs. It’s your responsibility to make them as comfortable in your space as any other visitor. Quick no-no or two -- don’t gawk -- don’t ask stupid questions -- don’t raise your voice (they have a leg problem, not an ear problem). If you have a genuine interest, most folks will tell you their story quickly.

Top Speaker Says You Aren't Bored: You're Just Not Challenged!

We can only be bored when we’re not being challenged or we’re not challenging ourselves, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker, best-selling author, and Fortune 1000 consultant. He shares a solid tip managers use for getting salespeople to undo boedom and to outdo themselves.

Sales Management-Do The Inmates Run The Asylum

Handling sales people that can put up the numbers but break every rule in the book, someone that can’t get along with their peers and someone that drives inside sales people crazy can be very challenging for a sales manager. This will create a situation that ultimately will affect overall company performance regardless of this sales person’s individual success. This is especially true if this sales person holds the sales manager hostage knowing his numbers help keep corporate off the sales managers back.

Vision Precedes Victory

Vision that is shared is cohesive and bonding. A common vision pulls people together toward the same goals and objectives. Influential people have clearly defined visions that are forward-looking and filled with great excitement and anticipation. More than anything else in life, vision-whether it's yours or somebody else's-dictates daily decisions.