Tag Archives: Sales Activity
Sales is like a box of chocolates.
Forest Gump said it best: ‘Life’s like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.’ Sales results often share the same fate. Here are 8 ideas for sweeter sales.
What Customers are really thinking!
Motivating your customer to buy the world’s best doodad requires some different thinking in this economy. Understanding what a client really thinks can help. Having good answers helps even more!
5 Protocols for Measuring Activity Results
Account Retention and Acquisition protocols are absolutely vital to success, mainly because nobody has the money or enough runway to wing it or buyers who have money or time to chance it.
2011: Change the way you view prospects to thrive.
The business climate in 2011 is projected to be brutal with less money, tighter budgets, fewer sales people and scarcer customers. In spite of this many companies will thrive. How? By changing the way they view prospects and the selling process.
The Alchemy of CRM
Alchemy was the medieval attempt to turn lead into gold.Modern CRM isn’t so different: data bases follow the alchemies operation of separating the ‘the prima material’ or so called chaos by taking this unstructured data and putting it into a structure to capture, index and store it.
Bias plays a huge role in sales predictions.
CRM analytical data is rarely configured for optimal ‘bias’ applications e.g. learning what customers want to buy at this very moment. CRM data is often seen as information overload when in fact just the opposite is true.
‘Top Selling’ Beats Everything.
‘Best seller’ or ‘top seller’ or even ‘hottest selling’ nomenclatures grabs our customers attention more effectively than most anything else we can do.
5 Questions to Evaluate Your Social Media ROI
Is Social Media just a product looking for an application? Delivering information via social networks is not the same as selling, although many who don’t sell for a living will have you believe so.
Selling Smart: Doing the Right Things vs. Everything Right.
Doing everything right doesn’t guarantee a sale. The subtle, yet big difference, is doing the ‘right things’.
What Sales Process Produces The Highest Return?
Prioritize Buying Cycle Habits. The customer is of paramount importance to your business. Get into the habit of clearly defining the buying-cycle of your customers.