Tag Archives: Sales Opportunity Tracking
Time or Circumstance: Sales Forecast Management
Every month, week or day we sit down and try to make sense of our sales numbers. One of the greatest errors in our ‘subjective’ judgment may be our over-reliance on time as the driving factor. To better manage time elements, it’s important to manage circumstances equally well.
Be wary of customer behavior predictions.
We are inundated with the latest and greatest sales behavior predictions using social media, networking, blogging, video platforms… a digital cornucopia of the ‘it’ factors pointed at customers that will buy.
What Drives Sales: Satisfaction or Loyalty?
Do we enhance sales with customer satisfaction or is it customer loyalty? The differences are night and day and the effectiveness of each needs careful scrutiny.
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!
1959 Cadillac and Managing Obsolescence
Modern selling recognizes that the attitude of our customers has changed. What this means is for a great many sales people, economic survival relies on the consumption of the constant turnover that obsolescence requires and how the customers prefers their client relationship.
IS BUSINESS GOING TO THE DOGS?
Mirroring Our Masters: As management and customers accelerate even further away from each other, success is often influenced to an immense degree by decision makers who have little experience or a ‘look’ for sales.
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.
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.
