Tag Archives: Time Management

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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There is a limit to how much distraction you can afford.

Even the best run organizations place a plethora of non selling activities in front of their sales staff every day. It’s not to say that these are trivial. What I am saying is how much can you afford?

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