Cracking the Sales Code is an article that talks about the B2B Sales Process in detail. This covers Customer Identification, Customer Categorisation, Sales Funnel, Sales Planning, etc. This article has been published in MBA Skool 2013
This document discusses key account management. It begins by outlining Richard Mulvey's 2019 Power Series on various sales topics, with July focused on key account management. The presentation covers finding and securing key business accounts, developing sales strategies for key accounts, and the responsibilities of key account managers in developing and maintaining long-term relationships with clients. The history of key account management and selling is reviewed, moving from an emphasis on products to focusing on customer needs and solutions. Strategies are presented for prospecting, creating a client profile, maintaining contact, and keeping key accounts as customers forever through personal relationships and knowledge of their business.
This document outlines seven habits of highly successful salespeople. It discusses each habit in detail with examples. Habit 1 is to have product, customer, and selling skills knowledge. Habit 2 is to treat every day like a prospecting day by feeding your sales pipeline. Habit 3 emphasizes the importance of using a CRM system and administrative tasks. Habit 4 recommends moving activities to a mobile device. Habit 5 is to practice careful listening. Habit 6 is to take care of your physical and mental health. Habit 7 is to develop a winning attitude by setting targets and using positive thinking.
Key account management involves developing strategic, partnership-based relationships with important customers to drive business growth. It requires understanding each key account's organizational structure and decision makers, as well as their needs and preferences, in order to provide excellent service and close more sales over the long term. Tools like CRM systems can help sales teams manage key account information and activities more effectively.
New Sample 2 Day Key Account Managers Irish Hardware Trade. Jim Coffey
The document outlines an Irish Hardware Industry Key Account Management program over 2 days that will address trade expectations and frustrations, the role of a KAM, building relationships, category management, and advanced selling. It provides biographies of the two facilitators of the program and an agenda that will cover creating annual working plans, case studies, and implementation strategies. The program aims to help participants better coordinate roles between suppliers and key account customers to improve relationships, sales, and business performance.
Every sales manager knows that 80% of business comes from 20% of customers... than why is your company not on the right spot... is it so easy to lock-in a customer or to ward-off the competitors efforts to snatch away your key customers
This document provides an overview of key account management. It defines key terms like key account and key account management. It identifies the basic elements of key account management as identifying, analyzing, and selecting relationship strategies for key accounts. It describes the nature of the job as becoming close to decision makers, ensuring quality service, and motivating clients. It also outlines the skills, competencies, and level of qualification needed for the role of a key account manager.
The document provides an overview of business development including the process, types of deals, partner profiles, negotiation types and tactics. It outlines the typical business development process which includes prospecting, engaging, committing, closing and analyzing deals. It also describes different negotiation tactics that can be used such as messenger, deadline, emotions, and back burner. Game theory is discussed in relation to negotiations and having cooperative versus competitive approaches. Key skills and resources for business development professionals are also listed.
On Key Account Management, Matthias Caesar @ SAP in 2003Matthias Caesar
The document discusses how to generate repeat business with key accounts through customer-oriented business practices. It recommends identifying key accounts and gathering customer information to develop customized strategies. Companies should analyze their service portfolio and internal organization, then implement account teams and regular communication like strategy meetings and surveys to ensure high customer satisfaction, loyalty, and long-term value. The goal is an innovative, flexible approach with a focus on understanding each customer's individual needs to build strong, predictable relationships over time.
This document discusses key account management. It begins by outlining Richard Mulvey's 2019 Power Series on various sales topics, with July focused on key account management. The presentation covers finding and securing key business accounts, developing sales strategies for key accounts, and the responsibilities of key account managers in developing and maintaining long-term relationships with clients. The history of key account management and selling is reviewed, moving from an emphasis on products to focusing on customer needs and solutions. Strategies are presented for prospecting, creating a client profile, maintaining contact, and keeping key accounts as customers forever through personal relationships and knowledge of their business.
This document outlines seven habits of highly successful salespeople. It discusses each habit in detail with examples. Habit 1 is to have product, customer, and selling skills knowledge. Habit 2 is to treat every day like a prospecting day by feeding your sales pipeline. Habit 3 emphasizes the importance of using a CRM system and administrative tasks. Habit 4 recommends moving activities to a mobile device. Habit 5 is to practice careful listening. Habit 6 is to take care of your physical and mental health. Habit 7 is to develop a winning attitude by setting targets and using positive thinking.
Key account management involves developing strategic, partnership-based relationships with important customers to drive business growth. It requires understanding each key account's organizational structure and decision makers, as well as their needs and preferences, in order to provide excellent service and close more sales over the long term. Tools like CRM systems can help sales teams manage key account information and activities more effectively.
New Sample 2 Day Key Account Managers Irish Hardware Trade. Jim Coffey
The document outlines an Irish Hardware Industry Key Account Management program over 2 days that will address trade expectations and frustrations, the role of a KAM, building relationships, category management, and advanced selling. It provides biographies of the two facilitators of the program and an agenda that will cover creating annual working plans, case studies, and implementation strategies. The program aims to help participants better coordinate roles between suppliers and key account customers to improve relationships, sales, and business performance.
Every sales manager knows that 80% of business comes from 20% of customers... than why is your company not on the right spot... is it so easy to lock-in a customer or to ward-off the competitors efforts to snatch away your key customers
This document provides an overview of key account management. It defines key terms like key account and key account management. It identifies the basic elements of key account management as identifying, analyzing, and selecting relationship strategies for key accounts. It describes the nature of the job as becoming close to decision makers, ensuring quality service, and motivating clients. It also outlines the skills, competencies, and level of qualification needed for the role of a key account manager.
The document provides an overview of business development including the process, types of deals, partner profiles, negotiation types and tactics. It outlines the typical business development process which includes prospecting, engaging, committing, closing and analyzing deals. It also describes different negotiation tactics that can be used such as messenger, deadline, emotions, and back burner. Game theory is discussed in relation to negotiations and having cooperative versus competitive approaches. Key skills and resources for business development professionals are also listed.
On Key Account Management, Matthias Caesar @ SAP in 2003Matthias Caesar
The document discusses how to generate repeat business with key accounts through customer-oriented business practices. It recommends identifying key accounts and gathering customer information to develop customized strategies. Companies should analyze their service portfolio and internal organization, then implement account teams and regular communication like strategy meetings and surveys to ensure high customer satisfaction, loyalty, and long-term value. The goal is an innovative, flexible approach with a focus on understanding each customer's individual needs to build strong, predictable relationships over time.
Key account management is a strategic business approach to ensure long-term partnerships with important customers. It recognizes that large customers are getting larger and more sophisticated in their demands. Key accounts purchase significant volumes and expect specialized attention, services, and a long-term cooperative relationship from suppliers. Effective key account management requires identifying the right key accounts, appointing and training dedicated account managers, and setting the proper metrics to benchmark performance and drive business growth.
The document provides a sales strategy prepared by Moses Dokoria. It begins by outlining key elements of a sales strategy including identifying target customers, products, and sales methods. It then discusses developing an effective sales strategy that is aligned with business and marketing plans. The strategy should identify key aims, set a clear market strategy, plan costs of customer acquisition, document how to reach each customer, include sales forecasting and budgets, resources required to meet the plan, and metrics to measure performance. When approaching potential customers, the document recommends identifying if they are business-to-business or business-to-consumer and tailoring the approach accordingly. It also provides tips for negotiating with customers such as establishing credibility, developing multiple contacts, neutral
The document discusses key account management and the role of sales managers. It provides background on key account management, some definitions, and what makes a successful key account manager. The presentation aims to provoke thought and reinforce best practices. It will cover key account management in general, implementing a key account strategy, leadership behaviors, and a case study.
Key account management (KAM) is a systematic approach to managing and growing an organization's most important customers to maximize mutual value and achieve mutually beneficial goals. KAM focuses on building solid relationships with existing high-priority clients through a more holistic approach rather than just thinking of clients as sales opportunities. The goal of KAM is to ensure the long-term development and retention of strategic customers by providing solutions rather than just pushing products and helping customers buy rather than just selling to them. KAM solutions select key accounts based on Pareto's rule, focusing on the top 20% of accounts that will provide 80% of profits.
What is A Sales Target And How Do You Track It?Pipeliner CRM
A sales target is a goal set for a salesperson or department in revenue or units to be achieved over a set period of time. Tracking sales targets keeps teams focused on goals. There are different types of sales targets that calculate opportunity values differently, such as weighted targets that factor in the likelihood of closing deals and unweighted targets that do not. Setting sales goals and tracking opportunities in the sales pipeline through a CRM system allows teams to efficiently monitor their progress towards their targets.
1) Key account management (KAM) involves developing long-term relationships with strategic customers and understanding their needs in depth to develop special offers that provide advantages over competitors.
2) Companies implement KAM to retain existing customers during downturns and to manage large, important accounts. It also reduces the chances of solutions being replaced by competitors.
3) The goals of a key account manager are to keep customers feeling positive ("glad") about purchases by solving their past, current and future problems, and identifying their needs to develop strategic offers and reinforce the value of the relationship.
Strategic account management is a systematic process for managing key interactions and relationships with critical accounts that generate the majority of a company's revenue. It involves assigning account managers to a few select strategic customers to develop a deep understanding of their business and needs in order to create and provide strategic solutions that increase the company's share of the customer's purchases over 1-3 years. The goals are to ensure long-term financial growth and profitability from these most important accounts.
5 Attributes & Best Practices of Key Account ManagementPipeliner CRM
Everybody knows the 80-20 Pareto Principle. 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers and vice-versa. But it may not be wise to quit the lower 80% market that gives you just 20% of your revenue and focus only on high value customers. You have to groom your customers.
The document discusses the important relationship between the finance and sales departments in an organization. It explains that finance provides funding for sales initiatives and helps sales stay on budget. Additionally, finance provides analytical insights to help sales make strategic decisions that maximize profitability and ROI.
The document discusses key account management (KAM) and strategic selling. It notes that KAM requires strategic selling skills and involves developing a deep understanding of key customers. The steps of strategic selling outlined are establishing understanding of the customer, developing a knowledge base, and creating a strategic plan. Key account management is described as a long-term process that requires commitment from management and salespeople trained in strategic selling.
The 9 Step Sales Process describes the process of selling a businesses, as used by VR Businesses Sales - Mergers & Acquisitions located in New Haven, CT. The presentation describes each step in-depth to help business owners prepare for the process.
VR Business Sales New Haven represents owners of businesses valued between $500,000 and $25 million or with annual revenues from $1 million to $30 million. The office provides exceptional merger and acquisition advisory services to companies operating within a wide range of industry segments in Connecticut, Southern New England and Metro NY. Independently owned and operated, the office consistently ranks within the Top 10 of over 50 offices worldwide with the VR franchise network.
E book puttingthecustomer_atthecenter_accountplanningstrategies_togrowrevenue...zubeditufail
The document discusses account planning strategies for growing revenue by putting the customer at the center. It emphasizes understanding each customer as a complex marketplace and developing long-term business relationships through collaborative account planning. Key elements of effective account planning include researching customers, competitors, and one's own company for insights; treating every customer interaction as a promise to benefit the customer; and focusing on customer satisfaction, retention, and growth over the long run.
There is an unseen natural journey your customers take for to growth. Most businesses and key account managers miss this. Once you understand what your key customers go through, the questions to ask, tactics to use and mindset to develop you will give yourself the opportunity to see unparalleled growth with your Key Customers. I share some simple ideas to help any key account manager, strategic account manager or sales leader wanting to empower your team to get even greater results.
This document provides guidance on effective prospecting techniques. It discusses the importance of consistent prospecting for sales success. It also emphasizes the need to focus prospecting efforts on ideal prospects by defining an ideal customer profile. This allows salespeople to maximize their time by pursuing opportunities that are the best fit. The document also encourages salespeople to find hidden revenue opportunities through cross-selling and up-selling existing customers.
This document discusses key account management. It covers finding and securing key business accounts, developing sales strategies for key accounts, and the responsibilities of key account managers which include building long-lasting relationships and becoming a strategic advisor. The history of key account management and selling is reviewed. New approaches to prospecting and maintaining customer relationships are proposed, including using social networking and customer profiling.
The document discusses key considerations for creating an effective sales strategy and process. It emphasizes understanding customer buying behaviors and segments, selecting sales channels that are a good fit, and ensuring the strategy is supported by adequate resources. Some important questions to answer include understanding target customers and demand, selecting channels that can effectively sell the product, and evaluating the total costs of the sales process to determine affordability. The strategy should align with the company's mission and address customer needs.
Master's certificate in sales management day 2 (march 2016)1-degree INC
The document discusses a Master's program in sales management that focuses on turning corporate strategy into effective sales strategy and execution, including avoiding common errors in sales strategy like treating all customers the same and not adjusting sales processes for longer sales cycles. It provides frameworks and examples to help sales leaders implement strategic planning and reviews to drive successful sales outcomes.
This document discusses six distinct leadership styles identified by research - coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, and coaching. Each style springs from different components of emotional intelligence and has a direct impact on a company's working atmosphere. Effective leaders are able to apply the right leadership style to match the people and situation, and use multiple styles. Leaders who have mastered four or more styles, especially authoritative, democratic, affiliative and coaching, are able to optimize business performance and create the best organizational climate.
Key account management is a strategic business approach to ensure long-term partnerships with important customers. It recognizes that large customers are getting larger and more sophisticated in their demands. Key accounts purchase significant volumes and expect specialized attention, services, and a long-term cooperative relationship from suppliers. Effective key account management requires identifying the right key accounts, appointing and training dedicated account managers, and setting the proper metrics to benchmark performance and drive business growth.
The document provides a sales strategy prepared by Moses Dokoria. It begins by outlining key elements of a sales strategy including identifying target customers, products, and sales methods. It then discusses developing an effective sales strategy that is aligned with business and marketing plans. The strategy should identify key aims, set a clear market strategy, plan costs of customer acquisition, document how to reach each customer, include sales forecasting and budgets, resources required to meet the plan, and metrics to measure performance. When approaching potential customers, the document recommends identifying if they are business-to-business or business-to-consumer and tailoring the approach accordingly. It also provides tips for negotiating with customers such as establishing credibility, developing multiple contacts, neutral
The document discusses key account management and the role of sales managers. It provides background on key account management, some definitions, and what makes a successful key account manager. The presentation aims to provoke thought and reinforce best practices. It will cover key account management in general, implementing a key account strategy, leadership behaviors, and a case study.
Key account management (KAM) is a systematic approach to managing and growing an organization's most important customers to maximize mutual value and achieve mutually beneficial goals. KAM focuses on building solid relationships with existing high-priority clients through a more holistic approach rather than just thinking of clients as sales opportunities. The goal of KAM is to ensure the long-term development and retention of strategic customers by providing solutions rather than just pushing products and helping customers buy rather than just selling to them. KAM solutions select key accounts based on Pareto's rule, focusing on the top 20% of accounts that will provide 80% of profits.
What is A Sales Target And How Do You Track It?Pipeliner CRM
A sales target is a goal set for a salesperson or department in revenue or units to be achieved over a set period of time. Tracking sales targets keeps teams focused on goals. There are different types of sales targets that calculate opportunity values differently, such as weighted targets that factor in the likelihood of closing deals and unweighted targets that do not. Setting sales goals and tracking opportunities in the sales pipeline through a CRM system allows teams to efficiently monitor their progress towards their targets.
1) Key account management (KAM) involves developing long-term relationships with strategic customers and understanding their needs in depth to develop special offers that provide advantages over competitors.
2) Companies implement KAM to retain existing customers during downturns and to manage large, important accounts. It also reduces the chances of solutions being replaced by competitors.
3) The goals of a key account manager are to keep customers feeling positive ("glad") about purchases by solving their past, current and future problems, and identifying their needs to develop strategic offers and reinforce the value of the relationship.
Strategic account management is a systematic process for managing key interactions and relationships with critical accounts that generate the majority of a company's revenue. It involves assigning account managers to a few select strategic customers to develop a deep understanding of their business and needs in order to create and provide strategic solutions that increase the company's share of the customer's purchases over 1-3 years. The goals are to ensure long-term financial growth and profitability from these most important accounts.
5 Attributes & Best Practices of Key Account ManagementPipeliner CRM
Everybody knows the 80-20 Pareto Principle. 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers and vice-versa. But it may not be wise to quit the lower 80% market that gives you just 20% of your revenue and focus only on high value customers. You have to groom your customers.
The document discusses the important relationship between the finance and sales departments in an organization. It explains that finance provides funding for sales initiatives and helps sales stay on budget. Additionally, finance provides analytical insights to help sales make strategic decisions that maximize profitability and ROI.
The document discusses key account management (KAM) and strategic selling. It notes that KAM requires strategic selling skills and involves developing a deep understanding of key customers. The steps of strategic selling outlined are establishing understanding of the customer, developing a knowledge base, and creating a strategic plan. Key account management is described as a long-term process that requires commitment from management and salespeople trained in strategic selling.
The 9 Step Sales Process describes the process of selling a businesses, as used by VR Businesses Sales - Mergers & Acquisitions located in New Haven, CT. The presentation describes each step in-depth to help business owners prepare for the process.
VR Business Sales New Haven represents owners of businesses valued between $500,000 and $25 million or with annual revenues from $1 million to $30 million. The office provides exceptional merger and acquisition advisory services to companies operating within a wide range of industry segments in Connecticut, Southern New England and Metro NY. Independently owned and operated, the office consistently ranks within the Top 10 of over 50 offices worldwide with the VR franchise network.
E book puttingthecustomer_atthecenter_accountplanningstrategies_togrowrevenue...zubeditufail
The document discusses account planning strategies for growing revenue by putting the customer at the center. It emphasizes understanding each customer as a complex marketplace and developing long-term business relationships through collaborative account planning. Key elements of effective account planning include researching customers, competitors, and one's own company for insights; treating every customer interaction as a promise to benefit the customer; and focusing on customer satisfaction, retention, and growth over the long run.
There is an unseen natural journey your customers take for to growth. Most businesses and key account managers miss this. Once you understand what your key customers go through, the questions to ask, tactics to use and mindset to develop you will give yourself the opportunity to see unparalleled growth with your Key Customers. I share some simple ideas to help any key account manager, strategic account manager or sales leader wanting to empower your team to get even greater results.
This document provides guidance on effective prospecting techniques. It discusses the importance of consistent prospecting for sales success. It also emphasizes the need to focus prospecting efforts on ideal prospects by defining an ideal customer profile. This allows salespeople to maximize their time by pursuing opportunities that are the best fit. The document also encourages salespeople to find hidden revenue opportunities through cross-selling and up-selling existing customers.
This document discusses key account management. It covers finding and securing key business accounts, developing sales strategies for key accounts, and the responsibilities of key account managers which include building long-lasting relationships and becoming a strategic advisor. The history of key account management and selling is reviewed. New approaches to prospecting and maintaining customer relationships are proposed, including using social networking and customer profiling.
The document discusses key considerations for creating an effective sales strategy and process. It emphasizes understanding customer buying behaviors and segments, selecting sales channels that are a good fit, and ensuring the strategy is supported by adequate resources. Some important questions to answer include understanding target customers and demand, selecting channels that can effectively sell the product, and evaluating the total costs of the sales process to determine affordability. The strategy should align with the company's mission and address customer needs.
Master's certificate in sales management day 2 (march 2016)1-degree INC
The document discusses a Master's program in sales management that focuses on turning corporate strategy into effective sales strategy and execution, including avoiding common errors in sales strategy like treating all customers the same and not adjusting sales processes for longer sales cycles. It provides frameworks and examples to help sales leaders implement strategic planning and reviews to drive successful sales outcomes.
This document discusses six distinct leadership styles identified by research - coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, and coaching. Each style springs from different components of emotional intelligence and has a direct impact on a company's working atmosphere. Effective leaders are able to apply the right leadership style to match the people and situation, and use multiple styles. Leaders who have mastered four or more styles, especially authoritative, democratic, affiliative and coaching, are able to optimize business performance and create the best organizational climate.
Aaron Anderson provides his resume highlighting his work experience including positions as a pharmacy technician, shipper/packer, assembler, and fabricator. He has a range of skills such as operating machinery, following directions, basic math, and computer skills. Anderson is looking for new employment opportunities utilizing his previous warehouse and manufacturing experience.
An overview of moonlight applications test automationWipro
The document provides an overview of Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Linux and other non-Windows platforms. It discusses the goals of Moonlight, which are to run Silverlight applications and provide an SDK to build such applications on Linux by reusing the Silverlight engine. Key features of Silverlight like vector graphics, data binding, animations and rich content are also summarized. The document then gives a brief overview of how Silverlight works and its event model before concluding with the benefits of software test automation such as reduced costs, time and manpower.
The document analyzes and discusses the images and formatting used in a title sequence, suggesting they provide clues about the serious and disturbing themes that will be portrayed in the upcoming episode, including death, hauntings, and random disturbing images that may end up having relevance to the plot. Key images described include babies in jars, a baby surrounded by fire, and a skeleton, all of which imply death. The consistent font is said to represent organization in contrast to the more random disturbing images.
This document discusses using Second Life for educational purposes such as showcasing websites and hosting scavenger hunts and games. It describes how the author set up exhibits for JEM and WebALT in Second Life to attract visitors. A scavenger hunt game was created where students needed to correctly answer math questions to receive clues. However, there were some challenges engaging students in math lessons and ensuring activities focused on learning rather than just using Second Life. While the virtual world can attract attention, it may not be better than existing tools for the students' learning experience.
Since 2013, pass-through owners have faced a potentially higher tax rate (39.6%) on their business income than their C corporation competitors (35%). This rate disparity puts them at a competitive disadvantage and hinders growth. http://gt-us.co/1SPWvqZ Learn more about how a business equivalency rate ensures all businesses are taxed equally.
This document provides guidance on developing an effective sales strategy and forecast for a business. It recommends analyzing the current business position and customers to understand where the business stands. It then discusses creating a sales forecast based on past performance and market research to set targets. The document outlines steps to take such as keeping current customers, finding new customers, creating a budget, developing a sales plan, and monitoring progress.
The document discusses whether account management is an art or science. It argues that both aspects are important, but that in many companies, the science of account management is not well understood or systematically applied, leading to lost profits. The science of account management has four key elements: profitability management, account relationship selection, product migration paths, and account planning. When these elements are in place and the sales process is well-structured and managed, sales performance and profits will improve, even without hiring new sales reps with high-level contacts. The art of selling is most effective when it works within a well-structured, scientific account management process.
The document provides guidance on developing a marketing plan in 5 steps:
1. Position your products and services by identifying your target customers and their needs, and how your offerings are differentiated.
2. Get input from trusted advisors on your target market, customer needs, product differentiation, marketing efforts, and 1-year goals.
3. Get customer and prospect feedback to refine your understanding.
4. Draft your plan by summarizing your market position, goals, and expected accomplishments over a specific time period.
5. Track results every 6 months and update your plan regularly to respond to changing conditions.
Key Customer Account Management is the master-key to quantum sales improvement and retention of key customers.Yet few companies are able to convert good intentions to effective programs. Dr Wilfred Monteiro India's leading sales performance guru share a few insights and ideas.
A salesperson's performance appraisal should include both quantitative and qualitative metrics. Quantitatively, it should measure a salesperson's sales quota, number of accounts managed, expense handling, geographic coverage, products/services sold, and new accounts/opportunities. Qualitatively, it should assess innovation, recruiting/training, motivation, leadership, account management, and efficiency. Using a balanced set of criteria allows for fair comparisons between salespeople in different roles and territories.
Business operations consultant marketing planzubeditufail
This marketing plan aims to increase business for a turnaround consultant by building relationships and educating accountants, bankers, and small businesses about recognizing early signs of business trouble. The plan focuses on generating referrals, creating educational content like white papers, and increasing online presence through blogging and website traffic. Key goals include conducting more assessments earlier in the downturn process and increasing sales from $170,000 in year 1 to $218,000 in year 3.
TLSA, a popular provider of sales training solutions, offers expert consultancy, training, and eLearning solutions for sales teams across the globe. Their seasoned sales experts work closely with clients to identify areas for improvement, develop customised solutions, and implement strategies that drive revenue growth. For more information, please visit: https://tlsasalestraining.co.uk/
Use These Five Step to Ensure the Future Success of Your BusinessMatthew Wirgau
Business is unpredictable, and the one thing we know for sure is that we will face changes and challenges.
To ensure success, you must rigorously measure the performance of your business.
We have identified five key strategic areas to help you determine if your business will be successful in the future.
They will help you get started on deriving your own solutions to the key challenges, hurdles, and problems you may face.
Over the next few pages we review five (5) key strategic elements on which all business owners–CEOs– Presidents should focus to be successful.
The document discusses key aspects of sales call planning such as developing a customer profile, customer benefit plan, and sales presentation. It emphasizes understanding a customer's strategic needs, developing creative solutions, and achieving mutually beneficial agreements. Effective sales call planning helps build confidence, foster relationships, and increase sales by addressing the customer's needs.
Planning how to transition out of your business is a critical decision for executives and entrepreneurs. If you’re considering selling the business – either to external or internal interests – get a head-start on the process with these questions you’ll want to have or find answers for if you decide to sell.
Planning how to transition out of your business is a critical decision for executives and entrepreneurs. If you’re considering selling the business – either to external or internal interests – get a head-start on the process with these questions you’ll want to have or find answers for if you decide to sell.
Achieving your sales quota and exceeding them can get challenging. With the competition out there, the ones who provide a superior sales experience to the buyers are the ones who close the most shiny deals.
The most important factor in achieving those goals is- YOU
Sales reports provide key insights into a sales team's performance and productivity. Managers should regularly review daily call reports to ensure salespeople are adhering to call schedules, productivity reports to compare performance to benchmarks, pipelines to track prospects through the sales cycle, sales forecasts to set quotas and estimate revenue, and long-range forecasts to prepare for future large deals. Proper analysis of these reports helps managers identify issues, hold team members accountable, and determine necessary adjustments to maximize revenue and cash flow.
If you don’t raise your margin now, you might never pull it off as good times can distract us all from what’s important. Many distributors operate under what we in Iowa call the “Make hey while the sun shines” mentality. We are so busy taking care of business, we fail to carry out the truly strategic actions needed for long term sustainability. There are few things more strategic than fixing our margin situation. Now is the perfect time.
Start With A Lead Fusion Bpo Services, Inckongking
The document outlines seven critical success factors for lead generation in complex sales: 1) focusing on conversation rather than campaigns to build relationships over time, 2) defining an ideal customer profile to target the right prospects, 3) establishing a universal lead definition, 4) implementing an effective lead management process, 5) building a foundational database, 6) using integrated multimodal tactics, and 7) providing consistent lead nurturing. The success factors emphasize quality over quantity, understanding buyers, and sustaining dialogue with prospects throughout the sales cycle.
The presentation showcases a slide deck I developed to propose a new marketing strategy to the department. The proposal covers Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and how it'll bring success to the company and marketing department.
Account based marketing (ABM) is a targeted growth strategy that aligns marketing and sales departments to create personalized buying experiences for identified high-value accounts. It starts by defining a target audience, identifying key accounts, and developing an individualized communication plan for each account. Implementing ABM for a company involves starting with one ABM sales representative and gradually expanding the strategy over multiple phases to eventually make all sales representatives ABM focused. Research shows ABM often increases revenue, deal size, and average contract value compared to traditional lead-based strategies.
Executing a Billion Dollar Customer StrategyBill Lee
Our newest publication on building a robust customer strategy. This is a major missing link in most firms trying to engage with today's empowered buyers and customers. Both the C-suite, and executives and managers executing the firm’s total customer experience (TCE) operations will want to ready this carefully.
The document summarizes key knowledge needed for sales, including product knowledge, company knowledge, competitor knowledge, and customer knowledge. It then discusses qualities of effective salespeople and outlines a 7-step sales process: prospecting, preparation, approach, presentation, handling objections, closing, and follow-up. Other topics covered include customer relationship management, the customer journey, components of an effective sales plan, and tips for setting sales targets.
Growing business performance indicators: what to measureDaniel Plume
This document discusses key business performance indicators that small and growing businesses should measure. It outlines several sales performance metrics to track, including sales revenues, customer acquisition cost, building a typical customer profile, and size of gross margin. It also discusses measuring the sales funnel. For service performance, the document recommends measuring speed of service, cost to serve, customer loyalty and retention rates, and implementing a consistent customer service measurement. The overall goal is for small businesses to focus on the most important metrics that will help them navigate growth and scale their business successfully.
This report looks at the feasibility study and entry strategy for Tata Pick Up truck Xenon to enter in Malaysia. This study covers the basic principles of a management course such as PESTEL Analysis, HOFSTEDE Culture, 5C Analysis, Value Chain Analysis, SWOT Analysis, 4P Analysis, and the Business Environment Analysis
Tata Nano was envisioned by Ratan Tata as the world's cheapest car to make automobiles accessible to average Indian families. While it achieved that goal with an initial price of $2,500, Nano struggled commercially due to poor marketing that positioned it as an economy car. Tata focused on an integrated supply chain with local sourcing and vendor partnerships to keep costs low. It has since improved Nano's safety and expanded its dealership network while considering repositioning the brand to appeal to aspirations beyond affordability.
Capstone is a rich, complex business simulation designed to teach strategy, competitive analysis, finance, cross-functional alignment, and the selection of tactics to build a successful and focused company. As part of our tragic and disastrous campaign as Digby, we have put our learnings in the form of a presentation to save ourselves from getting a C grade !!
Market Research Project - A study of the Usage & Attitude of Ice Cream Consum...Siddharth Ravishankar
The study aimed to help provide insights into the following areas:
• Understanding the ice cream market in Dubai, UAE
• Understanding the usage and attitude of ice cream consumers in Dubai, UAE by conducting market research
• Identifying factors that drive the consumption and purchase of ice cream and map them according to their importance
• Understanding the latest trends and market leaders in the ice cream industry and trying to understand why a particular brand is preferred over the other.
Thorough market research revealed deep insights that helped us come out with recommendations for any premium ice cream brand wanting to enter or already existing in the Dubai market
A study of the global football industry in changing times with a generic focus on football in the media age, industry leaders, recent trends, potential pitfalls, technology in football and the global impact of the FIFA World Cup
The purpose of this initiative was to create a robust CSR strategy for the allied organization, Greenpost to help GreenPost showcase their USP, which is, being an enabler of Corporate Social Responsibility for organizations in Singapore and other Asian countries.
Prisoner's Dilemma is a canonical example of a game analyzed in game theory that shows why two individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interests to do so. The presentation takes you through various rounds of the game played at a business school.
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Cracking the sales code
1.
Cracking
the
Sales
Code!
Siddharth
Ravishankar
2. CRACKING THE SALES CODE!
Mary Kay Ash, an inspirational business leader and entrepreneur who founded Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc. once said, “
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important’. Not only
will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.” The ‘make me feel important’ tag in sales lingo is called managing
customer relationships. It is the foundation on which all business deals happen in a Business-to-Business (B2B)
environment. Also, along the line a sales person needs to deal with various other key parameters such as identifying new,
potential customers, retaining existing customers, mapping organizations, tracking existing leads, etc.
The Sales Process
First, lets look at the sales process. The sales process can be
defined as a 4-stage process that begins from prospecting you
customer to eventually keeping or retaining your customer. Lets
look at every stage:
Prospect: This stage involves making initial contact with a
customer through cold callings and appointments to understand
their business requirements
Engage: This stage deals with engaging the customer through a
series of interactions to attract his trust and faith in your
capabilities.
Acquire: This stage sees the real action in terms of negotiating and closing deals. This is the stage where a sales person
would like to see most of his time spent. This stage is often the most critical as it is the deciding phase of the activities
done before.
Keep: This stage deals with all post purchase or post sales action in terms of being able to retain a customer through good
service and after sales support.
Customer Identification
Every sales person should aim to gracefully persuade his or her customer
into a win-win situation and not try to manipulate his or her thinking. Also,
I couldn’t agree more with Mr. W Clement Stone in his belief that those
sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman and not the attitude
of the prospect. Even in B2B sales, it is not an organization that buys from
another organization, but rather individuals that buy from individuals and
Keep
Acquire
Engage
Prospect
3. it is here that the skill and attitude of a sales person that come to the fore.
To better understand how to satisfy the needs of our customer and to able to match our capabilities to the prevailing
opportunities it is important o understand first who my potential customer is.
We can identify our customers as follows:
Existing Customer: To get a new deal closed from an
existing customer, we have focus more on the after sale
service and the bundling aspects of the solution. Here
the benchmark is our own old product and since we
already have an existing relation with the customer, and
in all possibility an existing solution or offering it is
this fact that helps create a preference in the minds of
the customer. This is also called ‘sticky solutions’
wherein the shifting cost is generally more of a
hindrance to the customer. This ensures that we
generally get the ‘last right of refusal’ on a deal.
Competitor’s Customer: Competitor’s customer or competitor’s account are generally the most difficult accounts to
break into. These are customers who already have a preference to a competitor or a competitor’s solution offering. Since,
the benchmark over here is generally the competitors offering, price is a critical factor to breakthrough. Strategic pricing
is generally used by a sales person to get a foot in the door in such an account. One needs to have a clear picture of the
competitor pricing and history of their acceptance and satisfaction in the eyes of the customer.
New Customer: These customers are the ones that have no previous history of using a similar solution from either you or
your competitors. For these customers, it is very important to focus on the “value” to be delivered. Value could be either
through cost savings, competitive advantage or both. If you are able to push through the value perspective, then pricing
becomes far less of a constraint.
Customer Categorization
The next step would be categorizing customers to be able to
track and treat them separately. We can categorize them as key
accounts, accounts of strategic importance and other accounts
that need to be catered to make up the numbers
Key Accounts: These are accounts that contribute the maximum
to your sales. One could employ the 80:20 rule here to filter the
Customers
Exis-ng
Customer
Compe-tor's
Customer
New
Customer
Key
Accounts
Strategic
Accounts
Other
Accounts
4. Top 20% customers that contribute the most. However, this list needs to be looked into on an annual basis as customer
spending and investment changes every year. A customer identified as a key account this year may not be one next year.
You should concentrate your resources on these accounts and ensure a strong relation with them.
Strategic Accounts: These are the customers that may not contribute significantly to your sales, but it is imperative to
follow and track these accounts due to their strategic nature. These could be accounts that have huge growth potential in
the years to come or may be a competitor’s account that you have managed to break into. Improving relations with them
will only ensure your long-term growth and sustainability.
Other Accounts: These are the customers that help you make up your sales numbers. They may not give you business on
a frequent basis or the business may not be of large value, but they help you attain your targets, what we call ‘book and
bill’ accounts. Business that you are able to book and bill (invoice) within the same quarter, half or year. These should not
end up using too many resources.
Finally, lets look at how does one go about setting a sales target. This needs to be done very accurately and with some
degree of estimation, as it is very difficult to get a clear idea of the business inflow at the very beginning of the year. We
may have a clear picture of the potential business inflow up to the 2nd
quarter; however, things beyond the 2nd
quarter
often are hazy and unclear. Many a times, it is forecasting of this number that puts sales people into trouble.
The Sales Funnel
The sales funnel is the most important concept when
it comes to forecasting sales. As shown in the
adjoining figure, depending on your hit rate or
conversion rate, it is advisable to have a funnel
consisting of sufficient leads or enquiries. For
example, if you have a conversion ratio of 20%,
meaning you convert every fifth lead into a
successful deal; you would require leads that at least
add up to 5 times your sales target. There are also
instances when deals get shelved at the last minute or
get shelved due to unforeseen circumstances.
Sometimes deals also get shifted to the next quarter, half or year for that matter. Hence, having a substantial prospect
pipeline is important. Once, you have a sufficient prospect funnel you then go about filtering the relevant ones and
concentrate on those engaging resources to the deals you believe you have a better chance of cracking. This also ensures
an optimum utilization of resources.
5. It should not come as a surprise to note that although you may have more prospects, these could belong to fewer
customers; as in a customer could be giving business through multiple deals or projects. This is also another way to
revalidate that it is the key accounts that are giving most of the business.
Sales Planning
This is the final step that goes into how you plan your business. Sales needs to be divided across all 4 quarters keeping in
mind the resources, invoicing and also the larger picture, i.e. the Income statement. Planning your sales throughout the
year will ensure steady cash inflow. For example, we can plan the sales as follows:
Time Frame Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4
Sales as a % of
the overall Sales
Target
15% 30% 35% 20%
This distribution is a random allocation based on the below assumptions:
a. Q1 sales will be less because company budgets are generally drafted in this period.
b. Also, Q1 also sees invoicing done from the order backlog of the previous year.
c. Sales people generally tend to go on vacation in Q1 after a hectic and busy Q4/ year ending.
d. Q2 and Q3 sales are generally considered to be higher, based on invoicing plans and general trends in the
industry.
e. Q4 sales are generally kept lower as a majority of sales done in this quarter are not billable and hence shift to the
next year resulting in an order backlog.
This kind of planning comes with a certain degree of experience, industry knowledge and forecasting skills.
6. About the Author:
Siddharth Ravishankar is a student of SP Jain School of Global Management majoring in Master of Business
Administration, specializing in Contemporary Marketing Management. He comes with a rich background of B2B Sales
serving one of India’s premier engineering companies in Larsen & Toubro Limited.
Email id: sidd.ravishankar@gmail.com