Grow Sales with Customer Relationship Management

Editor's Notes

• #2 I’m grateful to be able to talk to you about something near and dear to all of our hearts….Sales! Growing your business by increasing revenue. How many of you are hoping to grow sales in the coming months?Yes! I love it! Let’s do it! Are you ready to make it happen!
• #3 Expediter? Huh?I sell CRMCritical Reading MaterialCrucified Regional Manager
• #4 How many of you have a central customer information system your team can all access?
• #5 How many of you are planning to implement a CRM this year?
• #6 It’s not easy.Poorly managed implementations are the #1 reason for failure.Stay tuned and we’ll talk about how to make it fast and easy to start in your company.
• #7 Whatever it is you do to find and close new business, to grow we want to do more of it right?Hmmm… Do more of what we’re already stressed out by…?Are you already having trouble keeping up with follow ups? Staying on top of things?There are ways to reduce the frantic, stressful pace AND grow business!
• #8 When a customer needs an expediter, does your name come up on the 1st page?If not, then you’re missing 58% of the opportunity!The need to focus on your Internet presence and search rankings is not news. But, it’s a slippery slope isn’t it?Can your sales process be automated? Do we need sales people at all?
• #9 Some say the sales profession is dead.I believe Technology has given us the opportunity to change the nature of sales.Spend more time building relationships, helping customers and less time “churning” through prospects, cold calls, etc.Read quote - What if your sales team could instantly pull up the history of your business with a customer and then quickly collect all required info to address their current needs
• #10 Let technology get you in front of more prospectsYou spend your time talking to highly qualified prospectsUnderstanding them. Helping them. Building long term relationships.
• #11 Speed is the name of the game!
• #12 As a business owner, when you need to know the status of a particular deal, how do you go about it?Is it something like – shoot an email or leave a voice mail for your sales rep. Wait for a reply and play phone tag. Finally speak with the sales rep and hear “I’m not sure about that boss… Let me look into it and I’ll get back to you.”What if the customer is on hold waiting for answers?Does this cause you to loose customers?Does this cause you to miss opportunities?When your competitors are only a Google search away, you need to have all the answers in hand.
• #13 Sales teams typically focus on finding more and more prospects, close the ones they can and disregard the rest.
• #14 Typically 80% of the “leads” your spending time finding and qualifying are disregarded!When I ask business owners “What happens to the leads your sales team doesn’t close?”, most say something like “My sales people keep following up indefinitely.” or “We put them onto our marketing list and send them our newsletter.”It’s also true that the #1 problem business owners report with the sales people is “lack of follow up”.
• #15 When someone contacts you for the first time and doesn’t place an order, what do you do with that customer?
• #16 Customer calls for infoEven if they don’t order, you put them on an automated drip campaign
• #17 What if you took that 80% (disregarded or cold or dead) leads and nurtured them with a few automated emails?
• #19 Don’t start looking for new software tomorrow. That’s the easy part. There are lots of options and you’ll be overwhelmed with options.Get your process figured out first. Use a spreadsheet for the time being if you have to.You can’t automate a process you don’t understand.
• #20 Don’t start looking for new software tomorrow. That’s the easy part. There are lots of options and you’ll get overwhelmed.Get your process figured out first. Use a spreadsheet for the time being if you have to.