Monthly Archives: January 2010

Outsourced Sales for Small Business

Many companies that research sales outsourcing tend to think that it could only benefit large organization.  This common misconception couldn’t be farther from the truth though.  Outsourced sales for small business is often more valuable than it is for large corporations.  The reason for this is that these small businesses typically don’t have the resources, [...]

Lead Management

Lead Management as a part of sales can be controlled through a number of systems, but is key to developing a sales strategy.  The first step in developing a sales strategy is choosing to sell on your own or outsourcing the sales function.  Outsourcing can take on the form of a b2b sales consultant; full [...]

Outsourcing a Consultative Sales Process/Sale

One apprehension we still see in the market is around the idea of an outsourced sales force executing a Consultative sales process.  However, there are a number of outsourced sales companies in the market that are only focused on this type of sale.  Previously, most outsourced sales companies were seen as a means to do [...]

Keys to Sales Success – Continual Sales Training

There are many keys to sales success.  One such key is the nature, topics and method of sales training.  Best in breed sales training never stops and is a combination of sales strategy training, product training and continued technology review.  Too often today, outsourced sales team will be given initial product training, perhaps some scripting [...]

Underperforming Sales Force?

Do you feel if your business is guilty of having an underperforming sales force?  If so, you aren’t alone.  Many businesses have the same problem and there are many reason why this could happen to your businesses.  Some of the reasons include:
 

Hiring the wrong person!

Many know the saying “Slow to hire, quick to fire” but [...]

Sales Force Augmentation

As a new decade unfolds, companies are looking to increase their sales in every way possible.  These same companies are starting to realize that sales force augmentation (also know as sales force outsourcing) is a great way to increase it’s reach without having to add additional head count, management, infrastructure, benefit costs, etc.
Sales force augmentation [...]

Sales Tip – “Sales is about Focus and Momentum”

In today’s technology dominated world, many sales professionals (young and old) are getting too caught up with the researching and prospecting of potential clients and not enough time selling to these potential clients.
With such fantastic tools as Hoovers (www.hoovers.com), Jigsaw (www.jigsaw.com), Linked In (www.linkedin.com), Zoom Info (www.zoominfo.com), and many more widely available to us, we [...]

Software Sales Outsourcing

In this age of doing more with less, software sales outsourcing is becoming an extremely hot topic.  Many small software companies find themselves with an amazing Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, but many times realize they don’t have the right sales management and/or sales infrastructure to appropriately get it to market.
That is where utilizing [...]

Outsourcing Sales for Small Business

When companies think of outsourcing their sales, many fall under the misconception that it only works for mid-sized to large organization.  Although this is a great option for those sized organization, outsourcing sales for small business is an option too.  When mid-sized to large organizations outsource their sales, it usually is to complement their existing [...]

Outsourcing Sales?????

In today’s economy – businesses are desperately trying to win sales through competitive advantages.  Smart business owners know that outsourcing some or all of their sales efforts to outsourced sales experts is one way to increase sales efforts and effect sales ROI.  One of the reasons outsourcing your sales efforts to an outsourced sales team [...]