January 24, 2010 – 8:28 am
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 [...]
January 8, 2010 – 8:23 am
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 [...]
September 28, 2009 – 4:00 pm
The internet has a wealth of information available. You can find out anything from the location of your local library to a restaurant review of your local pizza place. The internet is one of the best places to seek out information because of the large bulk of information that is gathered and the ease of [...]
August 20, 2009 – 1:47 pm
There are an abundance of sales tips out there, how do you discern the ones that will work from the ones that are ineffective? Being a sales manager in these economic times can be a difficult job, however, you are responsible for leading your sales tem through this trying time and coming up with innovative [...]
August 11, 2009 – 12:37 pm
Setting up a sales appointment with a potential client can be a tricky process. Most sales professionals will tell you that the hardest part of their job is getting sales appointments set up. This makes perfect sense. A well-seasoned and professional sales person will have developed skills that are essential to convincingly sell when sitting [...]
August 8, 2009 – 12:28 pm
Setting up sales appointments can be a tedious and mundane task. Most sales professionals would rather spend their time schmoozing with potential clients and boasting about how great their company’s products or services are than having to spend their day making phone calls in order to set up appointments. And this is totally acceptable. Sales [...]
August 5, 2009 – 12:22 pm
Sales staffing is not one of the easiest parts of running a business. In all honesty, it is probably one of the least favorite parts of your job. After all, you went into business because you wanted to develop a product or a service. You wanted to spend your time working with your product’s development [...]
My company was having an incredibly difficult time in sales appointment setting. It seemed as though my call center had hit a brick wall in generating any viable sales appointments. The appointments that they were setting were not good leads at all. In fact, I had two members of my sales team quit because they [...]
There is so much sales info and hot sales tips that are out there that is hard to discern what really works from what is a bunch of hot air. A lot of businesses want you to purchase their sales information and they make erroneous claims and promises about the results that they can get [...]
While the phone is indispensable for building and maintaining customer relationships, networking and experience cannot be beat for getting your company’s “pitch” heard. But smaller companies often can’t afford to employ veterans with full Rolodexes, if they can hire more than a small sales team at all. By partnering with an outsourced sales company with [...]