Is Your Organisation Committed To Succeed?

Whatever got you where you are today will not be sufficient to keep you there. A rapidly changing environment is the regular background against which organisations must develop.

Motivation with Direction

How do you communicate when sales are below forecast, you are over budget, or you are not on plan? What impact does this have on moral and motivation for the organization? Are demoralized and intimidated employees more likely to rise to the challenge and improve performance than inspired contributors with clear direction and leadership?

How To Conduct Meaningful Meetings

Too many meetings, too little time. When the true cost of holding just one meeting is accurately calculated, it should provide sufficient motivation for us to want to ensure that all of our meetings are meaningful, necessary and can be justified.

4 Ways to Automate Tasks in Microsoft CRM Using Workflow

Do you want to learn some ideas on how to automate tasks in Microsoft CRM? This article shares four ideas that you can easily implement, while stimulating other ideas for your business.

Are You Fully Prepared For A Fresh Set Of Challenges? A Sales Management Checklist

As we near the end of the year, this is an excellent time to take stock and ask yourself some important questions to ensure that you are totally prepared for the fresh set of challenges that lay ahead next year

The Sky Isn’t Falling – The Sky Isn't Falling

Sales failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. Sales stagnation, territory shrinkage and lost market share doesn’t happen overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking, poor planning and poor choices. To put it more simply, failure to grow sales is nothing more than mistakes in judgment, complacency or the attitude of being in a comfort zone repeated every day. Now why would a sales person make these kinds of errors in judgment day after day? The answer is because they don’t even realize it or even if they do he or she does not think that it matters.

ABC’s of Sales Planning

Why do I need a sales plan? Sales planning is critical to sales success. Return on Time Invested (ROTI) should be key criteria that every salesperson should use when evaluating their account base. The biggest asset a salesperson has is their time. It is imperative that they manage this asset carefully. Time management is called the queen of the management sciences and the reason why they call it the queen of management sciences is that time management – needs to be “romanced” –salespeople need to go through a fundamental management course every 12- 24 months.

Why Sales Interviews Are Worthless When Hiring A Salesperson

Sales interviews are worthless. Following this article's 2-step process when hiring salespeople will give you a better indication as to their sales skills than a scripted interview will.

How Can You Make Yourself Indespensable?

Look at the more common picture. Managers who feel they are indispensable often behave in ways that are contrary to their organization's success. Their goals, decisions, actions, and personality styles seem to communicate that no one can manage the roles and responsibilities of their department better then they can. They feel that without them, their organization or department would fail miserably. This is often the height of an out-of-control ego, arrogance, ignorance, and/or any combination of these factors. It can also be caused by poor self-image or insecurity.

50 Marketing Makeovers for 2007

How many marketing tasks did you actually accomplish last year? Pull the trigger in 2007. 95% of marketing is action. Here are 50 Marketing Makeovers for 2007.

Reaching Star Status in Sales

Being number one on your sales team just isn't that difficult. Salesmanship is a learned skill. You can perfect that skill. Yes, it does help to have an outgoing personality, high self-esteem and an ego. But, these attributes alone won’t make you successful. Confidence in yourself, confidence in your products and confidence in your company is a key ingredient. The only way to gain this kind of ultimate confidence is by attaining knowledge. Study your products, understand your value propositions and understand what your competitive advantage is.

Sales Contests for Maximum Results

Get the most out of your sales contests and build team cooperation. Powerful techniques to maximize profits and gain sustainable results.

Strategic approach to all accounts

A strategic approach is not limited to National or Major Accounts only. Unless your sales are 100% opportunistic, a strategy is still key to managing your team, and for each member of the team looking to succeed not only on an account level but their whole territory.

Are You An Effective Communicator

I don't care what else you accomplish this year. If you can effectively address these three issues, you will be amazed at how much more profitable and competitive you can be in the market place.