51 tips from a sales consultancy. part ii

Tips for Sales Leaders from the Sales Consulting Industry

Part II

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Single purpose roles…

…are outperforming multi-purpose sales roles.

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Centralized lead generation…

…outperforms decentralized lead generation.

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Too many sales people will make the CFO unhappy. Too few salespeople will make the CEO unhappy.

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Knowing how to do something is more important than knowing what to do.

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Making decisions with your gut no longer makes sense. There’s lots of data at your fingertips.

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¾ of selling costs are labor costs. Get sales force sizing correct.

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Learn your customers’ meeting preferences -

Face to face…

…or web based.

Over the phone…

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Mystery shop your competitors.

How do they sell?

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Make sure that your best reps are on your best accounts.

#1 #1

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Don’t buy software (CRM, Marketing Automation)

until you have a process defined.

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SFDC works

for your sales team.

Your sales team

does not work for

SFDC.

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Leading indicators are better than lagging indicators.

Which one are you looking at?

14 14It no longer works

McKinsey says ¾ of Solution Selling roll outs have failed.

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Garbage in, garbage out.

Don’t let your reps

pollute your data.

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Forecasting without a sales process is like building a house without a blueprint.

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Only the buyer can move from one stage to the

next in a sales methodology.

A rep cannot.

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