Archive for November, 2006

Why Consider “Sales Prospecting” as a Sales Management Training Course

Consider a Prospecting Certification Course for your Sales Managers. What’s in it for you?
By Jeff Hardesty
The last thing a sales manager wants to do is to go through a certification course in Sales Prospecting They’ve been there and they’ve done that, or they’d not have been promoted to a sales manager level.

Posted by Jeff Hardesty on November 30th, 2006 under Sales Management Training Articles, Sales Performance Improvement Articles, Sales Training Articles  •  1 Comment

Motivational Sales Speaker explains the #1 Key to Effective Sales Interviews

Motivational Sales Speaker’s advice on how to use Key Sales Performance Indicators to See if the Shoe fits on both Sides of the Sales Interview Table

Posted by Jeff Hardesty on November 30th, 2006 under Sales Management Training Articles, Sales Performance Improvement Articles, Sales Training Articles  •  1 Comment

Is Phone Sales Skill a Lost Art?

A Little Phone Sales Training Will Go a Long Way. Here’s a Real example…
By Jeff Hardesty
We all know ‘sales’ is full of slippery slopes and if something can go wrong, it probably will. After all, the sales process consists of sales prospecting, sales presenting, closing the deal, sales paperwork, order provisioning and order fulfillment.
All of [...]

Posted by Jeff Hardesty on November 27th, 2006 under Sales Management Training Articles, Sales Performance Improvement Articles, Sales Training Articles  •  No Comments

What’s Your “Magic Number”? Improve your sales results through identifying, training to and Measuring your Key Performance Indicators

By Jeff Hardesty
The most successful businesses and certainly, sales departments have identified their Key Performance Indicators (KPI); individual gateways that directly effect the outcome of a particular process. Then they measure the competency ratios in line with them.

Posted by Jeff Hardesty on November 24th, 2006 under Sales Management Training Articles, Sales Performance Improvement Articles  •  No Comments

Magic Number Calculator; A Diagnostic Approach to Sales Performance Improvement

By Jeff Hardesty
The most overlooked Key Performance Indicator is the “Magic number,” which refers to how many new appointments a sales rep must generate each week in order to achieve their revenue goal.

Posted by Jeff Hardesty on November 24th, 2006 under Sales Management Training Articles, Sales Performance Improvement Articles, Sales Training Articles  •  No Comments

Help Wanted! But Who’s Right and Who’s Wrong for the Job?

By Carletta Pennington
A longstanding staff member is complaining about the work habits of your company’s latest new hire and threatening to go home for the day if that same new team member continues to take breaks and leave her with all the work. To make matters worse your new administrative assistant is neither administrating nor [...]

Posted by Jeff Hardesty on November 18th, 2006 under Sales Management Training Articles  •  1 Comment

Caught With Their Sales Down!

By Carletta Pennington – Senior Consultant – The Omnia Group
Think you can spot a surefire sales pro when you see one? Think again! There are probably some very convincing (and very charming) phonies in your midst!

Posted by Jeff Hardesty on November 18th, 2006 under Sales Management Training Articles  •  1 Comment

The 10 Most Important “To-Do’s” of Any Successful Salesperson

By Jeff Hardesty, Developer of the X2 Sales System
Here are 10 Sales Performance Steps to Routine Revenue

Posted by Jeff Hardesty on November 18th, 2006 under Sales Management Training Articles, Sales Performance Improvement Articles  •  No Comments

ROI Based Marketing and Sales Strategy

By Glenn Clowney
If you are not sure that you need an ROI based marketing and sales strategy, think about the following for a few minutes:
• 81% of buyers expect vendors to quantify the business value of their product or service, meaning 60% more projects are likely to be approved (Information Week).
• According to an Ernst & Young [...]

Posted by Jeff Hardesty on November 18th, 2006 under Sales Management Training Articles  •  No Comments

 

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