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Strategies to Improve Marketing and Sales
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The local economy is down.Contacts and leads are drying up.More and more competitors are entering an already tight market. What one should do to improve the marketing and sales? Sales management team has agreat role to play here.The prominence of the Sales Management function is all too evident but skill requirements are increasing from energy, enthusiasm and presentation skills to include managerial capabilities and strategic thinking. So what has to be done in sales management inorder to increase sales?
Discuss here on strategies to improve Marketing and Sales management, forecasting, and lead-to-cash process......
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Why sales people hesitate?
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Fear into Success
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Santosh Kr. Gupta
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"Negotiation Skills"
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I support both of the above points but main problem comes during Negotiation as Total selling and closed sales have different faces. you can't make close your sales until you satisfy your customer with your negotiation even you have good product...
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Sunil Bedi
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" 'What is in it for me' "
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I truly believe in one things that's 'What is in it for me' until and unless a salesperson is not able to make the prospect understand the advantages of using the product or service I don't think it will get to close
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Gargi Sinha
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"Why sales people hesitate?"
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Mr.Ashok adding to what you said i would say that sales people also hesitate because they are not sure whether they have provided enough choices to the customers to select a particular product and also sometimes they don't know how to get the...
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Ideate: "Techniques of closing sales faster" deleted from your view.
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Involving to evolving
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Simple actually. Think of ur sales presentation as a 30 second TV ad.
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chandrasekar
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"highlight the USP's of your product"
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Interesting to hv this topic as all marketing guys love to pool their ideas on it. I second lafarge man's idea. Chandrasekar Subramanian, Marketing Manager, Zuari cements - Italcementi group
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v s sastry _ akella
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"more visits - more fruits."
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Being a sales personal you never be tired to meet the customer. The job itself indicates 24x7.... there is no holiday, festival or any other thing. When the sale is closed until the last item is sold or get order.
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Makrand Bhave
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"Involving to evolving"
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bsolutely!! Good one Sanjay :)) Get the prospect to be interested in you and what you are selling. Take him through the process of how and what... Way to go!!
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Ideate: "How do you create a good sales pitch?" deleted from your view.
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Grass roots marketing
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Implementation of New Schemes
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ojerumu ernest
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"During recession, the strategies should be sales promotion, grassrootmarketing"
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During recession, the strategies should be, viral marketing, sales promotion,target non-user of the product via grass root/ traditional marketing. During recession is not compulsory you reduces the price but you target your end users through sales...
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SUNIL KR. KULSHRESTHA
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" Grass roots marketing"
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During recession, the strategies should be made to target the end consumer and review the factors which influence the consumer in the market. When the number of competitors increases in the market the competition becomes tough it is unfair to...
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shiva Kiran Adapathya
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" Grass roots marketing"
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''Product specific Blogs are great resources to get free exposure for your products'' , True .. Every Sales/BD has been working hard to meet at least 30 to 40% of their sales targets. Grass root marketing/viral marketing will generate some...
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Ideate: "How to boost up Sales During a Recession?" deleted from your view.
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Viktor Stephen
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Fine, Mohit. Please do that. But the point remains that not every social media site would share data with you. And a lot would depend on the analytical CRM process followed and analytics deployed.
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Mohit Aggarwal
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"Yes"
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Viktor, Salescult is a job career portal powered by TooStep, with that what I understand is TooStep might be providing a CRM dashboard to Salescult which will tell user preferences their behavior to them. With that kind of Dashboard, it will be...
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Viktor Stephen
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"No"
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Dhiraj, how would this impact the sales cycle? The employees that you target may not have the decision making capacity. Remember MAN (Money, Authority, Need) It is extremely difficult, almost impossible, to reach the MAN (person who can take a...
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Debate: "Can Social media be used to shorten sales cycles?" deleted from your view.
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Booking appointments over the phone
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Upgrading recommendations into introductions
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v s sastry _ akella
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"visiting hours ... suitability"
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selecting the time availability and observation the business is the most important. As a Promoter of a product we did not have right to disturb the sale point owner at odd times. It is most necessary to understand the disturbed times of the outlet...
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Anirudha Saptarshi
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"Back to basics"
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Considering you know the product like the back of your hand you are good in communication(without this you just cannot aspire to make it in Sales), I have observed that there are two fundas that work. 1. There is a verse in Geeta that goes ' Do...
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Sandeep Sharma
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" Booking appointments over the phone"
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This is most difficult and crucial task to perform for a sales person. As it requires a lot of patience and selling skills. But, this can be cracked if you as a sales person is putting more innovation into delivering key aspects of your product...
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Ideate: "What problems you are facing as a sales person?" deleted from your view.
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Keep in touch
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Relationship management,solution selling and communication skills of a strategic sales person
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saswati chakraborty
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"Relationship management,solution selling and communication skills of a strategic sales person"
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to generate lead and to develop prospects and to convert then into customer..all this mainly depends upon the sales proposal and the method by which it is conducted by the sales person.A strategic sales person knows how to do all this by his...
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Rashmi Bharati
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"Talk about the money"
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I too support this point. When customer got a need for a particular product, he will definetly must have that purchasing capacity of buying the specific product. Some times the sales get positive n some times it get negative because of certain...
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Greeshma Reddy
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"Keep in touch"
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It is wise idea to keep in touch with all the leads and previous clients which one has contacted. Frequent calls, invitations, updates and service info may result in better things and can fetch you more business.
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Ideate: "How to improve sales proposal ??" deleted from your view.
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Some argue that 80/20 rule in sales means 80% revenue is generated by 20% sales people, while the other argue 20% sales techniques / processes generate 80% of revenue for the businesses. How far is...
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Viktor Stephen
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Quality Management pioneer, Dr. Joseph Juran, working in the US in the 1930s and 40s recognized a universal principle he called the "vital few and trivial many" and reduced it to writing. In an early work, a lack of precision on Juran's part made...
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Ashwin Venkatchari
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From a pure 'Sales Function' perspective, the 80/20 rule would mean that 80% of the firm's revenue is generated from 20% of their customer base. Now unless the company is in a monopolistic market, this situation is bound to have an impact on the...
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Answer: "The rule of 80/20, how does it affect sales?" deleted from your view.
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Cross seling with precautions
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SKU's Matter
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Ashok Wilfred George
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"Cross seling with precautions"
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http://groups.google.com/group/sales-guru
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Makrand Bhave
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"SKU's Matter"
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Take a very close at your SKU's. The answer will lie therein. Generally company's with a high bouquet of products and a number of SKU's (FMCG) particularly in the Thermoware, plastics, writing instruments, colours, home appliances etc., there is...
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Ideate: "What are the things that a sales person should keep in mind inorder to lead to cash sales?" deleted from your view.
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Increase the Sales Headcount
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Decrease the Sales Headcount
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Ramdas Pawar
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"Increase the Sales Headcount"
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I agree with Mr. Jai, we need not increase or decrease sales headcount right now rather should focus on sales cycles, funnel strategy and targetting clients...
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Puneet Maurya
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"Decrease the Sales Headcount"
| 2 years ago
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hello friends... It is more towards mindset of the senior mgmt...during a downturn, the main emotion driving the senior mgmt is fear of the unknown – of things such as the length of the downturn, and the impact on revenues and the client base. As...
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Jaisimha Das
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"Increase the Sales Headcount"
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I am not for either of these. We do not have to increase or decrease the sales headcount. The focus should rather be on: 1) Reducing the sales cycle 2) Making the best use of the mktg funnel strategy 3) Instead of focusing on new clients, target...
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Debate: "Increase or Decrease the Sales Head Count - 2010/2011" deleted from your view.
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Achieving Targets!
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Challenges faced in a business environment
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T Jagan Mohan
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"Challenges faced in a business environment"
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Specially the growing short term mentality amongst the teams No Rententional efforts Highly talented teams have lost the will power No Customer Loyalty programs Unexpected Competition threats Employee motivational programs have been badly hit...
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Makrand Bhave
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"Achieving Targets!"
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That is the biggest burden! Remember that all Sales personnel thrive on their ability to sell and make more money out of it! A slowdown means that existing customers are not going above their threshold levels. New customers are hard to convince...
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Ideate: "What challenges are faced in sales management during this slowdown?" deleted from your view.
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