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4 Best Practices Of Effective Sales Team 2013

Google, blogs and other internet trends have transformed the way people and business purchase products, much business have outdated sales techniques for prospecting for qualified leads. 60% of the sales peoples time is spend for prospecting, which can be effectively used for sales closing and account management. Its time to rethink the sales strategy within the organization. Here are the four essential areas to focus on to gain efficiency in the business.

1. Focus on the need

During selling, the focus should be on the customer need and solution to their issues. Solution needs to be provided by the company upon the demand from the customer. In order to satisfy customer needs companies have to optimize its resources to proactively answer the solution and find means and ways to support the company. Focus in the core business is the key. Clients don’t want to buy products, they want help. The best way to help them is with both your product & your expertise. Educate rather than sell.

2. Product is well known to the client before sales person strikes him

Now a days 70% of the sales cycle would be completed before the sales persons first meeting with the client. The information on any product and service is readily available in Google and in the era of strong inbound marketing tactics (leads generated through social media, blog and email marketing) companies are well versed with the market knowledge. As outbound sales (meetings, trade shows & business cards) is an expensive proposition,  it is recommended to educate customer through long term inbound marketing to attract them than chasing.

3. Prospecting is not the responsibility of the sales person

Qualification of the sales leads are outsourced as the internal lead hunting leads sales team with lack of motivation, lack of focus, lack of proper training and support and unclear metrics. Specialize the sales team on closing and account management. If you can’t specialize today, create a plan on how and when you can.

4. Objective of your customer in mind

Objective of any company should be with the customer to help him to achieve his objective. The resources are to be aligned in such a way that the solution to their issues and targets are to be imbibed by the team to give them the best solution. What we really need is the mindset shift that will make company relevant to customers today. From building and selling to relationship building.

Its All About Appointment Setting

Describes What appointment setting is and the recent changes in the sales management. The content highlights are as follows:
1. Process of appointment settings
2. Steps to work along with an appointment setting company
3. Results expected out of an appointment setting campaign
4. Tips to evaluate the vendor
5. Reasons for outsourcing appointment setting
6. Why SME's try appointment setting for sales closing?
7. Appointment setting strategy
Presentation recommends this as an excellent tool for SME's for sales closing.

http://www.slideshare.net/TwinkleSebastian/its-all-about-appointment-setting


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Email Marketing - A comprehensive note

Detailed information on Email Marketing. 
The points covered -
1.) aim and objective of email marketing
2.) 5 signs its time for a ESP
3.) 3 requirement of email marketier
4.) 14 email metric, 6 tips for evaluating email vendors
5.)  5 ways to improve email engagement
6.) 4 reasons on email marketing is better than social media marketing for B2B.

http://www.slideshare.net/TwinkleSebastian/email-marketing-a-comprehesive-note

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