Sales Management Power Strategies

Chapter 1 The Complexities of Sales Management

  • Sales Savants Need Not Apply
  • Current State of the Market
  • Turning Revenue Strategy into Action Steps—Alignment of Sales Management Goals
  • Establishing a Solid Foundation for the Sales Team
  • Understanding the Origins and Pillars of Integrated Pillar Management
  • Understanding Executive Management Types and Their Effects On Sales Management

Chapter 2 Developing a Sales Process

  • Evaluating Your Sales Strategy
  • Developing a Replicable and Scaleable Sales Process
  • Pulling It All Together and Documenting Your Sales Process

Chapter 3 Organizing the Structure of Your Sales Team

  • Understanding Sales Personality Types
  • Determining Your Company’s Business Life Cycle
  • Matching Business Life Cycle with Personality Types
  • Types of Sales Team Positions
  • Using the Pursuit Sales Team Model to Maximize Key Account Success
  • Pursuit Sales Team Process Model

Chapter 4 Hiring the Right Salespeople

  • Full-Cycle Salespeople versus Half-Cycle Salespeople
  • Finding Good Salespeople
  • Hiring Salespeople Based on Your Business Needs
  • Evaluating Candidates
  • The Hiring Tool That Makes or Breaks a Candidate
  • Investing in Your Sales Team
  • Managing Cultural Performance
  • Establishing Sales Job Descriptions
  • Success Factors of Salespeople Who Hit Their Quota

Chapter 5 Sales Team Compensation Plans

  • Developing a Compensation Plan
  • Implementing New Sales Compensation Plans
  • Developing an Incentive Program

Chapter 6 Training Salespeople

  • 6 Reasons Why Most Companies Do Not Give More Sales Training
  • Guidelines for Training Your Sales Team
  • Making Your Sales Training More Successful
  • Role-Playing Tips to Increase Success

Chapter 7 Managing Your Sales Team

  • Managing Salespeople Who Work in Virtual Offices
  • Managing the Salesperson Ride-Along

Chapter 8 Holding Sales Meetings

  • Holding Team Meetings
  • Holding One-on-One Meetings
  • Developing Weekly/Monthly Manager Action Plans
  • Weekly Sales Activities Report
  • Topics for Your Monthly Sales Meetings

Chapter 9 Determining Sales Quotas

  • Common Quota Calculation Mistakes
  • Calculating Sales Quotas
  • Understanding Lost Sales Analysis
  • Calculating Lost Sales Analysis & Sales Effectiveness
  • Resources for Market Research
  • 19 Factors That Affect a Salesperson’s Performance

Chapter 10 Managing Forecasts

  • Controlling “Sales Forecasting Moles”
  • Creating a Sales Forecast
  • Tightening the Sales Forecast
  • Differentiating Between a Forecast and a Pipeline
  • Sales Closing Audit

Chapter 11 Managing Sales by Metrics

  • Identifying Major Sales Metrics
  • Evaluating Your Sales Team’s Performance
  • Sales Team Monthly Assessment

Chapter 12 Managing Strategic Alliances and Channel Partners

  • Understanding Strategic Replication—Alliance Partner Collective
  • Strategic Partner Management—Rules to Guide Alliances and Collectives to Increase Sales

Chapter 13 Using Sales Scorecards to Manage More Effectively

  • Understanding the Sales Scorecard Concept
  • Preparing a Sales Scorecard
  • Implementing the Sales Scorecard

Chapter 14 Integrated Pillar Management

  • Integrating the Pillars
  • 6-Week Implementation Plan

Chapter 15 Teaching Ethics and Morality

  • 6 Guidelines on How to Communicate and Deploy Ethical Standards to Your Sales Team

Conclusion
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