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What is the Most Difficult Part of the Sales Process

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday I was leading a training program for a group of veteran Objective Management Group (OMG) Partners and experienced sales trainers. One attendee asked the hypothetical question, "What is the most difficult part of the sales process?" c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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Four Tips to Tune Your Sales Process in 2013

Velocify

The Ultimate Contact Strategy provides a ready-to-use road map to rev up your sales process in 2013. And if history repeats, Sales leaders are undoubtedly spending a significant amount of time strategizing on how they’ll hit a bigger number in 2013. Improves sales processes and top line sales growth?

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Operationalize Personas to Meet Your 2013 Goals

SBI Growth

Hey, Sales Operations leaders. Do you want to increase sales and meet your 2013 goals? Encourage sales and marketing to build personas and build a plan to operationalize them immediately. Ask yourself: - Does the persona capture behaviors, beliefs and questions at all stages of the sales process?

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2013 TOP SALES TRENDS

HeavyHitter Sales

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled “TOP TEN SALES TRENDS FOR 2013.”.   What are the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013? Here’s my list based upon my experience of working with some of the world’s best sales organizations this past year. management thinkers.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success. Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce.

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Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind

Understanding the Sales Force

The November 2013 issue featured an article titled Dismantling the Sales Machine. Here''s the premise: Companies that have been rigorously enforcing sales process should stop doing so because it is resulting in longer sales cycles, decreased conversion rates, unreliable forecasts and depressed margins.

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Is the Concept of Sales Process Really Antiquated?

Understanding the Sales Force

I also think the sales world is going a bit crazy too. For me, it began two months ago when I posted, Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind, in rebuttal to a stupid article about sales process being the cause of long sales cycles and low closing ratios. Continued. **.