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Sales Tips: Untrustworthy Sales Forecasts Cost Billions

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Lack of Trustworthy Sales Forecasts Costs Billions. This guest post was created by MIT Sloan School of Management, courtesy of SellingPower.com.

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Sales Tips: Garbage In, Garbage Out

Customer Centric Selling

During a workshop I was teaching I asked the VP Sales (Phil) if he was using their offering to forecast. He gave me an enthusiastic “yes,” fired up his laptop and told me that he was within about 5% of his forecast every quarter. By the mid-90’s SFA needed to die and was replaced by CRM. At that time I worked with a CRM vendor.

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Everything You Need to Ask In Your Next Sales Audit

Hubspot Sales

How often do you polish your reps on their skills? Are there recurring workshops to strengthen your reps’ selling skills? ?? Are your reps equipped with the necessary skills to succeed at their job? How can you forecast and pipeline success for this? ?? How effective is the onboarding process for new reps?

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The Pipeline ? The six elements of a perfect sales meeting

The Pipeline

Bring in outsiders to teach a skill or customer insight. Practice objection-handling or consultative selling skills. EDGE Selling. Gap Selling. Interactive Selling. Zone Based Selling. Zone Selling. Constantly make your team better. Review the latest product features. Do role-playing.

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Sales Tips: How to Optimize Your CRM for the Full Benefits

Customer Centric Selling

Without CRM sellers usually provide updates either when asked to on an ad hoc basis or near month end so managers could finalize forecasts about what was going to close. Mapping the required selling skills to the achievement of each milestone. Only THREE weeks left until our next open workshop in Boston!

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Sales Tips: No More Excuses

Customer Centric Selling

Or if you're a salesperson reading this, do you want to arm yourself with the sales skills, strategies, and tactics to become better, more successful, and a more valuable salesperson to your employer? I currently have only six (6) seats remaining in this workshop so you will need to register today.

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Sales Tips: Quality Control and Seller Productivity

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Determining "Forecast" vs. "Sunshine Pump". By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®. Forecast” vs. “Sunshine Pump” It has always amazed me that companies refer to a seller’s monthly report as a “forecast.”