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Boosting Margin with Sales Tools

Cincom Smart Selling

Even with the most advanced sales tools available, it’s expensive to sell stuff. It doesn’t matter if you are a hobbyist selling hand-tooled belt buckles on eBay or if you are a multinational corporation moving million-dollar earthmoving machines, the cost of selling is significant. Sales Tools Are Efficiency Tools.

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Is Margin Based Compensation Right for Your Organization?

SBI Growth

It is almost that time of year again for companies both big and small, the dreaded compensation season. Numbers are crunched, budgets are realigned, and a firms overall compensation strategy is brought into the spotlight once again. As your company.

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WITCE Wednesday — Gross Margin

A Sales Guy

I talked about the profit and loss statement in an earlier post, but wanted to tackle gross margin today. Gross margin is a part of the P&L statement and if you’re in sales it’s important to understand for both YOU and YOUR customers and prospects. The higher the gross margin the better the business.

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Beyond CRM Podcast: Upselling, Cross-Selling, & Improving Margins

SBI

Beyond CRM Podcast: Upselling, Cross-Selling, & Improving Margins. Today’s episode is with Brian Hirt, Director of Product Management for Zilliant. Salespeople have a lot of information and data thrown their way and CRM doesn’t make it any easier to digest or to act on.

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Top Sales Tools of the Year Awards

SBI

Our last blog post of the year is a gift to all of you who are looking for sales tools for 2019. It’s our annual Top Sales Tools of the Year Guide – Final Cut, nicely packaged into a shiny guide for you to unwrap. I’d like to wish you all the most wonderful of holidays.

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Upgrading Your Base As Often As Your Phone

The Pipeline

In a world of monthly subscriptions and the battle for new clients/revenue, the victim is often margin. To be frank, it is no different in a purchase cycle , bringing on clients without margin is, well, costly. Sometimes the best hunting is in your own pond, growing your margin requires replacing, and upgrading current accounts.

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One Easy Tool to Improve Sales Efficiency Now

SBI Growth

Profit Margin (%). Revenue, margin % and $’s, Opportunity $’s, Time Spent, Strategic Fit, etc. Let the Scorecard tool do the math delivering an overall customer priority score. A best practice for time allocation is to prioritize customers based on multiple items. Profit Volume ($). Revenue Potential.