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| sales management mba notes: Fundamentals of Sales Management for the Newly Appointed Sales Manager Matthew Schwartz, 2006-02-24 This invaluable resource helps you understand what it takes to be a great sales manager, allowing you to avoid many of the common first-time sales management mistakes, and be successful right out of the gate. Making the leap into sales management means meeting a whole new set of challenges. As a manager, you’re going to have to quickly develop the skills that allow you to build and supervise a sales team, communicate effectively, set goals, be a mentor, and much, much more. Now that you’ve been handed these unfamiliar responsibilities, you’re going to have to think on your feet -- or face the possibility of not living up to expectations. Dispensing with dry theory, Fundamentals of Sales Management for the Newly Appointed Sales Manager helps you understand your new role in the organization, and how to thrive simultaneously as both a member of the management team and as a team leader. You’ll learn how to: Make a smooth transition into management Build a superior, high-functioning sales team Set objectives and plan performance Delegate responsibilities Recruit new employees Improve productivity and effectiveness This book supplies you with indispensable, need-to-know information on communicating with your team, your bosses, your peers, and your customers; developing a sales plan and understanding the relationship between corporate, department, and individual plans; applying crucial time management skills to your new role; managing a sales territory; interviewing and hiring the right people; building a motivational environment; compensating your people; and understanding the difference between training, coaching, and counseling?and knowing how to excel at each. |
| sales management mba notes: Building a Winning Sales Management Team Andris A. Zoltners, Prabhakant Sinha, Sally E. Lorimer, 2012 First-line sales managers (FLMs) play a key role in helping a sales organization drive profitable revenue growth in an ever-changing business environment. But although directly responsible for managing and driving sales force performance, FLMs often don't get enough time, attention, and resources from sales leaders. Building a Winning Sales Management Team shows just how important FLMs are to sales organizations--and what happens when companies underinvest in these key players. Authors of four previous books on sales management, Zoltners, Sinha and Lorimer show in Building a Winning Sales Management Team just how companies can nurture successful FLMs and improve sales force productivity. The book has dozens of real-life examples of how investing in first-line management paid off in a big way. In developing the book, the authors collaborated with leaders from some of the world's top companies. The authors also draw on their cumulative experience as sales and marketing consultants, faculty members at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and business speakers and writers to produce fresh, completely original insights on sales force effectiveness. Building a Winning Sales Management Team shows in detail exactly how companies can improve FLM performance. The authors reveal eight key drivers for defining, creating and enabling a successful first-line sales management team, and show how FLMs are critical facilitators of change. The book also includes a self-assessment tool to help organizations determine the right priorities to start improving sales management team performance. |
| sales management mba notes: Sales Management That Works Frank V. Cespedes, 2021-02-23 Named to the longlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Sales & Marketing category In this smart, practical, and research-based guide, Harvard Business School professor Frank Cespedes offers essential sales strategies for a world that never stops changing. The rise of e-commerce. Big data. AI. Given these trends (and many others), there's no doubt that sales is changing. But much of the current conventional wisdom is misleading and not supported by empirical data. If you as a manager fail to separate fact from hype, you will make decisions based on faulty assumptions and, in a competitive market, eventually fall behind those with a keener grasp of the current selling environment. In this no-nonsense book, sales expert and Harvard Business School professor Frank Cespedes provides sales managers and executives with the tools they need to separate the signal from the noise. These include how to: Hire and deploy the right talent Pay and incentivize your sales force Improve ROI from your training programs Create a comprehensive sales model Set and test the right prices Build and manage a multichannel approach Brimming with fascinating examples, insightful research, and helpful diagnostics, Sales Management That Works will help sales managers build a great sales team, create an optimal strategy, and steer clear of hype and fads. Salespeople will be better equipped to respond to changes, executives will be able to track and accelerate ROI, and readers will understand why improving selling is a social as well as an economic responsibility of business. |
| sales management mba notes: MBA Notes Jeff Blum, 2021-10-03 MBA Notes is a combination of lecture notes, strategic frameworks, and useful business and management concepts drawn from online sources. It is primarily intended for: Current managers who don't have the time or inclination to enroll in an MBA program. MBA alumni that want to refresh the concepts learned during their study. Prospective MBA students that want to get an advanced look at what they will be studying. You will find useful material covering the subjects taught in business schools, including: Accounting Business Law Case Analysis Tips and Tools Economics Finance Leadership Marketing Operations Organizational Behavior Statistics Strategy (including various useful frameworks) This book does not read this like a regular business book or textbook and does not provide detailed explanations and illustrations of the concepts. Rather, it offers condensed lists, summaries, formulae, and other highlights of core concepts. |
| sales management mba notes: Cracking the Sales Management Code: The Secrets to Measuring and Managing Sales Performance Jason Jordan, Michelle Vazzana, 2011-09-20 Boost sales results by zeroing in on the metrics that matter most “Sales may be an art, but sales management is a science. Cracking the Sales Management Code reveals that science and gives practical steps to identify the metrics you must measure to manage toward success.” —Arthur Dorfman, National Vice President, SAP “Cracking the Sales Management Code is a must-read for anyone who wants to bring his or her sales management team into the 21st century.” —Mike Nathe, Senior Vice President, Essilor Laboratories of America “The authors correctly assert that the proliferation of management reporting has created a false sense of control for sales executives. Real control is derived from clear direction to the field—and this book tells how do to that in an easy-to-understand, actionable manner.” —Michael R. Jenkins, Signature Client Vice President, AT&T Global Enterprise Solutions “There are things that can be managed in a sales force, and there are things that cannot. Too often sales management doesn’t see the difference. This book is invaluable because it reveals the manageable activities that actually drive sales results.” —John Davis, Vice President, St. Jude Medical “Cracking the Sales Management Code is one of the most important resources available on effective sales management. . . . It should be required reading for every sales leader.” —Bob Kelly, Chairman, The Sales Management Association “A must-read for managers who want to have a greater impact on sales force performance.” —James Lattin, Robert A. Magowan Professor of Marketing, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University “This book offers a solution to close the gap between sales processes and business results. It shows a new way to think critically about the strategies and tactics necessary to move a sales team from good to great!” —Anita Abjornson, Sales Management Effectiveness, Abbott Laboratories About the Book: There are literally thousands of books on selling, coaching, and leadership, but what about the particulars of managing a sales force? Where are the frameworks, metrics, and best practices to help you succeed? Based on extensive research into how world-class companies measure and manage their sales forces, Cracking the Sales Management Code is the first operating manual for sales management. In it you will discover: The five critical processes that drive sales performance How to choose the right processes for your own team The three levels of sales metrics you must collect Which metrics you can “manage” and which ones you can’t How to prioritize conflicting sales objectives How to align seller activities with business results How to use CRM to improve the impact of coaching As Neil Rackham writes in the foreword: “There’s an acute shortage of good books on the specifics of sales management. Cracking the Sales Management Code is about the practical specifics of sales management in the new era, and it fills a void.” Cracking the Sales Management Code fills that void by providing foundational knowledge about how the sales force works. It reveals the gears and levers that actually control sales results. It adds clarity to things that you intuitively know and provides insight into things that you don’t. It will change the way you manage your sellers from day to day, as well as the results you get from year to year. |
| sales management mba notes: Sales Management C.L. Tyagi, Arun Kumar, 2004 The Textbook Is Primarily Written For Students Pursuing Sales Management As A Main Or As An Optional Paper In Marketing Course. The Book Covers Syllabus Of B.B.A., M.B.A. And P.G.D.B.M. Marketing Executives And Advertising Managers Can Also Appraise Themselves Of The Subject.The Book Has Been Written In An Easy Language And A Lucid Style. Latest Models And Theories Are Very Well Explained With Practical Examples. Questions Set In The Universities Are Given At The End Of Each Chapter. Even Professionals In Marketing, Sales, Finance And Production/Purchasing Would Find This Easy-To-Understand Book Valuable.The Main Topics Covered In The Book Include :Introduction; Salesmanship And Themes Of Selling; Sales Promotion; Marketing Management; Physical Distribution; Salesmen-Recruitment; Personal Selling; Wholesaling; Retailing; Cooperative Selling; The Sales Organisation; Marketing Strategy In Personal-Selling; Sales And Other Departments; The Sales Manager; The Sales Force Management; Training In Sales; Remuneration Of Sales Personnel; Motivation By Sales Management; Sales Field, Territories, Quotas And Salesman S Report; Marketing Policies; Market Measurement, Sales Forecasting And Sales Budget; Psychology Of Sales; Techniques Of Selling; Sales Talks; Sales Records. |
| sales management mba notes: Sales and Distribution Management Tapan Kumar Panda, 2012 |
| sales management mba notes: Selling and Sales Management David Jobber, 2008-09 |
| sales management mba notes: Magic Numbers for Sales Management John Davis, 2007 A key challenge sales professionals confront is how to measure the various activities they perform in the sales planning, selling and execution, and post-sales review phases of the customer relationship. Magic Numbers for Sales Management: Key Measures to Evaluate Sales Success is a ready-reference for sales and marketing professionals who seek clear descriptions of over 50 of the most important sales metrics and formulas. Using clear descriptions and relevant examples from many of today’s leading companies, sales and marketing professionals will learn relevant measurement and evaluation techniques, including: Important metrics for measuring market conditions, sales forecasting, compensation, quotas, sales force-size, pricing, and customers Applying metrics to different phases of the selling process Key behaviors of the most successful sales people Magic Numbers for Sales Management is an important resource for the most demanding sales professionals who want to fully assess the success of their selling activities. |
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| sales management mba notes: Dalrymple's Sales Management William L. Cron, Thomas E. DeCarlo, 2015-02-12 Dalrymple?s Sales Management arms sales managers with the tools to help their companies gain a competitive edge as well as acquire strategic advantages in their careers. With the tenth edition, they?ll find streamlined coverage for easier readability and retention. Numerous new cases have been added and several others have been significantly updated. The majority of case studies at the beginning of each chapter have been reworked. The authors also present new and expanded discussions on sales network, customer life time value, solutions selling, marketing-sales interaction, and marketing-sales shared responsibilities. This material will empower sales managers to build a sales force, manage strategic relationships, and motivate the sales team. |
| sales management mba notes: Marketing Management - Lecture Notes , 2021-08-15 Marketing book is all about basic marketing concepts for beginners. It will be guide to get the essence of marketing management |
| sales management mba notes: Sales Force Management Mark W. Johnston, Greg W. Marshall, 2016-04-14 In this latest edition of Sales Force Management, Mark Johnston and Greg Marshall continue to build on the tradition of excellence established by Churchill, Ford, and Walker, increasing the book’s reputation globally as the leading textbook in the field. The authors have strengthened the focus on managing the modern tools of selling, such as customer relationship management (CRM), social media and technology-enabled selling, and sales analytics. It’s a contemporary classic, fully updated for modern sales management practice. Pedagogical features include: Engaging breakout questions designed to spark lively discussion Leadership challenge assignments and mini-cases to help students understand and apply the principles they have learned in the classroom Leadership, Innovation, and Technology boxes that simulate real-world challenges faced by salespeople and their managers New Ethical Moment boxes in each chapter put students on the firing line of making ethical choices in sales Role Plays that enable students to learn by doing A selection of comprehensive sales management cases on the companion website A companion website features an instructor’s manual, PowerPoints, and other tools to provide additional support for students and instructors. |
| sales management mba notes: Sales and Distribution Management S.L. Gupta, 2009 Most standard books on marketing area have been written by American authors. Though there are a number of books on Sales and Distribution Management by Indian authors as well, these books do not present the Indian conditions in the right perspective. Indian students studying management require books which deal with the changing profile of Indian buyers and helps them understand their perceptions and motivations as also the factors that influence the decisions made by Indian consumers.The book offers a practical approach to Sales and Distribution Management and gives a comprehensive, easy-to-read and enjoyable treatment to the subject matter for students of Sales and Distribution Management. It includes more than 500 live examples and 30 Case Studies from Indian marketing environment and provides sufficient food for thought to students to develop themselves as Result oriented marketers of the future. |
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| sales management mba notes: Sales Management Thomas N. Ingram, Raymond W. LaForge, Ramon A. Avila, Charles H. Schwepker (Jr.), Michael R. Williams (Professor of marketing), 2021 |
| sales management mba notes: Aligning Strategy and Sales Frank Cespedes, 2014-08-12 The best sales book of the year — strategy+business magazine That gap between your company’s sales efforts and strategy? It’s real—and a huge vulnerability. Addressing that gap, actionably and with attention to relevant research, is the focus of this book. In Aligning Strategy and Sales, Harvard Business School professor Frank Cespedes equips you to link your go-to-market initiatives with strategic goals. Cespedes offers a road map to articulate strategy in ways that people in the field can understand and that will fuel the behaviors required for profitable growth. Without that alignment, leaders will press for better execution when they need a better strategy, or change strategic direction with great cost and turmoil when they should focus on the basics of sales execution. With thoughtful, clear, and engaging examples, Aligning Strategy and Sales provides a framework for diagnosing and managing the core levers available for effective selling in any organization. It will give you the know-how and tools to move from ideas to action and build a sales effort linked to your firm’s unique goals, not a generic selling formula. Cespedes shows how sales efforts affect all elements of value creation in a business, whether you’re a start-up seeking to scale or an established firm looking to jump-start new growth. The book provides key insights to optimize your firm’s customer management activities and so improve selling and strategy. |
| sales management mba notes: The Sales Manager's Guide to Greatness Kevin F. Davis, 2017-03-28 2018 Axiom Business Book Award Winner, Silver Medal Straightforward advice for taking your sales team to the next level! If your sales team isn’t producing the results expected, the pressure is on you to fix the situation fast. One option is to replace salespeople. A better option is for you to optimize your performance as a sales leader. In The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness, sales management consultant Kevin F. Davis offers 10 proven and distinctly practical strategies, skills, and tools for overcoming the most challenging obstacles sales managers face and moving your team ahead of the pack. This book will help you: Learn the 6 sales rep instincts that can cripple your management effectiveness, and replace these instincts with a more powerful leadership mindset – true sales leadership begins with improving the leader within Stop getting bogged down by distractions, become more proactive, and find more time to coach, lead, and inspire your salespeople Get every salesperson on your team to be more accountable and driven to achieve breakthrough sales results Master the 7 keys to hiring great salespeople Create a more customer-driven sales team by blending the buyer’s journey into your sales process Speed up the improvement of your team by mastering the 7 keys to achieving better coaching outcomes Excel at the most challenging coaching conversation you face – how to solve a sales performance problem that is caused by a rep’s lousy attitude Attain higher win-rates by intervening as a coach at the most critical stages of a buying cycle, quickly identify opportunities at risk, and coach more deals to the close Discover why so many salespeople fail at sales forecasting and how to impress your company’s upper management by submitting more accurate forecasts And much more… You can apply the strategies outlined in this book immediately to take control of your time and priorities as a sales manager, become more strategic, deliver high-performance coaching that grows revenues, and ultimately drive your team to greatness. |
| sales management mba notes: Sales Management , 1972-07 |
| sales management mba notes: Sales Growth Thomas Baumgartner, McKinsey and Company, Homayoun Hatami, Jon Vander Ark, 2012-04-24 Drawing on interviews of global sales leaders, provides ways to overcome competition, maximize market opportunities, and improve sales growth. |
| sales management mba notes: Sales Management Robert J. Calvin, 2004-03-22 THE MCGRAW-HILL EXECUTIVE MBA SERIES Executive education is suddenly every CEO's favorite strategic weapon. --BusinessWeek Now repackaged in easily transportable paperback editions, these informative titles--written by frontline executive education professors and modeled after the programs of the nation's top business schools--will find new popularity with today's on-the-go, every-second-counts executive. |
| sales management mba notes: Management of a Sales Force Rosann L. Spiro, Gregory A. Rich, William J. Stanton, 2008 Updated to reflect the latest, cutting-edge issues, including technology and Internet selling, this book features a strong emphasis on relationship selling and particularly the use of team-selling. Most chapters have a 'team-box' highlighting the principles within a given chapter as they relate to managing selling teams. |
| sales management mba notes: Principles of Management David S. Bright, Anastasia H. Cortes, Eva Hartmann, 2023-05-16 Black & white print. Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters. |
| sales management mba notes: Eliminate Your Competition Sean O'Shaughnessey, 2018-05-14 Most salespeople lose the deal before they ever get started! It isn't uncommon for the customer to have already made a decision before most salespeople even learn of the opportunity. Most salespeople have to beat the preferred competitor by a significant margin just to be considered equivalent. Don't you wish that you could be the preferred vendor in all of your opportunities? Selling is a difficult career in which to make a living; it is not uncommon to have the commission check denied before the salesperson even gets a chance to win. Analysis of thousands of sales situations has made it phenomenally obvious that most salespeople begin their sales campaign so late in the decision-making process that they are virtually guaranteed to lose the order. To make matters worse, when they do start the campaign early enough, most salespeople do not know how to control the prospect adequately so that they can guarantee their victory. Typical turnover for a sales department is 10-20%. Many companies see turnover that approaches 40-60%! This turnover costs them 50% of their revenue-generating capability. In any organization that exceeds 25% turnover, the loss of trust with the customer can be astounding as the new salesperson tries to rebuild the entire relationship. In any given quarter dozens or hundreds of companies do not make their forecasted numbers and are dramatically punished by Wall Street. This book will provide the management of a company with a framework to teach their salespeople how to attain their quotas with higher profits. It will also allow salespeople to rise to the top of their organization and be the super-achievers who win awards, trips, bonuses, and respect. In this book, I will show you how to eliminate your competition and maximize your commission. |
| sales management mba notes: Retailing Management Michael Levy, Barton A. Weitz, 2001 Retailing has become a high-tech, global industry. Retailing Management covers the latest developments in information technology for retailers. It also covers current trends and practices in international retailing. An interactive website offers additional resources for the reader. |
| sales management mba notes: Sell Or Be Sold Grant Cardone, 2012 In Sell or Be Sold readers will learn why selling is as vital to your survival as food, water, and oxygen. This book details very simple concepts that readers can use confidently and successfully to sell others on themselves, their ideas and their products. Readers will find step-by-step selling strategies and techniques to guarantee they not only survive, but prosper in ANY economic condition. |
| sales management mba notes: Sales Force Management Joseph F. Hair, Jr., Rolph Anderson, Rajiv Mehta, Barry Babin, 2020-09-16 The second edition of Sales Force Management prepares students for professional success in the field. Focused on the areas of customer loyalty, customer relationship management, and sales technology, this practical resource integrates selling and sales management while highlighting the importance of teamwork in any sales and marketing organization. The text presents core concepts using a comprehensive pedagogical framework—featuring real-world case studies, illustrative examples, and innovative exercises designed to facilitate a deeper understanding of sales management challenges and to develop stronger sales management skills. Supported with a variety of essential ancillary resources for instructors and students, Sales Force Management, 2nd Edition includes digital multimedia PowerPoints for each chapter equipped with voice-over recordings ideal for both distance and in-person learning. Additional assets include the instructor's manual, computerized and printable test banks, and a student companion site filled with glossaries, flash cards, crossword puzzles for reviewing key terms, and more. Integrating theoretical, analytical, and pragmatic approaches to sales management, the text offers balanced coverage of a diverse range of sales concepts, issues, and activities. This fully-updated edition addresses the responsibilities central to managing sales people across multiple channels and through a variety of methods. Organized into four parts, the text provides an overview of personal selling and sales management, discusses planning, organizing, and developing the sales force, examines managing and directing sales force activities, and explains effective methods for controlling and evaluating sales force performance. |
| sales management mba notes: Sales Management Charles M. Futrell, 1991 |
| sales management mba notes: The Personal MBA Josh Kaufman, 2010-12-30 Master the fundamentals, hone your business instincts, and save a fortune in tuition. The consensus is clear: MBA programs are a waste of time and money. Even the elite schools offer outdated assembly-line educations about profit-and-loss statements and PowerPoint presentations. After two years poring over sanitized case studies, students are shuffled off into middle management to find out how business really works. Josh Kaufman has made a business out of distilling the core principles of business and delivering them quickly and concisely to people at all stages of their careers. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. In The Personal MBA, he shares the essentials of sales, marketing, negotiation, strategy, and much more. True leaders aren't made by business schools-they make themselves, seeking out the knowledge, skills, and experiences they need to succeed. Read this book and in one week you will learn the principles it takes most people a lifetime to master. |
| sales management mba notes: Customer Relationship Management Francis Buttle, 2009 This title presents an holistic view of CRM, arguing that its essence concerns basic business strategy - developing and maintaining long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with strategically significant customers - rather than the operational tools which achieve these aims. |
| sales management mba notes: P3 Business Analysis - Key Notes , 2008 |
| sales management mba notes: The Art of the Sale Philip Delves Broughton, 2013-03-26 From the author of Ahead of the Curve, a revelatory look at successful selling and how it can impact everything we do The first book of its kind, The Art of the Sale is the result of a pilgrimage to learn the secrets of the world's foremost sales gurus. Bestselling author Philip Delves Broughton tracked down anyone who could help him understand what it took to achieve greatness in sales, from technology billionaires to the most successful saleswoman in Japan to a cannily observant rug merchant in Morocco. The wisdom and experience Broughton acquired, revealed in this outstanding book, demonstrates as never before the complex alchemy of effective selling and the power it has to overcome challenges we face every day. |
| sales management mba notes: Key Account Management Diana Woodburn, Malcolm McDonald, 2012-11-13 This book is crammed with distilled, practical wisdom for key account managers and their directors. Organizations claiming to practise key account management should equip everyone involved with a copy, so they really understand what they are supposed to be doing. Anything less is just old-fashioned selling. Developing successful business-to-business relationships with more customers in highly competitive markets requires processes and skills that go beyond traditional selling activity. The very best state-of-the-art strategies are set out clearly in this book by intentionally known authors who have worked at the highest levels with more key and strategic account managers worldwide than probably any other leading advisors. Based on the hugely influential KEY CUSTOMERS it looks at: Why has account management become so critical to commercial success? What are the key challenges and how do successful companies respond? What part does key account management play in strategic planning? How do companies build profitable relationships with their customers? How does key account management actually work? What does a successful key account manager look like and what skills does he/she need? How should key account managers be evaluated and rewarded? How do companies achieve key account management? By addressing these key questions Woodburn and McDonald provide tools and processes for success honed by tough consultancy projects with the boards of some of the world's leading companies. The book stresses the elements that really matter - from developing a customer categorization system that really works and analyzing the needs of key accounts; to understanding the new skills required by key account managers and ensuring that key account plans are implemented. The 'real world' approach is backed by tested principles and the latest research from the renowned Cranfield School of Management. Key Account Management comes from authors who have taught leading companies how to approach their most powerful and demanding customers and still make money. It is essential reading for all senior management with strategic responsibility, for key or strategic account directors, and for marketing and sales executives. The clear and authoritative approach also makes it an outstanding text for the serious MBA and executive student as well as business-to-business company directors and key account managers. |
| sales management mba notes: Marketing Management Mark W Johnston, Greg W. Marshall, 2014-02-25 Marshall/Johnston's Marketing Management, 2e has taken great effort to represent marketing management the way it is actually practiced in successful organisations today. Given the dramatic changes in the field of marketing, it is a sure bet that the job of leading marketing manager's contributions to the organisation and its customers, clients, and partners has changed at the same level. Yet, no marketing management book on the market today fully and effectively captures and communicates to students how marketing management is really practiced in the 21st century business world. Clearly, it is time for an updated approach to teaching and learning within the field. Marketing Management 2e is designed to fulfill this need. |
| sales management mba notes: Sales Management Role Plays William C. Moncrief, Shannon Shipp, 1993 With over 100 characters and 11 different scenarios, this paperback brings a world of sales encounters to the classroom. Players are presented with typical decisions that sales managers and salespeople face every day. All role plays focus o n key issues such as recruiting, leadership, motivation, or ethics. |
| sales management mba notes: The High-Velocity Sales Organization Marc Wayshak, 2018-08-14 The data shows that senior executives today face a stark reality: Sales talent is increasingly difficult to find. Traditional selling strategies no longer work. And salespeople today are more distracted and aimless than ever before. To give their organizations true staying power in this tumultuous new market, company leaders must fundamentally change the way they look at sales-or else succumb to the competition. What today's senior leaders need is a high-velocity sales organization: an organization with the right performers, strategy, and infrastructure in place, allowing it to dramatically increase sales by converting more opportunities at higher prices to more prospects. Drawing on hard data, comprehensive research, and the latest science behind selling, Marc Wayshak has developed a system for building these fully sales-driven organizations. The High-Velocity Sales Organization brings together Wayshak's cutting-edge insights as a leading sales consultant with the latest data to create a step-by-step formula for accelerating a sales-driven company culture-from the top down. This guide for senior executives lays out the exact processes company leaders must implement to achieve the three pillars of a high-velocity sales organization: Performers-Learn to identify, recruit, and retain top performers for a consistent flow of A-player salespeople-and far fewer costly mis-hires Strategy-Develop and implement a self-improving, highly adaptive sales strategy that sets your salespeople apart from the competition Infrastructure-Establish a clear system for building out the right sales processes, with the most effective technology, to hold sales teams accountable |
| sales management mba notes: The Sales Force Charles M. Cohon, 2004 Mr. Cohon makes an excellent case for widespread use of manufacturers' representatives. This should come as no surprise as he is a second-generation rep himself and, given his education and background, one would expect an eloquent testimonial to the benefits of outsourcing the sales force. Cohon's advanced education is demonstrated by his ability to weave fact with fiction, and by his extensive use of statistical analysis to make his points. The Sales Force shows that these under-publicized, small sales agencies are indeed cost-effective, and that their owners are truly business people in sales, not sales people in business. |
| sales management mba notes: Sales and Sales Management Ralph W. Jackson, Robert D. Hisrich, 1996 |
| sales management mba notes: Strategic Marketing Management: A Means-End Approach Mark E. Parry, 2001-12-22 Strategic Marketing Management provides a logical approach for developing and positioning corporate and product brands, and skillfully managing those brand positions over time. Case studies and examples illustrate how to maximize benefits from a first-mover strategy, navigate a brand extension, set priorities when establishing brand meanings, and more. Whether branding new product lines or managing brand meanings for established products, this accessible, concise guide helps marketing executives assess market trends, make branding decisions quickly and confidently—then execute those decisions with precision. |
| sales management mba notes: Advertising Research: The Internet, Consumer Behavior, and Strategy George Zinkan, 2012 |
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