Showing posts with label Sales Planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sales Planning. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Sales Tracking - Lead Organizer and Lead Management Software

Sales Management we are talking here, we talked about Sales Planning in last post. We already talk Lead organizer, lead management, lead distribution etc. in old post.

We talk on Sales Planning in last post , today we are going to talk Sales Tracking

Sales Tracking
Sales tracking is an integral part of sales management. Without tracking sales tasks it is hard to find out if everything goes right and estimated intermediate results are achieved in time and in the limits of expected resources. If anything is out of expected range, you can analyze the details, talk to a sales manager responsible for this task and take corrective actions.

Software used for sales tracking should allow sales team leaders to control sales tasks completion by using reminders and notifications, highlighting overdue tasks, analyzing task history, etc.

If your sales task management system is really great and duly implemented, you are informed about all details of your company’s sales process in real time and know who does what, when, and how.

ref: Lead Management & Lead organizer Software, wikipedia

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Sales Planning - Lead Organizer Software

Sales Management we are talking here, we talked about Sales Planning in last post. We already talk Lead organizer, lead management, lead distribution etc. in old post.


Today we continue our talk on Sales Planning.

After setting sales goals, salespersons’ activities should be planned by regions, clients, channels, managers, products etc. Sales team leader or sales department head should choose volume and operational metrics to evaluate sales managers' effectiveness and to motivate them from achieved result.

While planning it is important to consider market potential and structure, company's strength and weaks, customer relations history, etc. that's why sales planning software must be able to store all sales-related information and allow a flexible searching, filtering, grouping and showing statistics (i.e. flexible customer, task and order forms, calculated fields, tables, schedules and charts).

It is a good practice to let sales managers describe how he or she will execute assigned sales tasks to check his or her motivation to get things done. So the software for sales planning should allow breaking a task down into to do items with possibility to set such parameters as time, resources and measured results. It enables tracking intermediate and final results, sales force effectiveness and sales plans accomplishment.

ref: Lead Management & Lead organizer Software, wikipedia

Monday, December 10, 2007

Sales Management - Lead Managemnt & Leadorgnizer Software

As part of Leadorganizer and Lead Management software, we talk different components of lead flow process like Marketing & Sales Operations ,Communications and Analytics, Lead Distribution, Lead Acquisition and Lead Filtering and Assessment.

Today we are going to talk about Sales Management.


Sales Management Role and Goal:
Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business is not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a growing flow of regular customers and increasing amount of sales.


Sales Management Process:
Sales Management Process consists of 3 main stages: