2010 resolution – Up sell and Cross sell
Want to sell more to your customers? Re-Prospect
More and more I hear sales leaders talk about up sell and cross sell with their team. The situation as we all know is that it costs 80% less and takes 50% less time to sell more to people who are buying from you, than to acquire new customers. The problem is that few sales people really know how to accomplish this task. The method that I have found to work is simply to re-prospect.
What the hell is re-prospecting you ask? It is simple, but not easy. Simply approach your customers as if you know nothing about them and have honest conversations about them and their business. (more…)
How to write a Territory Sales Plan
There are many aspects to creating a full blown territory sales plan. However, if you have never written one, where and how to start many be confusing. While a full blown plan description is longer than a blog post, (Download this tool kit for help and a detailed White paper) I will try and hit the highlights.
Whether you use slides, spreadsheet, or a document is up to you, but the key is the data that you need to turn into information. So where do you start? (more…)
Creating an Account Strategy in Salesforce.com
As difficult a sales environment it is today, every sales rep needs a good strategy and a good plan. That is why we are excited to bring the newest 
version of P2W products to the Force.com CRM cloud . We are committed to helping sales people build trusted relationships with their clients and prospects. (See the curve above)
Being successful as a sales rep today is tough. As a manager, it is our job to give our team the sales tools that will increase their sales effectiveness without burdening them with additional software or forms. That is why we are developing in the Salesforce.com cloud infrastructure. If you are already using salesforce.com as your CRM system, check out the app exchange. There are plenty of apps that can help your team.
As managers we have to constantly be asking: “What am I doing to help and develop my team?”
Account Plan Pro 1.0 for salesforce.com is now released as a Beta product. Building on the success of the Account Plan 2008 method, we have now released the Beta version of Account Plan pro for salesforce.com. Integrated into the Salesforce CRM, the team can now create an Account strategy,
Opportunity strategy, and Relationship strategies. If you are interested in being a Beta test site for free for your entire team, drop me an email at sharper at territoryplan dot com.
Good selling!
Steve
