Kudos to the Sales Team
Want to win more business?
Then keep your sales force. And keep them spending more time with your highest potential customers and less time on paperwork and internal reports.
According to a study by sales effectiveness consultants Watson Wyatt, called Driving Profitable Sales Growth, salespeople at top performing companies spend 40% more time each year with their best potential customers (defined as qualified leads and known prospects) than do the sales staff at low performing companies.
Top performing companies were identified in this study as those that had outperformed their industry peers over the previous two years.
Salespeople at top performing firms also spent 264 more hours per year on prospecting, presenting and closing and nearly 25% less time on administrative tasks.
In another study, from HR Chally Group, sales professionals were viewed by B2B customers as “the most important factor in their buying decisions, even more so than the price, quality and availability of the product or service.”
These surveys reinforce that sales teams should be out meeting with clients and prospects, spending more time understanding client needs, wants, desires, likes and dislikes and less time back in the office working on paperwork and sitting in meetings.
Tags: Effective Sales Strategies, Sales, sales effectiveness, Sales Management, sales professionals, Sales Teams, watson wyatt
Customer Retention, Marketing, Sales, Sales Management | Steven | 
January 25, 2007 10:55 pm | 
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