Posts Tagged ‘sales force’
Do You Have a Formal Sales Process?

As the recession wears on more and more companies are trying to find sales nirvana. The number of articles, postings, tips, tricks, and short cuts are increasing every day. But, once again, reality bites. Point-of-the-post alert!! – There are no short cuts, only hard work!!
A report released a few months ago by Dow Jones and CSO Insights on Sales Performance Optimization noted that the number of companies using a formal or dynamic sales process decreased this year. The reason they concluded that happened was that it required hard work. An astounding 63% of the companies surveyed only had a random or informal sales process in place. I hope I don’t need to tell anyone that those companies had worse sales results than the 37% with a formal or dynamic sales process.



