Creating A Successful Sales Plan
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Welcome Your Presenter:! Deb Brown! Practice focus:! Sales coaching! Sales training! Clients include:! Small businesses! Growing companies! Fortune 500!
Agenda What is a sales plan?! Why is a sales plan important?! How do I create a sales plan?! What are the steps to create one?! How do I put the plan into action?! How do I monitor sales progress?! What next steps can I take?!
What is a sales plan? A sales plan is a document that:! Defines clear sales goals! Establishes your ‘best fit’ customers! Guides and focuses your sales team! Lays out a sales activity plan! Enables you to track sales progress!
Why is it important? A sales plan is important because it:! Brings clarity to your sales efforts! Allows your sales team to focus on specific markets, prospects and customer types! Enables everyone to track progress openly, rather than in a closed/inconsistent manner! Provides essential information you can use to manage the sales effort!
How to create a sales plan? A sales plan is created in steps:! Step One: Set goals! Step Two: Identify ‘ideal’ prospect! Step Three: Create activity plan! Step Four: Track activity and behavior! Step Five: Define how to review progress!
Step One: Set goals Your goals should include:! Your ‘break-even’ expenses today! Your revenue requirements to build a profitable business! How current pricing is set! How you can package products, services and options to bring in more revenue! How many sales are needed to grow your company!
Step Two: Identify ideals Your ideal prospect or customer is:! Customer who benefits most from your products or services! Type of customer who uses what you offer completely, and gains greatest value! Matches the configuration or approach that your products/services are designed for! Well suited to your price range or requirements!
Step Three: sales activity Your sales activity plan should include:! Amounts of sales volume you need to reach! Best types and mix of sales to get there! Standard ratios from activity to sale:! Number of contacts that become leads! Number of leads that become opportunities! Number of opportunities that become sales! Number of customers who purchase again or buy additional options or enhancements! Activities to move to each step!
Step Four: sales tracking Your sales tracking should include:! Critical sales behaviors/actions! Calls, appointments, follow-ups, etc.! Amounts of each behavior/action needed! Checklist of qualifying steps, dates completed! Opportunity status (% likelihood to close)! Additional activities that cultivate warm leads! Emails, announcements, specials!
Step Five: review progress Your sales review process should:! Provide clear instructions! Give sales staff benchmarks and checks they can use to self-monitor progress! Be actively used by the business owner or sales manager! Allow for team members to share ‘best practices’ with one another! Stay flexible and responsive to new market conditions!
Implementing a sales plan The sales plan needs to be ‘baked in’ ! If you have a CRM or contact management system, add the sales plan numbers to its tracking/reporting! Seek sales team input and ‘buy in’! Use the sales plan in hiring and reviews! Train your team ‘to the plan’!
Monitoring sales plan impact Sales manager should monitor progress on a daily basis! Have weekly meetings to review and adjust plans based on team input! Make sure that territory and house account assignments are balanced! Benchmark monthly and quarterly! Encourage sales team members to track their own progress!
Taking next steps Think about how you can begin a sales planning process internally! Must have team buy-in! Having software tools can be helpful! May benefit from outside support! Deb Brown Sales can assist you:! Sales Planning! Sales Coaching! Sales Strategy!
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The sales plan needs to be 'baked in' ! If you have a CRM or contact management system, add the sales plan numbers to its tracking/reporting! Seek sales team input and 'buy in'! Use the sales plan in hiring and reviews! Train your team 'to the plan'! Monitoring sales plan impact .
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