The difference between a sales process and a sales funnel and why you cant track either of them.

There’s a lot of talk about sales processes and sales funnels. Although they sound similar, they are two completely different things.  A sales process is a structured, step by step and duplicatable mechanism used to move a prospect through a sales funnel. A sales funnel is a mechanism that indicates what specific stage or ‘milestone’…

4 Things Every Sales Script Should Include

Whether you believe that a sales script should be followed word by word or if you believe that sales scripts diminish a sales person’s delivery on a call, there should be (at the very least) some type of structure. Here are the 4 things that every sales script should include. #1 – A Solid Introduction…

The one sales report you can’t live without.

If you’re a sales manager, executive or a business owner, there’s a pretty good chance that you already know what a sales funnel is and what it looks like. It is a diagram or illustration of the deals, opportunities and estimated revenue your sales team has pending in your sales pipeline. Executives and managers usually…

Why you are not getting the sales reports you need

Every day, we talk to sales leaders who admit that they don’t have the sales reporting that they want or need. They often complain that they either have no visibility or optics on important sales KPI’s or that the ones they do have or often inaccurate. Obviously, this is a problem.  The reason why sales…

Does employee turn-over mean turning over the conversation with your customers?

Let’s skip over the part where we talk about how large of a role text messaging plays in business today. Let’s jump straight into a big problem that is currently happening inside your sales organization: employee turn-over and texting. The vast majority of sales people rely on using their own personal cell phone to text…

The 4 Most Important Metrics For Sales Reporting

One of the complaints we hear most often from sales managers and executives is that they cannot access comprehensive sales reports within one single dashboard. They tell us that they would like to see real activity metrics, you know, the ones that are responsible for the financial growth of a company. After having hundreds of…

How To Write Sales Scripts That Convert

Why your sales scripts are not converting! Put yourself in the shoes of a salesperson for a second. You’ve made 19 phone calls in a row without successfully getting anyone on the phone and have left 19 voicemails. As you hear the dial tone on the 20th call, you are expecting another voicemail and open…