The danger of assumptions
One of our senior partners once had a sales meeting with an executive for a company headquartered in London, England. The executive had a beautiful office with a stunning view of Trafalgar Square.
Read MoreOne of our senior partners once had a sales meeting with an executive for a company headquartered in London, England. The executive had a beautiful office with a stunning view of Trafalgar Square.
Read MoreThe main focus for performance improvement is to improve sales effectiveness and efficiency. In essence, can you sell more higher margin things at a lower total cost?
Read MoreThe first functional area we will look at is marketing, which also happens to be one of the more difficult functions to assess. The reason marketing is tricky is because it is
Read MoreCost reduction is generally perceived as fairly negative whereas revenue improvement is almost always positive. But many improvement projects focus on cost, rather than revenue. Why is that?
Read MoreWhen we look at organizations to assess opportunity, we focus on ten key profit drivers.
Read MoreOver the years we’ve done a number of studies to try to help our clients find out what their customers think of them. These types of studies are often packaged under the
Read MoreGrowing sales volume with existing accounts is sometimes referred to as “increasing your share of wallet,” but it’s actually not a very good description — or even objective.
Read MorePricing is the most powerful way to improve profit without the need for large-scale culture change. It is often said that a 1% improvement in price is worth a 10% improvement in productivity.
Read MoreThere are only two basic ways to increase your sales volumes: find more customers and/or sell more to existing customers. There is a little more complexity when you dig into the numbers…
Read MoreHow to improve sales performance is a challenge for most businesses. Companies try many things to improve the average selling skills of their organization. They try training programs, special incentives, head hunters, one-on-one coaching, and sophisticated CRM systems.
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