Achieving the best performance for staff and your systems ensures that your company has the potential to grow. Often companies have hidden dis-incentives, and poor management, that reduces efficiency, and can have a significant effect on the bottom line.
In identifying good software sales performance system, can go a long way to identifying areas of improvement that although small, may bring noticeable change and savings.
Here are various software sysytems available today that allows you to examine your past sales performance, but also to use predictive figures that can identify hidden opportunities, as well as other useful information.
Some systems on offer allow you to personalise the information, including your own KPIs, (key performance indicators), and pipeline values.
Some KPIs can include monthly sales, sales per customer, value of sales per enquiry. Each company can choose whatever KPIs are important to them
Then you can run a series of simulations -what if- scenarios.
This allows you to see the effect of likely changes and take action if necessary.
Some software systems allow you to:
? Establish if your current sales process can deliver your sales forecast
? Reveal how much extra revenue is available and what to do to release it
? Determine the optimum changes to make to your sales process without adding extra staff
? Identify which sales improvement initiatives are critical and which are not
Some companies who offer this type of software are also willing to assist in managing the programme for you, often acting as your sales performance consultancy partner to help you plan and manage the successful implementation of the key sales initiatives which will deliver your maximised sales results.
Some software systems offer a unique
These sales planning tools can help businesses gain an instant insight into their potential sales maximisation opportunities & some companies provide an initial free report. This enables the business to access the quality of the information provides and the potential of the support that the company has to offer. There is usually no obligation in accepting the free report.
Additional support and help, once a contract has been signed include:
? Modelling the sales process using the companies own data to identify how well the process is performing against what it could do
? Establishing the best way to reconfigure the sales process to maximise revenue both immediately and over the longer term
? Identifying and Planning a small number of key initiatives to rapidly implement the optimised sales process to deliver extra sales
Obtaining a good software system, to manage your processes is very important and could pay for itself relatively quickly as a result of finding areas of savings and improvements.
When considering which company that you should appoint as your sales performance consultancy advisor, consider the following:
How long have they been trading?
What experience do they have in sales performance management?
What guarantees are offered?
Have they any case studies similar to your needs?
Can you talk to 2 or 3 of their clients to obtain a first hand report?
Once you have this information, you are in a good position to decide who to appoint.