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Just as customers make an emotional decision to buy your products, your company’s ability to sell depends on emotion – your salespersons’ enthusiasm.
Successful sales stem from a salesperson’s positive attitude – an attitude of service and gratitude.
If your sales employees aren’t fully self-motivated with a positive attitude, you can do your part to maximize sales by fully engaging your employees.
What would this look like?
You need to achieve a strong sales culture, high morale, and salespeople who are in tune with your vision.
In other words, you must have optimal employee engagement, which is especially important for strong sales.
The higher the level of employee engagement, the higher your revenue will be.
Here’s how to do it:
Impart your enthusiasm
It’s impossible for your employees to be passionate about your company, if you’re not openly. Share your passion about your mission, branding differentials, and company history.
Focus on alignment
You need to align your salespeople with your sales goals. Your employees should have the right attitude, character and energy.
If your employees don’t have the ideal characteristics, consider training them. But if an expert doesn’t think training will work or if it fails to work, find people who have the desired attributes.
Strategize on compensation
For meaningful results, employees need meaningful compensation. After careful study, set a realistic sales-compensation plan and achievable goals. Then celebrate the successes.
“Profit or perish… There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.”
-Fred DeLuca
Avoid bias in setting sales territories
Too often, companies don’t objectively align their sales and assign applicable sales territories. To keep your salespeople fully engaged, they should be assigned the right territories for the right reasons.
Implement the right recognition and tools
In order to get the desired sales, focus on getting the right behavior. Good sales behavior will net good sales performance.
Publicly acknowledge good performance. Provide the proper level of support and tools, and always follow through on your commitments (no matter how small).
Develop and train the right process
A professional sales process should be fully embedded – in your culture, and in the habits of your salespeople and support staff.
Keep monitoring to ensure you stay consistent in your processes and don’t morph into mediocrity.
Continuously perform due diligence
This means investing in professional development and sales-training programs. Fine-tune as you go along to stay current in your marketplace.
From the Coach’s Corner, here are related resources of information:
The 7 Steps to Higher Sales — Secrets for sales success – seven steps to higher sales, five value perceptions that motivate customers to buy, and the three-step process for overcoming sales objections.
Sales Secrets for Getting by Receptionists, Gatekeepers — Getting past receptionists and other gatekeepers is a universal challenge for salespeople. Successful salespeople, however, have the right insights and approaches for success. Here’s how they do it.
5 Quick Management Tips to Motivate Your Employees — A major quandary for managers is to bring out the best in their employees. Every manager wants to do it, but it’s not always easy. What’s the reason? Usually, it’s because employees are disengaged – disconnected from their managers and companies. Here’s how to fix it.
4 Tips to Motivate Employees When You’re Facing Adversity — Effective bosses have antennas to alert them over looming challenges. If they don’t have such an antenna, it’s important for them to develop one for multiple credibility reasons. Even the bosses of small companies can suffer from image problems externally and internally. Either one or both will adversely affect profits.
Trust Gap between Managers and Workers — How to Drive Engagement — While it’s true there are companies that are aware that good morale among employees propels profits, many businesses are missing opportunities for growth. It’s not because of marketing. It has to do with internal issues.
Optimize Talent Management with 5 Coaching-Culture Tips — When managers become coaches, you get a higher-performing workforce. You will have replaced mediocrity with strong performance. Here’s how to develop a coaching culture.
Screening Resumes to Hire the Best People — 5 Tips — If you want to hire an impact person, your hiring process is really important. The wrong hires result in costly turnover — a waste of money and time. Before you start interviewing, the place to start is your screening of resumes.
“Profit or perish… There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.”
-Fred DeLuca
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