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Common Practice:  Hire Industry Experience
Best Practice:  Ensure  that Your Salespeople Know Their Customers’ Business WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO TRAIN ON CUSTOMER ISSUES
Common Practice:  Create Value for Your Customers
Best Practice:  Demonstrate  the Value You Create  for Your Customer WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES EXPLICITLY QUANTIFY THE VALUE OF THEIR PRODUCTS
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Common Practice:  Recruit and Hire Natural-Born Sellers
Best Practice:  Recruit and Hire  Specialists   WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES REALIZE THAT SELLING IS A SPECIALIZED PROFESSION
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Common Practice:  Train Extensively at Onboarding
Best Practice:  Provide  Just-In-Time  Training that is  Easily Digestible   WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES PROVIDE TRAINING  AS SPECIFIC SKILLS ARE REQUIRED
Common Practice:  The Best Salespeople Make the Best Managers STEP 1 Train  On Selling  Skills STEP 2 Promote
Best Practice:  Teach  Managers How to Manage WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES RECOGNIZE THAT ‘MANAGING’ SKILLS ARE DIFFERENT THAN ‘SELLING’ SKILLS, AND THEY TRAIN ACCORDINGLY STEP 1 Train  On Selling  Skills STEP 2 Promote
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Common Practice:  Measure Inputs and Outcomes
Best Practice:  Measure and Manage  Inside  the Pipeline WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF LEADS THROUGH THE PIPELINE  TO I.D. OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT
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Common Practice:  Buy ‘Best-of-Breed’ CRM Tools and Methodologies
Best Practice:  Customize Technology to Your Business …  Not Visa Versa WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES BEGIN BY DESIGNING THE PROCESSES THEY NEED,  THEN THEY DEVELOP INFORMATION SYSTEMS TO ENABLE THE TASKS
Common Practice:  Implement Large-Scale CRM or SFA
Best Practice:  Avoid  ‘Big Bang’ System Development WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES SHY AWAY FROM LARGE-SCALE CRM PROJECTS IN FAVOR OF MORE ORGANIC TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
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Common Practice:  Seek Assistance from Other Functions (or not)
Best Practice:  Imbed  Functional Resources Inside the Sales Organization and Field Offices   WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES BRING OTHER FUNCTIONS INSIDE THEIR ORGANIZATION  TO LEARN THEIR BUSINESS AND BETTER SERVE THEIR NEEDS
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Best Practices in World-Class Sales Forces

  • 1. World-Class Sales Force Benchmark Research Jason Jordan Washington, DC
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  • 4. 2007 Winners Global Imaging Systems Applied Industrial Technologies Corporate Express Insight Computing
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  • 7. Common Practice: Hire Industry Experience
  • 8. Best Practice: Ensure that Your Salespeople Know Their Customers’ Business WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO TRAIN ON CUSTOMER ISSUES
  • 9. Common Practice: Create Value for Your Customers
  • 10. Best Practice: Demonstrate the Value You Create for Your Customer WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES EXPLICITLY QUANTIFY THE VALUE OF THEIR PRODUCTS
  • 11.
  • 12. Common Practice: Recruit and Hire Natural-Born Sellers
  • 13. Best Practice: Recruit and Hire Specialists WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES REALIZE THAT SELLING IS A SPECIALIZED PROFESSION
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  • 15. Common Practice: Train Extensively at Onboarding
  • 16. Best Practice: Provide Just-In-Time Training that is Easily Digestible WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES PROVIDE TRAINING AS SPECIFIC SKILLS ARE REQUIRED
  • 17. Common Practice: The Best Salespeople Make the Best Managers STEP 1 Train On Selling Skills STEP 2 Promote
  • 18. Best Practice: Teach Managers How to Manage WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES RECOGNIZE THAT ‘MANAGING’ SKILLS ARE DIFFERENT THAN ‘SELLING’ SKILLS, AND THEY TRAIN ACCORDINGLY STEP 1 Train On Selling Skills STEP 2 Promote
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  • 20. Common Practice: Measure Inputs and Outcomes
  • 21. Best Practice: Measure and Manage Inside the Pipeline WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF LEADS THROUGH THE PIPELINE TO I.D. OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT
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  • 23. Common Practice: Buy ‘Best-of-Breed’ CRM Tools and Methodologies
  • 24. Best Practice: Customize Technology to Your Business … Not Visa Versa WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES BEGIN BY DESIGNING THE PROCESSES THEY NEED, THEN THEY DEVELOP INFORMATION SYSTEMS TO ENABLE THE TASKS
  • 25. Common Practice: Implement Large-Scale CRM or SFA
  • 26. Best Practice: Avoid ‘Big Bang’ System Development WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES SHY AWAY FROM LARGE-SCALE CRM PROJECTS IN FAVOR OF MORE ORGANIC TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
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  • 28. Common Practice: Seek Assistance from Other Functions (or not)
  • 29. Best Practice: Imbed Functional Resources Inside the Sales Organization and Field Offices WORLD CLASS SALES FORCES BRING OTHER FUNCTIONS INSIDE THEIR ORGANIZATION TO LEARN THEIR BUSINESS AND BETTER SERVE THEIR NEEDS
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