Creating a High Performance Sales Team: – Sales Model

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May 9, 2011 · by Ray · High Performance Sales Team, Sales Model
Sales Model

Use Sales Model with Leadership to create high performance culture

A High Performance Sales team is created by combining good hiring of sales people with Leadership with a scalable sales model.

The sales model will improve efficiency and effectiveness by implementing:-

  • A Sales Process (Increases efficiency and effectiveness)
  • A Sales Management System (Increases effectiveness with some efficiency)
  • A Sales Automation System (Increases efficiency with some effectiveness)
  • Integrate Marketing (Increases efficiency and effectiveness)

High performing sales people (stars) have a unique combination of skills and knowledge. They excel at building customer relationships, developing successful strategies, managing internal resources and beating their targets every year. A sales model will take the best of these skills and experience and turn an average sales person into stars.

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Creating a High Performance Sales Team: – Leadership

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May 9, 2011 · by Ray · High Performance Sales Team, Leadership

Leadership,  when added to a scalable sales model and the hiring of high potential sales people will create a high performance sales team.

The following are the  key elements of leadership that through experience we have found it valuable to focus on.

  • Inspire Trust
  • Create Motivation
  • Remove Hurdles and Barriers to Performance
  • Foster Individual Growth.

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5 New Things about Web Design

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May 7, 2011 · by Ray · Web Design
1. Interesting battle between Javascript and Flash. Both have their place. Javascript gaining momentum.
2. JQuery is one of a number of proforma libraries built on Javascript that can be used to build great effects such as sliders, carousels etc. Growth in computing power has enabled greater flexibility and dynamism.
3. The structure is evolving to style in CSS, Markup in HTML and Dynamics in Javascript supported by standard libraries. The mixture enables much more dynamic websites. HTML 5 will move this structure further forward.
4. Apple opting out of Flash put a big dent in Flash early growth.
5. Whilst websites must be general, coping with wide range of browsers and devices, Apps are designed for specific browsers and devices and as such offer a much better customer experience.

Web Design: 5 Things I learned Recently

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May 7, 2011 · by Ray · Web Design
1. The creativity,  computing power and network interconnectivity required to present web pages is mind blowing.

2. An amazing amount of work is done by individuals who create scripts and publish them for free.

3. Others use these scripts as building blocks to create new programs etc. You can almost see evolution at work.

4. Creating a website for a small business is getting easier but can vary widely in cost and complexity. One of the most impressive I came across isSquarespace. Another is Wix.

5. Online shopping is a whole new level of complexity for the uninitiated. Paypal has a low cost entry solution but is not elegant.

Cloud Computing: 5 Things I have learned recently

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May 7, 2011 · by Ray · Cloud Computing

1. Google is playing the long game. By providing Google Apps for free it is building from the ground up and getting it debugged.


2. Google Apps is clunky but powerful. This site is built using Google Sites part of Google Apps. It offers good collaboration solutions.

3. Detailed work is still better on the PC. For example graphic design on Photoshop is better locally.

4. More and more services are being offered in the “Cloud” without us realising e.g. design business cards, store photographs, social networks.

5. Privacy, reliability and security are still concerns.

10 Reasons for Economic Optimism

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May 7, 2011 · by Ray · Economy

1. The world economy is booming.

2. The US economy is growing strongly again, too.

3.  Economic miracle in Germany. Almost unnoticed behind the noise of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, an economic miracle is taking place in Germany.

4. The euro crisis is abating.

5. The banking system is returning to health.

6. Business awash with cash. Business is  never more flush with cash, only awaits the right signals to invest it.

7.  Employment prospects are improving.

8.  Manufacturing is improving. Boosted by the weak pound, manufacturing is experiencing something of a renaissance.

9. UK Business confidence improving driven by anticipated. strong dividend payments. After two years of famine, UK dividend payments are expected to rise strongly this year. It’s another sign of returning business confidence and provides a boost for both investment and spending.

10. Growth package expected from Government. This is more in hope than expectation, but the Government has been stung by criticism that it’s been so busy with the deficit that it has forgotten about a growth strategy. A reasonably credible package of supply side reforms and tax incentives, including the re-establishment of regional enterprise zones, ought therefore to be forthcoming in the March Budget. Let’s hope it provides the “signal” the private sector is looking for. What we know is that this has to be an investment and export-led recovery. It’s going to get little support from consumption, which is where most of the pain of adjustment has yet to fall.

See Jeremy Warner Telegraph for full article

 

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