Selling Strategically

Selling Strategically
Author: Terry Barge
Publisher: Dagmar Miura
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2016-01-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1942267142

In this post-recessionary era, sales professionals in every business-to-business sector must “up their game” significantly in order to create sustainable success for organisations and individuals alike. Selling Strategically: A 21st-Century Playbook provides a proven and practical journey through the pivotal sales “upgrades” necessary to achieve and sustain revenue growth and profitability in a demanding and highly competitive 21st-century business environment. This book provides both the “Why?” and the “How?” of “selling strategically” and tracks why this business-to-business sales methodology plays a key role in delivering sales success for forward-thinking organisations. It introduces the role of the Sales Strategist and delves deeply into the four key attributes that define that role. And to ensure that the book’s key sales principles can be applied immediately, there is a unique, step-by-step Playbook that provides the essential “how to” steps.

The New Strategic Selling

The New Strategic Selling
Author: Robert B. Miller
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2008-11-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0446548782

The Book that Sparked A Selling Revolution In 1985 one book changed sales and marketing forever. Rejecting manipulative tactics and emphasizing "process," Strategic Selling presented the idea of selling as a joint venture and introduced the decade's most influential concept, Win-Win. The response to Win-Win was immediate. And it helped turn the small company that created Strategic Selling, Miller Heiman, into a global leader in sales development with the most prestigious client list and sought-after workshops in the industry. Now Strategic Selling has been updated and revised for a new century of sales success. The New Strategic Selling This new edition of the business classic confronts the rapidly evolving world of business-to-business sales with new real-world examples, new strategies for confronting competition, and a special section featuring the most commonly asked questions from the Miller Heiman workshops. Learn: * How to identify the four real decision makers in every corporate labyrinth * How to prevent sabotage by an internal deal-killer * How to make a senior executive eager to see you * How to avoid closing business that you'll later regret * How to manage a territory to provide steady, not "boom and bust," revenue * How to avoid the single most common error when dealing with the competition.

Sales Force Design For Strategic Advantage

Sales Force Design For Strategic Advantage
Author: A. Zoltners
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2004-06-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230514928

This book focuses upon the role of the sales force in today's changing world and how to design a sales force for strategic advantage. It includes sections on how to assess the current sales force design and how to implement change and covers customer segmentation, market strategy, structuring and sizing, alignment, metrics and managing change.

The Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management

The Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management
Author: David W. Cravens
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 660
Release: 2012-11-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191641758

The Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management is an unrivalled overview by leading academics in the field of sales and marketing management. Sales theory is experiencing a renaissance driven by a number of factors, including building profitable relationships, creating/delivering brand value, strategic customer management, sales and marketing relationships, global selling, and the change from transactional to customer relationship marketing. Escalating sales and selling costs require organisations to be more focused on results and highlight the shifting of resources from marketing to sales. Further the growth in customer power now requires a strategic sales response, and not just a tactical one. The positioning of sales within the organisation, the sales function and sales management are all discussed. The Handbook is not a general sales management text about managing a sales force, but will fill a gap in the existing literature through consolidating the current academic research in the sales area. The Handbook is structured around four key topics. The first section explores the strategic positioning of the sales function within the modern organisation. The second considers sales management and recent developments. The third section examines the sales relationship with the customer and highlights how sales is responding to the modern environment. Finally, the fourth section reviews the internal composition of sales within the organisation. The Handbook will provide a comprehensive introduction to the latest research in sales management, and is suitable for academics, professionals, and those taking professional qualifications in sales and marketing.

Achieving a Strategic Sales Focus

Achieving a Strategic Sales Focus
Author: Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198706634

The main aim of this book is to consider how the sales function informs business strategy. Although there are a number of books available that address how to manage the sales team tactically, this text addresses how sales can help organizations to become more customer oriented. Many organizations are facing escalating costs and a growth in customer power, which makes it necessary to allocate resources more strategically. The sales function can provide critical customer and market knowledge to help inform both innovation and marketing. Sales are responsible for building customer knowledge, networking both internally and externally to help create additional customer value, as well as the more traditional role of managing customer relationships and selling. The text considers how sales organizations are responding to increasing competition, more demanding customers and a more complex selling environment. We identify many of the challenges facing organisations today and offers discussions of some of the possible solutions. This book considers the changing nature of sales and how activities can be aligned within the organization, as well as marketing sensing, creating customer focus and the role of sales leadership. The text will include illustrations (short case studies) provided by a range of successful organizations operating in a number of industries. Sales and senior management play an important role in ensuring that the sales teams' activities are aligned to business strategy and in creating an environment to allow salespeople to be more successful in developing new business opportunities and building long-term profitable business relationships. One of the objectives of this book is to consider how conventional thinking has changed in the last five years and integrate it with examples from sales practice to provide a more complete picture of the role of sales within the modern organization.

B2B Social Selling Strategy

B2B Social Selling Strategy
Author: Julie Atherton
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1398604607

Social media, when deployed strategically and effectively in B2B channels, offers a uniquely personal long-term networking opportunity for sales teams and business professionals. For many, this has supercharged their sales performance, with empowered teams, faster results, and higher revenues. For others, the challenges of navigating social channels for business can be daunting. Concerns over social media confidence, personal and professional conflicts of interest, and a loss of management control can lead to a lack of action or ineffective modes of engagement. B2B Social Selling Strategy provides a clear framework for identifying the right social channels, connecting with potential and existing customers and measuring success against objectives and KPIs. Featuring original research, case studies and interviews with industry professionals, the book also shows how to generate content to attract attention and gain trust, work with B2B influencers and create a social selling culture. Exploring how to build your personal brand in synergy with your business and integrate social selling with other sales and marketing channels, it is supported by online interactive tools and templates to be used to create and execute your own social selling strategy. Written by a recognized social media expert, B2B Social Selling Strategy is an indispensable guide for B2B sales, marketing and social media professionals.

Strategic Sales Management

Strategic Sales Management
Author: Peter Buchenau
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3031406052

Sales is a CEO's job, or at least it should be. But many entrepreneurs and managers come from other disciplines such as legal, production or product marketing – or they may have inherited the business. In most companies, a sales director is responsible for the operational management of the sales department. However, sales also need to be considered strategically, in terms of the business, the products or even the target market, for which many entrepreneurs or sales managers unfortunately lack the time or even the knowledge. In this book, experienced interim managers reveal the most important and necessary strategic methods and approaches to maintain and lead competitiveness for years to come. Readers will benefit from the first-hand insights of prominent and internationally experienced interim managers such as Ulvi Aydin, Uwe Brüggemann, Michael Eckardt, Ulrich Girrbach, Elmar Gorich, Ralf Komor, Peter Kuhle, Siegfried Lettmann, Thomas Mertens, Stephan Rohe, Rainer Simmoleit and Stefan Zeiss. Practitioners and MBA students in particular will benefit from these insights into what makes strategic sales management successful.

Sales Thoughts: Selling at the Next Level

Sales Thoughts: Selling at the Next Level
Author: Phil Bush and Brett Boston
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1312499850

Our goal in this book is to dramatically lift your sales game. Two reliable studies (Harvard and Gallup), found that 4% of the sales people in the U.S. sell 94% of the goods and services. Other, less dire studies indicate that 15% of all sales people are doing 70% of the selling. Either way you look at it, most sales people are not as good as you are. And there is one major reason.... Lack of planning! This book tells you how and what to plan. It provides key points on upping your game with tips to extend your longevity as a sales pro. Most sales people fail to understand that selling is a long-term investment in understanding your customers' needs and investing time in building strong customer relationships. You have to demonstrate that your customers are buying more than your product; they are buying your expertise and commitment to help them solve problems. Read on to learn how to become a trusted business advisor to your clients through some basic sales planning strategies.

Strategic Sales and Strategic Marketing

Strategic Sales and Strategic Marketing
Author: Nikala Lane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317982282

There is growing evidence that the traditional role of the sales organization in business-to-business marketing is quickly evolving from a tactical, operational function to a strategic capability concerned with the management of critical processes that support business strategy and deliver value to profitable customers. This topic is of major relevance to scholars in both the sales and marketing domains, and this relevance is underlined by the intense interest of managers and companies in how this field is changing. This collection is a unique gathering of views on the critical issues to be confronted in the strategizing of the sales function, from distinguished scholars from throughout the world. Their focus is on the linkages between strategic marketing and the corollary of strategic sales. This book was published as a special issue of Journal of Strategic Marketing.

Aligning Strategy and Sales

Aligning Strategy and Sales
Author: Frank Cespedes
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2014-08-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422196089

"The best sales book of the year" — strategy+business magazine That gap between your company’s sales efforts and strategy? It’s real—and a huge vulnerability. Addressing that gap, actionably and with attention to relevant research, is the focus of this book. In Aligning Strategy and Sales, Harvard Business School professor Frank Cespedes equips you to link your go-to-market initiatives with strategic goals. Cespedes offers a road map to articulate strategy in ways that people in the field can understand and that will fuel the behaviors required for profitable growth. Without that alignment, leaders will press for better execution when they need a better strategy, or change strategic direction with great cost and turmoil when they should focus on the basics of sales execution. With thoughtful, clear, and engaging examples, Aligning Strategy and Sales provides a framework for diagnosing and managing the core levers available for effective selling in any organization. It will give you the know-how and tools to move from ideas to action and build a sales effort linked to your firm’s unique goals, not a generic selling formula. Cespedes shows how sales efforts affect all elements of value creation in a business, whether you’re a start-up seeking to scale or an established firm looking to jump-start new growth. The book provides key insights to optimize your firm’s customer management activities and so improve selling and strategy.