Tag Archive: sales qualification

Why sales deals go sour and how to forecast sales with better reliability

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The majority of sales people I’ve met over my career want to make things work, and mostly for the right reasons.
However, poor sales training and education along with bad leadership forces sales people into difficult positions.
Way too much focus is placed on activity for the sake of activity or having busy forecasts that demonstrate activity [...]

Controlling The Sale

I just came back from a commercial strategy meeting with a customer and one of the areas they had been struggling with is poor sales conversion ratios. It turns out that the company is putting in a lot of upfront design work in order to be able to provide a price and proposal only to [...]