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A couple of people have committed to categorize each company in their account base based on their own version of Outstanding Proposals, Hard Leads, Prospects, and Suspects.
- Findings = people know more about their account base than they thought. It was easy to over 90% of companies/locations into a “bucket”. The other 10% only took a phone call or two and a couple answers to drop them in.
One book club member who has been in sales for under a year has committed to figuring out who her customers are, their 2009 budgets, and what they are going to spend with her.
- This turned out to be an interesting adventure in “personal money concept”. The salesperson realized early on that she wasn’t comfortable talking money because it was rude. Instead she developed a metaphor using Yugo vs. Porshe to back into the money conversation.
Another is going to create a customized forecast spreadsheet and create his customer formula (x customers @ $_______ = total dollars sold in 2009)
- We’re still waiting to hear how he did!
Someone else is going to look back at customer spend for 2008 and forecast for them in 2009.
- Done! The salesperson was able to see where time, energy, and effort need to be expended to make the most out of this year.
As for me, I have committed to enter what I know into my forecast spreadsheet before I leave on vacation. That way when I come back on Monday January 5th I’ll be ready to rock & roll!
- WOW – this was tough, I ended up adding a column for “sometime in 2009” for the people I know have projects, but don’t know the timing of them yet.
What are you committed to do for your business?
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