A brief story about sales motivation
Hey Guys!
I am so excited to share with you this story about sales performance and sales motivation apps from Monitae (@monitae). Maybe you are wondering why there are a lot of posts about motivation. In real world and in business world, motivating an employee or a sales person plays a vital role. Why? It is because these people are the ones whose bringing us the profit, if their spirits are down, so as our earnings. This is why companies are conducting team building activities, seminars, meeting and giving sales contest games. I know you are excited as I am so I will not keep you waiting, here is the complete post. Happy reading!
A brief story about sales motivation
Every business aims to make a profit. Whether you are in a retail or manufacturing industry, your business performance is determined by the number of sales. There are many ways that you can increase sales. One is by expanding your targeted market. You may expand your market in terms of the geographical area or by targeting a wider age group. Another way is by increasing the number of salespeople. However, these all require more investment in the business to succeed. In fact, you are not even assured of any positive result on your individual sales. Of all the sales motivation methods, most businesses prefer to hold sales competitions.
While most people believe that a salesperson only works for money, it is not all that they want. Every employee wants to achieve success in what they do. In addition to working in a flexible and well-paying job, an employee wants to see what he/she has achieved in a given period of time. Rewarding your employees, therefore, is very important for your business to grow. The best way to reward employees is by planning asales contests. This is a healthy way of encouraging sales, as it provides a single platform for all the salespeople to compete on their sales performance.
A good example is a retail company in Canada that decided to hold a sales contest at the end of the year. The sales manager’s objective was to motivate sales. He decided to reward the best sales performer during that month with an Apple laptop. According to the rules of the contest, the employees would compete fairly, with the number of sales being the determining factor. By the end of the month, the sales department had recorded a sales increase of over 150%. The feedback from the customers was also impressive. The company had not only increased sales, but also motivated their team of salespeople.
This is just one success story that shows how you can motivate sales. Different companies have different stories. The bottom line is that by motivating your salespeople, you are assured of increasing sales. This way of motivating sales is very affordable. Instead of investing a lot of time, energy and money in looking to expand your market area, focus instead on dominating your current market by motivating your salesforce. Arrange for several regular sales competition campaigns to ensure that your workforce is motivated. You may also choose to motivate your team of salespersons by giving a raise or promotion to the best performing individual.
A motivated salesperson is a gem to the company! Sales competition never fails as long as you run it fairly. Be creative and always arouse their excitement. If you make them happy, they will make you happy too. Now, are you ready to run a sales competition? I will be waiting for your response down here! 🙂
Best,
Jack
Sales Incentive Programs
Dear Salespeople,
I know you need your daily dose of knowledge of information today so here I am at your service, sharing another great video that I just saw from YouTube (where else?). The topic we have in the video is about sales incentives. Does this excite you? Well, I bet it does! Who doesn’t want it? We all want it right? Companies need it too! They need it to increase staff performance. So it helps everyone, one way or another. Well, I will just let this video talk. This was uploaded by LoyalNationVideos and entitled “Sales Incentive Programs from LoyalNation”. Watch it!
Sales Incentive Programs from LoyalNation
The speaker speaks about the old saying “Money doesn’t buy happiness” and he followed it up with “neither poverty”. All I can say is “hell yeah!”
Well, this is his intro to sales incentive. He said that even though we work for money, it is still not about money. It is about the passion to win. Actually sales incentives creates a healthy competition inside the company and it is great to see that everyone is doing his best to get it and to be the best and there’s nothing wrong with that. It maximizes the potential of the team all year.
The video was cut out but the information is already given. Tell us now, are you driven by sales incentive? If you are a sales manager, do you find sales incentive program helpful? Share us your thoughts!
Cheers,
Jack
Sales Contest
Dear friends,
I am watching YouTube today and guess what I find? It is a sales contest builder. This is such a nice app because it makes sales contest easy to operate for everyone. The management will find it easy to execute the contest and the sales people will also find it very handy to get updated on what is happening in the contest. They know where they stand so they know if they have to work harder to remain on their spot or to catch up. The video talks about motivation, the speaker and the uploader of the video is Nancy Nardin.
Sales ContestBuilder
By Nancy Nardin
Nancy said that the topic is about motivation because sales contest motivates sales people to do their best. This tool can help your company increase revenue and excites sales rep to achieve your sales objectives. It arouses the competitiveness in the heart of every sales rep, they will not only get the quota but they will also exceed it! You can create a contest base from the information they input in the crm like the number of calls, presentation and others. SalesContest Builder app is very easy to manage because everything is automatic. You can reach your goal in a fun and rewarding way! What can you say?
Cheers,
Jack
Benefit of Social Discovery
Hey Guys!
Every day is a gift right? The moment you wake and you realize that you still have another day to live is already a gift so we should always be thankful and do our best each day. Speaking of gift, I have a gift for you. This is a piece of information I got from Reachable blog (@Reach_able) that was written by Greg Fiorindo. This blog talks about relationship in business, on how social interaction with clients can bring revenue to the company. The author also discussed about giving team incentives for the team who bring revenue to the company by inputting data to the CRM. Now, here is the entire blog!
Social Discovery of Business Relationships
By Greg Fiorindo
Enterprises big and small are realizing that the capabilities introduced in consumer social networks can add immense value and productivity to the corporate world. The growth in adoption of enterprise social networking tools like Yammer, Chatter and Jive is evidence that the way companies communicate internally among employees and externally with customers and partners is changing dramatically and permanently.
One of the fundamental reasons for this change is the benefit of social discovery. Social techniques like groups, feeds, @mentions, and hash tagging enable employees to effortlessly discover content, expertise and information from across the company in ways that email just can’t touch. There is a 2-day conference going on right now in San Francisco dedicated to this topic of social discovery.
So why don’t CRM systems to a better job of allowing Sales Professionals to discover social relationships? Companies spend an incredible amount of effort, time, and money getting their sales professionals to enter Contacts, and update Opportunities. Shouldn’t there be a reward for the teams on the front line driving revenue for inputting data into CRM?
After 10 years in sales & sales management at Salesforce.com having seen SFA implementations big and small, simple and complex, I believe there should be much more reward and insights available to the selling professionals, and it should come from a company’s enterprise social graph. The enterprise social graph simply stated is every relationship of every employee, customer and partner your company has, on line and off. With all the efforts being invested in social media, one of the most valuable assets a company has, it’s collection of relationships, is being overlooked. Layering your enterprise social graph into CRM can add powerful social discovery into the simplest of tasks that can answer important questions during a sales pursuit, and can drive significant sales productivity:
- What if a brand new Sales Rep at your company, by simply viewing an account in CRM, could immediately discover which company executives have meaningful relationships in the account?
- What if a Sales Rep could enter a new contact in a key account, and immediately discover colleagues that worked with that person at previous companies?
- Or one of my favorites, what if you could pull up an account and discover people in the account that used your product at a previous company?
Your enterprise social graph can tell you exactly those things and so much more!
Stay tuned!
We continuously discover something new in social aspect of business and we shouldn’t stop. This is especially if it is a great help for us or we can use it to our advantage. Although, there are advantages, there are also risks so we should learn to manage both. Do you find social discovery interesting?
Thanks,
Jack
Crushpath Pitch Site Analytics
Hello everyone!
Does your company always announce sales contests? Do you want to win this time? If so, it is important that you can track your activities or your sales pitch as well as your team to know which works and what action should be done. In any game, it is crucial to see how the team is going, this way, you can adjust things out! Crushpath Analytics is perfect for this. You can be able to see if your pitching style is effective or not. You can also study the people who are interested in your Pitch Site so they can be your easy target. Read what Matt Wilkinson (@n2frizbee) can say about Crushpath Pitch Site Analytics!
Introducing Crushpath Pitch Site Analytics
by Matt Wilkinson
You want to sell, not spend all day mining numbers. But It’s a numbers-driven world if you want higher engagement. Our solution? Crushpath Analytics. Our analytics page is the simplest, most visual, and most awesome way to see how your Pitch is performing, today and over time.
Crushpath Pitch Sites have always been the way to quickly test and target your pitch, but with these robust, easy-to-read features, the ability to test effectiveness, optimize, and get totally agile with your pitch is right in your hands! You’ll see:
- Daily Views—a visual time-based chart that shows you trends in viewers.
- Views—the number of visitors you have had to your Pitch Site.
- Unique Visitors and return Visitors.
- Leads—the number of responses your Pitch Site is getting.
- Conversion rate—the percentage of Visitors who become leads.
Knowing where your visitors are coming from is the key to getting more. You’ll know where to focus when you see:
- Referal sites—where your Visitor saw your pitch and clicked over.
- Email clicks—you’ll be able to see which users responded to which emails.
Analytics for teams lets you know who is leading the charge with the best numbers. If someone is Crushing it, you’ll know they hit a nerve with their pitch. This gives you even more ability to target the right channels and get the right message. You’ll see:
- Stats on every pitch your team has created.
- Sort features based on individual stats.
- Filters for individual users to monitor progress.
Analytics is your new nerve center but we’ve also made it easy to take action right from the Analytics page! You can:
- Open any pitch on the list in a new tab for quick viewing.
- Promote right from the analytics page.
- Duplicate and use any Pitch Site as a template.
- Edit—go immediately to any pitch site to edit it.
Get started with these tools now by clicking the Analytics tab on your Pitch Site Manager screen. Login now.
Are you a competitive person? Does your goal is “to be always the best”? Do you think Crushpath Analytics can help you achieve your goal? Every tool is useful, it is just depends on you on how you use it and how you perform after analyzing things out.
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Best,
Jack
Motivate Your Self
Hi Folks!
How are you guys? It is fun to spent time with you again my readers. What a glorious chance we have to learn more today. I am lucky that every day I encounter things that motivate me to do the things positively. With this I am always smiling and laughing with my friends and sisters at home. No negative energy! Well there is no space for negativity to me. My readers let us talk about “motivation”. I had read an article by Mark Hunter of Sales Hunter. It contains tips to motivate sales. This also tackles the vitality in performing task and responsibilities in organization. So, if you are feeling down today, just read this.
2013 Sales Motivation Tune-Up
By Mark Hunter
We’re a month into 2013 and it’s not too early to be looking at where you are compared to your yearly number.
Your annual number is to be a motivator, not a “downer,” so use it as just that — a tool to keep you motivated.
Regardless of where you stand year-to-date, it is essential for you to have some successes early on in the year, even if they’re small, to give you some sales motivation. I’m a firm believer that momentum creates momentum.
Nearly every salesperson I’ve ever talked to has been able to tell me at least one time where it seemed like once the sales started coming, they just kept on coming.
My suggestion is you look at your current number and compare it to where you should be for a month gone in the year. If you’re there, great! Then challenge yourself to get to that annual number by the end of November.
Pushing yourself to go beyond your number does two things. First, it creates more sales, and second, it protects you should something not go the way you expect it to somewhere through the year.
If you’re not on your number, don’t panic. Relax and assess. There’s plenty of time.
What you want to do is to start looking at some things that have gone right so far. Write them down and then do two things. First, celebrate and congratulate yourself for what you’ve been able to accomplish. Remember my comment about momentum creating momentum. Many times all it takes is something small going right and then leveraging that into something bigger.
Second, ask yourself why were you successful with that and what can you learn from it and apply elsewhere.
We have 11 months left in the year. That means there is plenty of time to make things happen, but it starts by first reviewing where you’re at now and charting the appropriate course.
Motivation is very important and helpful in performing task and responsibilities smoothly for the growth of the organization where you are working, to increase the productivity. It helps to save time and effort because you are focus.
Don’t compare yourself to anyone because we are born with different personalities, talents and capabilities. Know your strength and use it as an instrument for the self-growth so that you are ready to face the outside world.
Don’t think that you are loser because it is not true. Don’t let other people define of what will be who you are, instead prove that you are the perfect one. We are all born smart, gorgeous and talented in different aspect.
Best,
Jack
A Sales Representative 