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Final Flashcards

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Sales Structure

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Need it to execute sales strategies

  • Need to be fair and realistic to sales people
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Horizontal Sales Structure

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self-managed
Silos - not good for communication or organization

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How to assign roles

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transactional vs consultative

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Transactional Role

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hunters - try to hunt # of sales

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Consultative Role

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Farmer - Try to grow accounts

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Adv to specialized teams

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  • Salespeople focus on strengths
  • Recruitment is straightforward
  • Incentives and track metrics
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Dis to specialized teams

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  • Hierarchy
  • Client may feel abandoned
  • Knowledge may be lost/misunderstandings
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Adv to hybrid role

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  • Strong long-term relationship management
  • Bond with clients based on trust
  • Customized incentives
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Disadv to hybrid roles

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  • Few agents can perform both functions
  • Conflicting responsibilities
  • Complex incentives
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Independent Sales Agents

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  • Paid on commission basis
  • Variable cost for company
  • Can become a problem when sales volume is up, they cost too much. Start own sales force.
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Territories Objectives

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  • Ensure good coverage
  • Improve customer relations
  • Reduce sales cost
  • Optimize market
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Sales velocity reflects

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How quickly salespeople earn money for the company

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Win Rate

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New contract / Initial meetings * 100

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Negotiation success rate

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New Contracts / Negotiations *100

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How to calculate who serves best hybrid role?

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take each ratio add the percentages then divide by the total and compare each others

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Talley method

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No. days worked - No. days other workloads = # days available for visits

Total territory demand / # days available for visits = # representatives required

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Leading metrics

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how to get to outcome

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Lagging metrics

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outcome

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What influences performance?

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goals and motivation

  • Salespeoples goals do not always align with company goals
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How do companies forecast?

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  • Models consider error
  • Regression models (better estimation)
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Behavior-Based Control System

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  • Emphasize monitoring and directing sales process
  • Evaluated based on activities and behaviors (# client meetings, adhering sales protocols)
  • Compensation often fixed with bonuses
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Adv to behavior based control

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leads to consistent sales practices and improved long-term customer relationships

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Challenges to behavior based control

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May be perceived as micromanagement and can stifle creativity and autonomy

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Outcome-Based Control Systems

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  • Emphasized results or outcomes of sales process
  • Evaluated on measurable results
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Adv to outcome-based
Encourages high performance and rewards results, fosters competitive environment
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Challenges to outcome-based control
Can lead to short-term thinking and neglect of customer relationships
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Ideal compensation plan
- Offers compensation and rewards consistent with team members needs - Rewards realistic level of effort and results fairly and equitably - Clearly understood in terms of what needs to be accomplished - Cost-effective, competitive, and relatively stable over time - Aligned with company goals
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Fixed income Pros
- Income security and stability - Increased loyalty and satisfaction - Allows for focus on variety of activities - Emphasis on customer service - As sales increase expenses decrease - Simple, lower administration cost - Greater sales team flexibility - Sales people more open with "tricks"
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Cons fixed income
- Less incentive for effort - Must wait for next salary review period - Fixed costs for the company
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Pros to variable income
- Performance incentive - Encourages indiv. to adopt right reflexes - Flexibility - Variable expenses based on sales
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Disadv. to variable income
- Harder to convince sales reps to perform certain less profitable tasks - Salespeople priority is to sell more versus interest of company / customer - May encourage ethical breaches
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Spiffs (Sales performance Incentive Fund)
- Short-term reward that sales reps receive for meeting assigned goals and objectives.
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Non financial rewards
- Social benefits - Recognition - Training - Various memberships - Stocks
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Benefits of non-financial program
- Relatively inexpensive - Can make the difference in attracting the right candidates - Helps regain good salespeople - Creates and nurtures a sense of belonging within the company
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Diadv. of Non-Financial program
- May lose its impact if program is not publicized - Encourages unethical practices (stocks)
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Sales Recruiting
Has to be successful from beginning
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Intra-navigation
Knowing which people to call/knock when looking for something
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Onboarding
- In-person is better than online
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Sales-Training
Curve: 8-11 days - people learn differently - Process requires planning - Difference between young and older
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Sales development
Focuses on the broader ongoing growth and career progression of salespeople
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Quiet Quitting
Doing the minimum requirements of one's job and putting in no more time, effort or enthusiasm than absolutely necessary
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Role of coaching
- Conveyer of reality - provides honest, constructive feedback to help understand current performance and areas of improvement - Change facilitator - Guides employees towards improvement and future growth. Involves focusing on development rather than judgment - Empowerer - Empowers employees by involving them in the process, making them active participants in their career development.
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Color sheet
Blue sheet (coaches draft) - coach drafts observations, feedback, and initial thoughts. Contains strengths, afi's, and development recommendations. Yellow Sheet (employees input) - Self-assessment form completed by the employee, focuses on contributions, aspirations, and areas they want to grow in
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Color sheet takeaways
coaches act like therapists Easier to work with strengths
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2 Unethical methods | salespeople
- timing games - ratcheting - barely hitting quota to avoid raising quota
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