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If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

By Strategic Concepts (India) Pvt. Ltd

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

02/16/2018 All of us have launched the new financial year ie 2016-2017. This is the time to look ahead for the next financial year and plan for the same. This blog is being written from the perspective of a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) owner.
Let us look at the salient points around which you need to plan at this time of the year by answering the key questions raised under each of these points.

Demand Forecasting
How much the demand can we fulfill by attacking the market with a method?
Manpower Planning
How many sales persons do you need to reach out to the sales training market?
How many Sales Managers do you need to supervise the salespersons?
What kind of back end sales coordination team do you need to support the front line salespersons?
How do I ensure that the manpower recruited in sales function is not waste of money?
If your Hit Ratio is X:1 ( On an average you make X no of calls to get one good enquiry) and if your Target is to get 100 customers in a month then the total no of calls that your sales team will be required to make is 100X in 26 working days. This translates to a MNOC (Min no of Calls /day) of 100X/26.
Assuming that one salesperson makes Y no of sales calls per day, the total no of salespersons required in your sales team Sales Consultant is mathematically equal to 100X/(26*Y).Redefine Target Group (TG)



Redefine your Target Group (TG)
What is the TG in terms of Incomegraphics, Demographics, Psychographics and Firmographics?
Redefinition of TG helps the marketer fine tune the scope of work leading to greater focus and therefore better and cost effective sales results Sales Strategy.


Take specific Positions in the Sales Growth Market
What market perception position should you concentrate on in this financial year?
A dyad of Quality vs Price leads to 4 market positions ie High Quality, High Price , High Quality, Low Price , Low Quality and Low Price and Low Quality, High Price.
If you add more vectors to this positioning exercise like Service, Experience, Schemes etc the positioning exercise keeps on getting even more interesting.
Attack with a Strategy
What is the Sales Strategy in your Go-To market plan for this financial year?
Let us not confuse between Planning and Strategy. Many good plans fail because the implementation did not have a strategy in it.
Enjoy every milestone in your attack
What is the budget for enjoying milestones reached by your sales team in this financial year?
Sales is such an elusive field that one is always running behind targets. In this process , one forgets to recharge ones battery whenever one achieves a target or a sales milestone. It is important that such milestones should be defined and budgeted so that every milestone is celebrated.


Build Teams that Cherish your Leadership
What are the inputs from Sales Management Training that goes towards building a sales team in this financial year?
We often crib that despite best efforts , we are not able to build a sales team. When I ask such people about the plan for building a sales team there is none that exists.
Come on friends , lets plan well for the coming financial year. I wish you a very successful sales year ahead!


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Strategic Concepts (India) Pvt. Ltd

Strategic Concepts (India) Pvt. Ltd

SCIPL is a leading sales training , sales growth consultant company Nagpur, India offers corporate sales training programs for direct sales, channel sales, cold calls, lead generation, sales negotiation skills, ACY sales management, key account management. Help to manage, grow and optimize sal…

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