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Effective Sales Planning

Duration

½ day

Intended for

People that work in a sales environment and are required to make sales calls and manage their own time.  It can be used as a stand-alone course or as part of a modular programme.  The course has been used to particularly good effect by Sales Managers who wish to introduce specific modules of training to their sales meetings.

Contents

 

Sales Planning

Why planning for sales is important

The Sales Call Agenda

Understanding the importance of a sales call agenda and how to use an agenda to get the best out of a sales call

Gathering Useful Data

The four steps to gathering useful data.  These are: Effective Questions, Listening, Taking Notes, Summarising

‘Me’ Management

Tools and techniques for managing your own time in a sales environment

Objectives

At the end of this course participants will be able to:

  • Be able to explain the importance of planning a sales call
  • Use a set agenda for making sales calls
  • Be able to question customers effectively and gather the correct information at the point of enquiry
  • Recognise the difference between the tasks they carry out that generate sales and those that are time wasters
  • Have developed solutions to time wasting issues and developed a plan to provide time to focus on generating more sales
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