Pressure to Upgrade the Sales System
Common Problems
- Fail to achieve growth goals
- Marketing/Sales need more alignment
- Sales staff needs to increase
- Need more qualified leads
- Inaccurate data
- Sales results not repeatable
- Founder/CEO is top salesperson
- Vast market opportunity dilutes company’s sales focus
Pressure to Improve
- Faster revenue growth
- Sales results holds back rest of company
- Leadership under pressure to ‘fix sales’
- Loss of market opportunities
- Growth requires scaling the sales team
- Need to prove success selling to new customer segment
- Lack of structure causes management headaches