Adding the How to Your Sales Goals

Strategy is only a synonym for the word “how.” As in “how” will I get from last year’s lousy, “I almost lost my job,” performance to this year’s “I have doubled my commission income and the boss loves me” superior performance.

Here are some possible strategies for attaining your sales objective(s):

1. I will create a database of information about 40 qualified buyers.
2. I will create a contact plan for each of those 40 prospects, including phone calls, personal calls, letters, e-mails.
3. I will schedule and conduct three workshops/cocktail parties at our plant to demonstrate one or more of our competencies.
4. I will invite each of the 40 prospects to at least one lunch or dinner during the year.
5. I will arrange to mail each of the prospects a sample of at least three of our complex, unusual and unique jobs during the year.

I’m sure you will author strategies that are much more creative than the ideas I have presented above.

OK, you have written out your objectives and now I want you to write strategies to attain those objectives.

And, as always, I want you to get out there and sell something!

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By Harris M. DeWese with Jerry Bray
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