It’s that time again when executives begin to finalize their plans and budgets for the next business year. While sellers are closing out their pipelines for this year, Leaders are getting ready for what comes next.

Companies spend millions of dollars to get their commercial strategies right. A global customer of ours just spent 4 million dollars to get their strategy aligned to the best markets for growth. Now what? The newly found information is delivered to sales and others in customer-facing roles (CFRs), including marketing, customer service and technical support, and then they HOPE that they all get it right. They hope that all these roles just sync up in a well-coordinated unison. Unfortunately, we all know that it’s just not that simple.

At Flannery Sales Systems, we build processes for our customers that include the tactical execution of the commercial/go-to-market (whatever you choose to call it) strategy. And what does that mean exactly? It is a clear plan for how the individuals in your CFRs conduct conversations to provide a customer or prospect with an understanding of how to use your product or service to increase revenue, reduce costs or minimize risk. Simple, right?

Our customers improve the quality of the sales opportunities they develop and increase the overall revenue in their pipeline when they embrace and execute this process. All sales organizations are focused on this, and we enable it with a skills-based program that is custom built for our customers based on the markets they compete in and how organizations BUY, not how they should be selling.

Whether it’s to prepare for next year or fine tune opportunities in the pipeline now, we can help. Take fifteen minutes to consider how we can enable you to meet and exceed your objectives. Ready? Let’s go!

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year end recap in sales

John, standing in front of his alma mater, San Diego State University, reflects on this year and looks forward to next….. Click on the image above to watch the video.

It is hard to believe, but many of you are finalizing your revenue generation plans for 2020.  Your leadership team is now looking three months ahead to what the new year will look like. Plans, budgets and kickoff meetings are all being created, and the commercial/go-to-market (GTM) strategy is perpetually being fine-tuned.

Commercial/GTM strategies include the likely components around the markets you compete in, the competition, and your positioning (product, price, place, promotion, etc.). But what about the HOW when it comes to sales and others who interface with prospects and customers? Often times the plans are refined to the point of specificity, except when it comes down to what we call the tactical execution of sales, meaning how conversations are conducted with prospects and customers, one at a time.

We help our customers improve the quality of the sales opportunities they develop and increase the overall revenue in their pipeline. All sales organizations are focused on this, and we enable it with a skills-based program that is custom built for our customers based on the markets they compete in and how organizations BUY, not how they should be selling. And there is still a lot to do to close out 2019 strong.

Whether it’s the preparation for next year or fine tuning of opportunities in the pipeline now, we can help in either scenario. Our skills-based approach for all individuals in customer facing roles (this includes marketing, inside sales, customer service, product development, technical specialists) is proven to work. Take fifteen minutes to consider how we can help you meet and exceed your objectives. Ready? Let’s go!