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Effective sales force management depends on organization and focus, two things that many people feel are also major impediments when it comes to regular company sales meetings. If you and your sales team are beginning to dread meetings and feel as though not much is accomplished by them, here are some tips to help you get your meetings, and your sales force back on track.

Whether you are holding a routine meeting or a special meeting to discuss an important issue, it is important to take the time to prepare an agenda. Merely inviting people to talk about an issue with no direction or focus is a recipe for disaster. Even for the shortest meeting, an agenda will help the participants to focus and be more productive. An agenda will also let participants know what to expect, what will be covered in the meeting and what won’t be.

Keep your meetings as short as possible. Most people can’t devote their full attention to a meeting lasting longer than thirty minutes. If you need to go longer, include a break or two and consider breaking up the large meeting into two separate meetings. Your meeting participants will appreciate the break, and having breaks or splitting the meeting into two meetings will give your sales team time to organize their thoughts and become more effective contributors.

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The act of sales has metamorphosed over time both in nature and application. Today, sales have taken more of a technical dimension. It involves more of presenting your products and services as recipes and solutions to people’s desires than an act of making money. Selling involves building rapport with the prospect, presenting your offer, qualifying the prospect and closing the sales. The knowledge of this and its direct usage is key to effective sales. To understand how to sell effectively, let’s compare the old and new models of selling.

Years ago, the selling system takes the shine off the prospect. They are almost intimidated by the sales person who dangles sort of a carrot before them and demands a ransom. All emphasis is placed on the product and the sales person. In the old system of selling, if graded in percentages, it will look thus:-

* Building rapport with the prospect-10%
* Qualifying the prospect to ascertain if the person is capable of purchasing the offer-20%
* Presenting all that the product or service can do for the prospect-30%
* Closing the sales, ie getting the prospect to pay-40%

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