Is your sales plan effective?

Your Sales Staff Can Be Motivated.

Is your sales plan effective? Do you offer a quality product or service? Are your sales personnel well trained?

A sales manager might say “Yes” to the foregoing questions. Even so, another ingredient is also vital. Motivation is needed. His staff must be motivated to carry out the sales plan, to offer the product or service, to use the training they’ve received.

Good sales meetings can bring about this motivation that is so necessary. Having been made more capable of doing his job, a salesman is more willing. And has more confidence and enthusiasm. Some firms have a brief sales meeting every day-yes, every day! The reason: motivation. A pep talk or two at the beginning of each day generates heavy sales activity.

You Can Exchange Ideas with Your Staff.

An exchange of information is usually quite profitable. Firms over the country have reported a long list of benefits.
* It acts as a safety valve for employees’ feelings. Why let emotions be stifled until the boiling point is reached?
* Misunderstandings are cleared up. This makes for greater harmony throughout the organization.
* You can check on employee training. A salesman is not necessarily trained even though he has been exposed to training.
* Persons recently absent can be brought up to date.
* Errors in sales strategy are prevented. Thus sales are made that otherwise would have been lost.
* Systems and procedures can be improved. For instance, there may be a better method of merchandise control … or of merchandise display.
* Plans can be coordinated. This eliminates duplication of effort. It also precludes wide gaps in planning.
* Salesmen are made to feel important. Inferiority complexes are minimized.
* The men gain confidence because of their increased knowledge and speak to customers with greater conviction.
* Having learned more about their fellow workers, the men gain new respect for each other, reducing friction.
* Teamwork becomes smoother since employees are more willing to work with each other. And better teamwork can increase sales or lower the cost of selling, or both.
* Loyalty to management is developed as management becomes better understood. Salesmen are willing to work harder and longer.
* Turnover is reduced. A happy and well-informed worker is less likely to go to work for a competitor.
Yes, all this can be accomplished in sales meetings-and more. Small meetings conducted by a sympathetic supervisor can bring a valuable exchange of ideas.

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