Sales Effectiveness Survey
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Skills
Not speaking with enough new prospects
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 Not closing enough new business
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Margins are getting thinner - price pressure
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Wasting time with people who end up not doing business with us (not qualifying)
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Talking too much and not listening to the prospect
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Our people are not as consultative as I would like, they dump product knowledge
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Not getting enough good high quality referrals
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Closing business, but it is not profitable enough for all the work it takes
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Not capturing our share of the business with some existing clients
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Frustrated by committee decisions that are huge time-wasters for us
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Spending too much time with people that are not decision makers
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Not closing business fast enough- the sales cycle has gotten longer
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Inconsistent with our sales results
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Facing a lot more competition than we used to and we are no longer winning our share
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Being used for our information like price, creative ideas, demos, resources (free consulting)
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Staff
Keep hiring salespeople who don’t work out
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Can’t figure out why some people are doing well and others aren’t
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Don’t know which salespeople we should stick with long term and who to cut
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Are not sure that we have the “right people in the right seats on the bus”
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The sales team doesn’t seem motivated
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Must hire a better caliber salesperson to compete today, but don’t know where to begin
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We hire technical people who know our business, but they’re not effective at bringing in business
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Feel daunted by the thought of hiring a sales team that really can perform
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Have never managed a sales force before and uncomfortable or unsure of the best practices
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Hire good interviewers, but sometimes find that they are mediocre salespeople
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Would like to try to hire people outside of the industry, but can’t afford costly mistakes
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Would be in real trouble if our #1 salesperson left
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Would be in real trouble if owner/sales manager stopped selling
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My best salespeople quit, but the mediocre ones stay around forever
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Structure
Don’t have a way to effectively hold salespeople accountable
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Don’t know if our compensation plan is helping or hurting our efforts to grow
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Wonder  why our experienced sales force doesn’t go after new business
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Haven’t seen measurable improvements in the bottom line since we hired a sales manager
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When performance is suffering, we’re not as effective at coaching our people as we should be
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We don’t have an effective way to on-board new salespeople- it takes them too long to ramp up
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“Winging it” when it comes to sales, there is no repeatable sales process
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My people aren’t 100% sure of what selling activities are expected of them each day
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My people don’t have a prospecting plan that provides a mix of selling activities that drive business
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When I try to establish daily or weekly activity goals they feel like its “Big Brother” watching them
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Strategy
Don’t have a clearly defined “ideal client” profile that everyone agrees upon
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Are uncertain as to the right way to get in front of enough of those “ideal clients”
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We struggle to differentiate ourselves and “sound different” than the competition
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Deliver superior service/product to our customers, but aren’t getting superior price or margins
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Have too much revenue coming from too few accounts
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Feel reactive to the industry and economy
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Have lost some key accounts and aren’t sure why
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Are getting the “low hanging fruit”, but can’t seem to crack the tougher ones that would be “ideal”
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Our customers could buy more types of products from us, but we struggle to expand the relationship
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We struggle to displace competitively held accounts
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These problems have probably cost me or my company ______________________ in lost revenues or opportunities in the past 12 months. *
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