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Item Upon - Riding The Sales Rollercoaster
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A web design company needs more sales, so the owner focuses all her attention on finding new business and aggressively ramps things up. That’s great; except that now she has so much work that she needs to refocus her attention on project management or she’ll risk falling behind. She works
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There are two main reasons why your sales might fluctuate in this way. One is externally imposed, and the other is internally imposed, but both can be managed successfully with a little planning.
Externally imposed sales fluctuations are driven by factors outside your direct control. For example, a roofing company often can’t do much work during the rainy months, while an umbrella retailer might find it hard to make sales during the dry months.
One solution to this problem is to expand your product or service offering. Your company may have skills that are transferable to a service that is needed in your naturally slower months. For example, in our area, winter is more of a rainy season, so a roofing company could become a roofing and drainage company. They could install drainage tiles and so forth when they can’t work on roofs. Similarly, the umbrella distributor could expand its product line to include products people need in the summer.
More often, however, sales fluctuate due to the owner’s focus of attention. These are your internally imposed fluctuations, and they happen something like this.
A web design company needs more sales, so the owner focuses all her attention on finding new business and aggressively ramps things up. That’s great; except that now she has so much work that she needs to refocus her attention on project management or she’ll risk falling behind. She works
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Externally imposed sales fluctuations are driven by factors outside your direct control. For example, a roofing company often can’t do much work during the rainy months, while an umbrella retailer might find it hard to make sales during the dry months.
One solution to this problem is to expand your product or service offering. Your company may have skills that are transferable to a service that is needed in your naturally slower months. For example, in our area, winter is more of a rainy season, so a roofing company could become a roofing and drainage company. They could install drainage tiles and so forth when they can’t work on roofs. Similarly, the umbrella distributor could expand its product line to include products people need in the summer.
More often, however, sales fluctuate due to the owner’s focus of attention. These are your internally imposed fluctuations, and they happen something like this.
A web design company needs more sales, so the owner focuses all her attention on finding new business and aggressively ramps things up. That’s great; except that now she has so much work that she needs to refocus her attention on project management or she’ll risk falling behind. She works
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One solution to this problem is to expand your product or service offering. Your company may have skills that are transferable to a service that is needed in your naturally slower months. For example, in our area, winter is more of a rainy season, so a roofing company could become a roofing and drainage company. They could install drainage tiles and so forth when they can’t work on roofs. Similarly, the umbrella distributor could expand its product line to include products people need in the summer.
More often, however, sales fluctuate due to the owner’s focus of attention. These are your internally imposed fluctuations, and they happen something like this.
A web design company needs more sales, so the owner focuses all her attention on finding new business and aggressively ramps things up. That’s great; except that now she has so much work that she needs to refocus her attention on project management or she’ll risk falling behind. She works
Receiving phone calls is a part of business. As a business owner you should know this; however, do you know that those phone calls could be having a negative impact on your business? It is hard to imagine how a simple phone call could negatively impact your business, but many businesses don’t just receive one phone call.Excessive phone calls can be damaging to any business; however, they are most d
More often, however, sales fluctuate due to the owner’s focus of attention. These are your internally imposed fluctuations, and they happen something like this.
A web design company needs more sales, so the owner focuses all her attention on finding new business and aggressively ramps things up. That’s great; except that now she has so much work that she needs to refocus her attention on project management or she’ll risk falling behind. She works
There are several ways of showing your professionalism in the field of business that you have. It can be in the form of a business card, a letterhead or even a logo. Investing in these particular marketing tools would help your customers know that you are really serious about the products and services that are offering and that doing business with you would be a breeze.The most important of all thes
A web design company needs more sales, so the owner focuses all her attention on finding new business and aggressively ramps things up. That’s great; except that now she has so much work that she needs to refocus her attention on project management or she’ll risk falling behind. She works hard to get the work done, but when she finally looks up from her desk, she notices she’s out of work. So she jumps back on the sales train and digs up a bunch more work. And on it goes… the sales and production departments going back and forth from out of control busy, to sitting around with nothing to do, and back again. It’s an endless cycle that’s easy to get caught up in (we see it all the time), but it doesn’t have to work that way.
At Wardell, we manage this process using a simple, yet powerful, forward-looking sales tool. Here’s how it works.
Begin by tracking your sales process in detail. Using a spreadsheet (or your favorite sales-tracking software) track the number and dollar value of all your warm leads or sales quotes. Next, estimate a closing date for each potential sale. And finally, compare those numbers to your actual sales.
Over time, you’ll learned how many of your prospects are likely to turn into clients and when, including the potential dollar value of those sales… extremely powerful information.
Follow this simple formula, and you’ll be able to predict fairly accurately how much business is coming down the pipeline, months before you get there. If you don’t have enough prospects in the pipeline, you can do something about it before it’s too late. Conversely, if you h
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