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Five Strategies To Strengthen Your Company’s Financial Management
Too many businesses wait until a crisis occurs before they start to focus on improving their financial management. Often, by that time, it can be too late. By setting aside an hour now to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your...
Ten Top Performance Management Tips
Sadly, Performance Management has got itself a bad reputation. Dreaded by those on the receiving end and considered an unproductive chore by the manager, the value and benefits have been lost. But there is another way and here are Ten Tips to help....
The Key to High Productivity is Energy Management
One of the issues most often raised by my clients is better time management. People have tried prioritizing tasks, blocking out parts of their day for certain tasks, implementing new systems and getting better at delegation. While all of those...
Time Management and the "to do" list
I recently did a web search on time management and received
50,500,000 hits. In reality probably only two to three hundred
of them were really about time management, but the prevalence of
such sites indicates how important the concept is to all...
When Is Time Management Not Enough?
A working manager needs more than time management. That old saying, “Dance with the one that brought you to the ball,” came to mind as I received a reality jolt recently. Let me share with you that jolting insight. I was in transition away from...
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Sales Activity Report for Management
Managing one's sales division can be a daunting task. This task
can be even more daunting when you are expected to manage a
large number of sales representatives. Since their success is
your number one responsibility, it is important that you
understand the conditions they are working under, the issues
they face, and how to interpret the sales reports they produce.
There are many different tools to assist you in trying to
understand your employee's sales activity reports, but perhaps
the best tools are sales
dashboards.
As you well know a sales report covers an array of important
quantifiable aspects that drive the company. For instance, with
the help of a sales report you can immediately identify your
most profitable sales representative. A sales activity report
can also help you understand how the sales representative is
performing in select areas.
Presumably the packages or services your company sells will vary
in complexity and price. Some sales representatives may be
better suited to selling the inexpensive packages while other
sales reps make the most of their time by pushing large
expensive packages, requiring a sales rep with lots of patience
and a great understanding of how to finesse a client. As a
manager, you want to make sure your employees are reaching their
full sales potential so it is your responsibility to make sure
they are in a position to succeed.
Understandably, trying to sift through a pile of individual
sales reports to determine who is best suited to sell the
companies top dollar items can be difficult. You need a
better
method which allows you to compare each sales
activity report so that you can see how your employees
compare to each other. This is where utilizing sales dashboards
can provide you with the edge you need to get your job done well.
Sales dashboards allow you the ability to directly compare the
sales production levels of individual sales representatives,
which can be sorted by sales volume, sales revenue, product type
and so forth. Using the unique features that the sales dashboard
interface offers, identifying your high dollar sales
representatives becomes a breeze.
Once you have relied on the sales dashboards to compare and
contrast the sales report of each of your employees, you can
organize your sales department in the most optimal manner. Sales
reps that are good at closing deals fast can dedicate themselves
to the low value packages, while other sales reps that are
masters at closing the high value deal can dedicate themselves
to pushing your company's most expensive products.
Thus by making the most of the tools available to you, such as
sales dashboards, you can take some of the pressure off your own
shoulders. Understanding and interpreting a sales
report or a sales activity report can be simplified by
employing powerful sales dashboards.
Adam Smith is an informational author for 10X Marketing. To
learn more about digital
dashboards please visit Corda.com
About the author:
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