The document discusses a "Smart Selling" program to help businesses grow by providing sales intelligence discovery, designing sales toolboxes, profiling customer databases, and generating sales opportunities to position vendors and partners as proactive sales generators. The program aims to equip sales teams with the right selling tools and arguments to identify customer needs and deliver the right quotations to customers. Similar past programs using this "Lemon sales methodology" included quick launches, channel recruitment, and sales opportunity identification.
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Smart Selling Program
1. Growing your business ‘Smart Selling’Program ExecutiveSummary xavier.olivella@lemon-sales.com
2. 2 Some Typical Vendor Challenges Related to vendor issues: - Value proposition based on pricing and features - Customer needs are different for different markets and/or products - Customer profiling not based in purchase motion - Lead generation activities driven by vendor activities - Customer information comes from different and disconnected sources - Services sales cycle is longer than product sales cycle Related to vendor channel partners: - Lack of accurate channel partners funnel - Difficult to have same customer pitch everywhere - Partners do not assign enough resources to cover vendor expectations - Few partners are proactive for promoting low margin products - Few partners are proactive to follow-up vendor generated leads
3. 3 ‘Smart Selling’ Program Objectives Positioning vendor as a proactive sales generator of deal opportunities. Equipping vendor and partner inbound and outbound sales teams with the right selling argumentation and tools to help them to identify customer needs instead of discovering what they could buy.
4. 4 Program Overview Sales Intelligence Discovery Develop, test and adjust key selling points. Lemon resources Build the right sales tools to deliver the right quotation to the right customer on time Sales ToolboxDesign Get the right information to detect opportunities Database Profiling Vendor or partner resources Ensure sales resources are focused on the right sales opportunities at the right time. Sales Generation