Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2011

5 Stages of the New Sales Cycle This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Generating and converting leads is mostly what marketing is about. Some have cycles that are triggered by events, such as the birth of a child or start of a business. Below are the 5 stages in the new sales cycle.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2021

I had to throw out my desire to build a perfect strategy and forecast for the business. When contacting references, ask for five minutes later that day vs. scheduling the call for days out. The most common mistake I see in a startup’s sales process is the salesperson failing to clarify the next step.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

You know, is there a place for what people might refer to as brand advertising or you know, long sale cycle trust building type of advertising as opposed to, you know, how do I get today's dollars? And then we can start, once the data is right, then we can start to forecast and predict better.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

As one example, think about forecasting sales based on market potential and competition, rather than simply on historical results by salesperson. If that leads us to needing additional sales people, can we forecast the benchmark for productivity based on past results? Build our internal capacity to grow?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

3:59] Why people don’t refer businesses they love. [5:23] 8:53] Introduce the idea of referrals in the sales process. [9:58] 89% of them claimed that they had a business that they loved enough, that they would, that they would gladly refer gladly recommend and only 29% of them actually did it. You can trust them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2016

There are things that you need to track over time for reporting, forecasting and goal setting, but there usually only a couple things that matter day to day, week to week, regarding your current highest payoff priorities and those need to go on a dashboard that you can visit daily. Typical sales dashboard metrics include: Leads.

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