The Complete Guide to Accelerating Sales Force Performance: How to Get More Sales from Your Sales Force - Hardcover

Zoltners

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814406505 ISBN 13: 9780814406502

Publisher: Amacom, 2001

Synopsis

"Every firm’s sales force combines the distinctive personalities of its members with the complex issues of size, pay structure, incentives, performance evaluation, and effective uses of new technology. And while underrepresented in most marketing texts, the success of the sales force is a major component in the overall success of most companies.

The Complete Guide to Accelerating Sales Force Performance develops an effective, innovative framework for evaluating and improving the performance of any sales force. This book identifies and describes the key factors for creating a fast-track, go-to-market strategy. It’s loaded with proven ideas for improving such ""success drivers"" as:

culture * sales force structure * hiring * sales manager selection * training * compensation * technology * sales territory design * goal setting * performance management.

Packed with valuable insights and real-life examples, this guide is an excellent source of practical ideas for sales and marketing managers in all industries."

About this title

Synopsis

"The Complete Guide to Accelerating Sales Force Performance" presents an effective, innovative framework for evaluating and improving the performance of any sales force. It identifies and describes the key factors for creating a fast-track, go-to-market strategy. It's loaded with proven ideas for improving such "success drivers" as: culture; sales force structure; hiring; sales manager selection; training; compensation; technology; sales territory design; goal setting; and performance management. This is a basic guide for one of the most basic pressures on sales managers - how to "ratchet up" your sales force performance, providing a framework for evaluating sales force effectiveness, and a structure for making better sales force decisions. The book supplies highly practical solutions and processes and is packed with valuable insights and real-world examples from companies the authors have personally consulted for. It describes best practices for improving sales force effectiveness and explains how a sales force can adapt to changing technology, the Internet and the new economy.

"The Complete Guide to Accelerating Sales Force Performance" allows the reader to tap into the latest thinking on sales force issues, so they are prepared to lead a successful selling organization into the new century.

About the Author

"Andris A. Zoltners, Ph.D., (Evanston, IL) is Professor of Marketing at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Prabhakant Sinha, Ph.D., (Evanston, IL) is Managing Director of ZS Associates.

Greggor A. Zoltners (Durham, NC) is a finance and marketing consultant."

Edition details

• Publisher: Amacom
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0814406505
• ISBN 13: 9780814406502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 448