Not Knowing Where My Business Stands

  • Too long to produce reports on key business metrics.
  • Inability to quickly visualize my business Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).
  • Difficult to get a Whole view of the business from a marketing results, sales performance and service resolutions standpoint.

Lack of a centralized, customer knowledge database

  • Too much wasted time looking up information from too many databases with incomplete information.
  • Lost territory revenue from continually ramping up of new representatives.
  • Sales visits occuring without knowledge of open or closed service issues.

Lack of customer issue / resolution tracking system

  • Lost customer revenue and large costs from product returns because of sales order non-compliance issues.
  • Missed opportunity to obtain customer feedback on product and service improvements.
  • Increased repetition of common mistakes without shared knowledge.

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Lost Revenue Potential

from not cross selling or upselling when the opportunity arises.

  • Lack of a sales opportunity management system that provides Guided Selling options.
  • Lack of easy access to previous products and service purchased.
  • Missing information about related product requests.

Missed Competitive Insights

  • Lack of a system to identify insights about competitors.
  • Sales department is not sharing the known strengths and weaknesses on competitors.
  • Identify the win/lost and no decisions on opportunities.
  • Track competitor strengths, weaknesses and build a strategy that is shared with salesforce.

Duplicated and inaccurate customer profile information

  • Reduced marketing effectiveness.
  • Reduced sales effectiveness.
  • Reduced Employee Productivity
  • Confused and Fustrated!

Longer Sales Cycles

by not using a proven, structured sales process specific to the prospective business in a target market.

  • Inaccurate sales opportunity forecasts
  • Inability to identify stuck or lagging opportunities.
  • Excessive inventory from buying the wrong raw materials to match inaccurate product forecasts.

Missed or Inaccurate Communications

among various departments on what the customer clearly needs and how they are being effectively served.

  • Fustrated customer service and sales staff- not looking "smart".
  • Wasted time finding past committments with customers and prospects.
  • Lost revenue from customers hanging up and buying competitive offering.

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