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Here Are 11 Advices That Sales Consultants Never Tell You Upfront

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Sales and other executives are often bursting at the seams with suggestions about how to boost sales for a business. However, it’s hard to determine on an internal level specifically what to do to raise the bar on performance when there are so many options—options involving people, structure, process, remuneration, management, and training.

Pearl Lemon Sales will help you decide which avenues will lead to significant increases in sales numbers and revenue growth as a top sales consultancy with advanced analysis tools and experienced sales consultants who are ready to put their experience to work for you.

Working with Pearl Lemon Sales on a sales consulting project means you’ll engage with a sales consultant that knows your industry inside and out and will work with you to identify the improvements you need to implement to see significant sales growth. Then we’ll assist you in making the transitions from recommendations to collective action to get the recommended sales strategies in place and up and running.

In terms of sales consulting, we can offer our services to a wide variety of businesses of all sizes and across a wide range of industries and niches, as well as to individual entrepreneurs. In short, if you sell something, our sales consulting team will help you determine how you can sell it better, and sell more of it.

When Should You Seriously Consider Sales Consulting?

At what point should you consider getting sales consulting from an outside provider like Pearl Lemon Sales? To be honest, we don’t think there is ever a bad time to do so, but you may want to consider the prospect very seriously if any of the following apply to you and your business right now.

You are Falling Behind Your Competition

Have you noticed any big changes in your business, such as decreased sales, losing ground to competition, investors withdrawing, or losing major clients? If that’s the case, it’s time to start seriously discussing the possibility of hiring a sales consultant. Their knowledge and abilities will assist you in devising unique tactics to improve your sales process, close more business and, ultimately, resurrect your company.

Your Sales Team is Confused

A sales cycle is one of numerous components that make up a successful firm. It’s not only a sales cycle, though. It needs to be concise and unambiguous, with all sales processes defined and in a logical order. For successful sales, your sales personnel should understand and follow these processes. But they can’t do that if the guidance they have is unclear, or barely exists at all.

Working with a sales consulting team from Pearl Lemon Sales will ensure that you do have clear sales processes in place and that your sales team does understand them, and the part they need to play in them. Even the very best sales people can’t sell the way you expect them to if they do not have the training and leadership support they need to do so.

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Your Sales Forecasts are Constantly Off the Mark

Sales forecasting assists firms in predicting sales and revenue, as well as evaluating performance and implementing effective sales solutions. It is also one of the biggest tools a business has in their arsenal when it comes to attracting investors (and keeping existing ones happy.)

If your sales forecasts are constantly off the mark, not only will your employees become disillusioned, but so will your investors and potential investors. And, as accurate sales forecasting calls for a lot more than plugging numbers into an automated software, it’s easy to get it all wrong.

When working with Pearl Lemon Sales on sales consulting, our experts will show you where your sales forecasting processes are going wrong and how to improve them.

Sales Team Employee Turnover is High

If your sales team turnover is high, there are reasons for that. Figuring out what they are and how to make yours a business that top sales producers want to work for – and keep working for – is something that sales consulting can definitely help with.

The more skilled the sales talent you have, the better. That’s simple common sense. But making money is not all it takes to keep top sales talent. The best salespeople like to be challenged, they want to know that there are advancement opportunities available to them once they come on board, and they need a leadership team willing to give them the tools, training and working conditions they need to succeed.

If you find yourself spending too much time – and money – on hiring sales employees who don’t stick around for long, something is wrong with the processes you are making use of. Sales consulting from Pearl Lemon Sales will help you determine what that is and how to fix the problems, so you can attract the top salespeople your business needs to succeed.

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Your Margins Are Down

Have you noticed that your profit margins are shrinking or that your sales volume is continuously decreasing? Then hiring a sales consultant would be a smart idea. They will assist in identifying issues and developing strategies to address them.

They will also assist sales reps in improving their sales cycles by implementing effective tactics for enhancing the company’s sales margin and their own close rates.

Sales Consulting From Pearl Lemon Sales Just Makes Sense

You are still a human being, as well as a business leader. Even if you can implement sales training on your own, you almost certainly don’t have the bandwidth to do so effectively. You’ll always have at least ten things on your to-do list for today, tomorrow, and 6 months from now. As a result, hiring a sales consultant will help you scale while also allowing you to focus on the many other critical duties that require your attention every day.

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Sales Consulting FAQs

 

Good sales consultants must have the following traits (and then some) to be successful:

  • a positive and persuasive attitude
  • willingness to follow up and through on sales leads 
  • have a fearless attitude and approach to their work

For some, these traits are a natural part of their personality. If you struggle with any of these points. Our sales consulting experts have these traits and can teach these traits all while identifying where you could improve.

Our sales consulting helps you by pinpointing the exact places you and your team need to improve. We understand that you and your team are busy and may not have the time to do an in depth analysis. Leave this with our team 🙂

We will analyse your sales process and team and help you craft a plan to improve.

From our team of sales consultants you should expect only the best of the best. 

This includes:

  • analysing your teams performance
  • analysing your KPIs
  • providing training for you and your team
  • finding any places where bottlenecks may be occurring
  • and more…

Bringing in a sales consultant is like bringing in a sales hacker.

They will be able to look at all of your current methods and systems and find what needs to change so you can improve.

Identifying these key spaces can help you potentially increase sales, improve profit margins, improve your teams productivity and more.

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