Sales Manager Duties: Is being on Twitter one of them? Here are 10 Reasons why it should be.
Sales Manager Duties: Is being on Twitter one of them? Here are 10 Reasons why it should be.
As a sales manager your duties are many and varied never more so than now in the new business economy. The question is will updating Twitter be one of them.
Now that is an interesting one. Am I on twitter? the answer is yes. Have I found any value? Actually yes. For another part of our business.
The value of twitter is really rapid communication in 140 characters or less. Now that really does focus the mind.
The question I would ask you is what would be your outcome for signing up for twitter be is it part of your overall long range plan or strategy?
If it is then go for it. If not could it be?
Lets just think of some top reasons Twitter could help you:
1. It generates leads for you. Period. People you can then direct message. How good is that!
2. Its friendly to techno phobes and non geeks.
3. It gives free advertising to you, your product or service no outrageous PPC fees or yellow page advertising. Basically it costs
nothing to join.
4. You can search for contacts using an advanced search.
Type in a key word and it will bring up all the conversations going on with that word..amazing?. So say you are interested in
one particular type of customer e.g. real estate put that in your search.You will then see a list of people.
Have a look at them and their profile if they look interesting follow them. Top tip follow the people they follow as well.
5. The law of reciprocity works. If you follow some one they will follow you back. Therefore a potential new customer. It is one
of the easiest ways to develop a tribe of followers
6. Building relationships to create wealth. Easy to do with Twitter. Don’t just twitter about your product all the time with
every tweet…boring and a great way to switch people off. Reveal a little more about you. What you like doing.
Share some free resources, top tips.This way you wiil get noticed.
I unfollow people who straight away say ” go and look at my free report” Long term sales growth comes from building
a relationship first never forget that
7. Use your communications i.e. Tweets as a way to add value to potential customers.Use somethin like www.tinycc.com to short url websites you are sharing. This will save you lots of characters!
8. With a focussed attitude it does not take much time. Check out ping.fm.
Sign up for a free account. You can even manage to tweet from your phone by SMS text in you live in the US.
In fact with ping.fm you can link all your social network accounts.
9. Make sure you have a compelling bio that draws people in and ideally a website url that offers something of value.
10. It enhances your brand helps people get a sense of you and your service. Costs very little time or effort.
It is really easy to sign up to. A top tip is go and get yourself a google mail account it is really easy to do and will help you stream line all those people that start following you when you sign up to twitter.
There are many guides out there about twitter. PLus some different software programmes some free and some paid that help you generate followers on auto pilot. Easy Tweets is one that is very popular.
Then log in and either use your own name as we do or?? why not use a keywod that is associated with your product or service offering.
So that is very much top line. to get you started. I have linked to a couple of low cost resources you can buy.
One a guide with instructional videos.
The other some software to fast track your results.
Or just google twitter advice or guides. It will get you started.
To you and your teams success
Best Wishes
Denise and Sharon
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Changes To The Managing Sales People Blog
Over the next week or so the look of the Managing Sales people blog will change. With some new graphics.
On top of this we will have a new 49 page Ebook for all new and current subscribers to the blog.
For those of you already subscribed. I will send a link by email so you can download your own copy.
In addition we have lots of new things comming which we hope you will enjoy.
These will include Videos and podcasts and access to teleseminars.
Have a great Weekend
As I type this the sun is actually shining in the lakes in England. And believe it or not we are only wearing three layers!!
Take Care
Denise and Sharon
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Sales Team Meltdown: How Customer Friendly Are Your Sales Team?
How customer friendly are your sales team.
I thought you might like this reflection on customer service that was reported just over a week ago in the US at an Apple store.
Woman 1: (Late 60s) I’m looking for a J-Phone. My grandson wants me…
Guy Clerk: (Early 20s, black clothes, designer glasses.) (Sneers.) We don’t carry J-phones.
Woman 1: This is the Apple store? Yes, J-phones.
Guy Clerk: Sorry. No Js. Any other letters?
Woman 1: (Confused) Uh…
Other Woman: (Good samaritan) She means “I”. What’s wrong with you?
Guy Clerk: Oh. “I.” Of course. iPhones. We carry them.
Woman 1: (Places her outdated phone on counter next to iPhone) Isn’t a phone a phone? What’s the difference between these?
Guy Clerk: You mean other than yours was made before the Industrial Revolution, before dinosaurs roamed the earth…and no one living in this century would be caught…
Woman 1: You’re not happy are you? You think you’re better than being a sales person at the mall.
Guy Clerk: (surprised, pauses.) No. Yes. I guess…
Woman 1: You’re not. You’re a sales clerk and you’re rude and small. I’d like to speak with your supervisor.
Guy Clerk: (contrite) Look, I’m…
Woman 1: Now. (Sales guy still hesitates.) Not tomorrow. Now.
A great lesson to actually communicate and evaluate what our sales teams are up to. It reminds me of a number of communications I have overheard in a certain electrical store in the UK beginning with C. I won’t name it as It has pretty good prices and I am a customer!
Encourage your sales team to respect every customer they have. It will bring them untold benefits. Let’s give you a very recent example.
The inlaws are staying till Monday. Which is really positive. They do the garden. By toilet rolls! Cook food and bring high class Marks and Spencer biscuits. What more could you want. Talk about service.
Last night we had a amusing conversation about white Carrots? Yes white carrots. To the knowledgeable vegetable experts amongst us they are actually Parsnips. How ever mum in law gets a bit confused and calls them white carrots.
Drum roll please and get ready for a gold star Tesco. Earlier this week Barbara alias Mum in law asked one of the young sales guys for white carrots. He promptly found them for her weighed them out and then very sweetly wispered in her ear that they are actually called Parsnips.
Now yes this is an amusing story and yet here I am sharing it with potentially over a few thousand people that visit this blog. On top of that it will be shared around a number of our friends as well. Do you think that the Brits that visit this blog and my friends might be more disposed to Tesco? I think so.
I am sure your sales team already do this? and as a sales manager one really useful sales manager duties to remind people of the obvious. It can bring untold free promotion and branding onto your products and services.
In case you didn’t guess its Delia’s winter vegetables tonight. Marinated for 24 hours! no less.
Have a great weekend
To You and Your teams success
Denise
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Sales Manager Duties:…..Do you Know Where To Start?
Sales Manager Duties, where do you start. Well if you want to win with your team and don’t know what to do first. Join us on this tele training. Which costs you nothing apart from some time a notebook and pen.
Tele-training event: Thursday March 5th 8pm GMT 3pm Eastern
We are wondering how often you have asked yourself the following questions in the last few months.
Being a sales manager is harder than I thought.
Why am I working so hard and not seeing the results?
What do I need to focus on first?
How do I motivate my team to really go for it?
How can I grow my sales and hit targets and quotas in the current?
Economy?
Why don’t the team just do as they are told?
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Best Wishes
Denise and Sharon
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