Friday, December 19, 2008

Save Your Sales! Can Online Sales Software Help You?

With the recession firmly in our midst, this is an ideal opportunity to review your business processes and establish whether you are working to your absolute optimum.

Are you making the most of every lead?

Do you spend more time on arduous admin duties then actually selling?

Are your sales team "on the ball" with existing customers as well as new prospects?

Don't know? Well you need to know the answers to these questions and more because they could be costing you your time, your sales and your profits. Here's how online sales software can give you the answers to these questions and many more for the benefit of your business and your future.......

Lead Management is usually critical to the success of an organisation; however the management of sales leads is often very haphazard. If you're spending a great deal of time and money acquiring sales leads only to fail to maximise on their potential, losing countless deals and money through poor lead management, you need to act now! An Online Sales Solution can solve this problem for you at the touch of a button! You can:

  • Obtain accurate and up to the minute records of prospective leads.
  • Ensure your leads are responded to at the right time.
  • Create a central database for easy access by all employees.

Automated documentation such as; letters, quotes and more complicated documents are notoriously laborious in the business world. They are often full of errors and mistakes and can take up a huge amount of time which should be put to better use elsewhere. With an online sales software tool, you can:

  • Instantly remove the chance of errors from mis-keyed information.
  • Speed up the production of lengthy or complicated documents.
  • Quickly create personalised documents for your customers.

Sales Team Management is a prerequisite to your company's success. Your sales teams need to be flexible and be able to respond appropriately either in or out of the office. Whether working from home or on the road it's essential to be able to easily recall and update customer records. It's also imperative that no matter where the sales team are the management team always have a complete and clear picture of all sales activity; by team or by individual, just as if they were in the office. Successful sales team management will give you complete control over your sales processes and resources, the right tools to effectively manage, forecast and report through all phases of the sales cycle.

  • Ensure your sales team does everything possible to achieve their targets.
  • Identify training needs and implement the relevant action.
  • Increase income for the sales team and profit for the company.

SalesFlow, a market leader in sales software solutions have experienced a sharp rise in business as more and more companies want to save time and money through the benefits of sales software. Steve Hull, Chairman of Sawfish Software said, "We are all well aware of the impact the recession is having on businesses in the UK and around the world. But this is not a time to bury heads in the sand, it's a time to streamline your business and ensure you maximise on every opportunity. Our customers are doing just that and reaping the benefits."

So Save your Sales with a software solution who will do it for you!

Virginia Hull is an employee of Sawfish Software and specialises in Online Sales Software.