How to develop and use a sales funnel

Understand your sales funnel to make it work for you.

You don’t have to be working around sales people for very long before you start hearing about “Sales Funnels” or “Sales Pipelines”.  But what are they and how do they affect you? Or rather, why should you care about them and do you need one? If you don’t understand yours, you’re missing several tricks and [...]

How Does Your Market Work?

What's in YOUR Sales Funnel?

Would you be able to describe how your market functions to someone else? A friend? A colleague? Could you tell that person how you learn of opportunties to sell your stuff and how you convert it into a sale for your company? Could you describe the stages in your particular market’s sales funnel? See if [...]

Proposal Management Plan

Business Proposal Writing - Plan

Everybody involved directly in the production of the bid documents needs to understand how it is to be managed. An obvious statement, maybe. But the form in which they can receive this information can vary depending on the size (and geographical spread) of the team and the size of the opportunity. The workload of the bid and [...]

Proposal Writing: 7 Assessment Questions You Need Answering

Outstanding Evaluation

Proposal Writing: If your prospective customer has mature processes it is very likely they will have already decided how the proposals they receive will be assessed. This is important information for you and will greatly impact how you write the proposal. Here are 7 Questions you need answers to before writing your Proposal: 

Opportunity Qualification: 5 ways to ensure an opportunity is worth chasing

Scales

For business development managers the problem is not that there are no opportunities but that there are too many potential opportunities to chase with only a limited amount of finance and resource available to prosecute them successfully.  A key tactic for successful business capture is to only fight the battles you believe you are going [...]

Business Development 12-Module Online Course Launch

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I’ve been very pleased with the level of interest shown in the online course.  More people are subscribing to the mail list every day, which is gratifying.  I’m now in a position to set the launch date: 18th May at 1400 BST. Membership is restricted  for this first launch to ensure that a quality of service [...]

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