What Comes Next?
Although many people do not realize it, every business needs a sales process. The sales process is simply a list of what comes next. Most organizations start their business by marketing to prospects and existing customers. They put out a message announcing something new, something exciting, or something very valuable, and hope to interest people in buying it. But a surprising number of business people don’t fully think through what happens after a person responds to the marketing.
This sequence of events that occurs when a customer or a prospect acts on a marketing message is called a sales process. Having a well thought out and refined sales process is essential to achieving success in any business environment. The sales process has to be fluid, seamless, and most of all – effective. Without a solid and functional sales process in place, prospects will respond to a marketing message but then nothing will happen. If no sales are closed of course, the enterprise cannot continue to exist.
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