Planning
As a society, we aren’t great planners. B2B business development can typically take up to 3-12 months or more. Very often our planning focus is on the next week or so. This is a design for a train wreck.
This module helps sales team members do appropriate prospect analysis and devise a longer term battle plan consistent with the selling cycle.
It both provides guidance to the other modules and draws on the other modules for input.
This module includes:
- analysis of the opportunity
- why the prospect is in search mode
- what are our challenges
- the decision-maker analysis
- what are the PIKs – the payments in kind – we seek to advance the process
- our sales plan and micro marketing plan
- our Pre-Mortem – trying to deeply understand the risk factors, from the prospect’s perspective
For a 1 minute video on the battle plan, please click on the image below.
An option for this module is the book of knowledge, which summarizes the customized standard sales call: