CRO Leadership Matrix
The CRO role – like all executive roles – is a combination of coaching, accountability, motivation and staffing. All too often CRO’s get busy with prospects, customers, and new market opportunities such that the consistency and effectiveness in their leadership role gets set aside. To avoid that mistake, we use a leadership activity matrix in [...]
Zero Visibility Sales Forecasts Spell Trouble
Here is an article I wrote for the B2B Buzz blog.
An excerpt:
When you take a close look at how companies utilize their sales staffs, there are two clear reasons for Zero Visibility Sales Forecasts:
Salespeople are allowed to create their own forecast process
The forecast process aligns perfectly with the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Sales Model
Left [...]
CRO and ACT!
Part of our Mission is to deliver the tools, processes and systems C.R.O.’s need to succeed. Here is a recent development that has been a frequent topic of discussion with our C.R.O. clients.
One of the process benefits of the 4 Aces forecast model is objective clarity about where you are in the qualifying process meaning [...]
2011…The Year of Forecast Training
As 2011 starts, we are seeing signs of economic improvement and companies moving to “restart” their revenue growth process. Our observation is sales managers are calling about sales training and Chief Revenue Officers (CRO’s) are calling about Forecast Training. Here’s why – CRO’s know that when they have prospects objectively positioned in their forecast process [...]
The Canary in the Coal Mine
One of our CRO level book reviewers recently commented…
You’ve really got some powerful stuff here. The way you approach issues from a common sense, realistic position …comes through loud and clear. The path seems so obvious at times but it never ceases to amaze me how many people (CRO’s) end up so far off the [...]
Salesopedia Article-The Bankable Forecast
Q1 is here and staring you in the face. As all CRO’s know, sales is a tendentious field dominated by a simple question – What have you done for me lately? 2009 is gone and the new year holds expectations for revenue improvement. So what is your outlook for 2010? How strong is your forecast? [...]
The Nemesis of All Sales Campaigns
Many readers have talked to me about the comparison I make in the book between sales and poker. There are at least three similarities between poker and selling that are easily recognized but the most toxic parallel is the risk of ‘winning’ both the longest average sales cycles and the highest sales cost as a [...]
What Companies Really Want From Sales Training
My experience with sales training requests in over a half dozen senior executive roles were all amazingly similar. The justifications attached to the appropriation requests contained combinations of the following:
Our reps can’t get to the decision maker.
We need our reps to be more aggressive.
Morale needs a boost.
We need better closing techniques.
Marketing is cutting back promotions [...]
Carl Moe is the founder of CRO Success, an organization dedicated to developing and delivering the tools, processes and systems CRO’s need to succeed. Moe specializes in helping restructure revenue systems for sustainable growth and optimized performance.
