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Clive Griffiths
Clive Griffiths
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Asked this question recently:

How does one become more strategic in sales planning?

My answer ... it depends.

Are we talking about territory planning, deal planning, or call plannng?

All of these have a strategic element. Yes, even call planning.

Now the question asker, they wanted to know about stratgeic territory planning. So, here's what I said:

Start with the numbers.

-- Start with your annual sales target.
-- And your average deal size.
-- Divide the target by average deal size.
-- That's about the number of deals you need to win this year.
-- Now, work backward using that number and your win rate.
-- That's how many leads you need to generate and work on.

Then, start looking at the territory ...

See how that works?

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