The first 90 days and Sales and Marketing Director can be challenge. This simple guide will help you focus on what really matters and keep out what doesn't...
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The first 90 days
Sales and Marketing Director
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Sales and Marketing Director
Don’t worry…
…the worst has
yet to come…
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Sales and Marketing Director
MARKETS
CUSTOMERS
ANALYSIS
COMPANY
POLITICS
PRODUCTS
MARGINS
TEAM
STRATEGY
So many things to worry about…
PRICING
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Sales and Marketing Director
How do you feel now?
EXCITED SCARED
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Sales and Marketing Director
Planning is bringing the future into the present
so that you can do something about it now.
Alan Lakein
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Alan Lakein
All you need is a plan…
…and something more…
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Sales and Marketing Director
IDEOLOGICAL PRAGMATIC
Don’t worry… …you need both…
…and something more…
vs.
Planning at the desk vs.
planning in the trenches
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Sales and Marketing Director
Your ideological plan…
PEOPLE
PRODUCT
PROCESS
Do you know your People: sales network, customers, colleagues…
Do you know your Products:Technical and Commercial (what created AV)
Do you understand how your business works? What about your Company?
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Sales and Marketing Director
Your pragmatic plan…
STRATEGY
MEET
CHECK
Put down a short term strategy.A list of few things to accomplish in the
very short term, this will help your and yourTeam morale
Meeting too often is generally a waste of time, but a systematic meeting schedule
with yourTeam and peers allows you to keep track and create expectance
See how you’re doing, and see how you’reTeam is doing. Don’t be afraid
of negative results, be ready to readapt your short term strategy
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Sales and Marketing Director
…something more!
MISSION
VALUES
VALUE PROPOSITION
Do you know what your Company mission is?
Can you write it down in one sentence?
What are your values? And your Company values? And youTeam values?
Are you all aligned?
What do you sell?
Can you write it down in one sentence?
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Sales and Marketing Director
Listen and readapt: be ALIVE!
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Sales and Marketing Director
Sales and Marketing…
SALES
…or Marketing and Sales
MARKETING
Strategy Execution
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Sales and Marketing Director
Sales and Marketing…
SALES
…or Marketing and Sales
MARKETING
Marketing focuses
on the needs of the buyer
Selling focuses
on the needs of the seller
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer
so well the product or service fits him and sells itself
Peter Drucker
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Sales and Marketing Director
Focus on the Big Picture
EFFICIENCY
DOYOUR HOMEWORK
SOLVING PROBLEMS
Don’t waste time on efficiency. Focus on what’s important!
You can only improve what you can measure
Is not how you grow.You grow by exploiting new opportunities…
HAVEYOUR SHORTTERMTARGET CLEAR
Long-range planning does not deal with the future decisions,
but with the future of present decisions