October 2024 Round-Up: Navigating Growth - A Guide To Creating Your Sales Plan
Transform your sales strategy with a comprehensive plan that captures opportunities and deepens customer relationships.
An annual sales plan is a strategic blueprint that drives revenue growth by aligning sales efforts with business goals, clearly defining targets, optimizing processes, and equipping the team with essential tools. It is critical for establishing and maintaining a competitive edge. Grounded in market insights and customer feedback, it captures new opportunities and strengthens client relationships, ensuring a seamless path to success.
Here’s how we do it.
Step 1: Review of Current State Assets
- Define sales goals/quotas and your ideal client profile.
- Optimize channel and lead flow management.
- Align sales stages with the buyer’s journey for a tailored approach.
- Equip your team with enablement tools like pitch decks and talking tracks.
- Streamline customer onboarding and leverage sales tech for efficiency.
- Develop product recommendations, pricing strategies, and a revenue forecast.
Step 2: Sales Plan Creation
- Set clear sales goals, methodologies, and metrics.
- Plan go-to-market (GTM) strategies and ensure effective sales management.
- Foster long-term client relationships through account management.
- Provide enablement tools like playbooks and templates, and optimize your tech stack.
- Create a structured template for sales forecasting and future planning.
Step 3: Drive Sustainable Results
- Set revenue targets using historical data and market insights; outline key activity metrics.
- Log, track, and review CRM activities weekly to ensure accountability and insights. Create a scorecard! Sales is a competitive sport keep score!
- Refine sales approach with feedback from customers and the sales team.
- Regularly evaluate and adjust GTM strategies to capture new opportunities.
- Align with marketing and product teams to keep sales efforts relevant.
- Provide ongoing training and resources to keep the team competitive.
Your sales plan isn't just a blueprint—it's a roadmap to growth. Whether you’re refining your current strategy or starting from scratch, this process will give you the foundation needed to scale and thrive in today’s competitive market.
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Case Study Spotlight: Kinbrace
Expanding Program Access to Canadian Refugees with HubSpot Automation
Kinbrace is a non-profit organization that provides housing, orientation, accompaniment, and education to people in Canada's refugee protection system. Staffed with some of the kindest people you’ll meet, they offer information sessions called Ready Tours to better reach refugee claimants, connecting them with information and resources to guide them in their journey to gaining refugee status.
The Need
Previously, enrollment in Ready Tours was managed manually with registration confirmations, reminders and the event link sent individually to each person enrolled. For Kinbrace to expand their reach, they needed ways to automate repetitive communication and tasks. They needed to provide clear communication regarding the Ready Tours while navigating potential accessibility barriers including claimants speaking various languages and limited access to technology.
The Challenge
Refugee claimants in Canada face numerous challenges, including language barriers, cultural adjustments, and navigating complex legal processes. Kinbrace recognized the need for streamlined support systems to assist claimants throughout their journey to gaining refugee status. Central to this support is ensuring claimants have the crucial information they need for their legal proceedings. The manual management of the registrations was hindering the program’s growth, and while automation was needed, the Kinbrace team wanted to ensure they kept a personal relationship with refugees who are navigating the uncertainties of the legal and political system. Many aspects of this project required deep knowledge of HubSpot automation and creative solutions regarding the use of custom objects, API integrations and workflows. Additionally, as Kinbrace does not host the Ready Tours, we devised a custom approach to share meeting links and calendar invites with attendees.
Learn more about how we partnered with Kinbrace to deliver an automated HubSpot solution, streamlining event registration and communication processes to help expand their reach and better serve refugee claimants across Canada.
HubSpot Users: Is your Nurture or On-Hold Stage Starting to Stake Up?
If you’ve got a pile of deals stuck in Nurture or On Hold, it’s time to boost accountability with your sales team. Let’s be honest—no one’s keeping up with that SOP you made…
Check out this quick clip to learn how a simple workflow can keep your sales pipeline moving!
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