This document provides 50 solutions for monitoring sales staff and meeting sales targets efficiently and cost-effectively. Some key solutions proposed include having sales staff submit sales results via email or a company computer system, setting up franchised business outlets to boost sales, and developing a sales information system to process data and evaluate staff performance.
1. Problem
How to monitor sales staff and to meet sales
target efficiently and cost-effctively.
2. Fifty Solutions
1. Use of tracking device inplanted into each
salesperson's I-pad.
2. Use of social media (facebook, twitter) to
communicatewith salespersons
3. Use of automatic sales staff data-input device that
feeds directly into company system.
4. Use of GPS in their handphones to track their
movement.
5. Use of tracking bracelat they wear to track them.
6. Ask them to email sales reulst.
7. Ask them to SMS sales results.
3. Fifty Solutions
8. Fax salaes manager the sales results.
9.Inform salaes manager of their sales results via
handphone call.
10. To upload sales results into company sales
computer sysytem.
11. To ask sales staff to present sales results at weekly
meeting.
12. To ask salse staff to save all sales results in
thumdrives and submit to me to process data.
13. To ask sales staff sumbit slides reports during
weekly meeting.
4. Fifty Solutions
14. Ask sales staff to speak to sales mnager in personal
meeting.
15. Ask sales satff to post their sales reprorts.
16. Ask sales staff to upload sales rerorts in video/ slides
format into company departmental portal.
17. Ask sales staff to ignore monitoring and focus on
increasing sales volume.
18. Ask top management to discard the monitoring
system and replace with commissions-based incentives.
19. Ask top managemnt to employ more staff members
and to compete and weed out poor-performers.
5. Fifty Solutions
20.To repalce the sale staff with e-commerce with B2B
system.
21.To implement multi-level marketing so that the
company can boost sale without sales staff.
22. To engage stockists or dealers to build up distribution
chain to replace sales staff.
23. To set up B2C direct e-commerce system to sell
directly to customers without dealers.
24.To set up our retail outlets to boost of our products via
store managers system to replace dealers system that
requires taking orders and servces by sales staff.
6. Fifty Solutions
25. To ask sales staff to send in sales results via sales
manager's watch that flickers with sales volume.
26. Ask the flying robots to send in the sales results
directly to sales manager.
27. Sales manager can remote control and monitor sale
volume of sales staff via an electonic gadget.
28. Ask ultraman to send in the sales volume imediately.
29. Ask the salesman to perform magic to send sales
volume to sale manager.
30. Ask salesmen to ride on flying carpets and meet
sales manager in office.
7. Fifty Solutions
31.With unlimited budget, compnay should allow sales
manager to accompny salepesons to visit dealers.
32. Company allows sales manager to travel to check on
salespersons' performance.
33. Employ supervisors to monitor salespersons' sales
activities.
34. Set up cash-and carry warehouse centrally located to
convenience dealerer and consumers.
35. Give dealers incentives to place sales order directly
with company without salesperoson's services.
36.Appoint sales agency to service dealers outside 50
miles radius.
37. Set up franchised businesses to sell company
products.
8. Fifity Solutions
38.Appoint commissioed agency to produce company's
products under patent arrangement and to market
products.
39.Outsource sales function to commissoned agency.
40.Replace salespersons with self-serve system where
customers must come and buy at company warehouse.
41.Set up strategy focus groups to discuss ways to
improve sales volume and ways to improve salespersons
performance.
42. Engage consultants to set up data process system to
correlate sales to individual salesperson's performance.
43. Develop softwares that monitors and study and
analyse data to suit company needs.
9. Fifty Solutions
44.Sell products cash at discounts through system of
intoduction without salespersons.
45. Sell products at grand exhibition fairs quarterly.
46.If sales manager can cotrol over laws of nature, he
would be able to travel through space to track the
movement of his salespersons.
47If sales manager can cotrol over laws of nature, he
would be able to make himself invisible and track the
movement of his salespersons.
48.If sales manager can cotrol over laws of nature, he
would be able to teleport the products directly onto the
customers/dealers hands, thus making salesperons'
visits at dealers redundant.
10. Fifty Solutions
49.If sales manager can cotrol over laws of nature, he
would be able to employ quantum physics and inject his
concsiousness to a prodcut and recreat again at on the
hands of cusomers.
50. If sales manager can cotrol over laws of nature, he
would be able to split himslelf into many clones to follow
all his salespersons to promote company products all at
the same time.
11. Three Selected Solutions
1. To monitor salespersons performance via
internet platform such as the email:
It is the most viable solution because it is the
cheapest, the fastest and the safest mode
available, and records are easily retrievable at
any time.
12. 2. Fanchised business outlets:
This would help boost sale volume with minimun
help of salespersons, thus removing monitroring
but replacing with sales strategy planning.But
products need to be competitively priced and
franchisees need helps to start-up and a lot of
follow up assistsnce.Difficult to find would be
investors in franchised business.
Three Selected Solutions
13. 3. Develope sales information sysytem :
This would help process data into meaningful
infomartion to evaluate performace of each satff
and ; and to help analyse the customers respone
and other attributes to plan sales strategy, and
product development.
Three Selected Solutions