Increase Business Growth with these Sales & Marketing Business Planning and Business Assessment Tools

Conduct your own business review with these business planning and assessment tools.

Consultants are famous for reading your watch and telling you the time. There are times when it is difficult to see the wood for the trees. Working in a business can mean being too close to take in the wider picture and appreciate the simple things that can lead to extraordinary improvements.

Without an outside perspective, a business might carry on striving for ever, without identifying the change that will create a breakthrough. A business review or formal business assessment reveals hidden potential and opportunities.

An external consultant might provide the necessary perspective and business planning skills, yet it seems an expensive way to do something that owners should be able to do themselves.

This collection of eight business assessment and business review tools provides the missing vision. Each tool offers a new perspective, prompts new ideas, reveals potential solutions, and renews enthusiasm for progress.

Assessment ensures that business planning accounts for all important elements, eventualities, and contingencies.

We are offering two collection configurations for a monthly or one time fee. Options 1 & 2 include all of the tools and options 3 & 4 includes just the three business development assessments. Read on for a description of each element.

Marketing Plan

Assess the quality of existing marketing plans. If there is no plan, use this tool to assess the effectiveness of current marketing activities and discover easy opportunities for improvement. Establish an ideal to work towards, or stimulate thinking prior to preparing a plan.

Gain instant single glance feedback indicating the completeness of a plan, the compliance of established activities, or a reflection of capabilities. Use the information to make improvements, initiate action, or develop ideas.

Sales Plan

Use this tool to assess the quality of an existing sales plan. Assess compliance with or without a plan. Identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities to improve methods, habits, practices. Use it to improve existing plans or as a template for new plans.

Data is presented in a radar chart offering easy appreciation and feedback on plan robustness, the alignment of current activities, or a reflection of capabilities. Use the information to make improvements, initiate action, or develop ideas.

Sales and Marketing Plan Alignment

The alignment tool turns a spotlight on the harmony between sales and marketing and the integrity of sales and marketing plans. The business buying process used by people to find and evaluate solutions is changing rapidly. More and more people are turning to online tools and information to address issues and solve problems. Now more than ever, sales and marketing functions must work together if sales people are to influence the new decision making process of digitally literate customers.

The single glance feedback provides an instant appreciation of the opportunities to increase cooperation between sales and marketing departments.

Customer Skills Assessment and Validation

Assessing customer skills helps managers identify opportunities to improve the customer experience and raise customer satisfaction levels. In addition, the assessment tool can be used for training needs analysis, development planning, appraisals, and candidate selection. It provides a structure for independent assessment and validation of results from a matching Customer Skills self-assessment questionnaire. Comparing self-assessment results with validation scores, provides additional insight and information for guiding development, training, appraisal, and selection.

Sales Knowledge Assessment and Validation

This tool helps managers assess the sales knowledge of customer facing staff, account managers, and sales people. It can be used for training needs analysis, development planning, appraisals, and candidate selection. It provides a structure to support both independent assessment and validation of results from a matching Sales Knowledge self-assessment questionnaire. The self assessment has the affect of expanding sales knowledge and increasing ability to use it in customer interactions.

Sales Skills Assessment and Validation

Sales ability is notoriously difficult to judge. This assessment equips managers and practitioners with the means to define and measure sales competence. It can be used for training needs analysis, development planning, and candidate selection. It provides a structure to support both independent assessment and
validation of results from a matching Sales Skills self-assessment questionnaire.

Sales Stage Assessment

Identifying the current stage of any sale helps improve planning, tactics, and forecasting. Managers can use this tool to support independent assessment of opportunities or as a coaching tool to improve understanding of the sales process.

Have this tool customised to precisely match your particular sales process. Special versions can presented privately on this site or on a separate hosted site.

Sales Win Predictor

Use this tool to score the likelihood of winning any particular sale and find out how to increase the odds in your favour. The questions posed in this assessment offer managers a powerful means of independently assessing the status of sales opportunities. It is an effective coaching aid and has the potential to reduce wasted effort, improve forecast accuracy, and increase sales results.

Have this tool customised to include questions specific to your sales environments. Regular use increase sales results by reducing time wasted on sales that don't happen, can't be won, or wouldn't be worthwhile. Special versions can presented privately on this site or on a separate hosted site.

How to Buy

Option 1 - One months single person access to the three business assessments, Marketing Plan, Sales Plan, and Alignment for £9.95. No contract. Renews automatically each month. Cancel with one months notice.

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Option 2 - Unlimited single person access to the three business assessments, Marketing Plan, Sales Plan, and Alignment for a one time fee of £195.

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Option 3 - One months single person access to all eight assessment and validation tools for £19.95. No contract. Renews automatically each month. Cancel with one months notice.

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Option 4 - Unlimited single person access to all eight assessment and validation tools for a one time fee of £495.

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Option 5 - Comprehensive business performance review conducted by a SalesSense consultant. Detailed feedback report including results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations for £1495.

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Note: All fees exclude applicable VAT.

If you need to address business issues, increase business performance, improve sales & marketing, or develop business planning our business review and assessment tools offer low cost effective solutions. Gain a consultants perspective for a fraction of the price. Telephone +44 (0)118 933 1357 to discuss your needs or talk through the options. Send email to custserv@salessense.co.uk for a prompt reply or use the contact form here.