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Monday, March 4, 2013

Adventace SMS™: New Release. New Video.


We are pleased to announce our new release of the Adventace SMS™ application!

Watch the video on YouTube by clicking on this link Adventace SMS Video

Take a closer look at the application on the Salesforce.com AppExchange by clicking on this link Adventace SMS on the AppExchange

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Saturday, February 23, 2013

See Our Sales Manager Webinar: Improve Your Opportunity Analysis & Win More Deals



Do your sales people have difficulty being objective about how qualified their opportunities are?  If the prospect can ‘fog a mirror’, do sellers consider the opportunity qualified?  

This often results in:
  • Wasted sales time (for you and your sellers)
  • Missing out on more qualified opportunities because of the time spent on ‘losers’
  • Opportunities that seemingly never close
  • False sense of pipeline balance
  • Inaccurate forecasts & missed quotas.

During this webinar, you will see how you can:
  • Quickly determine where gaps exist that - if left unchecked - will haunt you later
  • Make surgical recommendations to get opportunities back ‘on track’ or disqualify them
  • Better grade opportunities for improved pipeline balance and accurate forecasts
  • Identify skill deficiencies for sellers and put an improvement plan in place.

If you would like to see this previously recorded webinar, just go to Opportunity Analysis Webinar.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

High Performance Solution Sales Seminar

Can You Become a Sales Guru?



  High Performance Solution Sales Seminar
  
February 11-13, 2013
and
March 11-13, 2013
  


Objective
The purpose of the 3-Day High Performance Solution Sales Seminar is to provide sellers with the understanding, and ability, to execute highly effective sales calls and sell cycles in a solutions environment.  Every prospect/customer interaction is too important to be left to chance, so this workshop will provide sellers with the framework, strategies, tactics, and tools to help make them more consistent…and effective.

Description
The foundation of the methodology is a research-based model on how buyers buy.  Further, it assumes the product/service being sold is perceived by the buyer to be either expensive or a commodity.  Attendees will learn how to align with their buyers throughout the sell cycle and differentiate themselves by HOW they sell, not just WHAT they sell.

Focus is put on the discreet steps required to complete a successful solutions-based sales call. Specifically, sellers are instructed in a comprehensive set of sales call processes:

  • Opportunity identification. Taking the proactive steps necessary to identify where high probability opportunities exist in an account in order to ‘get in first’.
  • Prospecting/Account penetration to initiate real opportunities
  • Need development. Getting a buyer to admit a critical business issue and then developing a solution that differentiates you from your competitors
  • Determining the value of your solution with the buyer
  • Qualification/disqualification at the sales call and sell cycle levels · Gaining rapid access to key decision makers and defining the steps leading to a buying decision
  • Overcoming situations where the competition got in first
  • Negotiating throughout the sales process to avoid having to discount to get the order.
  • How to "pull it all together" to build and maintain a balanced pipeline for long-term success.
  • Improving forecast accuracy based on actions completed with your buyer, not gut feeling.

 Great emphasis is placed on how to define, manage, qualify, and control sell cycles. Key topics include:

  • Aligning our selling behavior with our buyers
  • Identifying and accessing buyers with the power and ability to buy
  • Objectively qualify throughout the selling process (identify, and disqualify, loser opportunities early)
  • Building a sell cycle control letter to a power person to achieve sell cycle control
  • The significance of developing an ‘Action Plan’ with a buyer to help ensure that each activity advances the sale toward closure
  • Establishing value for your solution in the mind of the buyer
  • The timing and positioning of proposals
  • Negotiating for things you want, and avoiding price concessions, to create a win-win situation
Agenda
During this three-day workshop we will:

·         Discuss the key skills and processes of professional selling
·         Learn how sellers can differentiate themselves from their competitors based on how they sell as well as what they sell
·         Discuss how sellers can prospect to build and maintain a balanced pipeline
·         Open a sales call with a process designed to get a buyer to conclude that the seller is sincere and competent and can help them solve a problem or achieve a key business objective
·         Guide the discussion with buyers by using well-designed probing questions in a repeatable conversation format
·         Identify and develop buyer needs in a way that creates a solution in the mind of the buyer that is biased towards your capabilities
·         Help sellers determine quickly when they are not first in an opportunity and what to do to become the buyer’s first choice, or disengage
·         Close sales calls so that the opportunity is effectively advanced
·         Discuss how sellers can work with buyers to define a mutually agreed upon plan of the steps both organizations must take leading to a buying decision
·         See how sellers can maintain control of the sell cycle
·         Learn to defend your price thru effective negotiating techniques 

What you will take with you
·         High Performance Solution Sales Manual
·         Electronic templates to construct custom sales calls and sell cycles

Investment: $1,575.00/person, includes continental breakfast and lunch each day

Location
Holiday Inn
17 W 350 22nd Street
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
(630) 833-3600


Refer a colleague/friend: Receive a $75 Amex gift certificate for each person you refer that attends the seminar.

To register, contact:

Mark Populorum
VP, Americas
630-653-6471
mark.populorum@adventace.com

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Adventace SMS™ Supports Multi-Currency Capability


The Adventace Sales Management System (SMS) application, which runs on the Salesforce.com platform, now supports multi-currency capability. 

It provides advanced multi-currency support for Opportunity Management, Forecasting, and Reporting. Using this capability, each international division can track, forecast, and report on opportunities in local currencies, while providing company-wide reporting and forecasting in a single common currency. 

Adventace SMS is a complete, end-to-end sales management system.  It helps executives better drive their entire sales operation top-down through use of key leading performance metrics.  It helps sales managers better manage sales people and improve their skills, while running a better operation.  Its expert functions make it an indispensable differentiator and time saver for sales people, allowing them to generate key buyer deliverables in minutes while better managing their opportunities.




Sunday, March 11, 2012

Want the Moves Like Messi? Join the Adventace® High-Performance Users Group

Lionel Messi with Iniesta and Xavi Showing FIFA World Player Golden Ball Award 

We created the Adventace® High Performance Users Group as a forum to help Adventace clients across the globe improve performance and win more business!

Are you a Sales Person with a stalled Action Plan?
Are you a Sales Manager struggling to help a Sales Person improve a skill?
Are you a Sales Executive trying to drive improved performance metrics?
Want to discuss pipeline balance?
Do you simply want to tell colleagues about a great success?  Share important information and experience?  Get another opinion?

Then join the Group at Adventace® High Performance User Group!

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Adventace Blog Now on Mobile Devices

Looking for a refresher on the A/B Ratio or Pipeline Management before your meeting with your Executive Team, but you're traveling?  No problem.  Now you can access our blog in a mobile device-compatible format!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Adventace Adds Key "Opportunity Management" Component to "Winning Major Opportunities" Seminar

Adventace successfully added an important "Opportunity Management" component to its flagship sales seminar, Winning Major Opportunities.  It shows account executives and sales management how to:
Use the Right Strategies and Tactics
to Win Major Opportunities
  • Assess and improve your ability to win the opportunity,
  • Identify and score all key buyers' Preference for you Vs. the competition, and how to improve their preference,
  • From six options, select the appropriate strategy to follow,  
  • How to then deploy the appropriate tactics to continuously improve your probability of winning, and
  • How to identify the personnel needed during the sell cycle, the timing of their need, and how to get management's full support for their utilization.
Here's a sample of the comments people made who attended a recent workshop:
A very good overview of how large opportunities need to be proactively managed and provides the tools we need to use daily.  
Very well done.  This will significantly impact my close ratio with major accounts.  
Very rarely do you attend training and have the ability to use it the next day.  I discovered several actionable things I can do immediately.  
The assessment piece will help me manage and control major account opportunities...for real!
Very helpful.  I will apply the principles across all opportunities, not just those from major accounts.
The material provides a very clear and organized process to navigate the complex sale. 

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

"Skill Development" Video on YouTube

Sales Managers:  See how to grade your sales people on every key skill, put the appropriate skill development plan in place, and help your sellers achieve metric-based performance improvement in one quarter or less.  Take a look at:



Thursday, December 1, 2011

"Opportunity Stages" Video on YouTube

Do you want a strong foundation for communications, pipeline management, and forecasting?  See our YouTube video on well-defined "Opportunity Stages" by going to the following link:
 http://www.youtube.com/user/AdventaceGlobal

Opportunity Stages in Pipeline Funnel Format
with Color-Coded Performance Indicator

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

"Surgical Performance Metrics" Video on YouTube

See our latest video on YouTube entitled, "Surgical Performance Metrics".  You can view this video by going to the following link:  http://www.youtube.com/user/AdventaceGlobal


Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Newest Video re THE Key Performance Metric: A/B Ratio

We are pleased to announce our latest YouTube video entitled, "THE Key Performance Metric: A/B Ratio".  You can view this video by going to the following link:  http://www.youtube.com/user/AdventaceGlobal


Friday, February 4, 2011

Adventace SMS Now Provides "Video Help"

Adventace's end-to-end sales management system, which is a native Salesforce.com application, now provides videos designed to provide people using the system with the ability to review short topic-based hig-def help videos simply by clicking on a link.  



Monday, January 24, 2011

Adventace® Announces YouTube Channel & First Video

We are pleased to announce our YouTube Video Channel and our first video.  The topic is "Opportunity Stages".  Here is the link:  http://www.youtube.com/user/AdventaceGlobal


Monday, January 3, 2011

Adventace® Announces 3 Implementation Support Programs

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Movie Starring Sylvester
Stallone Coming this Summer...
Just Kidding About the Movie
Our objective has always been to help you, our clients, Create the High Performance Sales Environment®.   To that end, a key focal point of ours is the support we provide to help you with your efforts in the field.  With that in mind, we are pleased to announce three programs: 
  • Our blog.  This blog will be dedicated to helping Sales Executives, Sales Managers, and Sellers resolve the field issues impacting them.
  • Our YouTube video channel.  This channel will provide you with short high-def videos designed to help refresh and further your understanding of a particular subject, and help you better apply that subject.  Once launched will add about one video per week.
  • Adventace on Twitter.  Our "tweets" will be dedicated to helping sales executives, sales managers and sales people solve problems

These programs will be rolled out during the first half of Q1 2011.  Stay tuned!