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Your sales process MUST be repeatable and address 3 critical areas:

 Opportunity Generation                                           Sales Closing                    Account Management

Opportunity generation for Cloud                          In general, the revenue associated     More than ever before, your team
based Solutions can be very                               with Cloud opportunities tends to be   needs to focus on the account
different than traditional hardware                       smaller in the first year. Therefore,  management role. Renewals are
focus sales. Your organization                            your selling process needs to be       critical for the recurring sales model.
should put plans in place to address:                     updated to ensure that you maintain    You need to decide:
                                                          the proper sales coverage. The
• Higher velocity deal flow and                           critical differences that need to be   • Will AM be managed by the sales
   qualifications                                         investigated are:                         team or a dedicated AM staff?

• Web based POCs and/ or demos                            • Less customization                   • Do my processes support a goal
                                                                                                    of 90+% renewal rate?
• New customer acquisition using                          • Focus on fast qualification
   Cloud as a catalyst                                                                           • Do you have an customer cloud
                                                          • Speed to closure                        expansion / adoption plan?

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