By focusing solely on results, the outsourced team is dedicated to achieving the best - and that dedication results in a direct increase in your revenue.
But it’s important that you focus on the right target. The outsource team will work with you from the outset to formulate your KPIs.
Measuring your KPIs tells you whether you're operating an effective sales team. To make sure you get the right information, however, you need those indicators to be meaningful to your business.
Outsourced sales teams are experts at helping you formulate and track your KPIs. What's more, they have access to the latest in technology to do so, giving you greater insight into your customers and business. When engaging an expert external team, you'll be able to track KPIs and deals with complete visibility across each area of the sales process and business forecasting.
Smart businesses are hungry for insights that will help drive improvements to products that will delight customers. Of course, getting such valuable insights is much easier said than done - capturing the appropriate volume of data and then dissecting it to create a meaningful change is a time consuming task to say the least.
Outsourced teams can connect with people more often, asking the right questions, gleaning useful objections, and then compiling valuable insights.
In the age of agile, you need to launch new things fast and either adapt them quickly, fail them fast or scale to meet demand.
Outsourced sales teams understand that there's often no one selling solution for a company, and have the resource to implement an agile strategy. They will be ready to go when you are, and fully accountable to agreed targets to get your speed-to-market and adaptability cranking.
Around 60 percent of businesses use outsourcing as a cost-saving measure (Deloitte). Aside from this huge benefit, risk reduction is also a key output of outsourcing.
An outsourced sales team comes with specialised skills and the motivation get good results every time.
The ‘reward by results’ model used in outsourcing ensures full accountability of deliverables. They’ll stay focused on results and continually seek to optimise your sales process.
An expert outsourced team will already have the resources to invest in the right sales tools, recruit the best talent and get the best training – so you don’t have to risk any time or extra cost investing in these yourself.
According to one estimate, the average in–house sales person’s real cost to the business is 2.6 times the person’s salary. (Ranconteur)
Worse, one in five SMEs are unable to take on new work because of cash flow restrictions. Clearly, something is not adding up here. So what can businesses do to tighten up?
"59% of business leaders cited cost cutting as a driver in outsourcing processes. Other top factors included enabling focus on core business and solving capacity issues." (IQVIS)
What's more, under the outsourced model you'll reduce operational inefficiencies, take advantage of the best in class sales tech at a fraction of the cost and minimise overheads such as training, recruitment and compliance.
While your sales are left in the capable hands of experts, you'll get time back for you to spend in other areas of your business.
To build deeper, stronger relationships with your customers you have to understand them.
Understanding your customers' needs and wants through better insights will help you identify upselling and cross-selling opportunities so you can surprise and delight at every step of the buyer journey.
Account based sales teams will extract every bit of value from your current customer base – delighting them with a personal touch, influencing their purchase with added value products and services that entrench your brand even further. Those who do this create long term loyalty which always delivers money to your bottom line.
An outsourced team will focus on the sales so you don’t have to. This gives you more time to spend on other areas of your business. When you don’t have to worry about focusing your energy on the part of the business that’s outside your area of expertise, you can put more time into the places you can actually make a difference in.
Leave the selling to the experts so you can shift focus back to your core business and carry on business as usual (or better!).
If you want to develop your sales department and grow your business outsourcing might be your best solution.
Emma Leslie, Head of Sales and Service
