Four tips for targeting your sales and marketing goals

A truly honest assessment of how your sales time is spent and the associated results can be an enlightening exercise. Who is your best client or customer? How did you find them? How much of your time are you spending trying to repeat that same process? How much time are you wasting with less productive initiatives or people who are less likely to buy?

Here are a few steps to help you make an assessment:

1. Define your ideal prospect. Use your best customer as an example. Who are they? How big are they?

2. Determine your most effective marketing tools. What marketing initiatives provide the best results? Where do your closes come from? What is producing the right kind of prospects?

3. Refine your marketing plan. Once the first two steps are clearly and honestly defined, make sure your marketing plan is directed at repeating the process. Refine the plan so it is accurately aligned with your findings.