5 tips to make 2016 your most profitable year yet

Sure, January might have come and gone (and with it, most of our will to keep our resolutions on track), but that doesn’t mean that you can’t still make this year your most profitable yet. Here are five tips on how to get organized and go after your (sales) goals.

1. If you didn’t do it last month, it’s time to get organized.

Carve out time on your calendar, right now, for prospecting. You’re better off making calls every single day than to crowd all of your calls into one day. Be realistic, don’t say you’re going to make seven hours of calls, if you really only have 45 minutes available.

2. Prepare.

If you don’t have a good, targeted list of leads that fit the profile of your ideal prospect then it’s time to create it. And, if you’re not 100 percent sure of what you’re going to say when your prospect answers the phone, or what you’ll say in a voice mail or in a prospecting email, then it’s time to give this some serious thought as well.

It’s too hard to get prospects on the phone these days and it’s also hard to get them to return a call or respond to an email. This is not the time to be winging it.

3. If you did not make your numbers in 2015, figure out what went wrong.

If there is something you can change moving forward to get a better result – do it!

5. Take a look at all of your prospecting activity from last year.

What was most productive and profitable for you? It doesn’t matter whether it was cold calling, referral selling, networking, canvassing or social media … Identify the top two or three and do more of those activities and less of the ones that didn’t work as well.

Then, have your best year ever!