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Pursuing
a complex, major sale is a sizeable investment for any company. It is vital
that sales representatives work to an all-inclusive plan that improves
competitive positioning and delivers a return on investment.
MOP stands
for Major Opportunity Planning. It is a structured
process for qualifying and winning major sales opportunities.
When a sales cycle is long
and complex, with more than one decision maker involved, sales representatives
need to construct a sales plan that can deal with this complexity and make
required actions clear.
For both
customers and sellers to maximise their success it is vital that
sales representatives properly cover buyers and their issues, focus on competitive strengths,
resolve points of vulnerability, understand risk and resource requirements
and clearly communicate value.
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MOP
includes customised guides, checklists and templates to support each stage
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Implementation consulting to
encourage 'ownership' of the process and training workshops tailored
to suit your organisations current level of major account sales
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Field
coaching and facilitation services provide the support required to build
confidence and new skills while delivering early returns on investment
in time, effort and resources. |
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MOP is a modular, step by step
approach to big deal selling. It's 'toolkit' approach means that it is quick and
easy to complete for small sales, yet still provides the in-depth
analysis and guidance required for team-based major sales. You can progressively add
the level of analysis required by the complexity of a sale and its potential
return.

MOP
is integrated with PDM's MAP (Major Account Planning)
process. Conceptually, opportunity planning fit's below account planning
in the planning hierarchy. MAP plans for the overall relationship
between businesses while MOP is focused on achieving a specific sales
objective.
When
should MOP be applied?
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Whenever you feel the need.
If you want to win a deal it is worth making sure you have the best competitive
strategies in place. Use MOP to test your understanding of why you will
win and develop competitive action plans.
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Whenever the level of resource
required is high.
Sales time, demonstration
inventory, technical resources. management attention- whatever.
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Whenever you are entering
a new account.
The MOP checklist will help
you gain a better understanding of the customer's priorities. Customers
will regard you as offering superior value when your solutions address
their priorities. Sell business and personal outcomes for the customer,
not technical capabilities.
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Whenever you need the active
involvement of others.
As well as being a
useful communication tool MOP creates opportunities for others to get involved
in planning. By involving others in the planning process you will increase
their commitment to implementing action plans.
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As part of an overall sales
forecasting process.
MOP helps you understand
and better predict sales results.
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On-line
Opportunity Planning
PDM
is seeking partners to complete the development of an on-line version of MOP. Accessible through a
standard browser interface across a company intranet or world-wide-web
on-line MOP will help you to build a company wide database of best practice
sales strategies and crucial customer data. Let us know if you want more
information about the on-line product by registering your interest with
us. There is no obligation and all inquiries are strictly confidential.
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MOP
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