The Revenue Roadmap℠

The Revenue Roadmap model is something that we put together after working with hundreds of companies and asking, “What is the difference between high performing sales organizations and the average (or lower than average) organizations?” It really comes down to four major competency areas: Insight, Sales Strategy, Customer Coverage, and Enablement. These four disciplines, and their relationship to each other, provide a context for any driver of sales effectiveness – especially compensation and quotas.

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1. Insight: Insight refers to how much we know about what’s happening in our market and understanding what’s happening with our competitors and our customers. If we don’t have our finger on the pulse of the macro market, we can’t develop our strategies with any degree of precision.

2. Sales strategy is an action plan to achieve a sales goal. The strategy converts high level (often financial goals) down to the front line that we can take to market. So it involves the types of services and products that we’re going to offer, our customer segments and our target customers. We have to have a solid value proposition for those products and services that translates well into a message sales reps can take to the customer.

3. Customer coverage: Customer coverage refers to how we align to our customers in a very practical, tangible way. What types of sales channels are we using? Direct sales organizations or other types of third party channels outside the organization, such as resellers, distributors, or other partners that help us during the sales process. The sales roles and the structure define how our organization lines up to the customer. Are we using different types of account managers, and are they focused on different segments? Do we have major account managers? Do we have new business developers?

The sales process itself should simplify customer coverage by outlining how the organization moves from the generation of an opportunity through the close and implementation. (And one of the pitfalls of simplifying the sales process is putting too many parts of the process on one sales role.)

4. Enablement: Once we’ve answered all upstream questions – Insight, Strategy, and Coverage – we finally get to the level of enablement. Sales compensation, quotas, recruiting and development of people and all the other support programs live here. But none of these programs – or the people they were designed for – can succeed without a solid foundation of Insight, Strategy and Coverage.

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