Tag: Sales Execution

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How to Improve Your Distributor Sales Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) in 3 Easy Steps

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Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) are essential to the supplier-distributor relationship, especially in the highly competitive and fast-paced three-tier wine industry. For sales managers, every quarter can seem like déjà vu with a constant…
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5 Ways to Cover the Common 30% Gap in Wine Margin Management

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Depletion allowances (DAs) are often the “name of the game” in three-tier wine industry pricing. That’s because DAs make up the majority of promotion and price discounting at the distributor level. DA’s are an agreement between the…
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Tracking Success of the Top 5 Wine Sales Promotions: BTG, Quantity Discounts, Closeouts, Incentives, and Samples

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In the three-tier wine industry, there are a variety of pricing and promotion strategies you may implement with a distributor in hopes of driving more sales. But, do you know which discounts are worth it? Which ones work the best and when…
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Beyond Depletion Allowance: The Top 8 Mistakes Wineries Make With Pricing Management

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Every winery/importer has the same ultimate goal with pricing management: knowing the true net dollar sales amount of your wine. Now of course, that means getting a solid, comprehensive handle on everything (and we mean everything) gross-to-net…
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Use Dynamic Account Sets for More Intelligent Sales Execution

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Account Sets, or targeted groups of Accounts, have been a part of our platform for quite some time now. Many customers incorporate them into their strategic planning to focus specific activity against the right Accounts, primarily within…
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Are You Using an Old Sales Process in a Modern Environment?

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Customers have direct access to information and availability of every product under the sun right on their laptop, tablet or phone. As a result… You and your sales reps have less leverage and control in the sales process than ever before. Your…
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Serenity State of the Union

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It has been nine months since our last Serenity article and exactly two years since we first introduced it to our partners and customers. The first change worth noting is that we can probably stop calling it “new” as we’ve been working…
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Utilize GreatVines to Follow Nielsen’s Checklist for Product Survival

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Launching a product is a multi-faceted endeavor that takes careful planning and execution. But have you considered what comes after? Sustaining product velocity is essential, but not easily practiced unless you have the right insights and…