Management Bug: Lack of Sales Strategy

Eduardo Espinheira
2 min readJun 8, 2019

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Description

This week’s “Lack of Sales Strategy” is typical Management Bugs within new companies.
By definition, it means the lack of an approach to selling that allows an organization’s sales force to position the company and its product(s) to target customers in a meaningful, differentiated way. Most strategies involve a detailed plan of best practices and processes set out by management.
(extracted from https://www.hubspot.com/sales/sales-strategy)

Every company needs a sales strategy to guarantee the resources are focused on what they want.

Known Associates

This MngtBug has been mentioned in relation to a number of MngtFixes such as…

“Company Strategy Definition”,
“Product Strategy Definition”,
“Sales Strategy Follow-up”,
“Target Customers Definition and Segmentation”,
“Minimum Viable Product (MVP) launch”,
“Marketing Strategy Definition”,
“Customer Needs Elicitation”,
and of course “Sales Strategy Definition”!

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Eduardo Espinheira

Eduardo Espinheira is a Consultant, Facilitator, Manager, Public Speaker, Creator of the Management Bugs&Fixes and the Machiavellian PM Stories