The Importance Of Sales In A Start-Up Business

Wednesday 6th February 2019

When you have a new start-up business, the only way to grow is to make sales. Regardless if you have an actual product or service, sales is what will bring in revenue to continue to grow your start-up into a full-fledged business. Without sales, your business will go nowhere and you'll end up shutting down even before you really started.

Every start-up business needs a sales strategy. But the truth is, many start-ups are either super focused on their marketing or product development and not on their sales strategy. When you have a sales strategy in place, you are narrowing down your focus to a very important aspect of your business and that's generating revenue. Even though marketing will increase your brands' visibility and product development will help you actually create what you'd like to sell, a well thought out sales strategy will provide you with quantifiable profits that you'll be able to invest back in your start-up business.

Your sales strategy should address three important things?

How you will expand or strengthen any relationships you have with customers?

How will you get new customers?
How your business will sell more services and products?
Creating a solid sales strategy for your business will allow you to address your customer's needs at every stage so that you form better relationships with them, which will increase the likelihood f making a sale. Addressing your customers at different points in your sales journey means you need to have different approaches in place. Create a flowchart that has all of your possible stages of a prospect customer's journey and then write down what strategies should be considered at each stage you can use as a reference for sales conversations later.

A sales strategy will also improve your ROI and help your sales team succeed. It gives them a road map as to what should be done for the entire sales pipeline. And many start-ups have limited budgets, so a sales strategy allows you to cut any waste and see where your can prioritize the money to get the most from your sales budget.