Palo Alto Sales and Marketing Plan Pro (PC)

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.2 x 13.3 x 19 cm
• Delivery Destinations: Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered.
• ASIN: B004ORLYWI
• Release Date: 3 Jun 2011
  

By : Palo Alto Software
Price : £63.53

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
Simple, Practical Sales and Marketing
Close more sales and get your marketing messages in front of the right people. From seasoned sales teams looking for an edge to small business owners who need to do it all, Sales and Marketing Pro is the solution to help you grow your business.
Reviews
"Why reinvent the wheel? If you're going to market with a new product or service, Marketing Plan Pro will deliver all the professional documents you need to plan your launch." Entrepreneur.com
"Marketing Plan Pro simplifies the process of building supporting documentation for your marketing agenda. Charts, tables, and the plan's format help you visualise methods for attaining your goal." Inc.com
"Practical and easy to use — this is not your corporate marketing plan. It is intuitive and uses your natural entrepreneurial thinking. This makes it very easy and quick to fill out." Smallbiztrends.com
Simple sales planning
You don't need to have an MBA or be an accountant to project your sales and expenses. It's easy to create your sales plan with Sales and Marketing Pro. Use it to track your progress, measure results, and set the standard for the growth of your business. Competitive analysis lets you measure where you stand, and make sure you stay ahead. Commission tracking tools help you forecast your earnings and focus on reaching your goals.
Where's your website?
A good website for your business is like having a salesperson who never sleeps or eats and doesn’t need a pay check. If you don’t have one, what are you waiting for? Having a Web presence is easier than you think. Sales and Marketing Pro includes an exclusive tool from Network Solutions to give you everything you need to put the Web to work for you. You'll be seeing the rewards of being online in no time.
Your scheduling headaches cured
The days of assistants handling all your appointment scheduling with a schedule book are long gone. You need a more efficient way to manage this important task. The three-month Appointment-Plus membership included with Sales and Marketing Pro lets your customers book their own appointments online. It's easy for them and easy for you.
Don't forget to leave a card
So much is focused on what's happening online these days, but a real-life presence is just as important. The people you meet need to know who you are, what you do, and how to get in touch with you. From business cards to brochures and more, you need high quality printed reminders of you and your business. Vistaprint provides Sales and Marketing Pro customers with savings not available anywhere else.
Create an action plan
Good marketing isn't done by the seat of your pants. When you have a plan, you can turn good ideas into more revenue. Sales and Marketing Pro includes Marketing Plan Pro, the best-selling marketing planning software on the market. It's got everything you need to create a complete, action-ready marketing plan.

• Get guidance and advice from renowned marketing expert John Jantsch
• Schedule your marketing activities and track results
• Automatically create great charts and graphs for presentations
• Easily create bullet-proof financial forecasts

Never miss a lead
Your relationships with your customers and colleagues are what drive your business forward, shape your product, and ultimately determine your success. But you can't remember everything about everyone. Even if you could, your staff needs all that information too. Batchbook helps you be smarter about your business by tracking your business, personal, and social networking contacts and communications. Sales and Marketing Pro includes six free months of Batchbook contact management software.
Respond in record time
One way to impress your clients and customers is to respond to their emails quickly. But, if you're like most busy professionals, your inbox sometimes gets neglected. Email centre Pro makes it easy to boost your response time and get the right answers to your customers, every time. Handle more email, more efficiently, make email a team effort with easy collaboration, and use powerful analytics to measure results.
Spread the word
To draw attention to your business fast, and turn that attention into revenue even faster, you need to be where your prospects are looking: the Web. PRWeb online news releases get you attention by improving your search ranking, getting your business on premium news sites, and placing your news where people look online. Includes one Advanced Online News Release from PRWeb.
Create buzz like a pro
With all the talk surrounding social media marketing, it can be tough to figure out how to harness the medium to help your business. From creating a blog, to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and beyond, there are so many networks and so many uses, you could spend weeks trying to figure it all out. The SoMe guide in Sales and Marketing Pro provides an overview, links, and tons of advice to get going with social media tools and sites. Everything you need to know is one easy-to-read guide.
Reach your customers
Knowing who to target, and how, is half the battle. The other half is retaining customers and turning them into repeat business. Sales and Marketing Pro helps you learn to narrow your market focus to better attract the people most likely to become, and to remain, your customers.
Make email work for you
Whether you have newsletters to send, or want to tell your clients about a big sale or new service, email is the most direct and cost-effective way of reaching your audience. But email marketing isn't always a matter of just writing a message and hitting send. VerticalResponse makes it easy and affordable to create eye-catching and professional emails that drive sales and help build customer loyalty.

 

Palo Alto Sales and Marketing Plan Pro (PC)

 

Product Features

• Take the sales world by storm: If you sell for a living, you're always looking for an edge. The right tools will help you track your leads and close more sales.
• Planning is everything: You can have the best ideas in the world, but unless you can make them reality, they're worthless. Get yourself organised, create a plan for action, and start turning your ideas into great results
• Your great ideas

Customer Reviews

As I was using Sales ; Marketing Pro for the first time, I recalled why I found Business Plan Pro (also by Palo Alto software) less than ideal. Both products have many places that are repetitive. For example, in S;MP, it asks to discuss your company's "Differentiators" and then in the next section it asks to discuss "Your Remarkable Difference" (aren't they going to be the same?). The next section then asks for the "core branding elements" (aren't you going to brand the differentiators?). If McDonald's differentiator is consistent fast food then wouldn't that also be their remarkable difference and become their core branding element?
I find that both products fail to have a clear framework/road map to show how each element of the plan is unique (to avoid the repetition discussed above) and how they roll up into the master plan. Not to nit-pick, but I also find formatting the text and tables a hassle when compared to Microsoft Word or Excel. A perfect product would be an add-on to Word and Excel (or Google docs) because using their program shouldn't be an exercise in learning how to operate a new word processor and spreadsheet program.
S;MP is a decent product to get your brain thinking about a marketing plan, but if you're like me, you'll need to export it to a word processor when you're 75% done and then eliminate the repetition and clean up the formatting (the only problem with this strategy is that once you leave the program, you can't go back).

I have been very happy with Sales and Marketing Pro. The sales and marketing tools are high quality and easy to use. There are some additional offers and tools, but the real value is in the full version of Marketing Plan Pro. I purchased Marketing Plan Pro a couple of years ago and paid over $170. I was prepared to pay that price again because I need to write a marketing plan. Sales and Marketing Plan Pro comes with an updated version of Marketing Plan Pro and I only paid $94. The new version of Marketing Plan Pro has some cool new features and I really liked the sales tools that are built into the software. Overall a great value and a "must have" for small business owners.

 

Palo Alto Sales and Marketing Plan Pro (PC)