Course : Analyze and optimize your customer portfolio

Practical course - 2d - 14h00 - Ref. FEU
Price : 1280 € E.T.

Analyze and optimize your customer portfolio




Implementing your sales management's strategy within your own portfolio means analyzing it and prioritizing your actions. This training course will show you how to implement a step-by-step approach to developing and managing your portfolio.


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In person or remote class
Available in English on request

Ref. FEU
  2d - 14h00
1280 € E.T.




Implementing your sales management's strategy within your own portfolio means analyzing it and prioritizing your actions. This training course will show you how to implement a step-by-step approach to developing and managing your portfolio.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Segment your portfolio and identify potential customers and prospects
Take a snapshot of the portfolio in terms of number, volume and potential
Identify targets and determine sales priorities
Set quantitative and qualitative activity targets
Set up the resources plan and dashboard

Intended audience
Sales representatives, technical sales representatives, business engineers. Anyone involved in sales development in a B-to-B environment.

Prerequisites
Have a sufficiently significant volume of business and existing customers.

Practical details
Hands-on work
Exercises enabling each participant to use the analysis matrix to build their own development and organization strategy.
Teaching methods
Active, participative teaching methods. Alternating theory/practice with application to the context and experience of participants.

Course schedule

1
Understanding the foundations of Individual Sales Performance

  • Short- and long-term sales effectiveness.
  • Managing sales performance: organization and communication.
  • Understand the marketing position of your products/services.
  • Keep a history of your customers and business relationships.
  • What are customers' expectations?
Exercise
Sub-group exercise on customer expectations.

2
Take a snapshot of your customer portfolio

  • Ten steps to developing your Sales Action Plan.
  • Evaluate your customer portfolio.
  • Portfolio segmentation, customer allocation.
  • Classify customers according to their potential.
  • Evaluate opportunities.
Exercise
Set up a SWOT analysis of your sector.

3
Define your prospecting and loyalty actions

  • Nominative qualification and global portfolio snapshot.
  • Establish a factual diagnosis of your portfolio.
  • Work on your "core targets".
  • Determine actions and priorities.
  • Develop a strategy with low-value customers.
Exercise
Analysis of own portfolio: definition of actions and priorities.

4
Achieve sales targets

  • Set sales targets: territory load.
  • Set qualitative business objectives: salesperson's business potential.
  • Set up sales development arguments.
  • Use loyalty levers (telemarketing, e-mailing, etc.).
  • Anticipate objections, plan fallback solutions.
  • Define a pricing strategy and prepare counterparties.
Exercise
Setting objectives and organizing work.

5
Improving profitability

  • Set up a plan to maintain, develop, service and prospect customers.
  • Setting up and using dashboards.
  • Have a clear view of your schedule to manage your time and efficiency.
Exercise
Organize sales activity follow-up.


Publication date : 09/08/2025