A Sales Manager Runs What She Calls "An All-Out Blitz

question 2

Multiple Choice

A sales manager runs what she calls "an all-out blitz" with her department to focus on closing sales in the last month of the third quarter.Her department exceeds its quota by 20%.
They focused on closing all the pending sales they could,and moving customers in the evaluation stage to buy.At the end of the fourth quarter,however,although her team closed a higher percentage of sales than they had in the third quarter at a higher average dollar value,the team brought in only 70% of what it brought in in the third quarter.
-What could be an explanation for this?

• A)The prospects the team worked with in the fourth quarter had gone through their budgets and didn't have money to spend.
• B)The manager didn't adequately train the team in how to do fourth-quarter sales.
• C)Pending sales are the only sales that were tallied in the final figures for each quarter.
• D)The team neglected their pipeline and developing prospects,so they did not have enough pending sales to close.
• E)The team closed sales in the fourth quarter that were smaller than the ones they closed in the third quarter.

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