The softening market, along with an increasingly competitive marketplace, is putting pressure on agency sales staff as they struggle to meet their production goals. Agencies are constantly asking how they can create and use a marketing and sales system, often called a customer relationship management system. Sales success is not always the result of any native skill and ability as a salesperson. It is often the result of creating a marketing and sales system that provides a disciplined, organized approach to the selling process. To understand how a marketing system works, it is first necessary to understand the philosophy that undergirds the current method of marketing and selling. Most producers do not do well at following up on prospects that are not ready to buy. To create an effective marketing system, four components are required. These are: 1. prospect management, 2. opportunity management, 3. campaign management, and 4. results management.

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