Released on = September 25, 2006, 8:05 am

Press Release Author = Thompson Strategy Works

Industry = Management

Press Release Summary = A new free online tool for benchmarking your organisation\'s
sales performance has been launched this week for UK businesses. The tool provides
benchmark data and reports to improve sales performance.

Press Release Body = Sales leaders who want to objectively assess their
organisation\'s performance can now do so with a free online benchmarking tool. The
new application compares performance with over 2,700 other sales organsations and
gives commentary and advice on a range of critical sales performance issues.

The creators of the tool, UK bases sales performance specialists Thompson Strategy
Works, say that comparing and benchmarking an organisation\'s performance against
best practice gives critical insights into areas for improvement. The sales
performance tool provides analysis against input from leading sales organisations
and gives advice on critical performance areas which may need to be addressed.

Commenting, Nigel Thompson of Thompson Strategy Works said:

There seemed to be nothing freely available on the web that allowed sales leaders to
properly compare their performance against similar organisations. We\'ve made the
tool very simple to use and understand but very powerful in its potential impact on
improving sales results. It was important for us to make sure that the pool of sales
data was large and accurate enough to make the output absolutely credible and
relevant.\"

The benchmarking tool uses data from extensive sales performance research conducted
with organisations in the UK and US and adds in anonymous input from each new user
to keep results bang up to date. The research was designed to understand and
highlight the critical issues which prevent sustainable sales performance and to
share the results with sales leaders.

The results of the original research uncovered five key barriers that prevent sales
organisations from achieving their full potential. The benchmarking tool allows
users to see how each of these critical performance barriers may be affecting their
performance and gives practical advice on ways to overcome each one.

Commenting further, Nigel Thompson said:

\"In searching for ways to improve sales performance, sales leaders are often limited
to analysing internal issues. Benchmarking against a solid pool of credible data
from similar organisations gives a valuable \'real world\' perspective. It can often
give a much clearer view as to where and how improvement efforts should be directed.

To try the \'Sales Performance Benchmarking Tool\' visit
www.salestrainingsystems.co.uk where you will be able to analyse your own
organisation\'s performance.

Notes:

Nigel Thompson is Managing Consultant of Thompson Strategy Works, a UK based sales
performance improvement consultancy. Thompson Strategy Works are UK specialist
providers of The Sales Activator®, a groundbreaking sales team development toolkit
used by many of the world\'s leading sales organisations to improve sales team
management and performance.

Nigel can be contacted at; Thompson Strategy Works on 0870 3459979,
www.salestrainingsystems.co.uk

Web Site = http://www.salestrainingsystems.co.uk/tools/sales_benchmarking.html

Contact Details = Nigel can be contacted at; Thompson Strategy Works on 0870
3459979, www.salestrainingsystems.co.uk