Managing an Online Sales Organization

Managing an online sales organization means facing a number of complex, ongoing issues and decisions: establishing and enforcing your price structure; motivating and rewarding your sales team; taking a position on targeting and segmentation; investing in research and audience management tools; managing rich media vendor relationships; dealing with buyer terms & conditions issues; and many, many more.

Upstream Group has worked with dozens of customers on these issues. We also have a deep understanding of ad serving, rich media vendors, ad agency relationships and a half-dozen other topics that sales executives deal with every day. We can give you the timely, unbiased advice you need.

  • Online Advertising Business Modeling: Quality insights on pricing, positioning and marketing to the online advertising marketplace.
  • Sales Force Evaluation: Insights on structuring, fielding and compensating a quality online ad sales team.
  • Business Planning: Review and validation of key assumptions and recommendations about how to put operational best practices into action.
  • Research & Measurement: An understanding of the products and services that can help measure and evaluate the success of your online media or commerce business.
  • Buying Process Issues: Insights on the issues sites face when buying and executing campaigns through advertising agencies.

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