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Sales management tools help teams command their sales pipelines, plan timely and relevant sales interactions, and identify the most valuable prospects. Technology Advisors uses strategic analysis to gain a complete picture of your sales management strengths and shortfalls. Then, we help you decide which applications or specialized functions will improve your capabilities.
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Pointless CRM RFP Questions
Sam and Steve deconstruct some of the common questions that are included in CRM RFPs and RFIs. They suggest some ways in which a better outcome can be achieved for the CRM buyer.
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4 CRM Tips for Faster Sales Onboarding
When you hire a new sales person, you’d like to onboard him as quickly as possible. A learning curve is inevitable, but there are CRM tricks you can use to speed up the time around the curve and get him engaging and selling faster. Try these four CRM tips for faster sales onboarding.
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The Big Sam Sick
Sam gets sick and infects conference attendees plus his employees, Steve’s guest appearance on “Our Love Hate Relationship With Sales”, Infor CRM’s integration to LinkedIn’s Sales Navigator, the high price of standalone Navigator, the value of connecting CRM to multiple big data sources, Nimble’s…
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5 Innovative Ways to Automate Your Sales Processes
Here are 5 innovative ways to automate your sales processes to reduce costs, manage data, save time, and deliver consistent quality:
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Life Changing CRM
Changing listener’s lives, winter golf in Chicago, more detail on Simple CRM System, selling salespeople on using CRM, industries that lag in CRM adoption, what it takes to implement CPQ, getting salespeople to tag DQ’d leads with “reason disqualified”, getting around the gatekeeper, use-case-…
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DIY VDSA
Sam’s birthday, Steve’s trip Down Under, six levels of CRM expenses, the cure for low CRM adoption by salespeople, Sam’s DIY Virtual Digital Sales Assistant (VDSA), a commentary on Gartner’s Todd Berkowitz’s 10 fearless predictions for 2017.
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Fictional Pipeline
Peter D’Cruz on early days sales management software, objective sales pipeline, helping salespeople, building a sales process, self-disciplined salespeople, when buyers buy, explaining yourself fully, disqualifying early, forcing a prospect to say “no”, change the prospect’s opinion, buyer self-…
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CRM Non-Predictions
Sam’s office party interruption, Salesforce vs Microsoft comparison update, CRM requirements for sales management, self-implementing CRM, the cost of CRM professional services, preventing scope creep on flat rate engagements, quote to order to invoice, level of detail in CRM requirements, the…
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3 Ways to Improve Sales Team Transparency
Transparency is more than just a business buzz word. It’s a catalyst for communication and accountability throughout an organization. Transparency is the key to 360 degree views of what’s happening, collaboration between all departments, and a real understanding of what’s going on throughout the…
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The Salesfortification of Sage
Steve and Sam lightly deconstruct the Marc Benioff / Stephen Kelly fireside chat about the upcoming release of Sage Life, a small business accounting application that’s being built on the Salesforce1 platform. This is followed by a discussion about verticalized CRM.
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Infor-mative
A post-Inforum 2014 discussion about Infor CRM (formerly SalesLogix) and how CRM fits in with Infor’s many offerings.
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All Leads are Not Created Equal
As marketers, one of our primary goals used to be (and still is to a different extent) to get as many leads as possible. It isn't that we weren't concerned with quality previously; we were simply measured on quantity. Today's marketer has a much heavier weight placed on quality and…
Continue readingHow Tracking Lost Sales Can Help You Generate More Revenue
Tracking lost sales can actually help you generate more revenue. How you say? Only by understanding why deals are lost, can you continue to improve your sales processes, products and sales team’s performance. I am personally addicted to data and as a former salesperson, I always tracked my sales,…
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