CRM Software, Recents, Sales Management
How can you easily get a sales forecast with CRM solutions? That’s supposed to be one of the primary reasons to get a CRM in the first place isn’t it? Managing the sales pipeline and creating a reliable forecast of revenue is one of the most common reasons...
CRM Software, Lead Generation, Marketing Automation, Recents, Sales Management
In 25 years of helping sales teams implement CRM solutions, I’ve learned there are two main reasons that CRM projects get stalled. And believe it or not, that is happening to a LOT of businesses! As a CRM vendor, we’ve studied the reasons that deals don’t close...
CRM Software, Recents, Sales Management
Effective CRM training is the key to getting your sales team onboard and off to a fast start, without disrupting their sales efforts. Lack of user adoption is the #1 killer of CRM rollouts. However, typical training approaches can err on both sides of the...
Recents, Sales Management, Sales Training
What are your company’s sales ethics? Of course, when we typically think about the ethics of our companies, we think of our values, mission statement, HR, accounting and even production. Shareholders, the board and management establish the values, HR...
Sales Management, Sales Training
The “World Happiness Report” for 2017 was recently released and it made me wonder how happy sales people are around the world. The World Happiness Report measures happiness in countries around the world, based on several different factors: GDP Social Support Healthy...
Sales Management, Sales Training
When in search of the lighter side of the sales profession, it strikes me that the list of funny sales movies is awfully short. There are lots of creative works about the dark side of selling, “Death of a Salesman” being the most obvious example. The...
