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Sales Success and Pipeline Management - The Myth

Anthony Cole Training

It doesn’t matter your role: VP of Sales, President of the company, sales manager, sales professional, and professional sales development expert. What we all know is that pipeline management is a myth! Okay, I’ll admit that it IS happening, but is it because of the pipeline management tool?

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Why I Hate CRM Systems for Sales Prospecting

The Sales Hunter

Salesforce, ACT!, Goldmine and every other CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system out there sucks! If you’re a sales manager reading this, my advice to you is simple. The rest of the time, there should be no complaining and they should be focusing on one thing — making sales happen.

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How AI and Machine Learning are Changing Sales Automation

Showpad

Artificial intelligence is a computer science that aims to design intelligent software and systems that mirror how humans process and act on information. In the time it might take him or her to complete one buyer profile, AI-assisted Sales automation software could vet hundreds of customers, if not thousands. .

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Ode to The Salespeople Customers Can't Wait To Meet?

The Sales Association

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. While in the Sales Industry I learned to utilize technology as a resource for improving my sales and the teams I managed techniques and numbers. While acting as the Sales Training Manager for 35 sales representatives.

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How to Sell Better: Lesson 6 – Use The CRM

A Sales Guy

You see it as something that benefits management, and you get sick and tired of the sales manager asking, is it in the CRM? Act was the CRM of the time. There was also Goldmine (a shout out to my boy and Goldmine founder Jon Ferrara) , but that was it. I feel you. The problem, however, isn’t the CRM.

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Solving the CRM Problem

Understanding the Sales Force

I have reviewed 15 (Landslide, Sugar, Oracle, Sales Logix, Microsoft Dynamics, Membrain, Fortuit, FunnelSource, Podio, OppTuna, Pipedrive, PipelineDeals, Act, Goldmine and Zoho) CRM applications that aren't named Salesforce.com and because clients have had some of these applications installed, had to use many of them.

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Everything You Need to Know About Data in Sales

Hubspot Sales

Read through these to see how your sales team can start following the same approach. A data-driven sales team is aligned on everything — from big objectives to day-to-day goals. This alignment is the responsibility of sales managers to communicate and execute. 1) They align on goals and mission statements.

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