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3 Data-Driven Steps to Increase the Diversity of Your Salesforce

SBI Growth

Just imagine – you made the decision to diversify your salesforce and have created a more inclusive environment that retains A-players from varying backgrounds and perspectives. And because your salesforce thinks differently and challenges the status quo, you’ve improved your.

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Are you addicted to Salesforce?

Membrain

For many sales organizations, Salesforce is the technology sun around which the entire sales system orbits. If this is working out great for you, your sales effectiveness is world-class, and the cost of technology per employee shows a solid ROI, then you can skip this article.

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3 Common Salesforce Implementation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jay Datta Growing and evolving your organization’s Salesforce environment can unlock enormous opportunities, but getting there often proves challenging. There are plenty of other reasons why Salesforce implementations can fail (lack of input from the business, lack of end user training, minimal implementation budget, etc.),

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Using Salesforce to Track Sales Commission: The Pros & Cons

The Spiff Blog

Why share this story at the beginning of an article about using Salesforce to calculate sales commission? Salesforce was the next. A few years ago, the current state of the art commission solution was to use Salesforce + Excel. The second most successful business software, after Excel, is Salesforce ( source ).

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How Salesforce Invested in Customer Success to Soar to $1B in the Last Recession

SBI Growth

It was only 20 years ago that Salesforce introduced the revolutionary idea to help companies use cloud-based applications for customer relations management. Remember when a cloud was only a fluffy thing in the sky? The applications would be run over.

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How to Prevent and Fix Duplicate Records in Salesforce

Sales Hacker

Duplicate records in Salesforce (or “dupes”) are hands-down the most common issue that we’re called in to clean up at Iceberg. But as we’ll see in this article, deduping your records actually takes more tactical work than you’d expect. Check out my article: Do I Need Salesforce? How to fix duplicate leads in Salesforce.

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Better Together: Vainu and Salesforce

Vainu

With more than 100,000 concurrent customers, and a host of accolades to their name, Salesforce is a giant within the CRM software industry. Given the title of this article, that answer really can’t have come as much of a surprise. That, with one simple addition, you could close even more deals and grow your bottom line even more?