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What it Really Means When CRM Isn't a Sales Force Priority

Understanding the Sales Force

The management dashboard, metrics, charts, graphs, tables, pipeline, forecasts, reports and anything else you can coax from today's feature-rich CRM applications will not contain up-to-date and accurate information unless every salesperson is committed and held accountable to updating it - DAILY. Tools are their salvation!

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Solving the CRM Problem

Understanding the Sales Force

CRM is viewed as busy work rather than a tool. CRM allows salespeople to place prospects in the wrong stage of the pipeline. Last week I spent 90 minutes with another client (8 people from Operations, sales, customer service, and marketing) showing them how CRM could be the answer to their inaccurate forecasts and pipeline reports.

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3 Top Sales Tips for Keeping Sales Focus ? Score More Sales

Score More Sales

That means over the last 12 years, amazing tools and capabilities have surfaced – especially with the advent of low-cost cloud computing – to help you track sales opportunities, prospective customers, and actual customer information. Landslide – a quick and robust solution. Sales Tools. You don’t have a cloud-based CRM system?

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