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Taking sales to the next level

Sales 2.0

The problem of missing decisionmakers most often shows up when companies submit a proposal and never hear anything back. Following a systematic process to identify decisionmakers, understand their interests, and have them “coauthor” proposals, can significantly boost closing ratios. Sales time sucks. Where does this time go?

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The Best Plans Starts With You

The Pipeline

But if you’re going to plan, there is more to it than Territory or Account Planning. Better discovery, better proposals, picking up the phone more often, whatever. Some sellers create their plans for one element of success, say territory planning, then commit to an unrelated skill. Where are they going and why?

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Apple Fritters and the 10 Keys to a Successful Sales Transformation

Understanding the Sales Force

If they haven’t been exposed to professional selling methodologies and sales processes, and had those demonstrated to them via expert, unscripted role-plays, then they would have no clue that the presenting and proposing they have been doing is woefully inadequate. I was lucky. Sure, they haven’t invested in their careers.

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Sales Reps Love Their CRM!

SBI

Sales reps love their CRM. They love spending hours entering information about the email activity they’ve had with customers, meetings held, proposals delivered, and especially updating their forecast. Not only that, sales reps see tremendous value in the information reported back to them from the CRM. Sales automation (CRM).

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.

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Time Available For Selling

Partners in Excellence

For example, an issue in 100% of the clients I work with is CRM compliance. CRM has been in place for at least 30 years, and it’s stunning to see that CRM compliance is still a dominant issue. One of the issues we see with CRM and virtually every tool is we implement them poorly.

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Top 10 Best Enterprise CRM solutions for 2021

Sales Hacker

A simple CRM can’t handle this level of complexity. It might sound like a simple task, but choosing an enterprise CRM solution is difficult. That’s why we compiled a list of some of the most popular enterprise CRM solutions out there. What is an enterprise CRM software? Enterprise CRM vs. SMB CRM.