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Why Your CRM System Is Essential for Lead Management

Sales and Marketing Management

You've got a CRM system in place. So why are so many qualified leads not followed up? The post Why Your CRM System Is Essential for Lead Management appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. It's time to rethink the role of your CRM.

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Why Your Salespeople Won’t Follow Up With Prospects

Sales and Marketing Management

Oh, sure – they’ll log something into the CRM and the system will proceed to send out a slew of impersonal e-mails for the foreseeable future, but for many salespeople that’s about it. . Why don’t salespeople follow-up? Can’t vs. Won’t in Follow-Up . And if they still won’t follow-up?

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3 Strategies for Follow-Up With Stalled Prospects

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How can you follow-up and be there for them when they are ready to take the next step or talk again? With a follow-up system/campaign! Following are the best practices I’ve curated over the last decade. Best Practices for a Successful Prospect Follow-Up Campaign Do not “check in.”

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Customers And Sellers, Conflicting Systems

Partners in Excellence

I’ve been writing a series on the importance of systems thinking in buying and selling. A fundamental issue we have to understand is “What happens when two independent systems intersect and have to work together?” We have completely separate systems, with very conflicting goals!

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace. Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead.

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Inside Sales Power Tip 111 – Follow Up

Score More Sales

One big contributing factor to your sales success is in your follow-up. There are three points to consider when thinking about following up with prospects, buyers, and with leads: A. Most sellers do not follow-up enough. So why all the problems with follow-up? phone calls. voice mail.

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Post-Sale Follow-Up: The Secret to Lasting Customer Relationships

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

But how is your post-sale follow-up? Following up with customer post-sale is an important way to make sure your customers know they mean more to you than just a sales transaction. The activities you perform after the sale might matter more to your customers that the activities that led up to the sale.