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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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How To Build Your Salesforce For The First Time

Predictable Revenue

The post How To Build Your Salesforce For The First Time appeared first on Predictable Revenue. Brown, CEO of Business Success Factors, explains the process to avoid common mistakes when building your sales organization for the first time.

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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. For instance: How do you define a duplicate lead if you sell to separate accounts who are part of the same franchise ? Join the conversation: How to clean up duplicate records in Outreach.io.

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How to build account plans in Salesforce - the easy way

Membrain

Proactive and strategic account planning in Salesforce isn’t easy - or even possible, depending on which plugins and customizations you’ve invested in. Account planning often takes place outside of traditional CRM systems, and rarely makes its way back into the tools your sales team uses every day.

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How to Successfully Coach Your Sales Team to Drive Efficiency

Speaker: Steve Benson, Founder and CEO, Badger Maps

In this webinar, you will learn how to: Coach your sales team and set them up for success. Join us for this fantastic third episode in our Salesforce efficiency series! Identify your reps’ key sales skills that drive revenue. August 30th 2018, 11 AM PST, 2 PM EST, 7 PM GMT.

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How To Overcome Challenges In Salesforce Automation With Apptivo CRM

Apptivo

So, in this blog, Apptivo brings to you the common challenges faced by businesses in salesforce automation and how they can be overcome using Apptivo CRM. But the solution to this is already in action, i.e. sales automation software that is used by businesses to automate their sales processes.

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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. That’s how most organizations were processing commission payments. True, I’m biased. )

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Using Connected Device Data to Improve Sales

Speaker: Charlie Isaacs, CTO for Customer Connection at Salesforce

But even if you are one of the companies that has figured out how to connect your products and devices to the cloud, how do you prove that your investment will pay off? Charlie Isaacs, CTO for Customer Connection at Salesforce, has the answer to that question, and many more on top of it.

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6 Proven B2B Marketing Strategies and How to Use Them

How to make the most of every campaign. Key takeaways from each story on how you can apply their tactics to your own strategy. A healthier bottom line. Get an in-depth look into six successful B2B marketing campaigns across a wide range of industries. You'll learn: Tips for inspiring your own strategy.

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Staying Relevant in Sales as AI and Technology Continue to Take Over

Speaker: John Barrows, CEO, JBarrows Sales Training

As sales professionals if we don’t figure out how to leverage technology while keeping the human element we’re going to get replaced. Where and how to add context throughout the sales process. So don’t miss out and join us for this for this final episode on improving your Salesforce efficiency!

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Build a Successful and Results-Driven Sales Culture

Speaker: Gary Galvin, CEO, Galvin Technologies

If you’re a sales manager interested in learning how to effectively manage your sales team, then this webinar is for you. Join us for the fifth fantastic episode of our Salesforce efficiency webinar series! Likewise, it’s even more important to shape your sales culture into one that is positive, accountable, and metric-driven.

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6 Steps to Optimize Your Media Buys

How to optimize your media buys with a data-driven approach. It’s also an opportunity to innovate, lead, and rethink the way your company uses media. In this media optimization guide, you will learn: 6 key steps to plan and pace your media buys. Ways to be more efficient and drive growth from every investment.

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Salesforce Formulas for the Everyday Admin

Speaker: Steve Molis, Salesforce MVP

The majority of Salesforce formulas that you’ll find online are overcomplicated, hyper-niche, or just plain unhelpful. Salesforce is one of the most powerful tools out there for sales and marketing professionals, but it can get unwieldy at times, and trying to figure out how to make someone else’s solution fit your own can be daunting.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. We’re here to help.

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Stop Investing in Forgettable Learning Events

In today’s competitive business environment, the only way to win is with a salesforce that’s fully onboarded and equipped with deep product knowledge, use cases, best practices and objection handling. To effectively train all your sales reps on your products, how do you: Compete for the engagement of busy sales reps?