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Using Salesforce to Track Sales Commission: The Pros & Cons

The Spiff Blog

But, then, we experienced another seminal change in business software. Today, we explore the evolution of commission software. Spreadsheets are still, in my opinion, the most successful business software ever created. The second most successful business software, after Excel, is Salesforce ( source ). True, I’m biased. )

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How a Customer-Centric Framework Can Drive Massive Growth for Your B2B Sales Org

Vendor Neutral

He has held a variety of leadership roles and has leveraged sales enablement and customer experience disciplines to help grow several startup companies that became successful public software companies. iCentera was acquired in 2011 by Callidus Software. He's best known as an early Outreach employee that helped them scale from.

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We Drink Our Own Champagne: Cheers to Happy Selling!

Velocify

In my sales career, I have used Goldmine, ACT, Microsoft Access, Siebel CRM, Right Now Technologies, Netsuite and also Salesforce at three previous companies. I remember the struggles I faced daily and was not happy selling with using a traditional CRM (customer relationship management) system to manage my prospects and leads.

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Differentiation, Dissimilarity, Disruption

Partners in Excellence

A great example of this is in the shift from premise/license based software solutions to cloud based solutions. It disrupted not only the software solution providers but also the systems providers.

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TSE 1281: Salespeople Love / Hate Relationship With CRM and How To Get Value From It

Sales Evangelist

He’s been with the company for 15 months and he’s had a background in enterprise software for over 25 years. He started his software sales career with Siebel System, the first enterprise CRM and from there, Kevin spent 11 years at SAP and due to an acquisition, also spent time with Oracle. What is a CRM?

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr - Sales Strategy

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. It was this nascent software as a service offering and they competed with Salesforce in the market and we had an instinct that it was going to be a big part of the future.

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Holiday Wish 1: On-demand CRM Solutions

The ROI Guy

The hottest news in CRM, are for on-demand solutions from companies such as salesforce.com, Right Now and Up Shot (Siebel on-demand). Wish #1: All can experience the same success that we have had with on-demand software, especially on-demand CRM. But are these on-demand solutions this hype-worthy?

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