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Do you ever need to qualify and convert a lead - but without creating an opportunity? You're in good company!
Marketing or Inside Sales departments are often tasked with qualifying leads, converting them into an account/contact, and handing them off to Field Sales who then determines if there is an opportunity. The default lead qualification process in Dynamics 365 for Sales doesn't work well with this typical business process.
Enter the C5 Insight Lead Conversion solution...
Want to boost company profits by 30%? Then maybe it is time to consider a sales process (re)design project ... or maybe not! This article outlines the 5 benefits and 5 risks of sales process.
“Ever since I started having my team re-key data before sales meetings, sales performance has improved” … said no Sales Manager ever.
Read on for the cardinal sin of the sales process when using a CRM solution and ideas you can implement TODAY to make a lasting impact on the way your team manages their pipeline and closes sales.
Don’t tell my boss, but I hate CRM.
Research suggests that leadership’s opinion of CRM success is often different from the teams using CRM on the front lines. And IT, Sales, Customer Service and Marketing can all have radically different opinions of an organization’s CRM solution. C5 Insight has introduced a free to download tool that can be used as a self-evaluation to rate the success or failure of your CRM project.
Let’s face it, customer relationship management applications can be confusing. There are lists of lead, accounts, contacts, opportunities and – in some cases – other things like products, quotes and orders. With all of these things you can do, we are frequently asked, “where do I begin and how do I start each day with my CRM application?”
The answer is simple … but how you arrive at the simple solution takes some discipline.
There is a big issue in business these days – blaming technology for people problems.Though it’s true that technology can be fickle and frustrating and even I have often restrained myself from sending my laptop sailing out the window, well…it’s a computer. Can we all just agree, collectively, to assert our human brain’s superiority and stop blaming technology? Here are a few ways to start bringing people back into the mix.
If you’re not using CRM as a tool to plan your day, week, month – or more – then you’re missing out. You’re leaving valuable referral sources in the cold. You’re letting opportunities slip through the cracks. And you’re letting your competitors snap up your best customers.
This article takes a look at how to use CRM as a planning tool.
Companies continue to spend countless hours focusing on how to better articulate their value proposition, in order to increase both the volume and velocity of sales. There is potential for greater impact by focusing some of that time on an often neglected piece of the sales puzzle. Have you considered how hard you are to work with?
If you’ve started to track contacts, accounts and your pipeline in CRM, then you’re ready to start tracking activities too. Most CRM solutions provide a way to track activities such as calls, appointments, emails and tasks. This article provides some quick tips for tracking your activities.
In order for a channel strategy to be successful, the investment does not end with implementation. It takes a lot of hard work and a little LUCK along the way.
Mentoring is one of those things that seems to make tons of sense to people but rarely if ever gets done. The days of new employees being given a formal mentor and six weeks to six months of “ramp up time” appear to be long gone for most companies, regardless of their size or industry.
Today’s Marketing Executive should serve as a bridge builder, thriving in the intersection of technology and adoption. In this blog, we’ll look at five best practices to help Sales and Marketing close the interdepartmental divide.
Scoring leads is a great way to make sure that your sales team is working the leads that show the highest propensity of becoming a customer. This is an ideal area where your marketing, sales and analytical people can collaborate to create something that helps everyone to be more successful.
You may already know that about 80% of the leads that your organization invests thousands of dollars to generate are never worked by your sales team. But do you know why? It’s because 98% of the leads you generate … stink.
And your sales team has no way of knowing which 2% of the leads are worth following up. So it’s easier for them to work on the deals that are already in the pipeline and work with their networking contacts to generate referrals that are almost always more qualified than those danged marketing leads.
So how do you help your sales team find the gold nuggets buried in that mountain of leads?
The Internet and tighter budgets have forever changed how prospects are making buying decisions. Research in the book The Challenger Sale tells us that prospects are over 50% of the way through the buying process by the time they initiate contact with a vendor.
Sales Intelligence solutions, integrated with CRM, are a part of the answer to this dilemma. In this article, we will take a look at the top sales intelligence solutions on the market today.
Few businesses would argue the value of a good CRM solution anymore. But adoption remains a significant challenge. Our own research shows that 40 percent or more of organizations continue to struggle with getting their teams to adopt CRM. So here are 20 ideas to consider to help drive the adoption of CRM within your organization.
In recent days, due to some unexpected challenges, I’ve been required to do my job WITHOUT my CRM solution. I have witnessed firsthand a productivity spiral downward without access to what some may roll their eyes at and cast aside as unnecessary.
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