I’m sure you’ve heard a thousand reasons from your sales reps why your CRM sucks.
To them, it’s like the developers of the top selling CRM systems got together in a smoke-filled room and thought, “How can we make something that’s the exact opposite of what salespeople need?”
So just for fun, we’ve collected a list of 11 things you’ll never hear your salespeople say about CRM.
There are three simple yet powerful questions that every rep should be asking throughout each one of their deals. Know the answers to these questions, and you’ll know the chance of closing a deal this quarter. What are they? Read through to find out.
It’s a few days before the end of the quarter. Your champion just called. Management has decided to wait until next quarter. The money just isn’t there at the moment.
Another deal that’s slipped through the cracks. How can you keep this from happening to you?
If you’ve ever worked with the MEDDIC sales process, then I’m sure you’ll never want to live without it. It’s simple and clear, focused on the fundamentals of sales and very effective. I’ve personally had crazy growth rates of 50% and higher in times where my competitors were experiencing negative growth. However, MEDDIC only works Read More
After 12 months of research and development we are finally announcing iSEEit Version 1, a native sales app for iPad and web that helps sales people naturally manage their daily activities and make them better in what they do best. The event will take place in Vienna on 10.9.2014 at the Cafe Studio, Gredlerstrasse 9, 1020 Wien Read More
“If they’re not using the CRM, then you need to force them to use it or else we’ll start cutting their commission payments!” That was the answer a sales operations manager from a big company gave when another manager mentioned his reps weren’t keeping their CRM up to date. I had to laugh when I heard that, Read More
Closing large deals is the World Cup of sales. Your first $1 million-dollar deal won’t let you sleep at night. You’ll be running in circles coordinating all of the people, tasks and information you need to close. And it only gets worse as you get closer to D-Day, the final decision, where you find out Read More
CRM’s are meant to help sales people. After all, nobody sets out to design software that makes your job harder. And yet many CRMs do exactly that. In fact, according to a recent study by Merkle Group Inc., Up to 63% of all CRM initiatives fail. What’s going on? Why don’t CRMs actually help sales reps Read More
It doesn’t matter if you sell into Enterprise Companies or Small and Medium Business, we sales people do a hell of a job preparing the decision making, support clients to understand their benefits and show them how to get the quickest return. Still, we seem to have a big issue harvesting on all the hard Read More
Alec Baldwin’s classic monologue from ‘Glengarry Glen Ross.’
