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If Your CRM Data Really is Garbage, Clean It Up!
I recently completed another project to address our CRM data quality issues for our account records in Salesforce.com. Specific firmographic data (annual revenue, employee count and industry) determine our market segmentation and account assignments so having accurate data is critical to keeping … Continue reading
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Tagged #sales20, B2B, Bob Bacon, clean, CRM, D&B, data normalization, Data Quality, data.com, hoovers, sales development, sales management, sales operations, sales ops, SFDC, SFDC cleanup
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Does Sales Training = Sales Enablement?
In recent months I’ve noticed a significant increase in the attention focused on the enablement of Sales organizations. In Silicon Valley alone I find several online postings for positions for a Sales Enablement Director or VP being sought today. This … Continue reading
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What’s The Difference Between Sales and Sales Operations?
The difference between Sales and Sales Operations is clearly confusing to those outside of the Sales profession but I suspect it is not entirely clear to a few of us here as well. I can’t tell you how many times … Continue reading
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Tagged B2B, Incentive Compensation, metrics, Sales 2.0, sales compensation, sales management, sales operations, sales ops
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Are Your Sales Stages Effective?
It’s not often that a sales manager gets to design new sales pipeline stage definitions used by an organization. It usually occurs in smaller organizations when a new sales leader is appointed and in larger organizations when a new sales … Continue reading
What is Sales 2.0?
I was speaking with a Sales leader last week when he asked me, “How do you define Sales 2.0?” At first I thought this was an easy question but as I formulated an answer (I try to do that before I … Continue reading
You’re hired! A check list of things to consider next…
Walking into any new job, let alone a sales management job, can be overwhelming unless you have a plan. There are a number 90 day plan for new manager templates available but these are by necessity generic in nature. For those … Continue reading
Sales Incentives: the Puzzle of Motivation
This 9 minute video by Dan Pink, author of DRiVE, is a humorous and enlightening white board presentation on how the same incentives can be either effective or ineffective depending on the circumstances. I know a number of sales managers … Continue reading
Software Sales Compensation Design
At least once every year we all need to create/review our incentive compensation strategy. It’s all too easy to assume last year’s plan will work again in the coming year and, even if it did work, there is evidence that some … Continue reading
