Remove 2013 Remove CRM Remove Decision-making Remove Sales Management
article thumbnail

Operationalize Personas to Meet Your 2013 Goals

SBI Growth

Hey, Sales Operations leaders. Do you want to increase sales and meet your 2013 goals? Encourage sales and marketing to build personas and build a plan to operationalize them immediately. Sales is frustrated because of a lack of proficiency in using the persona. 4 Keys to Making the Persona Project Successful.

Meetings 115
article thumbnail

Make Sales Data Meaningful in 2013 by Spending Time in the Field

SBI Growth

Sales Operations Leaders aren’t making data meaningful today. In fact, when asking Sales Operations Leaders what qualitative data they had gathered, here are their responses: Conducted internal win/loss debrief on large opportunities. Analyzed win/loss reason our reps fill out in CRM.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Salesforce vs. HubSpot vs. Insightly

Insightly

Salesforce, HubSpot, and Insightly are three prominent customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, each offering unique features and functionalities tailored to diverse business needs. Thus, from the beginning, Salesforce had its roots in the enterprise space as a CRM. In 2015, HubSpot added a CRM component.

CRM 52
article thumbnail

Putting Customer Segmentation To Work In The Field

SBI Growth

Today’s post is the first of three directed to Sales Operations leaders. Resource allocation is critical to success for sales. Customer/prospect segmentation is a key first step in making wise allocation decisions. The third of four regional stops to nail down 2013 budgets for the Sales EVP and the CFO.

article thumbnail

CMO: Are you going to have a job in 2014

SBI Growth

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Gartner and Meta Group statistics point to a 50-80% range of CRM implementation failure. Sales enablement tools can’t get a cursory review.

article thumbnail

Two Immediate Actions to Actually Get Your Reps to Use a Sales Process

SBI Growth

Think about this: You just invested a huge amount of time, energy and money in developing and training a buyer centric sales process. Our Making the Number research tells us that your peers feel the toughest part of a new sales process is having the team actually use it. Are the job aids attached to opportunities in the CRM?

Sales 107
article thumbnail

Is Your Sales Data Causing Inaccurate Forecasting?

Tenfold

The same survey says that the executives observe a lack in the quality of their sales data. A 2013 study by business services company Experian has found that 91 percent of businesses suffer from data errors. With bad data prevalent, the decisions you make for your business stand on shaky ground. Fixing Bad Data.