I know you are feeling a lot of pressure to produce sales, and sales growth, during these tough recessionary times. And I know, at a few of my clients, board members are increasingly asking me to not only evaluate overall sales (e.g. by product, region and industry) but also sales performance by individuals.
To be fair, [...]
sales productivity metrics?
June 9th, 2009 — sales & marketing
dabble db: simplicity without sacrificing flexibility
September 9th, 2008 — general & admin
As Business Ready evolves, our need to collect, manage and share data continues to grow. We decided against a traditional CRM solution to manage our contacts, partly because of price, but mostly because our needs extend far beyond simple contact management. Having the ability to share all of our data from several worldwide locations is [...]
a successful customer relationship management (CRM) system?
May 1st, 2008 — sales & marketing
Have you thought about your sales process? CRM works best for companies with well-defined processes already in place. Automate chaos and it’s still chaos.
Larry Tuck, editor of CRM Magazine, 2000
Companies require tools that help them manage a sales process to build a quality pipeline, create forecasts and meet the overall goal to deliver [...]


