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A Typical Sales Management Reporting Process - Short Video

One of the most time consuming and toughest jobs in Sales Management is to update your sales reports. Depending on your executive leadership, you typically have to publish them each day, week, month, quarter and year.

I came across this fun youtube video that explains how sales reporting typically works in most companies and how it can be greatly improved with cloud-based Analytics and Business Reporting.

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CRM, IT, Marketing, Sales, Sales Productivity, SMB Barry Ross CRM, IT, Marketing, Sales, Sales Productivity, SMB Barry Ross

10 Best Low-Cost Actions You Can Take in a Startup to Clean Your Hubspot and Salesforce Customer Database

Keeping your customer database clean and organized is essential to the success of any startup. However, it can be a costly and time-consuming task. Fortunately, there are several low-cost actions you can take to clean and maintain your Hubspot marketing and Salesforce sales customer database. Here are the top 5-10 low-cost actions you can take:

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Why Cleaning Your Hubspot and Salesforce Database is Critical for a Startup Success

As a startup, one of the most valuable assets you have is your customer database. However, if you don't invest in cleaning and maintaining it regularly, it can quickly become a liability that hinders your growth and profitability. In this article, we'll explore what happens to a startup when they don't invest in cleaning their Hubspot marketing and Salesforce sales customer database.

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Sales, Sales Productivity, SMB, Training Barry Ross Sales, Sales Productivity, SMB, Training Barry Ross

The Number One Secret to a Successful Sales Demo?

So how many times have you watched a Product Demo in a Webinar, Trade Show or in a face-to-face meeting and all you see is a Rep walking you through each feature and function on the webpage?

Then the Rep clicks on another page, shows you another feature (or the application settings) and does it all again. At the end of a 10 to 45-minute demo, they ask you if you have any questions.  Sound familiar?

Unfortunately, when you see this type of demo, you are watching a typical demo done by 80% of Sales Reps and Business Development Reps. Yesterday, I sat through another demo just like this.

There is a better way!

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CRM, Sales Barry Ross CRM, Sales Barry Ross

Top 10 CRM Complaints that a CRM Administrator Can Fix

Many Companies and Sales Organizations do not know the proper level of System Administration resources they need for a Customer Relationship Management (or CRM) System. This page will help explain why a Systems Administrator is so critical to your short and long-term sales success and the cost of Systems Admin Resources:

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Top 5 Cyber Security Tips for Sales Teams

Cyber Security has jumped to one of the top of executive priorities - from large enterprises to small businesses.  Since the sales team handles sensitive customer and company information on a daily basis, they should be a high priority focus to help reduce and prevent cyber crime.

Here are 5 Top Sales Team Best Practices that are easy to implement this next quarter:

 

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5 Social Selling Secrets for Increasing Your B2B Sales

There is no denying that social media has changed the way that businesses interacts today. Many businesses have not caught up with the demands of the new business world, and have allowed social media use to slip by - but not using social media efficiently and effectively can almost certainly cost a businesses heavily, especially in the B2B world. Here are five social selling secrets for LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and other social sharing sites that will increase business-to-business sales productivity for a company forever.

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5 Tips to Increase Millennials' Sales Productivity

Did you know that in 2015, Millennials (20-35 year-olds) surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest segment of workers in business?  Did you also know that by 2025, these tech-savvy Millennials will represent 70 percent of your workforce? 

As a result, you need to make sure that your sales team has the infrastructure for Millennials to be productive and successful.  If not, you'll be dealing with the following three issues:

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CRM, Sales, Sales Productivity, Training Barry Ross CRM, Sales, Sales Productivity, Training Barry Ross

Salesforce Admin & User Self-Paced Training

Over the last five years, Salesforce.com has become very complex to successfully implement and manage.

However, the CRM System is still very easy to just turn on with their standard configuration and start working. It's quick, not too painful and many companies just do that. They really need some training basics before they start using it.

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