Implementation and onboarding are key to the success of your CRM solution. We wanted to know how easy it has been for our customers to implement Pipeliner CRM, train their users, administrate the system, and use it flexibly for their company’s sales process. These issues are important because bringing a system online can be expensive ... Read Post

LinkedIn is a dynamic social platform where users can establish their professional identity and grow their career-oriented network. For a sales rep, LinkedIn can be a goldmine for finding new prospects that would be a perfect fit for their product or service. LinkedIn Groups should be the epicenter of these prospecting activities because they allow ... Read Post

When you graduate from college with a degree in communication studies and rhetoric, the business world can look very confusing. Unsure of where I fit in, I explored options. Many friends suggested sales. I was doubtful. I worried that being in sales would not carry the prestige and credibility I so badly wanted as I ... Read Post

Software review and matchmaker site, Software Advice, just completed a survey of over 300 CRM users. The resulting data is a valuable guideline for CRM developers, but more importantly we thought a recap of the survey and results merited a blog post because they mirror many of the discussions we have with prospects and customers ... Read Post

Tiger Coatings Aligns Sales and Marketing and Tames Document Chaos About Tiger Coatings Tiger Coatings fabricates powder coatings for a broad variety of applications: automotive, industrial, furniture, electronics, retail, appliances, and many more. A “powder coating” is applied as a free-flowing dry powder applied usually over metal, with numerous advantages over conventional liquid paint, including ... Read Post

In a recent blog post we touched on the types of sales which are being mostly automated, and highlighted the fact that in the higher-ticket B2B sales, human sales techniques will always be required. Expanding on that point further, it can be seen that today—thanks in a large part to technology—“sales” can no longer be lumped ... Read Post

Amar Sheth at Sales for Life hosts a popular video series, “The Social Success Factor” where he interviews people who have incorporate social selling activities into their workflow. This interview is with Chris Poole from Spot Check Services, a company that provides tools to improve customer satisfaction. Chris has had amazing success with social. Recently, ... Read Post

As a sales professional, you probably know the basics about online signature products. They’re easier to use and less expensive than ever. Unfortunately, knowing how to use an online signature tool is not going to give you a competitive advantage in today’s deals. But there’s a newer, related technology that will. It’s called document analytics. ... Read Post