Previously in this series, we’ve covered a sales manager’s primary pain point, the technology vital to being a sales manager, and the pain point of people. Now we turn to a crucial subject for sales managers: that of management itself. It might seem to be a self-contradictory statement: “The first thing a sales manager really ...
In our previous blogs, we’ve covered a sales manager’s primary pain point and the technology vital to sales management. Now let’s cover a topic near and dear to a sales manager’s heart: people. Changing People Have you ever really tried to change someone? Did you succeed? A “no” answer to that second one would put you ...
Pipeliner’s newest and most powerful feature is Pipeliner Navigator—the first view seen when Pipeliner is opened. Navigator takes CRM far beyond the traditional dashboard view, providing instant intelligence specifically tailored to that user, allowing them to easily navigate complexity and focus immediately, in real-time, on what is most important. Once you use Navigator, you’ll see ...
If anything could be said about today’s world, it’s certainly filled with complexity. Today’s sales landscape is reflective of this trend: complexity in data, leads, opportunities, the sales cycle, multiple pipelines, multiple companies, multiple product lines, tier pricing, and much more. How can salespeople and sales managers deal with all this complexity? Well, we have ...
In our last blog in this series, we talked about the fact that very often the first pain point of being a sales manager is the sales manager themselves. Specifically, the way they are interpreting data and putting it into effect, and the way they are managing others. All of these which they can learn about ...
Sounds like a funny thing to say, doesn’t it? But it’s true. Of all the many pain points for a sales manager—and our research has turned up dozens—the first and foremost of these is the sales manager himself or herself. How did I arrive at that conclusion? The Big Sales Manager Complaint The first and ...
This is the beginning of a new blog series on the subject of sales management, its primary pain points, and how each of these is best addressed. There are literally hundreds of pain points that plague a sales manager. If we were going to take them all up, this blog series would be rather endless. ...
In this series, we’ve covered why CRM has failed in the past, what is really needed for a CRM today, what we at Pipeliner are doing about it, just how Pipeliner empowers salespeople, and where CRM should be in the future. For our final article in the series, let’s talk about why CRM is so ...
