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If one flat statement could be made about today’s sales environment, “It is really complex” would certainly serve. Going back in time, there were 2 basic sales jobs—a salesperson and a sales manager. Today we have field sales, inside sales, SDR sales, vertical sales, horizontal sales, and more. Sales has become a complex team sport ...

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, and just how Pipeliner empowers salespeople. Now, where should CRM be as we move out into the future? And how should CRM relate to the ongoing digital ...

In this series, we’ve covered why CRM has failed in the past, what is really needed for a CRM today and what we at Pipeliner are doing about it. Now let’s take a look at how and why Pipeliner factually and practically empowers salespeople. If you utilize CRM anywhere at any time, this could be very ...

As we’ve covered in the first 2 blogs in this series—Will It Now Succeed? and What Should a CRM Really Be Today?—no traditional CRM application has truly empowered salespeople. Interestingly, we brought Pipeliner into the marketplace at a time when the market was actually overrun with CRM applications. One could certainly ask, with some justification, why ...

In the last blog in this series, I discussed the serious shortcomings of CRM applications in the past. There were two major reasons for this—one being the technology not being up to par, and the other being that the user was completely left out of the development equation. For that reason a common phrase about ...

A Failure? Yes, it’s true. Going back roughly 25 years ago to the original development of CRM and coming forward to fairly recently, it could certainly be said that the first iteration of CRM applications has been a failure. They’ve been costly, incredibly difficult and expensive to implement, and additionally expensive to administrate. These factors ...

We now come to the final installment from my eavesdropping on a fascinating conversation—in the after-hours of the first evening of a recent entrepreneurship conference—between Dr. Abraham, a world-weary experienced entrepreneur, and a young, energetic hot venture capitalist named Doug. The first part of the conversation covered the fact that 80 to 90 percent of startups ...

This is the next installment from my eavesdropping on a fascinating conversation—in the after-hours of the first evening of a recent entrepreneurship conference—between Dr. Abraham, a world-weary experienced entrepreneur, and a young, energetic hot venture capitalist named Doug. The first part of the conversation covered the fact that 80 to 90 percent of startups fail, despite ...