AI tools now give sellers back an average of 4.8 hours a week, according to Gartner. Yet 72% of sales organizations fail to reinvest that saved time into high-value selling. Winning back the selling day takes two moves, not one: use AI to clear the four biggest time sinks (research, data entry, drafting, meeting prep), ... Read Post
Sales forecasting comes down to five steps: define your sales process and forecast period, gather your historical deal data, choose a forecasting method that fits your data, build the number, and review it against reality on a fixed cadence. The method you choose matters less than most teams think. The discipline of the five steps ... »
The difference between AI agents vs assistants comes down to how much they do on their own. An AI assistant helps you do a task faster when you ask, like drafting an email or summarizing a call. An AI agent takes multi-step action toward a goal on its own, like researching an account, preparing a ... »
To improve CRM adoption among sales reps, make the CRM give more than it takes: cut manual data entry to minutes a day, configure the pipeline around how deals actually move, run every forecast and pipeline review from inside the CRM, train reps inside their live deals instead of a sandbox, measure usage weekly for ... »
There is a lot of conversation circulating about building your personal brand. If you take a look online, you might see personal branding defined 1 as “the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands,” with terms like “self-packaging” thrown into the mix. But, the discussion about personal branding is fairly superficial; what ... Read Post
Because a CRM solution is such an integral part of your company’s operation, precisely establishing ROI for CRM is vital. In taking the time to do so, you are also taking the time to fully support and empower your sales efforts for years to come. This simple guide will put you firmly on track to ... Read Post
Author Jeanne Bliss writes the customer experience roadmap to transform your business and culture. Chapter 1: The Chief Customer Officer Role Is Clarity Chief Customer Officer 2.0 gives you a proven framework that has launched and advanced the customer experience transformation in both business-to-consumer and business-to-business companies around the world. And it will take years ... Read Post
In the last few years, there has certainly been a lot of talk about sales enablement—it’s one of those trendy terms that came around and has definitely remained. There certainly is no sales enablement “magic bullet”—you utilize it and bang! instant results! People today will jump on any train when they hear it will bring ... Read Post
This ebook is on the subject of “Win Together.” It falls under the same context as“win-to-win” described in my book Network Selling: Guarantee Success for the Digital Age. Today, this aspect of sales is more important than ever, and must also be part and parcel of CRM solutions. Read Post
In today’s mega-technological super-convenience society, we’ve all but lost sight of one particular fact: Life is a risk. We’ve built walls, dams and roofs to keep it out. We’ve armed ourselves with the latest inoculations to keep risk from making us sick. We’ve mounted the latest weaponry to safeguard us from our enemies. We’ve insured ... Read Post
The statistics are overwhelming — when your sales team focuses and prioritizes sales leads and activities, great things happen. We’ve created a compelling slide deck based on our blog post by James Obermayer of the Sales Lead Management Association (reporting on a comprehensive study conducted by Velocify.com). When sales teams regularly use simple prioritization activities, ... Start a slideshow
PointClear has developed a comprehensive Lead/Revenue Calculator that factors in metrics frequently ignored in the planning process, and addresses other shortcomings often found in these sorts of tools. This is a model you can adjust to fit your company; so multiply, add zeros, adjust percentages or make whatever other changes you feel will shed light ... Read Post
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Ryan Englin, Founder of Core Matters, explains how frontline managers can use AI to eliminate busywork — drafting reminders, scripts, and performance reviews — so they focus on the human side of leading. He breaks down why generic AI produces “slop,” why documented SOPs make it reliable, and why the professionals who learn the tool become more valuable, not replaceable. Learn more at https://corematters.com/
