Online Sales Software: CRM Alternative
OK the market is slow now. Now is the time to clean slate your sales business. Clean slate means, brush away today's issues for a minute, and think about what you would do differently.
If you are not using sales force automation click the button below. If your idea of sales force automation is CRM tools like salesforce.com please view the demo. 54 % of all CRM deployments fail for good reasons. CRM is bloated and hard to use.
Win Business with a new business system
Aberdeen put out a paper on sales lead management the other day. This paper caught my eye and drove home a point. The best thing a company can do is manage their sales leads. If a business does not have a formal sales lead management system in place, the fumes they are breathing, is money being burnt.
Why is this? Because your marketing people care more about sales leads than your salespeople do.
Marketing managers and sales managers lives are spent tracking leads and opportunities. Generating leads, routing leads, qualify leads and lead updates eat up time and money. Automating this process has several advantages first, you know the lead is passed to the right sales person quickly, second you know the sales person is working the lead.
If I am a manufacturing company, the mfg company makes machinery, and the sales model uses inside salespeople, directs and distribution. getting updates from the in-direct sales team is time consuming and hard at best and is impossible to do in most cases.
Do your manufacturer's reps and your distributors sell enough of your
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Routing leads to direct sales is not a high impact sales tool. The routing of the lead is a simple business process. The lead is assigned to the sales person in the sales tool. The salesman signs into the CRM and sees the lead.
I atended a tradeshow this past week. Several sales software clients were showcasing products and I spent time visiting their booths. I like to watch the interaction between prospects and sales people when I can. I learn alot. This was no different. The booths I visited were busy and I watched several sales people meet and greet booth visitors. It is fascinating to watch how prospects react to different sales approaches. I will classify the sales people as eager beaver, the know it all and the seasoned pro.
LeadNET creates 2-Way electronic sales data exchange between you & your sales teams.
LeadNET, our sales tracking module, automatically distributes and tracks sales data to and from your sales people, both direct and in-direct. The email notification is kicked off in the sales software, in the lead and opportunity form.