Take a look at the image below. It is not just any beetle. It is the green tiger beetle. It is the fastest creature on earth relative to size. To give you a perspective if Usain Bolt, the fastest man on earth’s record gaining speed in a spring was 27 miles per hour. If Bolt […]
“Let me block some time on your calendar”. That is one phrase that has always bothered me. Let us do a small experiment. Imagine the words below: Calm Harsh Soft Blunder Disastrous Beautiful Mesmerising Horrific Notice how you uttered each of these words in your mind with the very meaning they might carry. Calm for […]
This Qtr you have 64 working days(US markets). And we just finished five of them. That leaves you with 59 working days to smash that $100K quota. A Qtr is a fancy word. “My quota for this Qtr is $100K.” “The feature will be released next Qtr.” “We need a 21% QoQ growth.” A Qtr […]
CRM is the largest segment of Enterprise Software market, generating over 11% of total global software revenue. Salesforce’s AppExchange hosts over 3400 apps. Presuming one:one relationship to app developers and apps on the Salesforce marketplace, that is 3400 companies relying on Salesforce’s unavailability of a feature or building onto the CRM data to sell their […]
It’s the quarter end and you are in a meeting with your GTM leadership and one of your sales Directors makes a comment: “I think the deals are spending too much time Negotiating.” And a debate ensues on the validity of the comment. And then all eyes are on you – coz they all remember […]
It is Numero Systems’ weekly sales meeting and this is the drill: Liz, the Sales Head: “Andy! Let’s start with you. Walk us through what’s happening on your deals”. On his third deal, Andy:“Competitor offered them $50K. What should we do?” Liz: “Hmm. Let’s take this offline and discuss”. Two hours into the meeting there are more meetings spun out […]
When the covid vaccine (if it does) finally hits the market, don’t be that school boy (literally me!) who forgets all his school textbooks after the exams and runs crazy to the playground without a worry in the world about the next level of classes! I am gonna focus on the aspect of remote selling […]
Any good entrepreneur or a VC will tell you retention is the long-term game. There are tons of metrics to measure customer satisfaction like NPS (Net Promoter Score). But how you build the rapport is where your genius shines. Take for instance the case of Joe Girard, a Guinness world record holder for automobile sales. […]
From this post you will have figured there’s so much data to capture to build insights for each team, but you gotta start somewhere. Here are the must have fields your lead object to start with: 1. Lead Data Completeness: Say you have five must fill fields like industry, lead source, etc. this field is a formula field that will throw […]
So this happened a few months ago: my brother was unwell with cold and my mom asked if he needed medicine. This happened the a few months ago: a friend on Zoom said he was losing hair and another friend suggested him a clinic to visit. It occurred to me that when we are faced […]
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