1.2, 17, 544, 1019……… 5,10, 50, 100……… The first series of numbers did not exactly make you happy reading it, now did it? But the second series of numbers was a pleasant read. Wonder why? Our brain finds comfort in round numbers. This has immense implication in our everyday lives as humans – affecting how […]
Operations is a cross-functional department. It is like sitting on the fence with a view into every room! My Salesforce interviews are consisted of 13 questions I ask every interviewee. This questionnaire is a distillation of interviews over the years. A lot of these are technical Qs that the interviewee builds and executes on the […]
“Can you share your screen?”, I said. Not that I really wanted to see how this interview candidate built the workflow – but to see what all apps has he bookmarked. It gives me intel onto the app integrations this candidate has worked on and build my next set of conversations around it. “Bookmarks” – […]
Every time I see a deal we lost to the reason “your product is expensive” I do wonder what it really means by “expensive”. Different people buy different things for very different reasons. You don’t buy a Rolex and call it expensive coz “Hey it is just another watch that shows the same time!” You […]
13 days to end of Qtr. On deals that are edging to closure, you want them closed. You want them to move from Negotiations to Contracts to closure. The ones in the negotiations are the interesting bunch. This is where the action happens. This is where you want the deal to jump the fence to […]
Last month LinkedIn turned legal drinking age in the UK: 18 years. It will have to wait another three years to be drinking age in the US or India. So this is a dedication blog to the oldest of the major social media platforms in existence today. But I won’t bore you with the usual […]
In the last blog post I discussed on how Twitter is a lost prospecting opportunity making a strong case for it. In this post we will work in detail on how best to prospect on Twitter. This blog is gonna be a hands-on workshop so be ready to put in the effort to see amazing […]
Twitter is where people vent out their anger on a bad product. Twitter is where people post about their immediate emotions. And that makes it one of the best prospecting strategies. LinkedIn is where almost everyone behaves professionally. It is a platform for good long-form posts (and unfortunately a ton of “good morning” and “motivation” […]
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 […]
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