The latest from LevelEleven

salesforce
Great news if you’re a sales leader: Say goodbye custom bots or third-party integration software to connect Salesforce and Slack. Just before Dreamforce this year, Slack announced via their blog that the company is partnering with Salesforce.   Slack has been working on Salesforce integrations for a while. This past spring, the company shared how they manually built bots and...
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modern sales
The world of modern sales moves quickly. We all know it. Strategies we think might work today may not work tomorrow, or even at all. To get a high-level view of what’s happening in the industry right now, GetApp surveyed 200 consumers and 250 sales professionals for their 2016 Sales Trends Report. The research delves into whether salespeople have the right...
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sales coaching
When we promote top-performing sales reps to the manager level, we expect them to excel at sales coaching. That’s why we gave them the job, right? But that’s not always the case. Research shows sales managers only spend about 30 percent of their time on managing people. Even modern, data-driven organizations aren’t sure how to use their metrics for better...
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sales leader
During Dreamforce this year, <a href="http://investor.salesforce online project management tools free.com/about-us/investor/investor-news/investor-news-details/2016/Salesforce-Empowers-Customer-Trailblazers-With-the-Next-Generation-of-the-Salesforce-Customer-Success-Platform/default.aspx” target=”_blank”>Salesforce announced multiple innovations across its services. Salesforce acquired Quip earlier this year, but this recent announcement details the word processing app’s integration. The announcement also included news about Salesforce1, Lightning, IoT Cloud and Einstein. Many of you were busy at Dreamforce last week, so we put together sales...
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Sales Metrics
Counting activities as sales metrics can seem like micromanagement. Tracking conversations, meetings and proposals used to be invasive, let alone tedious. But as Jason Jordan and Michelle Vazzana argue in “Cracking The Sales Management Code,” those are leftover sentiments from a time before ubiquitous information technology. Modern sales teams are empowered with activity-based selling. They use tools like sales scorecards....
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Sales Metrics
If you’ve been a reader of LevelEleven’s blog for a while now, I don’t need to convince you of the importance of measuring your sales metrics. However, in this new account based sales development (ABSD) movement, the metrics have slightly shifted. If you continue to track the traditional lead-based metrics when you’re executing ABSD, you can easily find yourself in...
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Salesforce
We know Salesforce is one of your top CRM tools, so we want to keep you updated on the technology you use every day. Stay in the know with our Sales Leader Brief series. In late September, Salesforce and Cisco unveiled three integrations that increase the efficiency of collaboration, IoT and customer service. The two companies teamed up to allow...
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dreamforce panel talks maximizing modern sales investments
At a conference like Dreamforce, it’s an obvious question: How do I maximize my modern sales investments? Hundreds of new softwares and services wait for your potential investment, but how can you maximize what you already have? Several sales leaders gathered today in a Dreamforce breakout session to find out. Here’s who they heard from: Bob Marsh, CEO, LevelEleven, @bobmarsh5 (moderator)...
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