Salesforce Adoption Starts with Better Sales Management
Salesforce adoption starts with better sales management. Learn how sales managers, coaching, pipeline reviews and leading indicators drive lasting CRM adoption.
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AI Is Coming to Your Salesforce. Now What?
AI is changing Salesforce fast. Here's what sales leaders need to know about Agentforce, Claudeforce, costs, consultants, and where to start.
How Do I Get My Sales Reps to Use Salesforce Every Day?
Learn how to get your sales reps to use Salesforce every day by making it useful, simple, and part of the sales process—not just another administrative task.
Sales Facts and Insights Every Sales Leader Should Know
Nearly 12.3% of all jobs in the United States are full-time sales positions, and over a trillion dollars is spent on sales every year. More facts inside.
Why Sales Teams Resist Salesforce (and What To Do)
Salesforce adoption is not just a technology problem. Learn why sales teams resist Salesforce and what leaders can do to improve adoption and results.
Claudeforce and Salesforce: What Sales Leaders Need to Know
Salesforce and Anthropic's ClaudeForce could change how sales teams use Salesforce. Here's what sales leaders should do now to prepare for AI.
Salesforce Champions: The Key to Successful Salesforce Adoption
Salesforce Champions give colleagues the peer support that drives adoption. Learn how to identify, develop, and use champions across your sales team.
Why Do Salespeople Resist Salesforce? 7 Reasons Adoption Fails
Why do salespeople resist Salesforce? Learn the seven common reasons adoption fails and what sales leaders can do to make Salesforce easier to use.
How to Master Salesforce: 5 Must-Do's for Sales Teams
Five ways sales teams can master Salesforce, from preparing for change and setting KPIs to aligning the sales process, adoption, and ongoing training.
Salesforce Adoption Challenges and How to Fix Them
Most Salesforce adoption challenges are not caused by Salesforce itself. Why they happen and how sales leaders can align process, platform, and people.
Your Salesforce Adoption is Dismal. Well, who’s to blame?
Salesforce adoption fails when process, platform and people aren't aligned. Learn the common causes of poor adoption and what sales leaders can do.
Salesforce Opportunity List Views and the Kanban Board
Learn how Salesforce Opportunity List Views and Kanban Boards help sales managers manage pipeline visibility, track opportunities, and coach their teams.
Salesforce Activities Explained: Log a Call vs. New Task vs. New Event
Confused by Salesforce Activities? Learn the difference between Log a Call, New Task, and New Event—and when salespeople should use each one.
The Most Important Metrics in Salesforce: Leading Indicators
Discover the leading indicators that matter most in Salesforce and learn how sales managers can use them to measure, coach, and improve sales performance.
Shouldn't Salesforce Help Your Team to Sell? So Why Isn't It?
Is Salesforce making your sales team's job harder? Learn why Salesforce becomes complicated and how process, platform, and people can simplify the experience.
The Probe Step: How Great Salespeople Ask Better Questions
Great salespeople ask great questions. Learn how to improve discovery, uncover customer needs, and use Salesforce to reinforce better probing.
Underperforming Reps: How Salesforce Helps Sales Managers
How sales managers can use Salesforce to spot performance problems early, coach struggling reps, and hold the team accountable to clear expectations.
Salesforce ROI: 4 Ways Sales Teams Can Get More Value from Salesforce
Investing in Salesforce doesn't guarantee results. Discover four ways sales leaders can improve adoption, performance and Salesforce ROI.
Why You Are Not Maximizing Your Salesforce ROI
Invested heavily in Salesforce but not seeing the return? Discover the four factors that drive Salesforce ROI and what sales leaders can do about them.
How to Manage a Remote Sales Team: 7 Practices
Managing a fully remote sales team changes what you can see and what you must measure. Practical advice for sales leaders running distributed teams.
What a Good Sales Week Looks Like: 7 Leading Indicators
Learn how sales managers can define a “good week” using leading indicators, pipeline activity, and Salesforce data—before revenue results arrive.
Drive Salesforce Adoption After Training: 6 Steps
Training is the start of Salesforce adoption, not the end. Six steps sales managers can use to reinforce usage, build accountability, and make it stick.
8 Tips for Becoming a Great Sales Manager
In this post, Mark Christie of SalesForce Training shares 8 habits great sales managers have and how you can apply them. http://www.SalesForceTraining.com
How Can IT People “Get” Sales People?
Frequently we see IT teams building and maintaining Salesforce for sales teams without their input. This can spell trouble. Here's how to manage this issue.
How to Get Your Sales Team to Use Salesforce: 6 Strategies That Work
Your sales team wants to work inside Salesforce. Six practical strategies to make the CRM useful enough that salespeople rely on it every day.
Why Do Salespeople Hate Salesforce? And How to Change That
Why do salespeople hate Salesforce? Learn why CRM adoption fails and how sales leaders can make Salesforce easier, more useful and part of the sales process.
Why Salespeople Do Not Use Salesforce and How to Fix It
Three common reasons salespeople avoid Salesforce, including the Big Brother effect, and what sales managers can do to make the CRM worth using.
How to Determine Your Salesforce KPI's
How are you measuring your sales team, or the effectiveness of your Salesforce training? If the answer is revenue attainment, you are measuring too late.
Is Your Salesforce Overpaid?
How much should you be paying your salesforce, and how does it compare with your competition? The question most sales managers and owners want answered.
Why Salesforce Training is for the Dogs
The sales manager is the focal point of every Salesforce training program, because reinforcement continues long after the trainers leave the building.
Calculating the Cost of a Sales Call
How to calculate the real cost of a sales call from compensation, benefits, and travel expenses, and why every salesperson should know that number.
What's Your Selling Style? Understanding 4 Types of Salespeople
Hunter, Farmer, Shopkeeper, and Repairman are four common selling styles. Learn how salespeople can build the versatility to sell in any situation.
Commission Only Salespeople - Winners or Losers?
The question of whether or not to hire commission only salespeople is one that often comes up for many sales managers and it’s a good question.
Save the Salesperson, Not the Sales Call (Mar 2012)
Joint sales calls go wrong when sales managers take over. Why managers should coach the salesperson on the call instead of saving the sale themselves.
CPR for Sales: Consistent, Persistent, and Resilient
CPR for sales stands for consistent, persistent, and resilient. Why these three habits matter and how practice and coaching make sales skills stick.
Onboarding New Sales Hires - Doing It Right
Product knowledge alone does not make new hires sell. Why onboarding should teach new salespeople to communicate that knowledge to qualified prospects.
Are Your Salespeople Squandering Tradeshow Leads?
Trade show money is not wasted at the show, it is wasted afterwards. How salespeople squander tradeshow leads, and the follow-up process that fixes it.
Moneyball for Sales: Why Sales Leaders Must Lead Change
What can sales leaders learn from Moneyball? Discover why changing sales behavior requires leadership, reinforcement, and a plan—not just great sales training.
The Rule of 6
The Rule of 6 came from our friends at SalesForce Search and it changes how you think about pipeline coverage. Here is what the rule says and why.
The Sport of Selling: What Salespeople Can Learn from Sports
What can salespeople learn from sports? Discover how practice, discipline, coaching, teamwork, and continuous improvement can improve sales performance.
The Value of the Medical Sales Rep Relationship
What are supplier relationships actually worth to a medical sales rep, and how much of that value survives when procurement takes over the decision?
The Five Laws of Sales Management
Sales management begins before a person is hired and ends after they leave. Five laws of sales management from Brian Jeffrey, co-founder of the firm.