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5 Important Steps to Keeping Your Sales Process Moving Forward

January 9, 2010

I think it’s harder than ever to keep your sales process moving forward. There are so many innovative technologies that hold promise for sales. So many social media tools that help us connect and build relationships. Unfortunately all this scatters our attention and focus and working the sales pipeline.
Here are some time-tested ideas for returning [...]

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Free Lead Management Software

October 26, 2009

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Looking for free lead management software? It is possible. The basic principles of lead management can be cobbled together with free tools. Depending on your sales goals and quotas, these just might do the trick.
Let’s build a free lead management system.
Lead Capture: Email, Contacts, and Spreadsheets
Most sales leads are coming from business cards, [...]

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GTD for Sales: Batch Processing Leads

October 21, 2009

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I was an early follower of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity philosophy. It immediately synced with my observations of what makes sales people productive. Allen’s techniques in personal productivity are most effective with busy people. Sales is a numbers game. Processing high volumes of opportunities–efficiently–makes GTD a bulls eye [...]

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