Archive for February, 2007

How effective is your sales process?

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Managing your sales process is expensive. And if you are in the information technology or related industry, you are not alone. Carl Rahn Griffith, founder of egoboss, a highly respected consulting and advisory firm in the information technology industry comments on his blog: Across the tech vendor community, approximately 50% of ...

How safe is your data in On2Biz?

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

With the recent declaration by Google to offer a paid version of its web applications such as Gmail, calendar, and online document editors - collectively called Google Apps, the Software As A Service (SaaS) model has become mainstream. Now the discussion of the core issues relating to SaaS are being ...

Sales Cycle Time - a critical metric for measuring performance

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

In the previous post on sales performance analysis, we talked about how certain key performance indicators can be used to measure sales performance. Now armed with some of the feedback from users of On2Biz and further validated by a great post by Lori Grant on Smart Lemming, there is a new ...

Using the sales pipeline report for key performance indicators

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Conventionally, sales performance is measured by the value of orders closed. Sales persons are assigned targets, and their incentives are based on their ability to meet these targets. However, merely meeting targets does not ensure consistency of sales performance, effective utilization of sales resources, accurate target assignments, or effective sales ...

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