Archive for the ‘Sales Pipeline Manager’ Category

Calculating the projected value of an opportunity

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Earlier, the weighted value for each project or opportunity in On2Biz was calculated by adjusting the opportunity value by the probability of closure, that was calculated at each milestone based on the historical movement of opportunities in the pipeline. This was giving us inconsistent results in many instances. In addition, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why do you need a CRM or Sales Force Management System?

Monday, December 4th, 2006

As individual sales persons, we are quite adept at managing our sales process. We have been doing pretty well without any “systems”. So why do we need one? The simple answer: To grow your sales! You can drastically improve your sales performance. Not just tweak it, but take it to the ...

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