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		<title>Can a sales force automation tool help a company sell more?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 16:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it sales force automation tools have been around for over 25 years now.  If asked how they are used most companies would reply they are a repository of all our intellectual property of business contacts, activities and customer information.   No question the industry has helped companies retain the knowledge base of contacts and<a href="http://www.jesubi.com/780/can-a-sales-force-automation-tool-help-a-company-sell-more"> [...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s face it sales force automation tools have been around for over 25 years now.  If asked how they are used most companies would reply they are a repository of all our intellectual property of business contacts, activities and customer information.   No question the industry has helped companies retain the knowledge base of contacts and customers, most companies don&#8217;t have a good means to capture activity information as it&#8217;s far easier to call some one or send an email from outlook than it is to utilize traditional tools.   If you want to drive sales behavior it has to be compensated and it needs to be easy.  Most tools fall down on it needs to be easy.</p>
<p>Fundamentally, at Jesubi we spend our waking moments trying to figure out how we can help our clients sell more.  One of our clients saw a 3x improvement in number of sales meetings that occurred, another client saw a 58% increase in &#8220;reach rates&#8221;.   If you can get in front of more people you should be able to fundamentally sell more assuming the people you are getting in front of fit the profile of companies you sell to. </p>
<p>Within the next 90 days, you will see Jesubi release solutions that address what we&#8217;re calling &#8220;total funnel management&#8221;.  How many leads does a company start with, moving to how many activities does it take to drive a sales meeting, how many meetings does it take to drive a proposal/quote, how many proposals/quotes does it take to close a deal.  It&#8217;s not rocket science, but according to our customers no one does it well today.  We think by providing that insight we can indeed help our clients sell more.</p>
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		<title>What really drives an increase in the sales forecast??</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been a big believer in activity drives results.  The best reps weren&#8217;t always the smartest ones, but the one&#8217;s who figured out how to get things done.  Whether it was getting the client to take a meeting or getting thru the objections the customer inevitably throws at you, they always managed to<a href="http://www.jesubi.com/713/what-really-drives-an-increase-in-the-sales-forecast"> [...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have always been a big believer in activity drives results.  The best reps weren&#8217;t always the smartest ones, but the one&#8217;s who figured out how to get things done.  Whether it was getting the client to take a meeting or getting thru the objections the customer inevitably throws at you, they always managed to get things done. </p>
<p>I have said earlier that most traditional Sales Force Automation solutions have focused their efforts on optimizing the opportunity side of business.  Here&#8217;s my challenge to that philosophy:  When I was the VP of Sales for Aprimo back in 1999 thru 2002, we had anywhere from 8 to 20 sales reps globally and on any given quarter 15 to 35 deals we were chasing.  I ask you if we managed everyone of those deals to 100% efficiency and effectiveness could I turn those 15 to 35 deals into 50 or 100 deals?  No.  Could I grow those deals sure, but could I double or triple each one and still close each one not a chance.  So my team was managing 15 to 35 deals per quarter, but we had over 50,000 people who we had touched either thru marketing activities or sales activities.  If we could have figured out a way to sell to those 50,000 people in a more efficient manner &#8211; isn&#8217;t it logical that it would have been a lot easier to find 50 to 70 more deals in that universe than closing 100% of the forecast and trying to double each opportunity while we were doing it??</p>
<p>That fundamental philosophy is at the core of our beliefs at Jesubi.  More systematic activity with analytics around what&#8217;s working and what&#8217;s not can truly help sales teams sell more.  By helping clients assess which industries are responding quicker, what size of company is responding quicker, which sales rep is the most effective &#8211; by doing all these things better than can be done with traditional solutions, Jesubi does in fact help clients sell more.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t take our word for it, take our customers word for it.  We&#8217;ll be glad to put you in touch with those who have seen what a solution focused on helping customers sell more.  We wake up every morning trying to figure out how to enhance our product so every customer benefits from new features and reports.  Check it out, you won&#8217;t be disappointed.</p>
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