contact management
8 Metrics You Must Know about Marketing, Leads and Sales
You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Its not as hard as you think to measure what matters most. Whether you’re using a fancy CRM solution with Marketing Analytics or not, you can get started today with this roadmap.
3 Ways to Measure Advertising and Marketing Return Easily
Measure what advertising is generating profits and what’s not. 3 easy ways to do it and increase sales and profits quickly.
2 Reasons What Your Sales People Tell You About Your Leads and Your Marketing is WRONG
When you need to know how your advertising and marketing are working, you ask your sales team. Learn why what they tell is wrong more often than not.
A New Race Car to Success in 2010 for Christmas This Year
If reaching your sales goals in 2010 is a race, then you’ll need to fine tune the engine, the fuel and choose the right road to be successful!
Free eBook – Double Your Sales in 2009 – available now
The entire 5 part series is now available for immediate download as a complete e-Book! Double Your Sales in 2009 has been more popular than any other article, whitepaper or e-Book we’ve ever released, by far! Stop listening to the doom and gloom in the news. You can take charge of your own destiny in [...]
Craig Klein Interviewed by Top Sales Experts
I had the honor of being interviewed by Maureen Blandford, of the Top Sales Experts, about the importance of contact management for sales people and what makes it work. Sales people tend to see a CRM or contact management system as an attempt by management to "micro-manage" them. Of course, it shouldn’t be that way [...]
Pour In The Jet Fuel – Part 5 of Double Your Sales in 2009
There are good leads and not so good leads. Many times, you instinctively know the difference. Other times, you’re completely surprised by the results. You spend a lot of money and time to generate these unpredictable results. The leads your sales team pursues is the fuel in your sales engine. Right now, you’re pouring all [...]
Set the Mustangs Free – Part 4 of Double Your Sales in 2009
How many sales management books have you read? I’m sure each of your sales reps has a couple of sales guru books that they keep on their desk. Have you invested in sales training for you team? A lot of time and money have gone into refining the skills of your sales team. But somehow, [...]
Your Pants Are Down and You Don’t Even Know It
Today’s Wall Street Journal includes an article entitled "Businesses Say Theft by Their Workers is Up", by Sarah Needleman. The theme of the article is that in "these tough economic times", more employees are padding their expense accounts, stealing office supplies, etc. Ms. Needleman quotes Bob Riordan, leader of labor and employment practice group Alston [...]
Hurricane Ike teaches us a few things – Thank You Plywood!
Wow! Do I feel lucky today! I’ve been a resident of Houston, Texas for 40 plus years and I have to say that Hurricane Ike was the worst I’ve ever been through personally. My family was extremely fortunate. No damage or injuries to speak of. Most of my SalesNexus colleagues came through fine too. A [...]
