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FAQs
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What is the biggest scam you’ve ever seen?
Personally? I have two.I used to work for a Home Depot store. I sold lumber and building materials, which means insulation, drywall, roofing, fencing, ladders and masonry products. Quite a bit of my business was in special-order products.We sold a customer two pallets of special order shingles. We had never sold this model of shingle to anyone before. The manufacturer brought them to us on Friday and we called the customer. “My contractor will be there on Monday.”On Saturday, someone showed up in the returns line with a bundle of these shingles. “I bought these and don’t need them, so I bro...
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What is the most incriminating thing you accidentally found on someone else’s phone or computer?
When I was in high school I had a reputation as a technology guy, in a not so great neighborhood high school where they bused in more wealthy kids I was the kid from the wrong side of the tracks but I was great with computers well one day I’m sitting in the hallway and someone who I know but don’t talk to (effectively the same could be said for about 99% of my high school class.) asked if I could take a look at his phone. So I said sure judging from the phone it was water damage and possibly a shot battery so I offered to fix his phone for 10 bucks + parts. Anyway, long story short after picking up a replacement battery disassembling the phone and drying it out with a heat gun and putting the new battery in the phone came to life and in these days phones didn’t have lock pins unless you really dug down into the settings to find them. So his phone is open and I’m going through the menus checking to make sure everything works, called my phone, sent a text message etc. So I was going to send a MMS (Multi Media Message) because at the time I was a bit more naive about technology I though they all got sent out on different signals which meant multiple antennas. So I grabbed a quick picture of my dog with his phone and I was going to attach it when I found out he had a “Photo List” it was pretty inclusive of all the girls (and some teachers) he found attractive. Apparently he either waited around trying to snap low res flip phone pictures of them or trolled their myspace pages and uploaded it to his phone. Needless to say I never mentioned it to him, he was kind of a loner like me who just floated through high school knowing everyone but not being friends with any of them.
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How have you handled situations at work where you get thrown under the bus?
Once upon a time I worked for a company where the sales team consistently and intentionally over-promised our services and product to our clients. In doing so, they regularly disappointed the clients and made my operations team look very bad. They hid their communications with the clients and constantly bad-mouthed us to them.It didn’t take long to find out, as my operations team had all come from the clients and still had numerous contacts and friends there.Early on in my time with this company, my team and I tried to assume that the issues were because the sales force was ignorant about what we did and were overly-enthusiastic about impressing the customers. So, we invited the sales team to our weekly deployment meetings and ensured that they were given access to our project timeline documents. We made it clear that the dates we gave for deliverables were indeed truly honest and accurate dates. And since they were invited to attend the weekly meetings, they would be kept apprised of any changes along the way. I believe in accurate and honest communications.Even with educating the sales team on how we worked and how to manage expectations, they continued to tell clients inaccurate things. They even went so far as to get the IT department to give them access to be able to edit the project timeline documents! They began to change our dates without notice and then tried to hold us accountable when we didn’t make the “dates”. I shit you not.After several months of this, we began to change the way we operated:We set an open invitation for the CEO and President to attend our deployment meetings. They never did, which was important later. They didn’t think it was a really big deal because the Sales VP was a huge ass kisser and downplayed us and our concerns every chance she had.We kept a written record of everything said in the meetings and who said them. We printed the meeting notes immediately after and distributed them to every attendee and invitee.We removed the read/write access the sales team had to the project database and informed the IT staff of new restrictions. We set login recordkeeping and limited the number of editors.All editors and data entry personnel were given new policy requirements they had to sign, which notified them of penalties for failing to adhere to the new regulations, up to and including termination.We required that a member of the deployment management attend all in-person sales calls with clients.We kept copied of all emails sent and received that had anything to do with the sales team. We DOCUMENTED EVERYTHING IN WRITING.We published to the client client-specific project information outside of the sales team correspondence.Needless to say, the sales team HATED us for this. After a lot of BS back and forth, we finally sandbagged them in front of the CEO in a face-to-face with their entire team, presented the altered project timeline forms, emails to the client that differed from our meeting minutes and communications with the client engineers where they questioned why our information was more accurate and timely than what the sales team was providing them.My partner and I (two of us equally ran the department) announced in no uncertain terms that should any more bullshit happen, we would be quitting immediately. The CEO and President were completely shocked by the amount of information we had collected and almost fired the VP of Sales (an absolute nightmare of a horrible person) on the spot. We provided the CEO with phone numbers to several clients who were more than willing to give him information that corroborated our position. The VP immediately threw her entire team under the bus to save her own skin and just barely stayed employed.From that moment on, she had it in for us, but could never figure out how to get away with anything. Super sweet on the outside, but we knew she wanted us dead.So to answer the question directly, document EVERYTHING. If you have a conversation with someone, send an email immediately thereafter to them, detailing the conversation and what the takeaway points and due dates were. Familiarize yourself with the company handbook, rules and regulations. Act completely properly at all times. Be aware that there will be factions and toadies that may seek to undermine you for some benefit. Documentation and clarifications will work wonders.If you believe you are being harassed or discriminated against, save copies of all communications to that effect. Note phone calls with time date, subject and caller in a notebook diary. Same with any face-to-face conversations. Again, DOCUMENT EVERYTHING. If you have an HR department, make a report. If you don’t, your state labor department is the place to go.Eventually coworkers and supervisors that try to undermine staff get what’s coming to them. Don’t get caught in the drama.If you want to know more about the VP of Sales, here’s a story about her:Sean Griffin's answer to Do you know someone who you think is capable of committing murder or have a suspicion that they may have?
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What are the best apps that can be used by Sales people?
TenfoldTenfold is a CTI or computer-telephony integration solution that has functions like call analytics, call logging, and caller ID. Basically, it integrates your CRM with your phone system for a smooth and seamless workflow. It also helps you track lead sources, average lead response time, call duration, and monitor your reps’ interaction with existing leads. What’s great about it is that it removes the need for manually entering data. It supports more than 20 CRMs and over a hundred phone systems.Google AlertsThis free and handy tool keeps you updated with your leads and prospects and helps you smoothen conversations. What you do is set up an alert for the company or prospect you’re selling to so every time they’re mentioned in a web page you will be alerted by Google. These updates may contain news on their company, important changes, and other information that help give you a reason to do a meaningful follow-up as opposed to the usual “just touching base.”CharlieCharlie is an email-based app assistant that sends a meeting briefer on the day of your appointment with a prospect. It gathers links to social media profiles, recent news on the prospect, shared interests and hobbies, mutual connections, and their latest social media posts. In essence it enables you to build rapport with prospects without having to spend a lot of time googling.Knowledge TreeThis app is a sales enablement solution that provides document management that helps sales reps get easy access to content they need throughout the sales process. What they do is collect rich data on content performance which helps content creators prioritize building pieces that are helpful to both reps and prospects.CalendlyCalendly is your good old scheduler that is simple and easy to use. You only have to add a Calendly link to the emails you send and when the recipient clicks that link, they are directed to a page that shows your available times. It helps speed up the sales process by avoiding any kind of doubt settling in before you get to schedule a phone conversation with a prospect.
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What are the biggest lessons you have learned in the corporate world?
Arriving early and doing nothing is viewed more favorably than staying late and working assiduously. It’s unfair, but it’s only the first boot of real life to kick you in the ass.HR and the ethics hotline don’t exist as a resource to you; they exist to cover management’s ass. I’ve worked for bosses who have used racial slurs, homophobic epithets, threatened and intimidated staff, used drugs in the office, and misappropriated their expense credits, but they were never so much as suspended. I almost lost my job for marking a sale as closed when I got verbal confirmation from my client (with my manager on the phone), only to get the actual signed documents a few days later.Always, always, ALWAYS document and organize files of communication between you and your superiors and you and problem clients. Did I say always? Discrepancies (read lies) in accounts of your interactions from either of these parties is a fast track to being escorted out of the building. Nothing shuts up a lying SOB like a time-stamped email with the intro, “Per my email on July 15, I mentioned….”Always keep a pulse on the job market. At least twice a year apply for jobs in your industry to get a sense on what your skills trade for in the open market and to sharpen your interviewing skills. It’s also a great habit to be in the orbit of recruiters because they operate within a tight-knit ecosystem, network with, and know one another. If you’re not a great fit for one role, and they like you, they’ll refer you to a friend or colleague looking to fill another role as a courtesy.Even if you’re not interested in a role that they may signNow you for, always try to recommend or refer qualified candidates to recruiters. This pays dividends down the road.Be wise as a serpent, yet as humble as a dove. Many people advise against making friends, but I would advise that you make them believe that you’re a friend. Being too cold and stoic in the office will make your colleagues withhold gossip, news, and politics from you that may be actionable. You can be friendly without being friends. Whatever your line is, find it and stick to it.Never get comfortable. I had a former colleague who never placed photos of his family or accomplishments in his cube and I asked him why. He said he is always prepared to walk out of the building with the items on his person at a moment’s notice. Speaking from experience, there’s nothing more humiliating or anxiety-inducing than taking the security assisted walk of shame with all of your belongings in a box and colleagues peeking above their cubes like prairie dogs to watch you walk the green mile. Work is a place where you should be as productive as possible; your family, spouse, hobbies, religion, proclivities, and creature comforts shouldn’t occupy the work space.Your manager is NOT to be trusted with personal information. Whether your mom has cancer, wife left you, your kids are suspended from school, or you’re late on the rent, these aren’t the people to share your most vulnerable moments with for two reasons; 1. They don’t have the power to do anything about them, and 2. They are more likely to report this things up the chain of command to use against you should it ever become convenient as a manipulation tactic. I know this oversimplifies things for the truly empathic, and supportive managers out there, but for the sake of generalities, let’s leave those 8 people out of this and err on the side of caution.Use your lunch hour as an opportunity to network with people within different departments to grow your customer base. Every employee has internal and external customers, and it will behoove you to learn how to cater to them. If you’re in sales, take someone in Dev Ops, Professional Services, R&D, or Customer Experience to lunch. You’ll learn all the horrible things sales people do that make their job a living hell, so you won’t perpetuate that. You’ll also forge some great individual relationships for emergencies when you need to phone a friend.Stay away from the office complainer. Every office has at least one, and he/she is a cancer on your outlook and productivity. Regardless of how valid their complaints are about the quality of the snacks, the scheduled All Hands meetings, the increased co-pays on the new insurance for annual enrollment, the way management is trying to screw us with the new Comp Plan, etc., the best thing to do is to keep your exposure to this individual AT. A. MINIMUM.Become a Subject Matter Expert in at least one or more topics within your department. This makes you indispensable among your peers and management, because they don’t want to(or can’t do) do the job of training the whole staff or answering all their questions.Volunteer to headline new products or services, and you’ll become more visible with leadership and ahead of the curve when those products/services become mandatory.Make your career decisions for the people who will attend your funeral one day; not the people in that office. Days, or even hours after your death, someone will be posting a requisition for your position, and your duties will fall on the shoulders of another. Make sure you spend your strategic decisions improving the quality of time with the people who will be crying at your funeral. This puts a whole lot of unnecessary office bullshit into perspective.If you’re in the US, talk to your colleagues about your salary. Corporations benefit from dwindling unions and individual, rather than collective bargaining by negotiating salary and compensation on an individual basis. Men, this is our opportunity to gain solidarity with women who work equally to ensure that they’re paid equally. White folks, this is an opportunity to ensure Black folks, Hispanics, and Natives are paid equally. This isn’t a zero-sum equation; corporations make enough money to pay us all equally. They have the luxury of not doing so. Hold their feet to the fire, or have them risk losing the war of retention.Be kind. Especially to the people who least deserve it. 9 times out of 10, they’re fighting prodigious personal battles, and the only place they can funnel their energy is at work. Be gentle, but don’t be a doormat either.Bring your authentic self to work. I’ve seen introverts, extroverts, flashy dressers, frumpy dressers, those gifted with supreme elocution, and those with the longest, strongest Southern drawl succeed in business, which proves one thing. Success doesn’t care how you show up; just that you show up. I wish you the best of luck on your journey!
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Is it a smart move to take country club membership?
That’s the worst idea in fact. I share my experience and more or less it is same for everyone. At the end I also explain how to get your money back from them.On August 3rd , 2018 , I attended a presentation made by Country club representatives , named Dharshan , Muneer and RajaShekar at Café Coffee Day , JP Nagar , Bangalore. I came to know later that they operate by the fake names. So you should know that whoever you deal with and know in CC , those are not their actual names.They explained me different plans of Country Club / Country Vacations.On the condition of me paying the membership fee ( Rs. 1,39,054 ) on the spot, they offered me following membership benefits, none of which I received.1. Domestic and International stay for 6 nights, 7 days for a duration of 10 years for 8 people with 1 bhk accommodation.2. Rs. 7000 cashback to the credit card.3. One time all paid international vacation.Towards the membership, I paid Rs. 1,39,054 with my credit card by converting this amount into 12 EMIs with 14.55 % annual interest. While signing the agreement, and not finding the above above offers in agreement, they misguided me by telling it as a generic common agreement and told that I would receive different customized membership documents within 10 days after signing agreement.At the same time, I got a verification call to which the sales team told me it as a mere account activation call and I just need to agree to the questions asked in the call. They told me again that I would get separate membership documents in the welcome kit and deceptively convinced me to agree for the membership period as 5 years in the call.Later on finding online social media full of similar customer experiences and they being duped by the Country Club in a similar fashion, I referred to the point number 34 (cool off period) in the agreement. According to that, I can cancel the membership within 10 days from the signing of the agreement by sending an email to centralcustomecare@countryvacationsmail.com. The paid amount would be refunded after deducting Rs. 3800. Therefore, on August 6, 2018 I sent an email to cancel my membership with immediate effect and asked to refund my money. I received no response except an confirmation e-mail from Country Club about receiving my email. I sent many email reminders, but did not receive any response from Country Club about refunding the money. Please see the copy of the emails attached. I also talked about the same to the country club sales team, they promised to resolve either all my concerns or get my money refunded but nothing happened. To discuss my issues I also tried to call the phone number given in the agreement (040) 67484444, but there has never been any response on that either.I have also sent a legal notice to Country Club on 18th Sept 2018 and yet have not received any response. Now I know that they get such notices on daily basis and that does not mean anything to them. So, do not spend your money on sending the legal notice.This is their modus operandi and they have cheated 1000s of people like that.Now, what you should do to get your money back from them. Before that, One thing I want to share here about the people (CC victims like us). I have talked to 100s of people who got cheated by the CC. And I must say that I am very disappointed by the people. I must say that majority of the people who get cheated and come to get help in getting their money back are very selfish, they just care only about getting their money back and nothing else. They do not respect other person’s time at all and are completely thankless. They also do not want to take any effort on their own part , and behave as if it is someone else’s job to get their money back that they simply gave to CC. Once they get back their money , they do not bother even to talk about it , forget helping others. They are not even bothered to post their experiences on the social media spread awareness about that.Now, what you should do to get your money back from them.Very important , do not get disheartened and just leave your hard earned money with them. Do not repent. Accept that you are being very casual in giving away your money to anyone. Take it as a lesson and in future never spend your money in advance for any kind of plans. Never entertain any aggressive sales, marketing. Be careful , do not share your number to any mall , refuse to share your number when shopkeeper asks at the time of making bills etc. You should even scold the boy/girl if they ask to fill any lucky coupon in any mall.Immediately send an email to centralcustomecare@countryvacationsmail.com and centralcustomercare@countryclubmail.com to cancel your membership citing your personal reasons and get your refund. Also copy all your country club / country vacations representative contacts in the same email. Look into your country club / vacation agreement , search the internet and find out all the country club / vacation customer care emails and copy to those addresses too. Do that immediately.Immediately write an application on paper to cancel membership giving your personal reasons , attach all your documents and send it to their Hyderabad offices and local offices via registered speed post with acknowledgement. Do that , do not just sit back after emailing. It is important and you will understand better it later.If you have used your credit card , then immediately raise the credit card transaction dispute. Fill up the dispute form , attach all the documents above , also take the print outs of all the negative reviews and fraud done by them and send again via registered speed post with ACK. Also email the same to your bank emails etc. After sending the dispute form , talk to your bank manager. They will normally discourage you by saying they want cancellation mail from CC. Explain them all the frauds made by them and how many people got their credit card transaction reversed and explain what all you did in steps above. File a dispute asap. There is a time window in the bank before transferring your money to the company from bank. So leave all your other works and do the steps 1–4 asap. Most likely you will get your money reversed. Even if they reject your dispute , dont get disheartened and raise the dispute again. Collect more evidences and examples of people’s getting their money reversed.If you have 10 days cool off period in your agreement , then you do not need any reason as such to cancel your membership. You do not need to utilize any of their services also. Do not personally go and talk to them about you refund in their offices. They will simply refuse. They will ask you to first utilize their services first. Do not do that. Do not believe on their single words. Do not get trapped . Just follow what I am stating here. If you are in cool off period , then you need to wait for 120 days after sending your mails to them. Just sit back and keep sending reminders to them and to your back and do the step 7 below. Most likely you will get your money reversed in your credit card before 120 days. Even if you have paid using the debit card, they will pay you back by company cheque.Even if you do not have cool off period in your agreement , follow the step above, yo will get your money back. Do it as fast you can.If have passed 10 days time , then go to your local clubs or country club facilities . They are very shady and unusable. Go there , take the photographs and other evidences of the poor facilities there. Collect all the documents , make your case and do the steps 1–4.Prepare all the documents , find out the addresses of following in your state and once in a month send your letters and emails both to following.You can also contact Mass India NGO Karnataka president Mr. Gopal Koteyar ( 9741180793 / 9980025751) if you are in Karnataka and Mr. Shibu George ( 9869839988) for the rest of the parts in country. They are fighting with CC since long time. I and many other people got money back through Mr. Koteyar and Mr. Shibu has made around 400 people’s money refunded till now.a) DIG / police commissioner in your city and DIG / police commissioner Hyderabad.b) Registrar of companies and company law.c) Chief minister of Telangana and Your state.d) Prime Minister of India.e) Reserve Bank of India.f) Enforcement Director of Income Tax.Also keep sending the reminders to CC all offices and your bank by giving references to the above communications. Do not forget that. This process seems slow to you but it works and actions are taken. You will get most likely your money back faster.8. If you have cool off period in your agreement , then after 120 days , you can approach the consumer court. If you do not have cool off period in your agreement , then you can approach the consumer court even before , based on the response from the Country Club. If you have to go to the consumer court , do not take myadvo services , you will repent. In consumer court , you should yourself appear , do not take any lawyer , they will just rip you off. You can find and help of any reliable lawyer in your area in initial filing the case and later you yourself can carry on. I am not recommending but I consulted lawer Pooja Barik from HSR Bangalore and found her helpful. You can find anyone reliable or with little effort can file your own. That is a simple process.This is all pretty much you have to do. Keep faith, I am telling you that you will get your money back.At the last be a good citizen . Upvote and comment in this post and do not let this post take down by CC folks. Help others , connect people in your area to collaborate. Discuss your case here in comments so that other also get information and can help you or get help from your experience . Post your experience on social sites. This is the minimum we should do. Do not just think about yourself only , spread the word.
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What was it like working on the original iPhone project (codenamed Project Purple)?
I wrote about 6% of the Mac OS X kernel, by lines of code, over a period of 8 years. That’s about 100,000 lines of code a year.This is the same kernel for iOS.I didn’t get read in on Purple until late in the game, but I was informally read in before that, because I was a pretty awesome kernel debugger, and the kernel needs debugged a lot when you are doing a bring-up.At some point you just have to wing it, because it’s more important to ship product than it is to be overly anal about secrecy.So I got taken into areas where there were black cloths everywhere. If you ever work at Apple, black cloths are how they cover secret projects; you pretend not to see them; it’s a kind of willful ignorance. I only got to see the machine doing the remote debugging, not the target — but it was obviously an ARM based system. If you want a clever halloween costume for Apple, buy a black sheet, cut eye holes, and go as a “secret project”.When you finally got read in, you signed an NDA that let you see the NDA that had the code name on it. You couldn’t see the code name, until you agreed not to discuss the code name.Another thing that Apple does is they give different code names to different groups; in other words you may be working on the same project as someone else, and not actually know it. Or be allowed to discuss it.After the read in, you got access to the “secret lab”. That’s a lab inside the main lab. You may have access to the regular lab, but not the “secret lab”. You didn’t really get to see the form factor, because when you are doing the initial work, it’s all prototypes on plexiglass.Oh… and the special cables you used to talk to the pre-production units… they were actually Purple.P.S.: if you care, you can pretty much figure out what any secret project is. And no, I’m not going to disclose how you do it, but really? Trivially easy.
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What are the essential features that CRM software must have?
My following answer is an excerpt from the guide: The insider’s guide to choosing the best CRM for your sales organization.“I remember the first time I got my own CRM system, nearly 10 years ago” recounts author and sales coach Adam Metz. “It cost a few hundred dollars all in and it was actually a desktop app that synced to the cloud once a day for backup. It now seems kind of quaint, but, it helped me start my book of business that today has over 10,000 contacts in it. I can say that I’ve had a personal conversation with almost every single one of them. And that’s thanks for the most part, to good data management.”What is a CRM and why use it?A CRM or Customer Relationship Management tool is software used by sales and marketing teams to track the interactions you’ve made with your contacts and customers, and manage follow-ups.From something as simple as tracking when you last emailed them or sent them a birthday card, up to what they ordered, where they are in the sales cycle when deciding to purchase from you.This all sounds easy when you have 5-10 customers (and it is). However, it fast becomes unmanageable when you have 100, 500 or more customers and you are talking to different people within those companies. As companies and sales teams grow 65% of businesses adopt a CRM within their first 5 years. In fact investing in CRM technology became a top priority for organisations last year.In larger organizations a CRM ensures all departments, finance, support, marketing and sales all have the same information and makes customer interactions more efficient and effective.The CRM software market is expected to grow to a $36.5 billion market worldwide in 2017 – According to Forbes, Businesses all over the globe are leveraging the power behind this system!In a sales team, a CRM can assign territories and customers to individual sales people. This ensures no one else is trying to sell to the same people. The right CRM will also guide a sales person on their sales process. It ensures customers are always followed up with and more deals are closed as a result. Research from The Bridge Group of 355 leading B2B sales teams revealed that “sales development reps who make 12 contact attempts (instead of the average 8) perform 16% better!”. Without a tool to manage those interactions opportunities will be missed.Your CRM will deliver a ROI of $8.71 for every dollar spent. – Nucleus Research.Management can get insights into the sales team and deal pipeline for the future and look for opportunities to optimize the sales process.There are as many different versions, iterations, add ons and names for CRMs on the market as there are different types of industries. But at the core, nearly all CRM software have the below features in common.The core features of a great CRMSetup and Admin1. BudgetEnsure the CRM is within your budget. How many user seats are needed? Are there set up costs? Ongoing support costs? On-Premise solutions are usually expensive. The expenses include the cost of software, hardware, installation and administration. Depending on complexity, these CRMs will cost from several thousands to tens of thousands dollars. This may not be feasible for many small business companies, but might not be a problem for large corporations with an inhouse team. Online CRM systems can be as low as a few dollars per month, but keep in mind the payment is usually on-going, you pay as long as you use the system. At the same time, you can always stop using your current Online CRM and easily switch from one solution to another as you are not usually tied to a long term contract.2. Hosted (Cloud based Saas)An online solution frees up your sales and management team to access customer data from any location. An on-site solution ties down that data to a set physical location. The best solution depends on if you need that freedom.3. User OnboardingAs you will read below, the second biggest reason a CRM implementation fails is lack of proper user training and onboarding. Look for a CRM that will support your team to get up to speed with the CRM and its integration in your business. Onboarding is not necessarily a one time event which leads to the next important factor…4. Great customer supportYour sales team are going to have ongoing questions about the CRM and how to use it effectively. New team members will join as you grow and others will leave. A good CRM will have a great customer support team to help your sales team use the application to make more sales. Look to see if the CRM offers support in your time zone. Is it just via email or an online helpdesk ? Or do they offer live customer chat, webinars or phone support?Mobile access5. MobileBack in 2016, access to the web via mobile devices finally over took desktop usage. Your sales team wants and needs to access sales information 24/7, in and out of the office. Mobile access is a vital component to their success. In fact according to Nucleus research sales reps saw productivity increase by 26.4% upon adding mobile access to their CRM application. Not only will a mobile CRM increase sales productivity, it’s also a signNow factor in helping sales reps meet their sales quotas. Ideally your CRM of choice will have dedicated Android and iOS mobile and tablet apps to give you and your sales team access from anywhere.Ensure you can access all the key functionality you need on mobile as well as the desktop, as some mobile CRM apps offer a cut-down feature set of the full application.Relationship Management6. Contacts / Companies / AccountsSome companies sell to one particular contact within a company. Others sell into a company and deal with many different contacts across different departments. Account based selling describes the goal of selling into a particular company, drawing up a list of possible contacts within that company and systematically targeting those contacts to get a foothold within the organisation.If you are selling to individual contacts a simpler CRM is fine for you. If you are doing company or account based selling your CRM needs to understand the relationship between contacts, the company they work for and associated contractors and consultants they have relationships with.7. Duplication and mergingCapturing duplicate contacts and leads is impossible to avoid. Contacts get entered by different members of your teams and sometimes automatically if your systems are connected. And the same contacts will sign up to many of your campaigns and offers.Ensure your CRM can search and find duplicates and allow you to merge them into a single contact. The higher the quality of your database the more your teams will trust it and less resources are wasted.“When I had my first CRM, I had about 2000 contacts in it. Even a small CRM like mine was degrading at nearly 2% per month, according to D&B. People change jobs, they change their names, and business data goes bad, fast.That means that your squeaky-clean small CRM begins the year with 2000 accurate contacts, and ends it with only about 1569 clean contacts. If 22% of my potential customers were walking away every year, I’d invest a small amount of time into cleaning their data.” – Adam Metz8. Sales leadsBeyond simple contact management, your CRM needs to understand the concept of what a sales lead is. Ideally, it should be able to track where a lead came from and what stage that lead is at in the sales process. A CRM will allow you to assign leads to particular sales people for follow up and moves that lead through the sales stages towards closing a deal.9. Opportunities / DealsAt the last stage of a lead funnel and sales process you need the ability to create deals or opportunities and attach them to contacts. A sales person can then see if they are on target and management can begin to see their projected revenue for the future and plan accordingly.10. ActivitiesIt is essential for a sales person and team to record their activities within a CRM. Being able to see when you last contacted a lead, what their response was etc. You build up an invaluable picture of a contact and the effort and time it takes to close a sale which in turn allows you to plan for the future.At a management level a sales manager needs to see how their sales reps have performed.11. Tagging / grouping / segmentsEvery so often you will need to contact just the customers who bought product x, or maybe the ones in a certain city, or the leads your team captured at a conference, or downloaded a resource from the website. Tagging, grouping and segmenting provides multiple ways to slice and dice your customer data for analysis, marketing and targeting.Not segmenting CRM data.From Adam Metz:“I remember the first time I sent out an email blast to my entire CRM. (As you may know, email marketing is one of the most high-ROI activities you can do).I have never seen such a high opt-out rate. I really screwed up by emailing all 8000+ of my customers and partners the same message. From that day forward, I segmented my CRM into 10 different messaging segments. Here’s a few that I’ve used that might be easy ones for you to do.Segment by functionThink “sales” or “marketing.”This type of segmentation can often be automated.Segment by roleI’d segment this one two ways – junior-level folks and senior-level folks. Once you slice your CRM data in half, you can always dive deeper later.Segment by geographyThis is especially handy if you sell by territory or travel a lot. Can often be done fast by zip code sorting. If you’re planning on winning deals with your CRM, my advice is to divide and conquer.”12. Custom fields (Contacts, Accounts & Deals)Every business and organisation is different so out of the box no CRM fits everyone. A good CRM needs to allow for customisation. Ideally you should be able to add your own custom information to contacts, accounts and deals relevant to your business type.13. Document attachmentsThere is nothing worse then having to hunt down files, specs, quotes and other documents across different folders, email inboxes and systems. The last thing you want to be doing is wasting a sales person’s time. A simple feature your CRM should be able to accommodate is attaching documents and files to a contact ensuring all data is in the one place and never gets lost.14. Task management with Next Action guidanceThe biggest difference between high performing sales teams and low performing teams is process, and persistence. The bridge group researched over 300 high performing sales teams and found that high performing sales development reps followed up with contacts on average 12 times. On average teams signNowed out just 8 times.One of the key drivers is never finishing with a contact without setting a Next Action on how to follow up next. It is a small thing but a huge driver of performance.Says Adam Metz, “I remember, when I was a kid in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, my dad would come home from work at his consulting job and put a bunch of pieces of colored paper on the dining room table, and write on them in longhand. At the time, it looked kind of funny, my dad sitting at the table, playing with what looked like construction paper. I later learned that these papers were the famous “blue sheets,” “green sheets” and “gold sheets” from Miller Heiman’s Strategic Selling.“What’s all this for?,” I asked him“It’s so that when you’re selling, you don’t wing it,” he said.I never knew that sales was a systemic process. Ten years later, I had learned this method, and I still use it today.If you’re thinking of “winging it” with your new CRM, don’t. Two B2B sales methodology books that I recommend are Strategic Selling for the high-level sales details, and Insight Selling, for sales conversations.”15. Notifications.After a certain number of leads and contacts the best sales person is simply not going to remember when they should be following up with everyone, what appointments they set and what the next actions are. Look for a CRM that will, not just notify your sales team what they should be doing and when, but also prompting them to set the notifications in the first place when they are finishing their last interaction with a contact.Data entryToo much data entry, while great for management reports, is simply a waste of a sales persons time.It’s time they could be on the phone selling to a prospect. And sales people know this.A certain amount of data entry is needed to be effective but it needs to be as easy and as fast as possible. You want to be paying your sales team for making sales, not data entry.16. Automatic data captureLook for a CRM that provides tools for automated data entry. Many CRMs have browser plugins that will detect a leads contact details on a website and automatically import them into your CRM without having to retype or copy and paste it in.17. Bulk importWhen your marketing team assign a list of leads they collected at a trade show, you need to be able to import them in bulk to the CRM. The most common method is the ability to import a .csv or excel file containing all the contacts in one go.18. Integrated lead captureWhen your website or marketing campaigns captures a lead, ideally that should automatically be imported into the CRM. Some CRMs provide the lead capture forms for your website directly. But most integrate with a range of 3rd party systems that will push the contact details to the CRM.Business IntegrationsCRM systems that don’t offer the ability to connect to other parts of your business (like lead generation, lead nurturing, accounting or communications) are not serving your company in a way that maximizes revenue. It can also cause issues in user adoption when an organisation is not fully behind a CRM implementation. And why should an organisation get behind it when it only supports the sales department. Look out for the following core integrations:19. Gmail and Outlook.Two of the most common email platforms. A good CRM should be able to import contacts and emails to build a history for a customer or company.20. Email sendingEven better is if you can connect Gmail or Outlook to the CRM and then send emails directly from within the CRM application without having to switch between different systems. Bonus points if the CRM then allows you to track if your emails were opened by a prospect.21. Email marketingIntegrations with an email marketing platform like MailChimp will allow you to quickly select a segment of your contacts and send them an email newsletter. An example would be selecting all the contacts you met at an event and sending them a bulk email to thank them. You can include further details on how to follow up with you. Or you might notify all or a segment of your customers about a new product update.22. AccountsIdeally this should work in two directions. Before you call a contact, you should be able to see in the CRM if they paid their last invoice or what their last purchase was. When you make a new deal with a customer you should be able to send the details of that deal over to accounts to create a new quote or invoice.23. MarketingThe ability to connect your CRM to marketing is a huge opportunity for sales. It gives your sales reps the ability to see when a new or existing contact downloaded a resource from the website. They can see when they last received a newsletter or other promotional material. This means a sales person can perfectly time a follow up call when they know the prospect is ready and interested.24. Customer supportImagine calling a customer to renew their account for another term only for them to angrily tell you they have been talking to support all day with an issue. Not the best timing.Your CRM needs to pull in this kind of information from across departments for sales to effectively do their job.With a central customer record and history, the support team can be more effective and support times can be reduced.25. ZapierZapier is a tool that allows you to connect apps you use every day to automate tasks and save time. It connects to hundreds of different apps and services. So if your CRM talks to Zapier, it can then talk to all these services as well.26. Webhooks / APISometimes the business system you want to talk to does not have an easy integration or Zapier connection. In this case you might need to get a programmer to code something bespoke to connect the two systems. For this to work your programmer needs access to your CRMs API or Webhooks. So make sure your CRM has one or the other.27. Social mediaBeing able to research prospects online before signNowing out to them can help turn a cold lead into a warm prospect. Being able to see what they are talking about on Twitter, what they studied in college or if Linkedin says they have just moved job arms your sales team with a great conversation opener. It can help put your prospect at ease and help build a relationship.Data portability28. Import and exportQuite simply can you import and export your contacts to move them between systems. Most systems allow you to do this with a .CSV or Excel file. Ensure you can move notes and tags with your contacts as well.Reporting & management features29. PipelineA sales pipeline is a visual representation of the stages a prospect goes through when buying your product or service.You should be able to see at a glance, how many leads you have at each stage. If they have just made an initial enquiry, if a sales person has given them a demo, has the prospect asked for a quote or if they have become a customer.Being able to understand which stage any prospect or deal is at and how likely they are too close, you can begin to project future trends and know early if goals will be met.A sales pipeline helps you understand your sales process and forces you to clearly define it so you can measure and improve.The sales pipeline usually includes the following four metrics:Number of leads and opportunities in your pipeline.The average size of deals your team are working on.The percentage of deals in the pipeline that are won.The average time it takes to close a deal from start to end.30. ForecastingClosely linked to the sales pipeline, sales forecasting is the process of estimating future sales. It will look at the leads going into the top of your sales funnel or pipeline, the average time it takes to progress each stage and the average close rate. It will allow sales managers to predict achievable sales goals, efficiently allocate resources and plan for future growth.31. Team ActivitiesWhen it comes to effectively coaching your sales reps, identifying issues and improving the overall performance of your sales team you need to be able to see activity on an individual sales rep basis. If a particular sales rep is hitting their targets out of the park, you need to see what they are doing differently so you can learn and apply it to the rest of the team.Security and reliability32. SecurityYou need to be sure that your customer data is stored on secure servers and uses a security (SSL) cert. A common configuration for web apps uses industry-leading Amazon servers in data centres protected by physical barriers and guarded 24/7. The data is encrypted using 256-bit encryption, very similar to internet banking.A secure website will show a green lock icon beside the web address in a browser and will start with HTTPS like this Paypal example.33. User securityA good CRM will have secure user roles with strict permission settings. It ensures that the people with access to the CRM can see only the leads and information they need to.34. Regular data backupsIf you’re using a cloud based CRM system (meaning your data is not stored locally but on a secure server), you need to know that regular back up’s are being undertaken on daily or weekly basis.35. Server uptimeEnsuring you have access to your CRM 24/7 is vital, so checking out the “Uptime” can also be a deciding factor. 100% uptime is nearly impossible or if absolutely required will cost more than the GDP of an entire country. In reality software companies may on occasion experience “downtime” to facilitate major application updates. Having an uptime above 99% is a realistic level of reliability where you and your team should not notice any down time..User reviews36. User reviewsTrialling a product, doing the demo and researching the features will only get you so far. You need the opinion from those at the coal face using the product day in and out. Google for “Product name Reviews”. Look at the company’s Twitter and LinkedIn pages for reviews and testimonials. Product listing sites like I just used Capterra to find software! and Business Software and Services Reviews | G2 Crowd often have customer reviews and do not forget to check app store reviews for the mobile version.User adoption37. Ease of useThere is no point getting a CRM that can do everything but no one can use it. An effective CRM helps a sales person do their job quickly and effectively then gets out of the way. It needs a simple and intuitive user interface where a sales person is left in no doubt what to do next and how. Research by InsideCRM found that 55% of sales reps named ease of use as the most important feature for them.Ease of use is one of the key reasons CRM adoption fails which you can read below.38. Low data entryAs mentioned above. You do not want to be paying your sales team to enter data and neither do they. You want a CRM where data import is as automated as possible. And where a Sales person must enter data you want it to be as easy and fast as possible.And of course, do not forget your 1-3 business objectives above.My above answer is an excerpt from the guide: The insider’s guide to choosing the best CRM for your sales organization.
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