Sales Productivity

Ultimately, every business needs optimal profit margins if it wishes to succeed.  Juicing your profits isn’t a matter of doing any one thing, but rather it encompasses a number of potential actions: Lowering your cost of goods and of customer acquisition, improving your conversion rates, boosting average order value, and much more. An oft-overlooked strategy to improve business profitability is choosing the right legal structure for your company.  There’s not necessarily one right answer here, but for most outside sales businesses it’s the Limited Liability Company, or LLC. As you launch your own outside sales business, it’s helpful to know....

Look at these stats: "73% of people point to customer experience as an important factor in their purchasing decisions." "Companies with customer experience-led growth strategies yield a 5-10% higher wallet share than companies without." These are only two of many statistics proving that providing a good customer experience is a must for sales.  Part of ensuring a good customer experience is maintaining good relationships with your customers.  In other words, if you want to sell, you need to know how to build, manage, and nurture customer relationships.  How?  Enter CRM data analysis.

Nowadays, customers expect their favorite eateries to deliver. Food delivery has become so popular that it can amount to a significant part of a restaurant’s sales. If you deliver food, you need to be familiar with delivery route optimization. The benefits go beyond time and money savings. Optimizing your routes can help you keep your customers satisfied, something which in a highly-competitive restaurant industry is critical. You'll also see a reduction in CO2 emissions, making your business more eco-friendly. Below, we’ll go through the basics of delivery route optimization, its benefits, ways to improve it, as well as what to....

One of the best things about Salesforce is that there are literally thousands of different sales tools you can integrate with.  However, the Salesforce State of Sales report did highlight a significant issue: sales reps are literally drowning in too many tools. Without careful organization aligned with your sales team's processes, an excess of tools can hinder rather than aid productivity. So we’ve gathered the 27 best Salesforce integrations for sales teams here, breaking them down into specific categories so you can find the best ones to add to your sales tech stack. Let’s read on to find out what....