CRM integrations seem like a no-brainer — why wouldn’t you want your CRM to work with every app and website you use? But what if I told you that some CRM integrations are going to waste more time than they save? Especially for small businesses, you should integrate apps with your CRM only where it […] The post CRM Integrations: Sometimes Less Is More appeared first on FollowUp.cc Blog.| FollowUp.cc Blog
No matter the industry, everyone will hit a period of sales downtime at some point during the year. Perhaps your sales slow down when the economy fluctuates, or your customers have more pressing concerns – like a natural disaster or, say, a global pandemic. Regardless, you will have downtime, and that’s okay. It’s no one’s […] The post How to Make the Most of Sales Downtime appeared first on FollowUp.cc Blog.| FollowUp.cc Blog
How much sales experience you need to get hired is greatly dependent on your transferrable skills, the job you’re after, and the size of the company you’re applying to. So we’re going to break all that down into helpful bites to aid you in finding the sales job that’s right for your level of experience. […] The post How Much Sales Experience Do You Need to Get Hired? appeared first on FollowUp.cc Blog.| FollowUp.cc Blog
If you want to get better at services marketing, you have to understand how it’s different from marketing a normal product. If you’re not familiar with it, services marketing is all about taking the popular wisdom of product marketing and shifting it toward experience and long-term relationships. With a service, there is no clean break …| FollowUp.cc Blog
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At the crossroad of sales, marketing, and customer service lies the account executive, a lucrative and challenging position that will test your personal and professional skills on every axis. Becoming an account executive is a matter of sharpening the necessary communication skills and proving to a recruiter that you can find and foster client relationships. …| FollowUp.cc Blog
You can’t swing a digital cat without hitting 50 blogs offering you the best sales tips, but it might be more important to identify the bad sales techniques that are holding us back. Often, unlearning our bad habits is the first step toward creating new, better habits. And those better habits can lead directly to …| FollowUp.cc Blog
A SMART goal doesn’t have to just be an employee-assessment tool: you can create your own SMART goals to hack your personal productivity. We’re going to walk you through what a SMART goal is, how they can slay your to-do list, and how to create your own SMART goals using our easy-to-customize template What is …| FollowUp.cc Blog
Unless you have a solid, surgical LinkedIn sales strategy, you’re probably wasting your time. LinkedIn can be a valuable resource for a salesperson, but it must be approached tactically. If you’re spending over an hour a day on LinkedIn, you’re doing it wrong. We’re going to walk you through the most effective sales strategies on …| FollowUp.cc Blog
If you’re not getting the desired response from your sales emails, it may be time to consider your email subject lines and whether they could be improved. Think of your email subject lines as a first impression. It may be the only impression you’ll ever get the chance to make on your audience. Did you …| FollowUp.cc Blog
If you sometimes feel like it’s taking forever to close customers, and your sales cycle is way too long, then you may be wasting time in sales by mismanaging your energy with your prospects. How can you be more efficient in your sales processes? How can you maintain your sales momentum so you close at …| FollowUp.cc Blog