Salesforce.com for Sales Managers

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Kashish

Is there any tool available for merging duplicate contacts in salesforce?

posted 18 days ago

Hilton B. 3 days ago • Edit • We use http://www.datatrim.com/ seems to work well for us. »

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Jonathan

Unlimited edition - your thoughts

We are looking to upgrade to Unlimited edition soon and one feature I would be interested in is the dedicated admin resources. Whats ...

posted 5 days ago

Jonathan T. 3 days ago • Edit • Thanks do they work off a standard template,so you know what kind of info they will need or is it up to the user to submit what they think »

Richard

How do you discover the depth and breath of relationships across your organization on a real time basis

1st of all we could all dream of a world where everybody in the organization puts their contacts in to SalesForce and keeps them up to ...

posted 18 days ago

Richard G. 5 days ago • Edit • Richard - I would be delighted to understand more about your solution - Regards Richard »

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Ravi

how salesforce is useful for lead management

posted 6 months ago

Francisco R. 9 days ago • Edit • You might want to check out RankTab, an app for SalesForce.com which allows you to prioritize your sales pipeline and rank core ... »

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Nagabhushan

Does Salesforce reports and dashboards help sales managers take decisions instantaneously.

Most of the organizations still use excel/PPT as the front end reporting tools in-spite of using salesforce reporting directly. We can ...

posted 3 months ago

Chris F. 9 days ago • Edit • There are updates coming in Summer '12 release such as Collaborative Forecasting and linkages with sales team Quotas that will give better ... »

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Risa

What are your best practices for managing leads?

We are trying to construct the best lead system to manage incoming B2B leads from lists such as Hoovers and iSell. We have an inside ...

posted 4 months ago

Francisco R. 11 days ago • Edit • Check out RankTab, an app for SalesForce.com which allows you to prioritize your sales pipeline and rank core capabilities allignment as ... »

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Marc

Looking for ideas on how to handle transfer business in SalesForce.com

In our business it is not unusual for an opportunity to start in one locale and company and end up with ongoing sales going to another ...

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posted 2 months ago

Francisco R. 11 days ago • Edit • Maybe not an exact fit, but you can also test out RankTab, an app for SalesForce.com which allows you to prioritize your sales pipeline and ... »

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Ami

If you missed Philly Phorum last week (it was good!) and interested in what Peter Coffee of salesforce.com had to say, here is a recap......

Cliff Notes From Peter Coffee's Phorum Presentation blog.crmscience.com

I attended the cloud computing conference Phorum last week, and thought that it was very well organized and attended for a first time conference. My main goal in going was to hear Peter Coffee, VP & Head of Platform Research at...

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Gregg

Breakthrough Productivity App:Real-time, as-you-type, predictive manual entry dupe prevention app coming soon from 2x Salesforce MVP Mike...

This is a breakthrough Salesforce productivity application that was recently enabled by the new technology in the latest Salesforce ...

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Brent

Who is the primary System Administrator for Your CRM Deployment

posted 1 month ago • 41 votes

Head of Sales or Marketing (Sr. Staff)
A power user on the sales team
A power user on the marketing team
The IT department
An assistant or other clerical person

Vote

Head of Sales or Marketing (Sr. Staff)
13 (0%)
A power user on the sales team
9 (0%)
A power user on the marketing team
6 (0%)
The IT department
11 (0%)
An assistant or other clerical person
2 (0%)

« your vote

Brent M. 1 month ago • Edit • If you are thinking about taking the Certified Admin Exam or having someone on your team do it, here is a good reference article: http://www.ak ... »

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Chris

Evaluating the best Salesforce leads/contacts data vendor (Data.com, zoominfo,Leadferret, etc) and best plugins

Hello, fellow Salesforce users! I'm the SF admin for a small sales team (3 users). We're weighing various data vendors and plugins for ...

posted 2 months ago

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Michael

What's the Best Way to Generate Leads?

posted 1 month ago

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Michael

What's the Most Effective Compensation Plan for B2B Inside Sales Reps That Have a 30-Day Average Sales Cycle?

posted 1 month ago

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Teresa

SFDC Data Cleanse Ideas

I'm looking for a way to go through our SFDC data and dedupe it, standardize it, etc. - a full data cleanse of our Contacts, Accounts ...

posted 2 months ago

Penny T. 1 month ago • Edit • How much data are you talking about here Teresa? In my experience this is always more messy than anticipated! Getting the data out is ... »

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