Tag: Build a better business

Smash sales targets despite lockdowns and economic downturns

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Smart work during an economic downturn can put you in the best position to make big gains further down the line. Our customers taught us valuable lessons about how Skynamo helped them to harness accurate data to adapt sales approaches and win through it. 

8 consequences of not choosing your outside sales software wisely

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Let’s face it, we’re overloaded with information, tips, and tricks on how choosing the best sales software could benefit your outside sales employees. But, is anyone brave enough to talk about the negative effects this could have on company sales if you don’t get it right?

A match made in the Cloud: Acumatica and Skynamo integration simplifies business growth

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Cloud-based integration between Acumatica ERP and the Skynamo outside sales platform means lower upfront costs, inclusion of outside sales teams into broader organizational structures, and simplified business growth.

What’s the difference between sales force automation and CRM?

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Many business decision-makers wonder about the difference between Field Sales Automation – Sales Force Automation (SFA) – and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). What do they do? How do they complement each other?

One of the fundamental differences between SFA and CRM is that while SFA looks after the entire sales process and tracks the efforts of salespeople and their face-to-face relationships with customers, CRM is all about customer profiles, data tools, office sales, account management and communicating with clients from a distance ‒ from the office, for instance.

Cutting sales costs is something you can control

External factors that shape the economy aren’t under your control. Skynamo’s all-in-one field sales platform helps sales teams manage what they can control in a cost-effective manner.

The effects of a global business slowdown are evident around us and affecting most of our businesses at the moment. We’ve previously highlighted what sets industry leaders apart in the new normal business environment and what sales teams are doing to build trust in times of uncertainty. When we become too obsessed with ‘doing better’ or ‘increasing sales’, we often overlook creative ways to manage daily business operations in a cost-effective manner.

3 factors help sales teams build trust in times of uncertainty

Our data highlights three factors that play a significant role in outside sales teams’ ability to visit their customers regularly, build trust, and improve their sales.

 

Is it true that more regular customer visits equal more sales for outside sales teams? A Harvard Business Review (HBR) survey done after the 2008 financial crisis indicated that business leaders understood healthy relationships to be crucial to sustainable business success, and that these relationships depend on face-time with customers.