CRM value

Are You Price Sensitive or Value Sensitive?

By CommenceCRM / March 22, 2013

While the economy limps along the computer software industry is doing fairly well perhaps due to the continued growth of software as a service.  Software as a service (SaaS) allows businesses to begin utilizing a variety of software applications quickly and efficiently.  With software as a service there is no hardware to purchase or software to implement.  Both hardware and…

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Maintaining Price Points in 2013 Challenging for CRM Vendors

By CommenceCRM / January 24, 2013

A lot has changed in the past 24 months in the CRM sector.  Increased competition at all levels has created a commodity market where price points have fallen drastically and vendors are struggling to renew their agreements with existing customers.  Perhaps most affected by this is the once dominant Salesforce.com who was first to market with a cloud based offering…

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Foolish Thinking Causes the Failure of CRM Software

By CommenceCRM / January 14, 2013

Small businesses often struggle with how they manage and execute their marketing message, lead generation programs and sales opportunity management. This is because they typically do not have the expertise on board to implement or automate the internal business processes that drive these requirements.  What’s worse is that many believe that the mere purchase of a good CRM software program…

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Successful Salespeople Sell with Passion

By CommenceCRM / July 12, 2012

Best Salespeople Selling products or services has never been easy.  For every successful salesperson there are ten unsuccessful ones. So what makes one salesperson better than the other? Well you can point to a host of things such as their product knowledge, their understanding of the value their product or service provides, their follow-up and persistence, knowledge of competitive products…

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The Incredible Power of an Elevator Speech

By CommenceCRM / December 7, 2011

We’ve teamed up with the best sales people to bring you these insights into customer relationship management each month. Below is the latest Sales Management article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. By Dave Kahle “Why should someone spend time with you?”  That was the question I asked the six sales people…

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Customers Applaud Commence CRM’s Full Featured Dashboard

By CommenceCRM / August 9, 2011

The highly competitive nature of the CRM software sector has software providers searching for ways to differentiate their product from the myriad of options available. While many focus their attention on adding wiz-bang features that often provide little value, one CRM software provider has focused their attention on the product’s usability and access to customer data.  That CRM software provider…

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CRM Software – More Than Just Sales

By CommenceCRM / November 17, 2010

When people think about CRM software, they often think only about sales and that is understandable because without sales you don’t have a business.  But Customer Relationship Management is more than just about sales.  It’s about making a commitment to improving how you market, sell and provide service to your customers.  Smart companies have moved past the days of contact…

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