What are the best practices of inbound selling? The blog features actionable tips that you can apply on your next sales call. Whether you're selling on a daily basis or coaching someone who is, this information can be applied right away. A guest blog by Kyle Jepson, The Senior Inbound Sales Professor at HubSpot Academy.
Healthy Sales Pipeline is Vital To Growth: Introducing New Metrics for Sales Pipeline Management
Having a large enough, constantly growing pipeline of identified sales opportunities is crucial for sales success and absolutely vital, if you’re looking to grow. We are happy to introduce a collection of new pipeline development metrics to help you get a full picture of your pipeline and its development over time.
French SaaS-company easiware Chooses Dear Lucy for Sales and Marketing Reporting
French omnichannel platform provider easiware has chosen Dear Lucy for its sales team. Headquartered in Paris, easiware helps top brands manage their customer relations across channels. Its clients include the likes of Galeries Lafayette, Bonduelle, Misterfly, and Nuxe. “Dear Lucy allows us to have real visibility on our sales activities. It's a real decision-making aid”, comments Matthieu Zayat, the Head of Sales at easiware.
"Growth company, invest in reporting!" - Investors view on growth company reporting
Ken Liebkind, an investor and a board professional at the Swedish Alfvén & Didrikson, encourages growth companies to implement transparent and real-time reporting practices to keep both the team and investors up-to-date. We had a chance to talk with Ken and discuss growth company reporting and how it has changed in recent years. Ken also provides his list of top 5 metrics for a SaaS company.
Valamis: "Dump those excels!"
Valamis Group is an award-winning growth company that creates digital learning solutions for the likes of NASA Epic Challenge and Amadeus. As the company grew, reporting and visibility to data become challenging. CEO Jussi Hurskainen and COO Esa Turunen describe the reporting and communications challenges of a growing company and how they've solved those.
Aina Wireless: "Real-time data equals better decisions"
Data driven management urges companies to develop their KPI management practices
Data driven management is a big trend. Leaders these days need accurate KPI data in real time and transparently enough to be easily communicated to the organization and interest groups. Yet efficient KPI management is easier said than done. We have developed a four-stage KPI management maturity model that lays out the typical stages that companies go through when improving their KPI management.
KPI Management Maturity Model
With the increasing possibilities to accurately measure company performance, KPI tracking and data-driven management are gaining popularity. We developed a framework, “the Dear Lucy KPI management maturity model”, that describes the typical stages of maturity in managing businesses with KPIs. The framework also lays out a roadmap for those who want to take their organization to the next level in smooth and efficient KPI management.