Sales leaderboards are a simple and easy way to introduce friendly competition, drive motivation and accelerate the sales performance across the company. Dear Lucy now enables you to display leaderboards with pictures to make them even more engaging and fun.
Five Classic Sales Metrics and Five Lessons Learned on Metrics and Growth - Interview with Aaron Ross
What are the key metrics all sales teams should understand? What are the typical pitfalls around metrics? How should you define sales targets if you are aiming to grow? We asked Aaron Ross, the author of the best-selling book "Predictable Revenue" and “From Impossible to Inevitable” what he has learned over the years.
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Dear Lucy Gets a New CTO in Hannu Pölönen
Hannu Pölönen will join Dear Lucy as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and as a member of the Executive Leadership Team. With more than 15 years of experience in technology and product development leadership at growth companies, Pölönen brings extensive experience Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) development to Dear Lucy.
How to Create an Inbound Sales Strategy for Your Business
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.