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Nimble CRM Tips & Updates – November 2023

Adaptive Business Services

I wanted to start a discussion on workflows vs pipelines. Deal records, which are generally associated with one or more contact records, are placed in pipelines. A deal record can only be in one pipeline. This feature is expected soon for pipelines. Workflows and pipelines can work together although they don’t need to.

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Power Partner Networking

Adaptive Business Services

Folks had always been happy to refer me to potential clients and I was most appreciative of those referrals! I also rewarded them for their referrals and I offered them a range of my services for free that they could use to provide additional value to their clients. Becoming referral worthy. You are responsive. .

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Make More Calls or Better Calls? Sales 101

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Increase your pipeline. Referrals – The holy grail of opportunities. A good referral is generally worth its weight in gold and will often bypass that pesky “competition” scenario. I have always been driven by referrals and I have also been driven by ratios …. Not often enough, it seems, on both counts.

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Nimble CRM Was Built for Salespeople Who Hate CRM

Adaptive Business Services

Create an opportunity (deal) and drag and drop it through their sales pipeline. All of this results in increased revenues and repeat and referral business. I simply cannot stress repeat and referral business enough. The most time-consuming aspect of selling is finding new business. 14-day trial !

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It’s All About the Ratios

Adaptive Business Services

Recently Dave published a couple of articles on prospecting where he shared that, when sales are low, the answer that most sales managers have is … “We need to fill the pipelines! Can I get a referral? Maybe increasing the pipeline is the answer. The post It’s All About the Ratios appeared first on Adaptive Business Services.

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Becoming a Master Networker – Tracking Your Results

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Referrals given to who. Referrals received from who. Sales (who, what, how much) made as a result of a referral . Within the contact record you record any activities, and you can generally classify these, such as “referral given” or “referral received”. What do you want to track?

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Selling Fundamentals – Back to the Basics

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How are they spending their dollars now as they relate to your services? Power Partners are referral relationships that you develop with non-competing salespeople who call on your same target market. Create a pipeline that tracks your sales process. Do you have accounts that you can reference that are in their same industry?

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