Selling Power: Is Your Pipeline Fact, Fiction, or Fantasy

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Today’s Agenda Introduction: Fact, Fiction or Fantasy? • Gerhard Gschwandtner, Founder and Publisher, Selling Power Getting the Facts with Sales Analytics • Darren Cunningham LucidEra Director Product Marketing Cunningham, Theikos: From Sales Efficiency to Effectiveness • Jason Masciarelli, CEO Theikos Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

Polling Question #1 Today, is your sales pipeline is based on: A. Fact (Visibility into past & present performance metrics) B B. Fiction (CRM adoption is high but still lots of surprises) high, C. Fantasy (No CRM or low CRM adoption, gut-feel decisions) Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

Knowledge is NOT power Information overload Library of Congress = 7 Exabytes Lib fC E b t Wal-Mart – 410 Exabytes/year Trivia overload Increasing di t ti I i distraction Mangers spend 2 hours/day searching – finding useless information • Accenture survey 1/07) Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

Today’s Agenda Introduction: Fact, Fiction or Fantasy? • Gerhard Gschwandtner, Founder and Publisher, Selling Power Getting the Facts with Sales Analytics • Darren Cunningham LucidEra Director Product Marketing Cunningham, Theikos: From Sales Efficiency to Effectiveness • Jason Masciarelli, CEO Theikos Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

What’s a World Class Sales Pipeline? Your quarterly results are “Just the Facts, predictable Ma’am!” You’re able to analyze historical trends Discussions with reps aren’t just about deals expected to close You can rank reps on more than just quota attainment Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

Trap #4 Not knowing the trends in your conversion rates. What % of leads convert into opportunities? What % of opportunities convert into sales quotes? What % of sales quotes convert into paying customers? What’s your average length of the sales cycle to convert an opportunity into a customer? Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

Analytics: The Critical Half of the Solution You’ve put data into CRM, we get the value out. 1. Salesforce.com 2. LucidEra helps you get Value “Out” helps you get Data “In” Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

Today’s Agenda Introduction: Fact, Fiction or Fantasy? • Gerhard Gschwandtner, Founder and Publisher, Selling Power Getting the Facts with Sales Analytics • Darren Cunningham LucidEra Director Product Marketing Cunningham, Theikos: From Sales Efficiency to Effectiveness • Jason Masciarelli, CEO Theikos – Consulting to enterprises on SaaS for over 7 years – Help CEOs & Sales executives to improve sales results – Led Theikos growth by leveraging sales analytics Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

About Theikos SaaS Consulting, Technology & Outsourcing We help help… • Enterprises who want to leverage leading SaaS platforms to improve organizational performance • SaaS platform companies & ISV’s develop SaaS solutions Implemented CRM solutions for over 300 clients SaaS Alliances: Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

7 Steps to Sales Effectiveness 1) Develop your end-to-end best practices sales model 2) Conduct win/loss & root cause analysis to detect forecasting failures 3) Improve deal coaching done by managers 4) Develop your Sales & Operations Planning process 5) E ) Ensure effective use of i t ff ti f integrated CRM & analytics t d l ti solutions 6) E t bli h t Establish true collaborative account planning with k ll b ti t l i g ith key accounts 7) Focus on Customer Experience Management Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

Reap the Rewards Analytics is the link that will enable you to harness the value of connecting sales process with sales technology. Accurate forecast visibility Increased Sales Performance • Yield per sales rep Better competitive intelligence Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

Discussion Gerhard Gschwandtner • gerhardpsp@aol.com Darren Cunningham • dcunningham@lucidera.com dcunningham@lucidera com Jason Masciarelli • jason@theikos.com www.lucidera.com Copyright © 2008 LucidEra – All rights reserved

Selling Power: Is Your Pipeline Fact, Fiction, or Fantasy

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