Salesforce.com Secrets of Success
Salesforce.com Secrets of Success: Best Practices for Real Sales Results

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Drive Better Productivity and Increase Saleswith Salesforce.com–Starting Now   Discover Real-World Best Practices—Without Paying Expensive Consultants   You’re investing in Salesforce.com for one reason: to drive major performance improvements across your entire organization. Salesforce.com® Secrets of Success will help you do just that. Drawing on his experience with dozens of deployments, author David Taber offers expert guidance on every aspect of Salesforce.com deployment, with results-focused best practices for every area of the organization touched by Salesforce.com, including sales, marketing, customer service, finance, legal, and IT. This is information you’d otherwise have to pay a consultant $300/hour to get...information you won’t find in any other book! Taber walks you through developing a comprehensive and effective implementation strategy, followed by tactics and specifics to overcome every challenge you face, including internal politics. Through this book and its companion Web site, www.SFDC-secrets.com, Taber provides questionnaires, step-by-step guides, and extensive resources–all part of the Revenue Overdrive™ system that gives your organization maximum results from Salesforce.com. Achieve higher end-customer satisfaction and dramatic sales productivity gains Use the SFA Maturity Model ™ to assess readiness, fill gaps, and gain early, deep user adoption Overcome “people, product, and process” pitfalls that can limit the value of Salesforce.com Learn which tools, add-ons, features, and extensions are right for your implementation This book’s start-to-finish roadmap for success can be used by companies of all sizes in all industries–with specific chapters for executives, team leaders, implementation team members, developers, and users throughout the business.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments xix About the Author xxi   Introduction xxiii The Promise of CRM xxiii Achieving the Promise of CRM xxv Do You Need an SFA System or a CRM System? xxvii When Salesforce.com Is the Best Choice–and When It Isn’t xxix How to Use This Book xxx   Executive Summary  1 What Every CxO Needs to Know About Salesforce.com 1 Why Are You Looking at an SFA/CRM System? 3 Keeping the Big Picture in Focus 4 Driving Toward Project Approval 6 Once the Project Is Under Way 12 Deployments and the Adoption Cycle 17 After Deployment: Using SFDC to Help Drive the Ship 23 Essential Tools for the Executive 27   Chapter 1: Planning Ahead 29 Getting to Business Value 29 Developing a Model of Your Customer Relationship 30 Setting Business Goals 32 Setting Requirements: Who, Where, What, and Why 32 Organizing and Publishing Project Documents 36 Prioritizing Requirements 37 When Requirements Should Bend 41 Knowing Your Boundaries 41 Making the Business Case 44 Quantifying the Return 49 Developing a Straw-Man Schedule 52 Avoiding the Big Bang Project 58 Outsourcing 60 Setting Executive Expectations 62 Getting the Right Resources Committed 64   Chapter 2: Reports and Data 67 For Users, Seeing Is Believing 67 Start with What You Have 68 Scoping the System via Report Mock-Ups 71 The Crux: Semantics 73 Reports–Inside Versus Outside 74 Scoping the System via User Screen Design 76 A Guided Tour of the SFDC Object Model 78 What’s in a Namespace? 82 SFDC’s Data Requirements 84 Historical External Data 94   Chapter 3: Preparing Your Data 97 Data Pollution 97 Getting the Lay of the Land 98 Migrating Data from an Existing SFA/CRM System 98 Migrating Data from Other Systems 108 Your Big Weekend: Doing the Import 109 The Morning After: Deduping Records 110 The Morning After the Morning After: Enriching Data 114 The Ultimate Job Security 116 Creating a Cost Model for Clean Data 118   Chapter 4: Implementation Strategy 119 Before You Begin 119 Big Bangs and Waterfalls 120 The Agile Manifesto 121 You Really Have to Plan: Agile Development Is Not Enough 123 Wave Deployment 124 What’s in a Wave? 125 Planning the Sequence of Waves: WaveMaps 126 Collecting Resources for a Wave 133 Starting the Wave 136 As a Wave Takes Shape 140 Dirty Little Secret: The Data Are Everything 142 During the Wave: Real-Time Scheduling 143 Kicked Out of a Wave 146 Wave Endgame 147 Deployment 148 Getting Ready for the Next Wave 151 Post-Implementation Implementation 152   Chapter 5: People and Organizational Readiness 155 Adoption Is Everything 155 Using the SFA Maturity Model 156 Part I: What Is Management Trying to Achieve, and How Hard Will It Be? 157 Part II: Is Your Organization Ready for Its Target Level? 165 Part III: How Big Is the Gap? 173 Understanding the Next Wave of Users 174 User Training 177 What User Readiness Means for Deployment 179 Post-Deployment User Frustration 179 How Many Administrators Does It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb? 181   Chapter 6: Working the Politics 183 Technology Is Not the Problem 183 It’s Not Just Big Organizations 183 Who’s the Champion? 184 Who Pays for the System? 188 Who Will Own the System? 190 Who Owns the Data Now? 192 Dealing with Review Committees 197 Identifying and Dealing with Opposition to the Project 198 The Politics of System Adoption 200 Identifying and Dealing with Adoption Problems 204 Indoctrination 206 The Politics of Restriction 206   Chapter 7: Products You Will Need 209 SFDC Is a Platform, Not Just a Product 209 Don’t Overdo It 211 First, Seek to Understand 212 Next, Weigh Your Options 217 Essential Toys: Featurettes 221 Essential System Administrator Tools 223 Essential Add-Ons for the Marketer 226 Essential Features for Sales Management 229 Essential Tools for Support 234 Essential Extensions for Finance 236 Essential Features for the Executive 238   Chapter 8: Optimizing Business Processes 239 The Top-Down Perspective 239 What Is a Business Process? 240 How Do Business Processes Fit Together? 241 Identifying Which Business Processes You Need to Think About 242 Analyzing Business Processes 252 Example Business Process Analysis 256 How Much Should Be Changed? 261 Best Practices with Business Process Redesign 261 Making the Changes 265 After the Changes Are Made 266   Chapter 9: Best Practices for Sales 267 “Universal” Best Practices 267 Define and Document the Sales Model 270 Inside Sales 273 Sales Representatives 289 Field Sales Engineers or Product Specialists 301 Sales Management 302   Chapter 10: Best Practices in Marketing 325 Marketing Organizations 325 Lead Generation and Collection 326 Lead Generation Campaigns 334 Lead Handling 339 Lead Cultivation and Nurturing 351 Lead Qualification and Conversion 352 Partners 353 Customer References 353 Public Relations 356 Product Management/Product Marketing 357 Marketing System Administrator 360 Marketing Executives 362   Chapter 11: Best Practices in Customer Support 369 Support Organizations and SFDC 369 Universal Support Best Practices 371 The Customer Order Support Center 374 Order Expediting, Distribution, and Shipping 376 Technical and Warranty Support 377 The Customer Help Desk 381 Professional Services 382   Chapter 12: Best Practices in Finance and Legal 385 Driving the Investment Decision 385 Keeping Expectations Reasonable 388 The Path to Project Success 389 Accounting and Ongoing Operations 390 Mergers, Integrations, and Divestitures 399 Fundraising 400 Legal 401 Human Resources 402   Chapter 13: Best Practices in IT 405 Level of IT Engagement 405 Skills IT Will Need 408 Planning for the Implementation 409 Implementation 416 Ongoing Usage 421   Appendix A: Tools to Prioritize Requirements 431 Prioritizing Project Requirements 431 The Delphi Method 432 Prioritize via Investment 433 Weakest/Strongest Elimination 434 Popular Votes 437   Appendix B: Example Requirements Statements 439 Example Project Requirements: Smaller Company 439 Example Project Requirements: Larger Company 441   Index 447


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780137141166
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Best Practices for Real Sales Results
  • ISBN-10: 0137141165
  • Publisher Date: 15 Mar 2009
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 500
  • Weight: 1 gr


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