Forrester Research says that a lack of user adoption is the reason behind 70% of CRM projects that fail. The Merkle Group, Inc. found that 65% of CRMs fail according to the executives whom they surveyed. It is no wonder that there can be a lack of adoption and a reluctance to launch CRM initiatives. Why would you try a new CRM implementation for your sales team if there is a high chance that they won’t use it effectively?

Consider the main reasons that CRM implementation fails, and you will be able to decide on a CRM system that is adopted successfully by your sales associates.

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How much time and effort is your sales team wasting each and every day?

On average, a team of 50 sales reps leaves 1,277 hours of voicemail every month. That comes out to around 15% of each salesperson’s time being spent simply leaving voicemails for prospects with an average response rate of only 4.8%.

There is one surefire way to get your sales team to exceed their sales goals and have a sales strategy in place that works:

Follow-ups! It seems simple and obvious, but are all of your sales reps doing it?

44% of the sales force only calls a prospect once and then gives up. Only 10% of all salespeople make 5 or more contacts with the same prospect. The reality is that 80% of all sales occur between the 5th and 12th contact with a prospect. This means your sales team could be making a lot more sales if they use these stats to their advantage.

Check out this video from Digsy AI’s CEO and Co-founder, Andrew Bermudez, about how following up with prospects can improve a salesperson’s sales performance by 40 times!

Follow-ups don’t have to be voicemails, however. They could be an email or even a text message. Just be sure time isn’t being wasted on voicemails and those voicemails are being leveraged as one of 5 to 12 contacts with a prospect to get the sale.

Here are a few articles to show your sales team the importance of following up with their prospects, and tips on how to beat their goals:

CRE Sales Strategy: Boost your Close Rate in 5 Minutes

Increase Voicemail Response Rates with Email – 5 tools to find any email address

6 Cold Calling Tips to Successfully Close More Deals!

Data:

• If your team has 50 sales reps, their average monthly voicemails will total 1,277 hours. [Source: RingDNA]
• 15% of every sales reps’ time simply leaving voicemails.   [Source: RingLead]
• The average voicemail response rate is 4.8%.   [Source: InsideSales]
• After one follow-up phone call, 44% of sales people give up. [Source: Scripted]
• Five follow-up phone calls are required after meeting in 80% of sales. [Source: The Marketing Donut]

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About Digsy AI

Digsy AI is a Smart Commercial Real Estate CRM that helps you make more money in less time.

With Digsy AI you interact with CRM contacts, email, phone & property data from one central place –

So you can prospect faster and close more deals in less time. No credit card required. Get your FREE trial at no-risk NOW!

Sales techniques used by top sales professionals, no matter what industry, are not very different.

The most important part of being successful in sales is having a full understanding of the products or services you offer. It’s also critical to maintain this knowledge as your industry changes and grows.

You should also have a solid understanding of the industry you are selling in. Once you have mastered your business enough to be able to come up with unique and awesome solutions for your customers, you can incorporate these four techniques that top sales professionals use.

You will see an increase in your sales with every technique you add to your sales strategy.

Use Social Media to turn Cold Prospects into Warm Leads

207 million people in the United States use social media sites, so of course, it should be an integral part of your marketing and sales strategy. Besides just posting to social media so prospective buyers can find you, you should also be actively searching for those leads who are already searching for your products or services. In order to turn cold prospects you’ve found into warm leads, you can engage with them. Answer prospect’s questions and post useful information in your field to build trust and make sure they think of you when they decide they need your product or service.

Follow-up, follow-up, follow-up

Follow-ups are extremely important given the fact that over 80% of all sales are made between the 5th and 12th contact with a prospect. Because to follow-up with prospects is hard work, only 10% of all salespeople achieve to touch them over 5 or more contacts. Don’t give up!

Call Them First

A difference of a few minutes can make or break a deal with your new client. Chances are, they’re on the phone with some other brokers right now, while you’re thinking about calling them back. On the same note, a Lead Response Management study shows that calling your lead within 5 minutes vs. 30 minutes boosts your chances of contacting them by a hundred times. The odds of qualifying the lead within this time frame drops 21 times. From there, the likelihood of making a contact on that lead drops astronomically.

Be Straightforward

Presenting your product or service to your lead immediately will make a huge difference. Keep your focus on the problem you are solving for the client with your product or service and why they should buy from you.

Sign-up for a free trial of our Smart CRM for CRE at www.digsy.ai

About Digsy AI

Digsy AI is a Smart Commercial Real Estate CRM that helps you make more money in less time.

With Digsy AI you interact with CRM contacts, email, phone & property data from one central place –

So you can prospect faster and close more deals in less time. No credit card required. Get your FREE trial at no-risk NOW!

A sales development team needs ways of measuring and tracking customer interactions, particularly when it comes to lead generation and prospect conversion into deals. After all, your sales development team is dedicated to increasing your business and keeping existing customers through advertising methods and the generation of qualified leads. It is vital to a successful campaign to be able to objectively measure which methods consistently work best. This is where metrics come in for your sales development or SDR team.  The four most effective ways of tracking these metrics are discussed below.

Total Amounts of Qualified Leads

This amount is very important, and it helps your company forecast the value of your leads and how well your campaign is working. For instance, after leads are turned over to an account executive or sales rep, pricing is then discussed. At this point, there is usually a monetary value attached to this opportunity. When you have a month’s worth of figures totaling the value of all the deals your team has generated, then you can figure out the total value of your pipeline. It helps you with your conversion rates and in filtering out opportunities that were not a good fit or could not proceed due to budgetary restraints. Problem areas can be discovered at this stage, including areas where demos may be over-booked or leads which are being forwarded that are poorly qualified.  

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