{"id":26295,"date":"2022-03-08T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xceedesolutions.com\/?p=26295"},"modified":"2022-09-23T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:47:21","slug":"costs-poor-salesforce-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xceedesolutions.com\/costs-poor-salesforce-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"The costs of a poor Salesforce implementation for B2B"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"\">We identified this list of symptoms directly attributable to our clients&#8217; original Salesforce implementation<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"\">What is a poor Salesforce implementation costing you \u2014 and why aren\u2019t you correcting them immediately?<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"\">01. You lose opportunities and customers.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"\">Your company loses opportunities because your sales managers didn\u2019t even know an opportunity existed, preventing them from offering effective coaching.You lose active customers because a lack of information prevents them from being effectively targeted by marketing initiatives.<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Customers get upset because their issues aren\u2019t properly recorded by your company and your sales team unknowingly tries to sell them additional products or services.<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Your sales team cannot see accounting information to take advantage of buying trends.<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Your marketing does not reach your ICP and, as such, cannot generate quality leads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"\">02. You waste your team\u2019s time.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"\">Your sales team wastes a lot of time checking up and maintaining customer data (too many data demands just to type in a new contact).<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Your sales team wastes time writing down notes of their activities for the sake of reporting \u2014 when that activity does not contribute to advancing sales opportunities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"\">03. You don\u2019t give your team adequate information.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Customer insights aren\u2019t accessible to every single customer-touching team member because of inadequate permission configuration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Your customer service team wastes a lot of time looking for and assembling customer information that is spread across platforms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Prospect and customer information can\u2019t be trusted because important information is missing from the record.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You lose key customer information when sales people leave because they did not use the CRM to record their customer interactions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>04. You upset your team.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You lose top producers because you do not equip them with useful, practical sales tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Your entire team is upset because they really want to grow the company and improve the customer experience, but don\u2019t have access to effective tools to make it happen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>05. You can\u2019t forecast.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can\u2019t project future revenue with a good degree of accuracy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Your sales forecast either doesn\u2019t exist or cannot be trusted by finance and operations, which results in imbalanced production and inventory costs or upset customers due to inadequate fulfillment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"\">Driving growth with Salesforce<\/h2>\n<p>To avoid these issues and prevent others, make sure to adequately plan your Salesforce implementation.<\/p>\n<p>To be notified every time we publish new content on Salesforce implementation and next generation practices, subscribe to our updates below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We identified this list of symptoms directly attributable to our clients&#8217; original Salesforce implementation What is a poor Salesforce implementation costing you \u2014 and why aren\u2019t you correcting them immediately? 01. You lose opportunities and customers. 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