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Why Sales Ops Is So Hard to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

•Manage sales force automation and CRM systems and processes. Second, they must be strategic and tactical. The job requirements span a spectrum from tactical/support tasks (e.g. Operations: •Oversee sales performance analyses and reporting, territory alignment, and customer profiling and targeting activities.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

When you are young, or when your why is non-existent or has gone missing, which happens to most of us at some juncture in our business or career, it may be that you just need to move forward. CRM started as a simple-to-use, cloud-based (read: low cost) sales data warehouse. Career planning Managing yourself'