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What does #noCRM mean in theory and in practice? And what can it mean to you if you live and breathe the world of sales and revenue? A Brief Look Back In Time Let’s take a step back. The CRM industry started in the early 1980s. If it were an adult it would be a…

Guided Selling  As Gartner and Bain have recently pointed out, algorithmic-guided selling is changing how sales organizations operate. Sales leaders are adopting this technology and combining human and artificial intelligence to augment the sales coaching experience. To learn more about how our own sales leaders feel about guided selling, we sat down with Michael Thome…

Have you ever wondered what qualities top salespeople consider vital to success? Well, lucky for you, in the book Stop Kidding Yourself, Charles Forsgard outlines what he considers the most important aspects of a successful sales team. Forsgard, an authority figure in the field, brings together over 30 years of sales experience at Schneider Electric,…

I recently joined Aviso, a predictive AI startup that supercharges guided selling, as CEO. In this journey, I’m excited to work closely with Tae Hea Naam and the team at Storm Ventures towards the new frontier of Sales; build upon the prescient vision of unicorn founder KV Rao. Being a CEO is a surreal experience. It acts…

Fortune 500 companies that are executing their sales operations with AI have found a competitive advantage that their competition just doesn't have the discipline to implement. Such companies are relying on data in a very different way. Every company has plenty of data and in many cases too much data. What is absent from their…

“My CRM is a sparkling picture of absolute truth” —said no one, ever. Except Dr. Seuss. We all know CRM tells an incomplete story about the state of your business. We know that data isn’t always formatted properly, or that the fields don’t match our business perfectly. But just how wrong is your CRM data?…