Category: Marketing Automation

  • Integrating Financial Services Cloud and Data Cloud

    The Customer Data Problem The vast majority of Financial Services organizations today share a common problem: customer data is siloed across departments and systems. Imagine an investment firm that offers a portfolio of financial products like mutual funds, stocks and retirement planning services. Information about these various products typically reside in separate (and typically proprietary)

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  • BANT: A Dead Easy Method for Qualifying Leads

    BANT: A Dead Easy Method for Qualifying Leads

    BANT, purportedly created by IBM, is widely used, generally accepted, and easy-to-understand method for qualifying leads. What does BANT stand for? The acronym BANT stands for Budget, Authority, Need, and Timeline. (MarketSplash has a great analysis of each BANT component here.) Download the Free BANT+C App BANT+C is a free app for Salesforce, from Ateko, that

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  • Please do not try to build your own Lead Routing Solution in Salesforce

    Please do not try to build your own Lead Routing Solution in Salesforce

    I beg of you. Don’t do it. One might assume that an organization that provides high end resources to enterprises would want to build big complex things. And in some cases that is true – myself and our team overall enjoy solving very complex problems. But we have also been working in the Salesforce ecosystem

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