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hortonds asked:


I want to create a salesforce to sell my product.
We hire Audio Visual equipment to businesses, Film and TV, individuals. I need a way to get people to recommend my company, and I will pay out on each new customer that hires from us. I’m thinking about a 10% of the first hire. This means that if they hire a projector from us, the referee gets £10.00, if they get us a conference whereby the spend is £3,000.00 the referee gets £300.00.
I want to know any ideas of how to go about doing this, and making it a fair and legal business.
I’d like to know if people would be excited by this.
We are based in London, UK.

narendra_gohil2005 asked:


How is sales budget prepered,employees motivated,sales process controlled,performance of salesforce evaluated,expenses of sales personnel managed,sales volume analized ? What is sales policy, sales quotas,cost and profitability of an organisation ?

A M asked:


I’m trying to see if it works for me and I want to know what the different editions cost. Thanks.

zashi_kyoto asked:


I work for a company that provides community web services to big companies: something like Salesforce.com.

I have been put in charge of coming up with ideas for training some big customers on a new program we are releasing.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some companies that have really effective online training materials? I personally like the yahoo answers format and would like to include that, but would be interested in any other suggestions you might have.
Sorry, I guess I wasn’t very clear with my question. I would like to see specific training strategies and materials that actual successful companies are using out there. We are probably going to write manuals, create a user community, knowledge base, training videos, webinars….

All this stuff we have done before and are doing. I would love to look at some new directions. That is why this yahoo answers is so interesting to me. One thing I would like to do is empower the users to help each other like this service. Maybe even allow then to add training videos like a youtube idea or chat together while using our applications.

I want to expand what we are doing and thought copying some best practices might be a good way to start branching out.

jet G asked:


I’m a male in the earlt 30’s, working in a pharmaceutical company as a Dist. Sales Manager. I can sing well. But the management wanted me to sing every quarter of the year. I render song that inspires the peformers and the salesforce to excel. Any suggestion for a motivatinal song. Ooops! Please include the lyrics of the song or a sample midi file. In the past I already sung I Believe I can fly, Gold by Spandou Ballet. I love the song climb every mountain form the sounds of silence, it motivates me, but its some kind of outdated. I’m out of repertoire!

chris asked:


I want to be able to see what my supplier has in stock and we would like to have this online, instead of sending excell files back and forth.
A sorth of ‘Salesforce’ but for stocklevels.

Tdogle asked:


I need a new shopping cart and I want it to easily integrate with Salesforce.com. I also want it to be reliable with international orders. Please suggest any that meet these 2 requirements.

Cori L asked:


Everyone knows that Google is trying to take over the world… They have acquired multiple companies over the years including Youtube, Doubleclick, Feedburner, Salesforce… And they have also been very successful with Adsense. But my question is this… does anyone have a complete list of Google’s companies? I’m just curious to see how much they own now. Thanks

Angela B asked:


Or is there any way to get out of my salesforce.com contract. It is prepaid for one year, ad i’m trying to get out of the contract nd get a reimbursement. They will not let me. Are there ways around that or can i sell it to anyone else?

Brian M asked:


I’m looking for a cheap web-based CRM solution that I and about 3 or 4 others can use for managing sponsorship / advertising relationships for a small club that I run. Something like Salesforce would be great, but I imagine that it is more than we want to spend. Any ideas? Thanks…