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During summertime, you might have time to optimize your sales process and tools and therefore I was inspired to share some insights form me, especially if you work in headhunting, recruiting or sales. For some years I use 4-5 sales CRM's / tools parallel because there is not the all in one solution, that satisfies me, and I will tell you why. I need all of the following things in my sales process and all tools have to communicate together in the end via zapier automation, but I do not need more than 5 tools for this. Yes, sales have become more complex and are not just having a phone, pencil, and notebook anymore. So what must a CRM do for me: Control all relevant contacts regarding duplicates and catch updates from the web automatically, if some contact changes his social media profile or information, that is available on the internet about him/her. Show follow-ups automatically and reminds you, but not by static tasks you set up(e.g. every 2 months or 3 weeks...

Because I have quitted my Facebook account since about 2 years and my Instagram since 6 months, so I think it's time for an international update for all who are not on LinkedIn about my latest actions and also about the way I understand social media. The older you get, more the quality of something is important than the quantity I have learned over the last years and for this, you don't need Facebook or Instagram postings for a showing of. I think it's an unwritten law in global executive communities that matter not to post every meeting or to make selfies with celebrities you are in contact with and for the last 2 years this is the new strategy I will tell you about in this article. Maybe it's also interesting for you to be different and apart from the crowd of sheep / lemmings. I think we live now in times where people think you have no life, no business and no friends, if you are not active in social media. Companies do not make business, teams are not teams...

On rainy days, like today and also between Tuesday and Thursday it's time for doing sales and cold calls. All of us have to do this, so as a main profession and some entrepreneurs just to get new projects and yes, sometimes I hate it to call people I do not know and tell them something about they don't want to hear because it's boring-selling-bullshit, its not the IPhone killer product or the flying-electric-solar-car for 5.000 $. You all know this situations, especially if you work in insurance, banking or headhunting industry.  "Hello my name is Thomas, I am from BREADHUNTER and want to talk with you about HR and finding the right people for your company." "Mhmm, wow great, never heard about that, what is it exactly?"  - this answer you never get and if your name is Brad or Branda or Peter or Stephen and you sell hedge funds, print ads, cars, insurances for the house or a special banking product with 0.5 % interest you are in the same boat. ...

Bildquelle: http://www.bqlive.co.uk/2015/03/18/how-do-we-break-the-old-boys-network/ "Der Consultant sorgt für das 1. Drittel des Honorars, der Research für das 2. und das 3. Drittel ist der Erfolg aus einer guten Zusammenarbeit."   "Die HR- und die Personalberatungs-Branche blieb bis heute vom 'großen Saubermachen' durch Mc Kinsey & Co verschont." ... unausgesprochene Wahrheiten und Chance für die Headhunting-Branche diese Themen Proaktiv anzugehen, um daraus etwas neues und besseres zu schaffen. Die Eingangs angeführten 2 Punkte zeigen 2 Bereiche der Personalberatung auf, die ich im folgenden näher Beleuchten will, um so einerseits für die Kunden ein besseres Bewußtsein für das Headhunter Handwerk zu schaffen, damit Bla-Bla Beratung wieder besser vom echten Handwerk unterschieden werden kann, zum anderen möchte ich zum 'großen-Reinemachen' bezüglich unserer seit 40 Jahren fast immer gleichen Headhunter Prozesse und Businessmo...

Kennen Sie folgende Situation? Sie haben wichtige Kontakte aus Business und Freizeit, die jedoch alle über Xing, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Visitenkarten und Twitter verteilt sind. Sie müssen also immer auf der jeweiligen Social Media Plattform danach suchen oder Ihren Visitenkartenstapel durchgehen. Das kann dann manchmal ganz schön nerven. Die Assistentin, die Ihnen Ihre Kontakte verwaltet, updated oder Visitenkarten ins CRM abtippt fehlt Ihnen leider und in Zeiten wie diesen, wo immer mehr Informationen und Daten auf uns niederregnen, sind wir dann irgendwann überfordert, adden zwar neue Leute auf Xing, LinkedIn & Twitter, aber nutzen die gar nicht so richtig im Business Alltag. Es geht im Sales und Headhunting nicht ums Kontakte sammeln, sondern ums Kontakte 'smarter nutzen' und genau deswegen nehmen wir ja diese ganzen Apps, um deren Nutzung zu vereinfachen, nicht um der App Willen. Die seit gut 3 Jahren existierende App FullContact  wurde nun verbessert u...