Setting up Sales Coach, Part 1


This demonstration shows how to set up the following elements of the Sales Coach:

 

-Process Steps

-Required Fields

-Recommended Documents

 

Refer to the Setting Up Sales Coach demonstration, Part 2, for a demonstration on setting up the other elements of the Sales Coach: Task Templates and Assessment Templates.


Steps:

  1. Sales Coach is both a teaching tool and a method to push best practice sales methodology to salespeople in order to improve sales effectiveness.

     

    The elements of the Sales Coach display in the opportunity UI, and are available to salespeople as they view or edit an opportunity.

    Step 1
  2. To get started setting up Sales Coach, access the Manage Sales Methods and Sales Stages task in the Setup and Maintenance area.

    Step 2
  3. Click the Standard Sales Process link.

     

    The Standard Sales Process is one of the supplied sales methods.

    Step 3
  4. Let's modify the Qualification sales stage.

     

    Click the Qualification sales stage.

    Step 4
  5. Process steps help salespeople follow best practices for the current sales stage. Each process step can contain additional details, in addition to the step itself.

     

    Process steps display in the Sales Coach area in the contextual region of the opportunity UI or in the Sales Coach dialog window invoked by launching Sales Coach from the opportunity Actions menu.

    Step 5
  6. Let's add a process step for the Qualification sales stage.

     

    Click the green Add Row icon in the Process Steps region.

    Step 6
  7. Set the order of the process step: Enter a 1 in the Order field.

     

    This field determines the order of the process step in the opportunity pages.

    Step 7
  8. Enter a name for the process step: Enter Gather High Level Information in the Name field.

    Step 8
  9. The process step is added to the sales stage.

     

    In a real world scenario, you would continue creating the process steps, entering them in the order in which you want them to appear and their names.

    Step 9
  10. The required fields feature in sales stages lets you set fields as required to be populated by the salesperson before moving the opportunity to the next sales stage.

    Step 10
  11. Let’s set up a field to be required before moving the opportunity to another sales stage.

     

    In the Additional Required Fields region, select the green Add Row icon.

     

    Step 11
  12. In the Name field, click the drop-down arrow and select the Level of Risk field.

    Step 12
  13. The Level of Risk field is added as a required field.

     

    In a real world scenario, you could set multiple fields as required.

    Step 13
  14. Recommended documents support a salesperson’s efforts during a sales stage. They can be word processing documents or other files, such as text files, or URLs.

     

    Like process steps, recommended documents display when a salesperson uses Sales Coach while viewing or editing an opportunity.

     

    Before adding recommended documents to the sales stage, you should know the files or URLs you want to use and have the files saved to the hard drive on your computer.

    Step 14
  15. Let’s see how you would add recommended documents for a sales stage.

     

    Click the green Add Row icon in the Recommended Documents region.

     

    Step 15
  16. If  you are adding a file, select File in the Type field. If you are adding a URL, select URL in the Type field. For the purposes of this demonstration, let’s add a file.

     

    Step 16
  17. Browse to the file on your hard drive and select it.

     

    Click Browse and select the file.

    Step 17
  18. After you have added the file, the screen refreshes and automatically fills in the title for you.

     

    In a real world scenario, you could add several recommended documents (or URLs) to this sales stage.

     

    Step 18

This concludes Part 1 of the demonstration on Setting Up Sales Coach. Refer to the Setting Up Sales Coach demonstration, Part 2, for further information about Sales Coach.

 

For information on modifying the supplied sales methods and sales stages, refer to the Managing Sales Methods and Stages demonstration.

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