"Is 30% too much to pay a CRM sales rep for company lead?"

I came across a very interested LinkedIn discussion about Sales Rep margins.

You can read the discussion here.

I like the guide from Million Dollar Consulting (Alan Weiss) mentioned by Pierre DeBois very much.

It describes what to pay as a finder's fee:

---20% for business that the other party closed and requires only your introduction and client acceptance of work.

---10% for business for which your introduction has been arranged, but your skills are needed to close the deal.

----A thank you and small gift for cold leads that require your skills to close the deal.

That seems pretty fair for me. Costs of sales are high these days and you have to pay enough to your sales teams or ... you know what happens to your profit if your sales team is moody or unmotivated. I will write more at my Gassumo CRM page.

Producteev connector for SprinxCRM UniversalSync

Since I like to have more possibilities to choose from and since latest Astrid supports also Producteev online task list (also here), I decided to try to implement a SprinxCRM UniversalSync connector to Producteev.

I just started, but I already have a one-way synchronization from Producteev to Outlook. Have a look at Producteev Connector Homepage.

SprinxCrm UniversalSync Uninstallation

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SprinxCrm UniversalSync Uninstallation

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What Google Apps (mainly Standard Edition) synchronization are you missing the most?

I started this Google Apps discussion on LinkedIn and even the very first post was very helpful with a lot of links, thanks Aaron!

Still thinking about more synchronizations... I am already planning to include Google Tasks in SprinxCRM UniversalSync and maybe I also do something more on Google Calendar Synchronization as I am not that much happy with the original Google one.

I hope to sort all those things soon and prepare the next generation of my synchronization utility.

More about how SprinxCRM UniversalSync works

If you are really interested in how SprinxCRM UniversalSync works, how are Outlook tasks synchronized e.g. with Remember The Milk (RTM) task or Google Calendar events with SprinxCRM calendar, read here on Gassumo.

I will also try to create a presentation for this.

SprinxCRM UniversalSync installation, configuration, first synchronization

If you just want to know more about SprinxCRM UniversalSync, check it's page at Gassumo.

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SprinxCRM UniversalSync installation, configuration, first synchronization

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Where is SprinxCRM OutlookSync for Remember The Milk heading?

If you are Outlook or Remember The Milk fan, I hope you heard about SprinxCRM OutlookSync for Remember The Milk. As mentioned in WebWorkerDaily, it is "an add-on for Outlook that enables two-way synchronization of tasks between the two apps".

It is almost 5 months since I started developing this little task synchronization utility. Interested where it is heading now? Have a look what is in development right now!