Monthly Archives: September 2013

Introducing Team Alerts

This week, we launched team alerts. Through our customer development, one thing we had constantly heard was sales and business development wanted to leverage the relationships and connections not just of their sales teams. Maybe there is a great connection … Continue reading

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Early Adopters of Sales Tools – By Industry

We have been in operation for a couple of months now and have a sizeable number of users. Thank you! Thought it will be an interesting exercise to see which industries do these users come from. Few caveats: (1) We … Continue reading

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When do you use Alerts?

We have talked about the Why and How of using Alerts. But what about the When? Here are some typical scenarios: You are trying to build relationships within an account. You have looked up LinkedIn. In your existing network, as it stands … Continue reading

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Setting Up Alerts

A few customers have asked us this question. ”I understand what you are trying to do and I’ve sign In with LinkedIn. But I’m not sure I’ve set up my alerts correctly.” Setting up alerts is simple. These are some … Continue reading

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Introduction Emails

Everyone hates emails, right? This blog does a great job proving it in a  data driven way why we don’t like the email deluge we have to go through every day. Recently, I came across this great article on etiquettes … Continue reading

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Top Social Sales blogs from Miles Austin

In our series on Social Sales Resources, we decided to highlight some of the best blogs around on social sales. In coming days and weeks, we will revisit blogs by sales professionals, influencers and trainers and point to the ones … Continue reading

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Thank you PBSJ

Yesterday, we announced that OFunnel is a finalist at Techflash Cup organized by Puget Sound Business Journal and sponsored by Century Link. Thank you. Such competitions help local startups get the kind of exposure they are looking for within the … Continue reading

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Social Sales Tools – Resource Guide

As we went about customer development, our first task was to see what currently exists. What tools, tips, blogs, videos, etc. exist that we can already leverage and also point our customers to so that they can take advantage of … Continue reading

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Twitter for Social Sales

  Yes, listening and engaging with prospective customers via specific hashtags is an absolute must. But how about leads and sales based on relationship mining on twitter. At OFunnel, our focus is on relationships as we believe the most qualified … Continue reading

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OFunnel Alerts

Based on the customer problems we heard and talked about in previous posts, we started to look for possible solutions. We understood that the de-facto standard for people to figure out relationships and use them for business growth is LinkedIn. … Continue reading

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