Acorn Voter Fraud Stories are All over the News

I watch the news full of the stories about Acorn voter fraud and I scratch my head. How is this possible. I saw a video starring a homeless person recruited under a bench in a bus station. This person was driven to a voter registration location to register. I believe all should vote who are entitled to vote. Yet Acorn, which receives public funds has no integrity. Their actions are a disgrace.

Is your Sales Pipeline Full of Fantastic Stories

I have been part of sales teams which used spreadsheets for pipeline reports. Sales people dutifully recited the sales data, on their spreadsheet, each Friday during the mandatory sales meeting. I listened to my colleagues reports with interest. Most were accurate yet some were magical. Magical because of a miraculous transformation sales records or sales opportunities could make. Some sales guys were like Acorn voter registrants, they pulled stuff out of the air and put them on the list. I remember one sales guy from Chicago. One Friday he reported a deal at 90 % confidence and rated at over a million in revenue. The next Friday this deal vanished from the pipeline report. The sales manager, combo of busy and inept, did not notice.

Acorn and Sales Teams Should Use Better Tools

Using better tools to organize and to audit voter lists and sales pipelines make sense. Voter lists are more complicated and hard but sales pipelines are simple. Every sales team just needs a sales tool. Not a complex or expensive tool just a tool to record and maintain sales opportunities through time. This tool can show when created, when modified and even show progress using sales stages toward an end game of conversion to a paying customer.

Remarkable as it is, many, many companies do not have sales tools in place. Many sell with in-directs sales teams like distributors or manufacturers reps and getting accurate and timely sales data is like crawling under that bench in the bus station, a dirty and thankless job.

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