Cube Yogi

Recently Zoho CRM Community had a blogpost on how to add country code to Leads along with a script to do the same. But the script seemed to leave a lot to be desired. Here is a screenshot of their 10-line script: These are the missing things we noticed with the above script: 1. First, there needs to be validation of whether the incoming phone number is empty or not. In the above script, even if the phone number is empty, '+91' will be added to the phone number. So, this means, in such records, phone number field will have only the value '+91'. 2. It would have been good to make it more generalized than hardcoding a specific country code into the script. Because this script is going to be applied to Leads, it is possible that the Leads may be coming in from various countries, given today's global nature of businesses. So having the script address just one country code is not going to satisfy today's growing business needs. 3. There is no checking in the script t

Well … truth be told, there is no magic in anything … not at work, not in life. But why did I con you by naming this post with the words ‘magic’? Something can 'appear magical', though truly, behind the scenes, lot of work has gone into it meticulously to make it appear so. Your co-salesman might be ‘magically’ appearing to close almost every prospect coming his way. If you asked him, he would lift his collar and say "That’s the magic, dude!" and leave you with more awe. But what is unsaid is a lot more … lot of hardwork he would have put in behind the scenes to make every deal work out, lot of shitty stuff that would have happened under the cover, which no one wants to, or neither would, speak of. So time to create the magic yourself!  According to this Harvard Business Review article , a whopping 44% of sales executives think that their sales process is poorly managed! The key is to define your sales process really well, and it is well worth spending that initial ti