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Entering A Sales Opportunity - The Full Monty
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A sales opportunity represents a reasonably complex event - a business transaction between two parties. The amount of information that we know about a sales opportunity grows over time as we talk with the client, educate them about our products and services, explore their needs, and learn about the competition. So Desktop Sales Manager provides a robust way of recording information about the sales opportunity as we learn more and more about it.


 
While this section will show you how to enter ALL the information about a sales opportunity, it is important to remember that this information is collected over time and in the real world it is updated and changed often. Only the first data field - some sort of name or description - is required. Any other information that you enter should ONLY be entered as it is relevant to helping you win the opportunity or as it is required by your business.  
 
Desktop Sales Manager sales opportunities can potentially contain a lot of information. The Edit Opportunity form has:
·Data fields - names, addresses, sales status, probabilities, product information, etc.  
·Status and Watched fields  
·A Journal - your date and time-stamped notes.  
·Sales Analysis tabs - of the business opportunity, your solution, your competitor's solution, your selling effectiveness, and your competitor's selling effectiveness  
·Properties - Born on date, age, last modified, sales owner. Also included are calculated fields - derivatives of some of your data fields. For example, the Revenue for a sales opportunity is a calculated as Price * Quantity * Discount...  
·An Outlook Connection - allows you to use your Outlook Contacts to fill out fields  



To learn more, explore any of these areas...
·Entering Data Fields  
·Opportunity Journal  
·Sales Analysis - Rating  
·Sales Analysis - Solution Impact  
·Sales Analysis - Sales Impact  
·Outlook Contacts - Outlook Connection  


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