Boosting Productivity through the Tech Stack
Salesforce and SV Academy via Coursera
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Overview
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This is Course 4 in the Salesforce Sales Development Representative Professional Certificate. In order to successfully complete the course, please ensure you have taken Course 1: Groundwork for Success in Sales Development, Course 2: Foundations for Interviewing with Confidence, and 3: Conversational Selling Playbook for SDRs.
This course demonstrates how to enhance productivity by implementing tech tools that streamline your SDR workflow. You’ll be introduced to a variety of best-in-class sales software that will help you achieve the most optimal results — every time. By the end of the course, you’ll feel confident in formulating bulletproof outreach strategies in order to engage with prospective customers.
Course 4 in the Sales Development Representative (SDR) Professional Certificate will give you the necessary skills to launch a career in the non-technical side of the tech industry.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Examine and navigate the tech stack and stay up-to-date on the latest tech tools used in the tech sales workforce
- Understand the basic principles of customer relation management (CRM) tools and how to use them effectively as part of your workflow
- Use sales intelligence tools to find prospects and optimize your workflow
- Formulate bulletproof outreach strategies to engage with prospective customers
- Apply the power of social media and video to find and connect with prospects
To be successful in this course, you should have:
- An ability to communicate in verbal and written form in a way that is accessible and understandable by a general audience (you don’t need to be formal or refined)
- Baseline computer literacy (you must be able to use a word processor, web search, and email)
- Familiarity with social media, including LinkedIn
- Ability and willingness to learn new technology tools
- Motivation to grow personally and professionally
- Hunger for feedback and coaching
- Successfully completed the previous courses in this training
Syllabus
- Tech Tool Basics for Sales Development
- Explore how top-performing salespeople leverage tech tools, resourcefulness, and creative problem-solving to drive results.
- Ground Your Workflow with Salesforce
- Discover Salesforce, a foundational tool for sales development and tech industry professionals.
- Optimize Your Workflow with Sales Intelligence Tools
- Gain practical knowledge of sales intelligence, data enrichment, and call analysis tools.
- Strategize, Interact, and Track with Sales Engagement Tools
- Learn how to leverage engagement tools and generate bulletproof outreach strategies.
- Create Leverage with Social Media and Video Prospecting Tools
- Uncover the power of social media and video outreach to enhance human-to-human connection in a sales context.
Taught by
Jolyn Cafferata, Eric Bryan, Paige Caldwell, Trailhead and Allie Kaiser