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CROs reveal how to remove surprises from your revenue process using a revenue operating cadence designed to win new business and avoid retention pitfalls.Host: Kevin Knieriem - Chief Revenue Officee, ClariPanel: Ashley Grech - CRO, Xero Matt Weil - Sr VP Worldwide Sales, HighspotWhat are your 3 must win revenue moments?

  Neglecting the customer journey will leave you with unhappy customers, fewer sales, missed opportunities, and a significant revenue gap. And we can all agree, that’s a problem. So how can we prioritize the customer journey to help us drive revenue for our organizations? How do we actively prioritize the customer journey?Kevin Chiu, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Catalyst Software, has some ideas to help you drive new business and prioritize existing to reach both short-term and long term business goals.Here’s what’s inside: Customer success is found in the customer journey. CROs should focus on new business acquisition and also on long-term customer value. This means investing in customer enablement and alignment across functions, providing strategic business conversations with customers, and ensuring a seamless handoff between customer success managers and account executives. Improve QBRs for customer-focused conversations. Quarterly business reviews often lack customer-c

Align Template Snippets let you add milestones or groups of milestones slowly to build out your planRemoves “too assumptive” concern for reps More flexible while maintaining process controlFor example, you might have a couple of different levels of discovery, a simple and a deep-dive proof of value, one common set of commercials for everyone, then different types of implementation.  

Revenue can be expressed as a deceptively simple equation:Pipeline x Conversion Rate x Average Contract Value = RevenueThis equation is important because as a revenue leader, these are the three – and the only three – levers that you can invest in to change your business.In this article, we’re going to look at each lever and discuss what can and can’t be changed in a tough macroeconomic environment. We’ll show how our favorite revenue leaders use this equation to tune their revenue cadence to deliver the biggest business impact. And finally, we’ll look at how better internal and external collaboration can improve conversion rate and ACV. Let’s do some revenue math PipelineLast year, 72% of Chief Sales Officers [Gartner] declared that their strategy to meet revenue targets in the face of tougher macro was to just get more pipeline. Seems right at first glance. But pipeline is an expensive game. While you can optimize at the edge, pipeline is linear at best: you put more dollars into SDR

Is it possible to add a disclaimer to a forecast tab?  Looking to add a note about why users may see discrepancies in their numbers directly on the tab.

We built the Revenue Cadence Checklist to help you operationalize the critical revenue moments that help you understand the most important question about your business — whether you’ll meet, beat, or miss on revenue. In this video, Tom Williams walks through the playbooks and checklists we built to help you build your revenue cadence.  

29.9% win rate improvement30.2% decrease in slipped deals209% increase in average sales priceThose are all stats Clari’s Value Engineering team attributes to Unity — the “world’s leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D content” — since implementing Clari.Causal correlation is nearly impossible to prove, but “The Clari Effect” has definitely had a positive impact on sales at Unity.So what did things look like at Unity before Clari?Challenge: “Salesforce and spreadsheets” were not scalable as the business grew Clari has helpedThat’s how Unity ran sales forecasting before Clari: Salesforce and spreadsheets.Laura Palmer, Unity’s Global Vice President of Sales, arrived on the job without a true forecasting solution. “We had Salesforce but did not have the forecasting module implemented.” And Salesforce itself just “felt like an overwhelming amount of data.”Laura’s team members sent her spreadsheets in various formats, depending on region or group. “I could not

Posting on behalf of a customer here but has anyone noticed some strange behaviour using Salesforce CPQ and when Primary Quote is changed?Here’s the issue: a Primary Quote is changed in CPQ but in the Opportunity Field History the Opportunity amount is changing to the value of the Old Primary Quote + New Primary Quote. The downstream impact is that this then impacting the Clari colour coding and it’s only showing things in red. Seems that there might be an underlying Salesforce issue, as per this thread: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazer-community/feed/0D54S00000A8sYxSAJ...but seeing if anyone else here is facing this issue.  

Hear from revenue leaders and a top seller about how they use Align to collaborate with customers while driving rigor in their Revenue Cadence. 

What’s a revenue operating cadence? Great question! Let’s dive into what it is, why it’s valuable to establish, a few different options for what best-in-class operating cadences looks like, and strategies to implement your own. 

You don’t always know every member of the buying team, so Align supports Domain Allow Lists (also known as domain whitelisting) Seller adds domain(s) to the Allow List  Buyer puts their email into the login field on the "Front Door" of the collaboration space If their email matches a whitelist, then we email them an access link Buyer clicks the link from email to get into the workspace If it doesn't match, we send an email to the Seller saying "so and so wants to access in" but we don't let them in unless Seller authorizes Or put another way, there are three possible outcomes when someone enters their email at the front door of a collaboration space. They are on the Buyer Team. They get sent a new magic link They are not on the Buyer Team, but whitelist is on for their domain. We send them a magic link and they're in. We tell Seller They are not on the Buyer Team, no whitelist or their domain isn’t on the whitelist. They get nothing. We tell seller this person is trying to get inThis i

Hey everyone, I've taken the Clari admin exam multiple times and have retaken both Clari Admin University courses several times as well. However, I'm looking for a way to review the questions I've missed to better understand the correct answers. I've been doing the exam "open book," but I feel like I'm not making progress. Is there a way to access this information?-Sarosh

Colm Fair talks through how Game Tapes and Smart Summaries help Enablement at Multiplier Technologies drive accountability, onboard new employees, and minimize admin for Sales. Colm also has great tips on rolling out Clari and Copilot at your organization! 

Learn how to manage the field in the Expanded View in the Forecast Module in this clip from one of our Field Config Office Hours sessions.  

Adam Moreschi, Fidel API, walks through how he uses Clari Copilot as a CSM to share the voice of the customer and even create training materials. 

I’ve taken the test several times and retaken both Clari Admin University courses twice but am wondering if there is somewhere I can see what questions I am missing so I can learn what the correct answers actually are? I’ve been doing it “open book” and I’m not getting anywhere :(

I am using the iPhone 11 Pro mobile app, but have not been successful to viewing any calls.  Why it never loads?  and your app never works.

Hi  I currently have a spread sheet that represents my gap to goal (quota)Is there a way I can build a custom dashboard to replace this spreadsheet? I have three categories:  Commit, Strong BC and BC with a third table for “pipeline deals”Within these tables are: Account name, FCST status, TYPE of Deal, ACV, TCV and notes and comments Below all this I of course have a final table:  Rep Quota for the QTR, Totals for Strong BC, BC and Commit, along with a percentage of forecast. I assume if each rep has this a manager can see a roll up of all the numbers into an easily readable format I have browsed up and down and can not find an easy to follow guide on how to build something like this.

I a new to Clari and want to ask this question before I make it an idea.  I love being able to star opportunities so that I can see the path to my number, but is it possibly to filter out those opps from my view (since I am already all over them), and see what opps are remaining to determine if I need additional pipeline, or need to adjust things, etc.? Thanks for any insight.Jenny

Make updates to your organization settings to maintain a consistent brand image, workspace nomenclature, and buyer and seller role structure. These settings play a pivotal role in keeping your teams focused and prepared throughout the buyer's journey. Organization SettingsOnly Align admins can edit organization settings, the admin role can be provisioned from the Our Team section of Align. Login to your Align account as an admin and navigate to to Organization Settings. Company Name & LogoThe Organization Name or Company Name will display your company’s name to your customer throughout your Align Workspaces and customer collaboration email notifications. By default Align will use your company’s domain name (ex. clari.com) so be sure to update it to something friendly for your customers. Your company logo is a fundamental component of your brand identity. To ensure your brand is well-represented on your team’s workspaces be sure to update your company logo. You can upload or drag a

Align is very intuitive. The easiest way to learn it is just to play around with an example workspace. Saying that, here’s a high level overview Align has 5 main sectionsOverview Plan  Teams Library  Calls (optional)  Overview - make your business caseHere’s where you make your business case so senior decision makers can get up to speed fast.Share Rep contact info Capture business objectives to validate the problem and your proposed solution (these can sync back to Salesforce) Summarize next steps at a high level  Curate key files or meeting recordings that you want to highlight -----------------------------------Plan -- make  Mutual Action PlanOnce you’ve made your business case, the buyer is going to want to know how to get all that value. The Plan tab holds all your milestones, which in turn track the actions required to accomplish the milestone. You can invite buyers or other sellers to milestones, you can comment, update status.  You add milestones via Templates or add a new one f

The best sellers are as transparent as possible, but even the most open rep doesn’t want to share everything. Align makes it easy to collaborate, but also keep some stuff private. Email InvitesYou can send an automated email invite to your buyers and Align will notify a buyer if they’re @mentioned in a milestone. They will NEVER get any MAP-status emails and there are NO passwords, just magic links. They’ll get your email, then when they click the link, they’ll be prompted one-time only to confirm their email (this is our spambot test). Once they’re in, they’ll see exactly what you as a seller sees when you’re in Presentation Mode.Remember -- best practice is when you first share the workspace, to do it while you’re on a call so you can make sure they get in ok and then you can give them a quick tour of the assets you’ve shared. Private Milestones & Presentation ModeIf you want to see exactly what the customer sees, just turn on Presentation mode.  What gets hidden / what Buyers ne

Selling is all about the customer. And so is Align. The first question to answer is “what’s in it for the customer”. If you can answer this question, then you’ll know when to introduce the concept of more structured collaboration When to intro Align  Buyers want different things at different times. Use Align to anticipate those needs and deliver an unstoppable buying process.    During Discovery Remember that you can create a collaboration workspace without a MAP. Early in Discovery you probably don’t know enough to drop a detailed plan on your prospect, so focus on value and your business case.Use Align’s Mutual Business Objectives to validate your customer’s business priorities and how you can help. Pull them up in a screenshare and say “did I hear you right?” If they say no, that’s great! “Sorry I misunderstood. Tell me what I got wrong!” Use Align’s Content Library to share case studies, NDA, or other assets you want to share. Link to your content store or just upload assets

Mutual Business Objectives are a pivotal tool for enhancing the success of your deals. They facilitate effective customer discovery by capturing a buyer's needs and goals. In this concise guide, we'll explore what MBOs are, their importance, and how to use them effectively. Mutual Business Objectives creation steps: Step 1: Create ObjectivesAdmins can create Objectives in your Align Organization Settings by when you select the Objectives tab. Add a new Objective, update its title, and add in any placeholder text to the objective. You can always return to your objective later and make updates. Step 2: Objective Field MappingAccess the Field Mapping tab from the Align Organization Settings page and click + Add Mapping button. Select an Objective and sync it to a compatible field on your Salesforce opportunities. After publishing changes any plans using the sync objective will now push text directly to the selected field on the connected Salesforce opportunity. If you do not immediately s