Testimonials
Don’t just take our word for it. Please see a selection of some of our client testimonials
received below.
Geno Reddick, Sales Manager, PDC Pages
Front Row’s system gives hard data on calls, which leads to increased productivity
via better time management, resulting in a significant increase in sales productivity.”
Our new Sales Reps are productive in much less time, and there are many features
that they like, such as remote notes entry on sales calls. It’s easy to spot problems
such as a sales reps calling 5 times on the same buyer without a sale, and we need
fewer sales managers, eg: 1 manager now has 25 Reps. In short, this system can help
anyone in a sales driven business.
Bob Pallante, Sales Representative, Lynx Medical Products
I have been a sales rep and a sales manger for over 45 years. In all those years
I have always had the responsibility to do sales reports. Daily, weekly, monthly
written reports as well as most recently computer reports through a CRM system.
The CRM system required me to spend 60-90 minutes every night populating databases
on my computer. What a colossal waste of time. In 2008 the company I was selling
for, Lynx Medical Products Inc., introduced a new tool called Front Row Solutions
to its sales force. After every sales call I was required to send a short text message
from my cell phone. I was not a “texter” and received the news of this new tool
with skepticism. After a week of learning this system and developing my texting
skills I have become a believer. For the first time in my 45
years of selling I now do my reporting in less than 5 minutes per day.
Front Row Solutions has many personal productivity tools but there are two in particular
which I love. The first is the automatic population of my appointments into my Outlook
calendar. The second is the Front Row Solutions prospecting and mapping tool that
allows me to organize my day and provides mileage data for my expense reports. What
I like most about Front Row Solutions is the visibility it gives my boss on my day.
I am a good sales rep and I want my boss to know what I am doing. Because of this
my boss and I collaborate better on key projects and I make more money.
Gary Campbell, President, Canwest Directories
We have used Front Row Solutions in our directory company and have seen a dramatic
increase in the productivity of our reps as a result. We have seen our reps not
only increase the number of calls that they are making but also we have visibility
into their activities that we have never had before. I have used many CRM tools
in the past and this is the first one that does what we were looking for. I would
not manage a sales force in the future without using Front Row Solutions.
Leslie Thompson, President, Lynx Medical Products
In 2008 Lynx Medical Products inc. had its first single digit growth since inception
in 1992. During the review process, we discovered that while we have some business
in a lot of hospitals, we did not have a lot of business in a lot of hospitals.
We had to dramatically improve our penetration level.
We had a senior sales team, which we believed contributed to a lot of our success
over the years. Our sales reps had a responsibility to do weekly sales reports.
Our analytics of these sales reports showed that while our sales reps did 3-5 calls
per day, the call cycle was typically in 4 calls to 4 different hospitals. We believe
this was leading to our lack of efficiency and our lack of penetration. Our management
group decided that we needed to retrain our reps in a consultative sales approach
and educated them on improving their efficiency by making several sales calls in
the same hospital.
Improving their efficiency by making several sales calls in the same hospital. In
order to track both penetration levels and the success level of our new training
program, we decided to implement Front Row Solutions sales productivity solution.
We saw an immediate impact on our sales efficiency. Sales reps were now making several
sales calls per hospital, which was not typical. Sales reps were now making 7-10
sales calls per day and were only making calls to two hospital sites. This was almost
double our typical productivity.
The result was profound. Sales reps were now spending more time in front of end
users. Our penetration level and revenue increased dramatically. Front Row allowed
us to not only track sales calls, but also track penetration levels into hospitals.
We also use Front Row to gauge the effectiveness of our new sales training program.
We are able to identify strengths and weaknesses of our sales reps, and provide
custom training where needed. In 2009 Lynx Medical Products inc. achieved a better
than 25 % increase in revenue, the highest growth in 7 years. We achieved this through
a dramatically more effective sales force. Our sales reps significantly improved
the number and efficiency of their sales calls. My only question now is where would
our revenue be if we had Front Row Solutions five years ago. We can now quickly
assess strengths and weaknesses of our team in half the time it took us before and
therefore increase the overall skill level of our team as well as move the low performers
out at a much quicker rate saving a lot of time and money.
