Is your sales team performing to their full potential?

That's a question that most business leaders would probably answer with "no". Often sales teams perform well below their best and even with good sales people there is always room for improvement as sales processes and sales training tend to develop over time if at all. One of the challenges for Sales Managers is that they are often too busy with the day-to-day tasks of management (producing forecasts, dealing with personnel issues, developing sales leads, writing proposals, etc.) to be able to stand back and take an objective view of how their sales people are performing. This means it is very difficult for them or the business to evaluate their people, their processes or the direction and consistency of the sales function in a truly objective way.

That's where The Boardroom Assessment Centre can help. Essentially, The Boardroom provides businesses with the tools and framework to develop real sales leaders. They work with you to deliver sales training and assessment programmes that identity the areas where your sales process is failing your business or where your sales people are not maximising their potential. From the outcomes of these assessments, The Boardroom then put together bespoke sales training in Essex or sales management training and development programmes designed to improve sales performance. They do this by using their considerable experience of high value sales from a broad range of industries along with a real understanding of what constitutes ‘best practice’ in sales and sales management.

This is a task that can only be performed by a team who are external to your business, who can take the time to review how your sales people operate from the outside in and make objective comparisons with other high performing sales teams from yours or other sectors. This means that they can determine performance benchmarks and highlight the areas where improvements can be made; improvements that can make a huge difference to sales performance; ultimately delivering real return on investment for your business.

IIS6 using an SSL certificate on more than one site on one IP

This is the command to run:

C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set /w3svc//SecureBindings ":443:"

Site indentifier - Is the site ID assigned by IIS
Host name - Is the site URL e.g. something.domain.com, www.domain.com

This command is useful if you have a wildcard or unified communications certificate.

Original article is here:

http://www.sslshopper.com/article-how-to-configure-ssl-host-headers-in-iis-6.html

MODx "$rs not set! New variable not saved!" Error

After upgrading MySQL on a new server I noticed an issue with MODx not being able to add Template Variables. I managed to find a workaround by setting the sort order to "0" which allowed the new Template Variable (TV) to be saved. The problem wasn't solved though as the TV would not store any content. The solution was to change the MySQL configuration to remove "STRICT_ALL_TABLES" or "STRICT_TRANS_TABLES" from the "sql-mode" in the MySQL ini file.

MODx Ditto Error

Just had this error after I upgraded a site from 0.9.6.2 to 0.9.6.3:

PHP error debug
Error: Missing argument 18 for ditto::determineIDs(), called in \manager\includes\document.parser.class.inc.php(769) : eval()'d code on line 792 and defined
Error type/ Nr.: Warning - 2
File:     \assets\snippets\ditto\classes\ditto.class.inc.php
Line: 571
Line 571 source: function determineIDs($IDs, $IDType, $TVs, $orderBy, $depth, $showPublishedOnly, $seeThruUnpub, $hideFolders, $hidePrivate, $showInMenuOnly, $myWhere, $keywords, $dateSource, $limit, $summarize, $filter, $paginate, $randomize) {

The solution was to overwrite the "assets/snippets/ditto" folder with the version from the previous MODx install. Or the other option would be to update the snippet calls as there must be a change in the new version of ditto.