Tag Archives: Deal Tracking

The Deal Pipeline: Five Metrics for Maintaining Control of Your CRM

Customer Relationship Management software is a tool that can be used by many different professionals to track a variety of activity and productivity. Since we here at Touch Ahead cater mainly to venture capitalists and the private equity community, we’ve mentioned how these people lead busy lives and can sometimes …

Deal Forecasting: Predicting Deal Sourcing Trends Using CRM

A few days ago, I was introduced to the idea of sales forecasting. It got me thinking about deals, and whether or not the same or similar concepts of sales forecasting would apply to deal sourcing and predicting future trends of deals – deal forecasting, so to speak. The article …

Deal Sourcing – Stay One Touch Ahead with CRMs

A recent report by the Private Equity Growth Capital Council stated that private equity firms in Massachusetts invested more than $6 billion in Mass-based companies in 2010, ranking number six in terms of deal value1. That money was invested in 57 companies – an average of $105+ million to each company. Now, I don’t …