I create all the reports for my team. They tell me the data they need, and I create the report. In this example, the report functionality I need is for our COO, Sales Manager, Founder/CEO. They need to be able to understand what sales reps are working on beyond just KPI metrics. They need to be able to see a KPI, like deals, with the relevant notes from the account. The best way to achieve this is by having a notes input on the deal card. This is needed to help them quickly identify problems, recognize the WHY for a deal to be stuck in the stage it's in, and provide relevant coaching. The reason the note input needs be on the deal creation card is because it's easier for sales reps to standardize their process and not click around to multiple places to complete one task - creating a deal. This functionality need to exist and to allow for a report that can pull all of the deals with their notes to be in one table. The reality is that there is currently no real fuctionality behind getting a notes report for a specific sales activity. "Notes" in a report only pulls for notes attached to sales activities, but only certain sales activeties in an inconsistent way. This isn't helpful as it currently functions and requires two datasets to be pulled - "notes" and "notes body". Notes body is really probelematic in the way that it shoes page formatting rather than the text. The goal of a report isn't to click and click and click and click. It's to see the information in one place in a susinct way, and that isn't possible for notes right now. In most cases, this isn't a big deal, but when it comes to deals or "leads", notes are invaluable. Simply knowing something is in X stage isn't enough. I need to know a sales rep is stuck, that the contact has ghosted them at the last stage, that the sales rep overcame a ton of objections getting there, etc. etc. etc. In a previous CRM I have used, there was a Leads Open and Close report With Notes. It laid out the columns in the order of Company, then the Contact, then the Rep, The date the lead was created (deal in Hubspot), and then the Notes. If there we multiple notes or leads associated with the Company, there would be another row rather than it being all stacked. The text in the notes would wrap so that on one page, without having to click or expland, a sales manager could see the entire report.
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