I'm responsible for managing a team of sales professional and always looking for ideas to improve the productivity of my team as well get the best out of the tools we have invested in. We've been using [....] for over 2 years now and most of my team members have learned the application through self discovery.
I came across this book and bought it because the product description claimed that - "With this quick, to-the-point resource, you won't just be "up and running" in [...]; you'll be an expert!" However I found the book to be for complete beginners - not just [...] but beginners to computers.
If you are new to computers and need step by step help with creating leads, accounts, etc, then this book may be for you. I believe my dad would fit into this category because he has to even struggle with printing a word document. If you've been using computers for some time, the usability of [....] is so good that you won't really need any help in doing all the tasks explained in this book.
Going by the title of the book "Maximizing Your Sales..." I thought maybe I'll get some tips and tricks to improve productivity of my [...] so that they can spend more time on sales than managing data. That wasn't the case. The book was a complete waste of time. Usually in the worst of books you do find a few pages of information that is worth the time invested in browsing through the book. Unfortunately this book wasn't even at that level.
If you do need a book to get started with [....], I would recommend [...] for Dummies".