Force Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Healthy sales pipelines and accurate forecasts are grounded in structured territory, account and opportunity planning processes. These processes provide sales managers with an unrestricted line of sight into their sales organizations.

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Tibor Shanto

JULY 13, 2021

Sure, you may not close that big deal in the summer (although you might), there things you can do to drive pipeline success. So even as you head out on your vacation, I have to ask, is your pipeline a summer holiday? So, if you know the length of your sales cycle, and you should, you have the ability to predict the future.

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Veloxy

JULY 14, 2022

What is your closing ratio? Your closing ratio (or close rate) measures your overall sales efficiency. It’s calculated by dividing the number of sales you’ve closed by the number of leads or opportunities in your pipeline (and multiplying that by 100 to generate a percent). Do me a favor. Want proof?

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 4, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount and Colleen Stanley discuss the importance of Reality Testing sales pipeline opportunities. Reality testing sales pipeline opportunities is an important step in ensuring the success of your sales efforts and the effective use of your time.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Ah — that sometimes elusive, but always thrilling moment when you close a deal. But sales is an art, and like art, its style changes over time. Table of Contents What is sales closing? What are the most common sales closing techniques? How do you improve at closing? You either close or you don’t.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Feeling overwhelmed by the infinite options for growing your pipeline? You’re not the only outside sales rep feeling that way. This article doesn’t list every outside sales strategy under the sun. These are tactics that have helped outside sales professionals grow their pipeline by 300% in one month.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Visibility is everything in sales. If you can’t see where each deal is in your sales process and how long it’s been there, you’ll struggle to improve it. . That’s why building and managing a sales pipeline is so important. . It also makes it much easier for you, as a sales manager, to forecast revenue. .

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 29, 2024

In case you have been vacationing in a cave, there has been a controversial trial taking place in Manhattan and earlier this week the Jury heard closing arguments. In a jury trial, closing arguments can take several hours or even days! The Closing Argument is a summary of facts supportive of whichever side the attorney represents.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What’s in your pipeline? This week, my team had two reactions to a client’s pipeline report. ” When there are multiple reactions, the final impression is only as strong as the worst reaction so the data in this pipeline report gets a strong No. .” Who the salespeople are talking with.

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Veloxy

MAY 11, 2023

44% of executives at companies with revenue exceeding $250 million believe their pipeline management to be ineffective. Now imagine a world where your sales process flows seamlessly, leads never slip through the cracks, and revenue pours in effortlessly. Welcome to the realm of pipeline management in Salesforce!

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or inside sales expert, we can all agree on a few things. One; sales is no longer just about high pressure, ‘won’t take no for an answer’ pitches. Today, it’s more of a different dynamic where sales reps listen, empathize, and even kill pitches early if they sense the prospect isn’t interested.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Recently, a reader wrote, asking a lot of questions about pipelines–what are they, why are they important, how do we leverage them, and so forth. For example, I know of very few sales training programs that teach pipeline concepts (we’ve been doing this for the past 30 years). So strap in… What is the pipeline?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 13, 2023

The shift from “growth at all costs” to “profitable growth” has given rise to a new era of B2B sales. One where marketing and sales must work together – with the sole focus of creating and closing more pipeline.

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The 5% Institute

APRIL 1, 2021

In this article, we’ll detail the sales pipeline stages that works perfectly for Sales Professionals and Business Owners in service based and consultative industries. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales. 2 – Building Rapport.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 17, 2023

Over the course of my career I’ve looked at thousands of pipelines/funnels. Recently, I was in a meeting discussing the pipeline health. The managers, defensively, responded, “Dave, we know we need to get more in our pipelines. Some of the sales people said, “We got an RFQ, so we put it in the proposing stage.

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A dried-up sales pipeline is an unpleasant sight that most sales reps dread. Several sales managers and reps are aware of the buzzword “sales pipeline”. Sadly without a healthy pipeline achieving sales goals becomes a more challenging task. They are the ones who succeed in sales.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

As your company grows, you may find you have less resources available for closing each opportunity. Your company’s sales managers only have a select number of sales reps to work with, and those reps only have a limited amount of time to close deals. See also: How to speed up your sales cycle in 2023 2.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Let’s face it: if you’re still relying on old-school sales prospecting methods , you’re falling behind. Now, CEOs and Sales Executives need something sharper, faster, and more precise: AI for sales prospecting. At Veloxy, we believe AI is the game-changer every sales leader needs.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In the latest edition of SaaStr’s Workshop Wednesday , Sara Varni, Datadog ‘s CMO, shares how to build pipeline and create alignment across sales and marketing. While these insights seem like pipeline 101, they aren’t always implemented. Let’s look at some high-level examples of these different pipeline models. #1:

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Every business leader seeks to drive predictable revenue, which depends on strong pipeline growth. The process of converting high-quality leads into interested opportunities and ultimately, closed-won deals is no easy task––hence why 50% of leaders are focused on pipeline generation and conversion as a key go-to-market initiative this year.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Many sales teams put in the hours, follow every playbook, and use every tool at their disposal, yet their efforts don’t seem to pay off. It’s a common issue in sales. In fact, leaders reported that 91% failed to hit sales quota expectations this year. Are sales reps following processes?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Want more leads, pipeline, influence, and awareness in 2024? Now, 6 are set to close in the next 30 days with 24 more in active pipeline for early Q1” Breakout Data Start-Up: “SaaStr has a Great ICP (Seed, Series A and Series B accounts). And we closed a big deal at SaaStr Europa right on site.”

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 13, 2023

The sales pipeline is, perhaps, one of the most misunderstood things in selling. We know the pipeline is critical to helping us answer the question, “Are we pursuing enough opportunities to achieve our goals?” ” We harass sellers to use CRM, keeping their opportunities updated so we can track our pipelines.

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Sales Gravy

AUGUST 12, 2022

Putting Aside Time Every Day to Prospect Will Keep Your Pipeline Full Kaizen is a theory that developed in Japan after World War II and revived the country, their spirit, and their commerce. It’s similar to what we call “feeding the pipeline,” and involves the art of cumulative prospecting. The same is true of sales.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 13, 2023

If you systematize your sales follow-up process you will close more deals — and I am about to show you how **Disclaimer** This has been written with sales executives (SEs) and account executives (AEs) in mind. You might be thinking, Great, another “thinkpiece” from some blowhard sales guy about how to close more deals.

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The 5% Institute

MAY 17, 2023

Sales pipelines play a vital role in the success of any sales-driven organization. In today’s highly competitive business landscape, having an effective pipeline is crucial for maximizing revenue and achieving sustainable growth. Closing The final stage of the sales pipeline is closing the deal.

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Sales Pop!

APRIL 25, 2022

Sales pipelines are used to aggregate the progress of potential customers all through the sales life cycle. They are usually visually represented in CRM software so sales team members can easily keep track of the deals that are in the pipeline at any time. Greater Sales Forecast Accuracy. Qualification.

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Sales Pop!

AUGUST 20, 2021

Within a CRM, a pipeline represents a sales or other type of process. Pipeliner CRM was the first CRM to enable multiple pipelines within CRM. This is the person who helps create processes and adapts them to pipelines. Do you have a pre-sales process or an after-sales process? Creating Your Processes.

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RAIN Group

JANUARY 11, 2022

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: “Put me in front of ten buyers and I'll close seven of them. To succeed in sales, you need to proactively generate a consistent stream of new leads to fill the front end of the pipeline. All I need is more meetings.” I hear this from sellers all the time.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Excellent pipeline visibility can make sales managers feel like superheroes. Being able to instantly tell executives the exact number and value of sales in your pipeline is like having spidey senses. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for most sales managers. You need pipeline reporting.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 19, 2021

I get into a lot of conversations about forecasts and pipelines. The single question we answer in assessing the pipeline is, “Are we pursuing enough high quality/qualified opportunities to achieve our goals?” The healthy pipeline metrics are different for each person. The pipeline and forecast are important.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Of course, Marketing isn’t closing deals, either. Marketing is about pipeline generation for both new business, and renewal or expansion. This, my friends, is called pipeline marketing. This, my friends, is called pipeline marketing. If you’re still reading, maybe you’re thinking, “Tell me something I don’t know.”

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Hubspot

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” Similarly, if a sales manager is only spending 30 minutes a month coaching each of their reps, it’s unreasonable to think that manager is going to improve rep performance.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you don't enjoy reading my baseball analogies, you can ignore this but I must warn you that today's analogy will reveal the two underlying causes for sales opportunities getting stuck in the pipeline and not reaching a close. If you don't care about that then bye-bye until the next article.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

As one might expect, much pf that was tied closely to the concept of pipeline quality. Give a sales person a pipeline goal and they can always hit it. And when managers discover this, typically rather than addressing the quality issue, they set a new goal at 4X, then 5X and so on, creating a pipeline death spiral.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 23, 2024

In the world of sales, understanding how to implement an effective pipeline management strategy is paramount. From the initial stages of customer contacts to the final closure of a sales deal, we’ll elaborate on every step to help you and your salespeople stay more productive in handling the ebb and flow of the sales process.

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Salesmate

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Managing your sales pipeline plays a vital role in the growth of your business. Getting prospects into the pipeline” is a widespread phrase you’d hear when you move through any sales circle. But what does it mean to ‘get’ prospects into a pipeline? Setting goals is what a sales pipeline helps you with.

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