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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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2025

Dear SaaStr: Should I Let My VP of Sales Go? All Your VPs Really Need to Do is Tilt the Curve A great VP of Sales should show meaningful progress within one sales cycle. All Your VPs Really Need to Do is Tilt the Curve A great VP of Sales should show meaningful progress within one sales cycle.

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Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

Sales professionals generally visualize customer acquisition through the stages of a sales pipeline. Sales strategies can be applied at each stage of that process to help turn a qualified lead into money *ahem* a customer. Prospecting is the first stage of a sales pipeline. Prospecting. Lead Qualification.

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Salesmate

JULY 9, 2020

Your sales pipeline covers every stage of the customer acquisition process from leads to after-sales support to repeat business. While revenue is a good indicator of success, it only measures what’s coming out of the pipeline – in other words, the result. Sales Cycle Length. Let’s get started.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Ask Jeb: How to Sell When Your Customer Has to Sell First Welcome to another Ask Jeb segment on the Sales Gravy Podcast! Im Jeb Blountbestselling author of Fanatical Prospecting, Objections, Sales EQ, and INKED. Im Jeb Blountbestselling author of Fanatical Prospecting, Objections, Sales EQ, and INKED. Identify these patterns.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2021

Every sales professional has a unique way of approaching the sales process. But you’ll find that the stages of their sales processes are strikingly similar. Your sales pipeline consists of every stage of the sales process. 5 sales pipeline stages to keep your eye on. Its primary goal?

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Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

That annual trade show that eats 20% of your budget but generates zero pipeline? Transformed into focused programs that sales actually wants. Partnering closely with sales Not through fancy slide decks about “alignment” but by embedding marketers directly into major deal pursuits. Streamlined. Tight budgets?

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 29, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. This time we are talking about sales management intelligence. .

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Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

For sales representatives, there’s nothing more attractive than closing calls. These are calls where the deal gets moved across the line, contracts get signed and reps earn their commissions. Round one of almost all sales pits you against a prospect in the ring by way of discovery call. What is a Discovery Call?

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Sales Pop!

MAY 20, 2023

Our last article introduced a new series on mega-threats to the sales industry, inspired by the fascinating bestselling book by Nouriel Roubini entitled MegaThtreats: 10 Dangerous Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them. Bureau of Labor Statistics in the book—sales had almost 15 percent of the U.S. Pink cited the U.S.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2025

Sales cycles are up 50%, discounts are hitting 20% to close deals, and monthly churn has tripled from 1.1% Flexible Payment Terms Are Your New Secret Weapon The old way of rigid annual contracts isn’t cutting it anymore. in new pipeline Same product, same value prop – just different payment structure The learning?

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Looking for the best sales podcasts to boost your numbers and master the art of the deal? Whether you’re a rookie learning the ropes or a vet hunting innovative tactics, our curated guide to essential sales podcasts is your ticket to leveling up your sales game.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We’ll be right back on Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

As any business will attest, there’s no greater feeling than when your company grows and reaches a point where you need to expand your inside sales team. Naturally, more salespeople means more sales which translates to more revenue. According to the Harvard Business Review, the average annual turnover in sales is about 30%.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Spotify , iTunes , Blubrry , Google Play , iHeartRADIO , or Stitcher.

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Gong.io

JULY 16, 2021

Pipeline management is no easy task. Top managers are skeptical at every step of the sales cycle. It’s what makes them great at identifying risk in their pipeline and creating a contingency plan for each deal. Better yet, you can take action towards generating a highly effective sales machine. It’s in their nature.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Deal desk software organizes a sales team’s quote-to-cash workflow. These are primarily used in B2B and SaaS companies to help manage complex sales processes, papers, and status updates. Reduce your sales cycle and improve your close rate today with PandaDoc. Sales within B2B can be complex and challenging.

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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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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. You can even ask Siri, Alexa and Google! My name is Matt Heinz.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

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. A good sales pipeline management strategy is essential because every potential opportunity uses up your most valuable resource — time.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 7, 2025

Then we dove into the data, pipelines very anemic, but win rates, average deal sizes, sales cycles were reasonable. Then we got to the core issue, “They don’t have time… ” I hear this from virtually every CRO or top sales executive I talk to. . “We’re struggling to make our numbers!”

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 15, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Well, welcome everyone to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2025

You’ll hear from founders, sales leaders, and marketing leaders from G2, CrunchBase, GitHub, TestBox, Atrium, Intellimize and Kahua. Discussed in this Episode: How to build the habits and fundamentals for sustainably generating pipeline. A day for pipeline generation, I think is super powerful.

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Outreach

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Understanding what works and what doesn’t within the sales process can be complex for any sales team. In order to gain an accurate picture of progress and better manage performance, organizations need a sales pipeline. What is a sales pipeline? And because sales people already have a lot on their plates—e.g.,

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Sales Pop!

JULY 23, 2022

Navigation in Sales. The difference between “known” and heuristic navigation is the difference between Pipeliner CRM and other CRM systems. Pipeliner doesn’t try and use algorithms for navigation, but takes the heuristic approach, as it is far more effective. And this is what we provide with Pipeliner CRM. Responsibility.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Agentforce represents a quantum leap in AI automation for customer service, sales, marketing, commerce, and more. That’s why we have pioneered the robust Einstein Trust Layer to provide toxicity detection, zero data-retention contracts, prompt-injection defense, and several other mechanisms. Transfer to human agent.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2021

If you want to hire your first sales rep and close more deals, you need to understand how the sales process works, what tools your team needs to be successful and learn to speak sales. Sales definitions you should know. CRM objects — Represent the sales relationship you have with a specific person or company.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Getting ghosted is an unfortunate fact of sales life nowadays. To help you out on that front, we here at The HubSpot Sales Blog — the Internet's definitive, ultimate, unimpeachably authoritative authority on all things sales-related and sales-adjacent — tapped some experts for strategies they use to get an unresponsive prospect talking again.

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Sales Pop!

AUGUST 24, 2021

Focusing on your pipeline is certainly important. But in the interest of time, rapid sales team brainstorming events can be just as productive. Because strategizing about market changes will not only help future planning but create competitive advantage to help win deals in your pipeline right now.

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Salesforce

JUNE 2, 2022

The magic is our maniacal focus on pipeline, which is the total dollar value of all the deals our sales team is working on. Why pipeline? Because it’s the greatest indicator of future sales bookings, or annual contract value (ACV). Pipeline is the glue between the marketing and sales departments.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 3, 2023

I’ve been writing a series looking, ultimately, at pipeline management. I’ve written about Win Rates, Pipeline Integrity. In this post, I’ll cover two more aspects of pipeline management, Average Deal Size and Average Sales Cycle. It could be lifetime contract value.

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Sales Pop!

MARCH 21, 2022

It is certainly these goals we’re aiming for at Pipeliner. In an ebook I wrote several years ago, Emotions in Sales , I discussed the fact that the opposite of fear is trust. How can we begin to restore trust, beginning in our own sales field? Today such agreement must be written into complex contracts and letters.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The world of sales is vast, and if you’re a sales professional, you’ve likely been exposed to both inside and outside sales roles. However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s what selling without a sales dashboard is like. But a sales dashboard is only useful if it’s done well. What is a Sales Dashboard? A sales dashboard gives your team a fast and efficient way to see all the data that is most important to doing their job effectively. Why Use a Sales Dashboard?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Fred Viet serves as the Chief Sales Officer at Aircall, overseeing global sales and playing a key role in scaling the company’s reach over the last four years. The first one, I know my sales cycle. Fred Viet: Yeah, we hope so.

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Salesmate

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s a no-brainer that sales methodologies help businesses sell better and choose better customers for life. In our past articles, we have talked about some of the best sales methodologies in depth. This would be the last article in that series, and we’re talking about Sandler Sales Methodology. Sounds a bit confusing?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2020

We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about how to make that critical hire: the VP Sales. You’ll end up with a crummy sales team under a mis-hire. We’ve posted a script to use when interviewing a VP Sales. And lessons learned on what a VP Sales really does. And the Great VP, Sales all know this from experience.

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