Partners in Excellence

APRIL 24, 2023

When I read my feeds or listen to a lot of “experts,” the focus is always on hitting our quotas, maxing our commissions, achieving our goals. One imagines a sword of Damocles hanging over seller’s heads with the constant threat of making quota. Our success is absolutely dependent on our customers’ success.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

We become obsessed with forecasts, pipelines, and their health. Customers don’t want to talk to us, because we don’t talk to them about what they care about. Win rates plummet, % making quota plummet, retention rates declining, sales cycles lengthening, deal size decreasing. Then there’s another challenge.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 4, 2025

Many sales leaders fail to set targets for much more than revenue/quota and perhaps 2-3 others from my list. Nearly all sales leaders fail to have and/or explain the consequences to their salespeople so they are aware of what will happen if they fail to meet the required targets for items 1-25 as well as quota/revenue.

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Quota Territory Pipeline Referrals 69

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A critical inflection point came when Martin and Levelset’s VP of Customer Success recognized the untapped potential in their existing customer base. Martin emphasizes the importance of maintaining enough quota coverage to meet revenue targets while accounting for factors like rep attrition and ramp time.

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GTM Construction Quota Growth 111

Sales Pop!

JUNE 23, 2023

One factor differentiating Pipeliner CRM from our competitors—especially high-end systems such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and Oracle NetSuite—is that we have taken the incredible complexity involved with a CRM application and made it simple for the user. Because of Pipeliner’s visual UI, you will always know where you stand.

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Technology Technology Pipeline CRM 240

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Most salespeople expect to miss their quota every single year. But hitting quota every year doesn’t always equate to a perfect sales enablement strategy for a few reasons. First , quota is set too low to accommodate for sales process inefficiencies. Bottomline : Spending more time with customers is only half the battle.

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CRM Quota Sales Pipeline 262

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. Gaining control over the sales pipeline can make goal attainment a stress-free process.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These targets are used to guide the quota-setting, territory mapping , and sales team strategies. These include things like quota attainment for a sales team and the numbers of deals in reps’ pipelines. With sales targets in place, your team can create quotas to strive for and specific strategies for hitting those quotas.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2023

The toughest metric is new customers. While NRR remains high, new customer growth as slowed to 13%, down from 24% a year ago and 32% in 2021. Existing customers remain happy, and if they are doing well, will buy more. “The top 15% of our sellers have achieved 129% of quota over the last four quarters.”

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 9, 2024

You’ve invested in Salesforce , hoping to streamline your sales process, improve customer relationships, and more. Customize the interface to fit your sales process. For instance, are you focused on increasing lead conversion, shortening sales cycles, or improving customer retention? Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2020

If a salesperson hit quota at their last job, they’re much more likely to hit quota at your organization, right? of sales professionals globally are achieving quota. It turns out that quota attainment has become the exception, not the rule. I didn’t make this decision because quota information was difficult to get.

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Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 14, 2023

You could also be well behind your quota, struggling to stay motivated and worried about job security. When pipelines shrink, close rates decrease, and your team doesn’t see a clear path to the number, they lose motivation, worry sets in, and they start blaming things outside of their control. It can also be the hardest.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 24, 2025

We have endless dashboards, showing what’s happening in every part of the organization, every customer interaction, over whatever time periods one wants. Forecast performance against plan (his team has 92% forecast accuracy), Pipeline health, Completed committed tasks (as a %), New committed tasks to be completed.

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High impact Pipeline Inside sales Quota 113

SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2025

Founders are often the best salespeople early on because they know the product inside-out, theyre passionate, and customers love talking to the CEO. You need to close your first 10-20 customers yourself to deeply understand the sales process, objections, and what resonates with buyers. You Never Get to Leave Sales. Be specific.

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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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Pipeline Appointment Quota Sales 116

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

In simplest terms, the sales process is a potential customer’s journey from facing an initial problem, to defining a solution for it, to making an actual purchase. And since the sales process is a journey for a prospect/customer, it is also the roadmap for a sales rep’s job. Less friction to source and control pipeline.

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Martech

JULY 17, 2024

Scaling has become complex, with rising targets and an unclear ideal customer profile. As performance becomes harder to predict, Emma is caught in a whirlwind of soaring CPAs, long “gap-close meetings,” and the desperate need to meet ever-higher quotas.

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GTM Product Strategize Drivers/motivators 101

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Feeling overwhelmed by the infinite options for growing your pipeline? These are tactics that have helped outside sales professionals grow their pipeline by 300% in one month. Aim for the moon with targets and quotas In the words of the famous Michelangelo, the greater danger doesn’t lie in aiming too high and falling short.

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Outside Sales Pipeline Inside sales Cross-sell 130

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 26, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Matt: Welcome everyone to another live episode of Sales Pipeline Radio. Well guess what?

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Pipeline Sales Quota Up-sell 126

Gong.io

MAY 3, 2021

2021 : Gong introduces Deal Execution, providing business leaders much-needed visibility into activity happening across all pipeline deals. Gong for Deal Execution brings together every interaction across your deals in a single view so sales teams can quickly understand pipeline health and stop sales from going south. No more opinions.

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Pipeline Drivers/motivators CRM Sales 118

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2025

“Marketing is fluffy and unmeasurable” – Unlike sales, which has clear metrics like quota attainment, founders often believe marketing can’t be measured. Instead, focus on two key metrics: Pipeline coverage – Do we have a chance to hit our numbers? These “five-five” CMOs barely exist.

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Pipeline B2B Territory Quota 78

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Matt: Well, welcome everyone to another exciting episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Pipeline Sales Technology Technology 122

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

This early hands-on approach helped them deeply understand their ideal customer profile (ICP), pricing strategy, and product-market fit, creating a solid launchpad for their go-to-market expansion. A staggering 7 out of 10 early sales hires exceeded their annual quotas, and some reps are on track to earn seven figures in their first year.

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Territory Drivers/motivators Quota Pipeline 71

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Objections are tough to take, so don’t be too quick to patronize the customer before you even try to overcome them. Customize Your Pitches for Each Prospect Perhaps the most important rule in inside sales – you need to realize that you’re selling to people , not companies. Read More: What is Inside Sales Software? Jeff Grice Tweet 8.

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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 You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Well, welcome everyone to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Pipeline Sales Gaming Up-sell 128

Sales Pop!

MAY 28, 2023

When it comes to sales, we want to know how many leads have been created, how many opportunities have been converted, how rapidly opportunities are moving through the pipeline, and how many opportunities have been closed. We would also want to know if we lost any customers in a given sales period. It all begins with “What happened?”

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Hospitality Pipeline Sales Territory 234

Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Matt: Welcome everyone to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio. Check them out.

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Pipeline Sales Up-sell Cross-sell 122

Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Well, welcome, everyone, to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio. Matt: Alrighty.

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Pipeline Represent Sales Up-sell 124

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Salesforce is arguably the best customer relationship management system for B2B companies. There are sections of this guide that presumes you’re using Veloxy Sales AI Software for Salesforce, which easily and automatically accelerates sales by predictably optimizing customer engagement. It’s all about crushing quota!

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Outreach enables accurate sales forecasting, replaces manual processes with real-time guidance, and unlocks actionable customer intelligence to help you win more often. The latest figures show that the majority of SDRs are missing quota , struggling. Get rid of quotas and get rid of commissions. Check out his book !

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Commission Quota Assembly Line Sales 104

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

Although, in consultations with founders of many of these SaaS companies, I’m often caught by surprise to learn that they’ve made upward of a dozen hires, but zero are for customer-facing roles. If you do, you’ll be well on your way to helping customers benefit massively from your product and getting cash positive sooner than you’d hoped. .

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2020

Everyone usually gets pretty good at segmenting customers by ACV. Or enterprise vs smaller customer. More of you right now should be putting that aside a bit and segmenting your customers into 3 new groups: Growing. Almost all of you have at least one segment of customers growing now. And pipeline may still grow.

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E-commerce Customers Healthcare Quota 129

PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

A good sales pipeline management strategy is essential because every potential opportunity uses up your most valuable resource — time. This article will introduce you to tips and metrics to optimally track and prioritize your sales pipeline. A risky deal can ruin your pipeline health and slow down your sales performance.

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Pipeline Legal Quota Sales 98

Salesforce

APRIL 7, 2022

When it comes to closing a deal, it pays to look at your pipeline as half empty. Learn how the brightest minds in business, culture, and sports “Think Outside the Quota” to find sales success. You can better anticipate customer objections and needs. Every salesperson remembers the deal that didn’t happen. watch now.

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Pipeline GTM Quota Pitch 97

Sales Pop!

JANUARY 12, 2023

And here we can make our first comparison to Pipeliner CRM, for Pipeliner helps provide this alertness to salespeople and businesspeople. com (formerly G2 Crowd) you’ll see that many of these don’t compare to Pipeliner. An Example from Pipeliner. Zombie Companies. Will they be around next year?

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CRM Pipeline Sales Electricity 217

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Before Covid, field sales was synonymous with hitting the road, meeting customers in person, and regularly making significant commissions. Fortune 500 and Inc 5000 companies have found continued success with new field sales strategies and technology, and a new number one key performance indicator (hint: it’s not quota).

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