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What’s In Your Pipeline?

Tibor Shanto

Many reps and managers look at opportunities independently of one another, but the pipeline is a collective of opportunities. Unfortunately, many salespeople see their pipeline as a holding tank for opportunities, rather than a means of driving to quota. What is in your pipeline should meet specific and defined criteria.

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Sales Quota: The Complete Guide to Hitting & Crushing Quota in 2023

Veloxy

In 2018, Salesforce found that only 57% of salespeople expected to hit their quota. Jump to 2022, and Salesforce found that a staggering 72% of salespeople expected their team to miss annual quota. Yet, the sales organization is failing to crush their quota, let alone hit it. Why is sales quota important?

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The State of SaaS Go-to-Market with Theory Ventures General Partner Tomasz Tunguz

SaaStr

Then Mark Roberge , former Hubspot CRO, wrote The Sales Acceleration Formula with deep insights into quota structures. That elongated sales cycle created pipeline supply shocks. To offset slower sales cycles and worse payback periods, quotas have moved in step with them. ‘ Great! So how much business has it closed?

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RevOps Can And Must Do Better!

Partners in Excellence

In discussing the strategic goals for the organization, most take the numbers, run the math based on growth objectives, identifying plans for the coming year. I ask crazy questions like, “Why are only 40% of your people making their quotas, what do we need to change to double that?” Anyone can run the numbers.

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Pipeliner’s Groundbreaking Revenue Intelligence

Sales Pop!

Revenue intelligence contains all that is required for your sales leadership to create accurate quotas and forecasts, and for your team’s pipeline management. It means predictable growth and instilling discipline regarding close dates, rating of deals and next sales process steps. Creating Forecasts and Quotas.

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From Flip-Flops to a $500M Exit as CRO: Lessons Learned from Taking a Startup From $0 to a Successful Exit with Martin Roth

Sales Hacker

Martin attributes this extended timeline partly to early missteps but also to the inherent challenges of this growth phase. Martin emphasizes the importance of maintaining enough quota coverage to meet revenue targets while accounting for factors like rep attrition and ramp time. “0 to 1’s really hard.

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5 Reasons Why Sales Teams Miss Revenue Targets [+ How to Meet Them]

Hubspot

According to a 2023 survey of over 450 sales leaders, 91% of their teams missed quota that year. This begins at the sales rep level but can become an enterprise-wide problem when sales staff, from reps up to SVPs, focus on their year-to-date (YTD) positions against quota. Relying upon seller opinions when grading pipeline health.

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