Veloxy

JUNE 8, 2022

Perhaps the answer could be in your sales pipeline. Research shows that top performing companies and sales teams do extremely well when it comes to managing their pipeline. However, over 60% of sales teams say their companies are doing a bad job of managing the sales pipeline. What is a Sales Pipeline? But first….

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Pipeline Technology Technology Cross-sell 195

Iannarino

APRIL 20, 2023

A senior leader was unhappy with his sales force because they consistently failed to meet their sales targets. Based on his math, he asked his team to create a sales pipeline that was 800 percent of their individual sales quotas.

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Quota Pipeline B2B Meeting 255

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 4, 2025

The third part is having and following through on consequences for failure to meet the required targets. Many sales leaders fail to set targets for much more than revenue/quota and perhaps 2-3 others from my list. Having a job in sales should not be the equivalent to membership in a country club, where you are welcome until you resign.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

We become obsessed with forecasts, pipelines, and their health. How many emails, how many calls, how many meetings, how many demos how many proposals, how many bathroom breaks……… And the gurus reinforce and intensify this. And that drives us to look at our prospecting and activity metrics.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 24, 2025

Forecast performance against plan (his team has 92% forecast accuracy), Pipeline health, Completed committed tasks (as a %), New committed tasks to be completed. And pipeline health (basically a coverage model, given our win rates and deal sizes each person on our team needs to have somewhere around 1.2-1.5X

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High impact Pipeline Inside sales Quota 111

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin emphasizes the importance of maintaining enough quota coverage to meet revenue targets while accounting for factors like rep attrition and ramp time. Hiring and team expansion decisions were driven by a combination of top-down demand modeling and bottom-up capacity planning.

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GTM Construction Quota Growth 109

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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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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Veloxy

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For instance, if lead conversion is a priority, customize dashboards to provide real-time visibility into pipeline stages and conversion metrics. Generate reports showing which team members are updating their records and meeting data-entry standards. Share these success stories in team meetings or company-wide communications.

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Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Outside Sales Follow-up 130

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. This is why sales reps experience high turnover and workplace stress.

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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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Martech

JULY 17, 2024

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. Understanding product-market fit Product-market fit occurs when a product meets the needs of a specific market and is widely accepted.

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GTM Product Strategize Drivers/motivators 101

Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 14, 2023

You could also be well behind your quota, struggling to stay motivated and worried about job security. We meet a couple of times each month to chat through all kinds of timely topics and on that day, we tackled strategies for motivating your team at year-end (something top of mind for everyone). It can also be the hardest.

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Quota Pipeline Drivers/motivators Negotiate 209

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

The application syncs to Google Calendar, allowing users to click the link in their calendar and enter a scheduled meeting in just three steps. That was three clicks to get into a business meeting. Less friction to source and control pipeline. These improvements allow teams to expand their pipeline faster.

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2025

And Get Them Both Hitting a Basic, Sustainable Quota. CRM Setup: Use a CRM like Salesforce or HubSpot to track leads, deals, and pipeline. If they tilt the curve. -> But also give your sales leader, and your individual reps before you have one, a quota on your time and meetings per week. This is a classic mistake.

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Every improvement in win rates improves your sales force’s ability to reach their goals and increase their quota attainment. How much revenue generation from pipeline coverage do you generate from the lost deals that make up your pipeline coverage? Your pipeline should only include deals your team realistically might win.

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B2B Objectives and Key Results Pipeline Sales 218

Hubspot

AUGUST 31, 2020

Did you know that 69% of B2B salespeople feel they don’t not have enough opportunities in their pipeline to meet sales quota? This data comes from a recent survey conducted by Selling Power and ValueSelling Associates that surveyed more than 300 B2B sales professionals about their quotas. Fill your sales pipeline.

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Quota Objectives and Key Results Pipeline Cold Call 99

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

SaaStr

MARCH 2, 2021

In SaaS companies in the very wide band from ~$1m to $40m ARR or so, the debate over Quarterly vs. Monthly Quotas comes up all the time. And it especially comes up when you hire your First VP of Sales, because odds are, he or she will want to move from Monthly to Quarterly Quotas. And often, see worse results. Not really.

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Quota Closing Pipeline Start-ups 116

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. The solution might be to set up automatic meeting reminders to your prospects. leads us to prescriptive analytics.

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Hospitality Pipeline Sales Territory 234

Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 31, 2021

Closing business and prospecting to ensure you avoid the January lull with a pipeline that propel you to success. It is no different for front line teams, certainly meet as a team, re-establish core elements of a winning team. The five, in no particular order, are: Avoid falling back into usual routines. Catch Up With Your Inbox.

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Referrals Cold Call Prospecting Quota 300

Gong.io

AUGUST 16, 2021

However: If pipeline coverage is low, this is exactly what you need. Next stop: Meetings booked. ” Stat #2: This cold call opener is 40% LESS likely to get you a meeting. Opening your cold call with “Did I catch you at a bad time” makes you 40% less likely to book a meeting. Let’s go. Now go book ’em.

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Cold Call Technique Quota Follow-up 118

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Collegiate basketball, baseball, hockey, and softball players all met or exceeded their quota on a consistent basis. One baseball pitcher’s sales pipeline was always overflowing! When your salespeople know or are alerted as to the best time to email or call a prospect, sales cycles are shortened and sales pipelines are increased.

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Inside sales Pipeline Quota Cold Call 130

Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

Wrap touchpoints around meetings. The main one is to treat video sales meetings like in-person calls. Would you show up to a serious meeting in a t-shirt and baseball cap? Hubspot explains how to set up video for sales meetings. Wrap TouchPoints Around Meetings. 10 Steps to Building a Virtual Selling Team.

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Sell Education CRM Up-sell 317

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

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

Or, too many directors have been hired and the founder is left scratching their head as to how they have so much talent on their team but nothing is happening with their sales pipeline. . The second pipeline hire should be a mid-level sales development representative (SDR). The SDRs will then use those materials to line up meetings.

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Pipeline Quota Represent Cross-sell 101

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It’s all about crushing quota! Some buyers are still working from home, and most face-to-face meetings have been replaced by Zoom calls. Customer Experience is now the number one key performance indicator, replacing sales quota. Table of Contents. What is Sales Acceleration? No need to fret. And isn’t that Sales Utopia?

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Sales Quota Up-sell Contact 290

Gong.io

JULY 16, 2021

Pipeline management is no easy task. It’s what makes them great at identifying risk in their pipeline and creating a contingency plan for each deal. And for good reason: they know that when it comes to pipeline, you’re often dealing less with facts and more with opinion ( see here ). It’s in their nature. Even better?

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Pipeline Contact Cross-sell Sales 118

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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Territory Inside sales Outside Sales Pharmaceutical 244

Salesmate

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

You have attended many sales meetings in the past. You might have even had negative experiences where the meetings were uninteresting, long, and not at all motivating. Don’t be like those managers who walk into the meeting room, provide a series of updates, speak about their expectations, and walk out after two hours.

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Meeting Objectives and Key Results Sales CRM 105

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The latest figures show that the majority of SDRs are missing quota , struggling. That we all know, especially since COVID that connect rates on the phone were down and email was being blown up and email responses and the efficacy of the channels to book meetings and those meetings to actually hold and convert to revenue is just declining.

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Commission Quota Assembly Line Sales 104

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Many organizations may closely meet your company’s ideal customer profile (ICP) criteria and warrant sales reps to proactively reach out to them. A lead meets a company’s qualification criteria (like BANT ) to be added to a company’s deal forecast. Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs). Opportunity. Evangelist.

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Closing Bigger

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They meet quotas, but they dont innovate or push boundaries. Proactive leaders: Build a talent pipeline before they need it. They meet quotas, but they dont innovate or push boundaries. Reps check boxes, follow rigid scripts, and focus solely on KPIs, but lack inspiration.

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Objectives and Key Results CRM Sales Strategize 85

Gong.io

APRIL 2, 2021

Even if you only master one of these pipeline-building techniques and you’ll end the month with more meetings booked (and close the quarter on the right side of quota). makes you 40% less likely to book a meeting. Much meetings. The longer the call, the greater your odds of getting the meeting. It’s common.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 3, 2020

We are used to setting quotas and measuring our progress against those quotas. Pipeline metrics are great examples of process measures. If we have healthy pipelines, we can expect that we will be highly likely to achieve our output goals. Whether it’s revenue, pipeline health, prospecting meetings.

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Pipeline Quota Sales Negotiate 161

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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