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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This month, Pipeliner is introducing an unparalleled sales forecasting approach: the Pipeliner Revenue Intelligence Loop! It is for this reason that we generally market our Pipeliner CRM solution to companies with existing data. Pipeliner fully incorporates leading and lagging indicators , giving you a holistic view.

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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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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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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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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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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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Sales Pop!

MAY 14, 2022

Then when you have your sales meetings and set quotas, you’re able to know how each rep is performing and can drill down into each opportunity to get details where needed. Pipeliner Forecasting not only allows you to select one or more particular reps for forecasting. Accurate quotas. Minimizing Risk. Reps, processes.

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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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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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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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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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Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, with increasing competition combined with a limited budget and sales personnel, reaching your quotas can be challenging. From there, create a lead generation strategy and build a sales pipeline. Eliminate Unnecessary Meetings According to data, big companies lose up to $100 million annually due to unnecessary meetings.

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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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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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Salesmate

APRIL 9, 2021

Thanks to the marketing team, your sales pipeline is filled with enough deals to fulfill your quota. However, despite having a pipeline filled with deals, are you able to meet your sales quota? Many are stuck in the pipeline, and some slip through the crack. Why do deals get stuck in the sales pipeline?

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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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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Today, sellers have quotas and perhaps a few goals, but I run across few organizations that have formal performance planning processes. When I ask executives about it, the respond, “They have their quotas, that’s all we care about!!!” After all, achieving quota is a historical goal.

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Outreach

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In order to gain an accurate picture of progress and better manage performance, organizations need a sales pipeline. Here, we’ll take a deep dive into what a sales pipeline is, why it’s valuable, and how to build one that can make a real impact. What is a sales pipeline? A sales pipeline is not a sales funnel.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

What’s more, research shows that over 75% of prospects really don’t want to engage in face-to-face meetings. However, those leads are typically not enough to keep the pipeline full. They’re responsible for calling and emailing several prospects with the end goal of setting up a meet. What Positions Make up an Inside Sales Team?

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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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Hubspot

MARCH 11, 2024

I’ve seen the benefit of async video messages to close deals and build prospect relationships as both a quota-carrying seller and a sales team leader. 5 Ways Sales Professionals Can Leverage Async Video to Crush Their Quota 1. Keep the momentum going after a meeting with a video recap and summary of next steps.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Things like, using the sales process, maintaining high quality/healthy pipelines, leveraging the tools and technologies we put in place, coaching/developing our people, and on and on. They had weekly meetings on the pipeline. We define our ICP, but let people do what they want in filling the pipeline.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They look at comp expectations, perhaps tweaking the plans to meet certain budgetary or other goals. The present endless models on selling activities, outlining monthly and quarterly goals for demand/lead gen, outreach, meetings, top of pipeline, pipeline, renewal/retention, comp models and so forth.

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RAIN Group

APRIL 27, 2022

It’s not enough to have a quota or even set goals for yourself—you need to know exactly what to do daily to accomplish your goals. Do you know what it’s going to take to reach your sales target?

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Veloxy

JUNE 4, 2024

Don’t get discouraged if your sales team is stuck with an overflowing pipeline of non-converting opportunities. Share how other users are succeeding with time savings and pipeline velocity. Lastly, Salesforce encourages users to join everyone at Dreamforce to meet each other in person. What is Salesforce Adoption?

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Listen Now Navigating the Sales Pipeline: Expert Advice Expert advice from sales pipeline podcasts can demystify the daunting task of pipeline navigation. Sales Pipeline Radio, hosted by Matt Heinz, our sales pipeline radio host, stands out for its in-depth discussions with a plethora of B2B sales and marketing experts.

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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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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This guide unveils essential metrics such as lead response time, conversion rate, and quota attainment to help you understand where your team excels and where there’s room to grow. Tracking these metrics can provide valuable insights into your sales operations and help you identify areas that need improvement in your sales pipeline.

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