Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

But when I started looking at the performance, I realized, despite consistently meeting the goals, the number of qualified leads this person was developing was about the same as his peers. But they were still struggling to make their numbers and fill their pipelines. But one person consistently beat the goals. It is human nature.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2025

We assign number of dials, outreaches, meetings per day. We assign pipeline metrics, identifying the number of opportunities each person must have for a “healthy” pipeline. Yet our pipelines are increasingly unhealthy. Fewer than 40% of sellers meet their goals. People are more disengaged.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This approach meets multiple customer needs with integrated solutions while allowing the company to grow efficiently across its products. Source: GTM Partners, 3Ps GTM Maturity Model It’s not just about selling more products. This sharpens the team’s upsell and cross-sell strategies, improving retention.

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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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Veloxy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Presenting: Showing the value of what you sell. How to Remove Salesforce CRM Friction Learn how to remove friction points tied to Salesforce, helping your sales team sell easier and faster. Regularly meeting and communicating openly with your sales and marketing teams will encourage collaboration. There's more, read today!

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Reduced Time Spent on Manual Tasks I’ve worked with sales teams that would spend hours each week on tasks like: Updating CRM entries Following up with leads Tracking email engagement It’s not only inefficient, but it also distracts from what really matters: selling. AI automates these tasks.

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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. At first, I was surprised by the question, I think of this as basic and fundamental to selling. Second, when I look at most sales pipelines, they are a disaster.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Anyone entering into selling immediately sees the obsession we have with numbers. 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.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Key Takeaways – Success in outbound selling relies on maintaining strict discipline, consistent activity, and following a structured process to keep momentum and drive results. Results in prospecting don’t happen overnight; staying consistent over time is key to building a strong pipeline and generating lasting success. –

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

In selling, there is no end to the tools that claim to provide coaching, performance reporting tools, conversational intelligence, role play tools, social selling, prospecting/customer engagement, negotiation, objection handling, closing, time management. ” But coaching, at least in selling and GTM is very focused and specific.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Time Available For Selling is a critical issue for everyone in sales. Thinking of sellers chained to their desks, constantly on Zoom, telephone, or other meetings. But before I go into a further discussion about time available for selling, let me first define how I look at time available for selling.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” But these pipeline reviews should be true coaching sessions — not data-scrubbing meetings. Today, let’s review the best pipeline coaching strategies.

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Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Mastering the Art of B2B Sales: A Conversation with Greg Nutter In the realm of B2B selling, the journey to success is often fraught with pitfalls. Mistake #1: Redefining the Essence of Selling The journey commences with the fundamental blunder of forgetting what selling truly means.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Salesforce Adoption Pain Point #1 : Sales representatives report spending 66% of their day performing tedious, non-selling activity in Salesforce. This is a conundrum for most sales managers, as sales productivity is one of the common selling points of the Salesforce CRM platform. The key is Salesforce automation. Table of Contents.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 4, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount and Colleen Stanley discuss the importance of Reality Testing sales pipeline opportunities. Reality testing sales pipeline opportunities is an important step in ensuring the success of your sales efforts and the effective use of your time. The content quality is excellent.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

His path to Levelset was serendipitous he had tried to sell Wolf health insurance, thinking the company was much larger than it actually was. With no background in software sales, he had to quickly pick up the ropes of B2B selling, making numerous mistakes along the way.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It delivers results by using a mix of sales technology and a value-driven approach to selling. Start selling faster, easier. Second , most salespeople spend most of their time not selling. The goal of your sales enablement strategy is to give your salespeople the things they need to sell more efficiently.

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Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

With this sales calculator, you can discover what’s slowing down your sales process and how much more revenue you can make with an accelerated pipeline. Helps your sales team spend more time on the selling activities that produce revenue. Helps perfect your sales process in order to sell more. Is this free or paid? Sales eBooks.

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Highspot

APRIL 1, 2025

Sessions can feel awkward and judgmental, and sales reps may leave unsure of where they need more practice until they face real-world consequences in crucial sales meetings. Mediation & Conflict Resolution When colleagues clash over sales leads or roles, meetings become tense, deals stall, and finger-pointing takes over.

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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. If you’ve been meeting quota attainment for the past few months in a row, then you’re clearly underplaying your real potential.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2023

We used to be limited in the time we could spend with customers by the time it took to travel to meet with the customer. Theoretically, freeing us up to have selling conversations. These tools, each intended to free up our time so we can sell, are taking more and more of our time.

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Sell CRM Up-sell Education 125

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This pipeline slowdown calls for something other than ‘more of the same.’ It calls for extreme intentional in order to dislodge stuck deals and reinvigorate the pipeline – this week we’ve got you covered on core tactics that are working to move the needle. Plan a meeting that would have occurred virtually in person instead.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

That’s why building and managing a sales pipeline is so important. . A well-defined sales pipeline makes your sales process transparent, allowing you to see your deals in the sales funnel, where they’re getting stuck, and how long the entire process takes. What is a sales pipeline? Why is a sales pipeline important?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As I pivot to selling, please watch this two-minute video before continuing the article. When prospecting doesn’t take place on a daily basis, salespeople fail to build their pipelines. Incentives work. Hunting is difficult enough and because there are so many variables to success, not everyone is capable of hunting.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One day you might have to explain to your children that companies once had sales meetings in person, in a room with the lights dimmed and something called a PowerPoint presentation. (If Now we all use Zoom for our meetings. The truth is that most sales meetings, online or in person, always were and often still are boring lectures. .

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 28, 2022

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! Welcome to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio. Matt : Hello, everyone.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2023

We spend a huge amount of time getting customers to accept a request for a meeting. We are juggling all sorts of balls, prospecting, managing qualified opportunities in our pipelines, making sure our current customers are happy, doing the endless amount of internal reporting our managers seem to want us to do. Customers are busy.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 7, 2024

With a cloud-based CRM platform, you can download software from the cloud and get instant access — but it needs to meet your unique needs: Pleasant User Experience. SaaS startups need to choose a CRM that meets them where they're at now and can keep up with projected growth over the next five and 10 years. Growth Potential.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

When we talk about outside sales, we’re referring to a team that goes out on sales calls to sell regionally and at conferences, events, and so on. One way to select between outside and inside sales hires is by analyzing the type of product you’re selling. However, those leads are typically not enough to keep the pipeline full.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 10, 2021

But not to worry, the additional free time will allow your employees to spend more time actually selling and connecting with prospects. Artificial intelligence can listen in on meetings, calls and emails to automatically correlate these actions and automate data entry to save even more time. 5: Simplifying Pipeline Management.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Examples of just some real-time tasks and processes that can be handled by an AI sales assistant include the following: Data Entry Forecasting Pipeline management Lead qualification Follow-ups Scheduling meetings As you can see, there are many real-time tasks that can be taken care of using an AI sales and marketing assistant.

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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Team meetings are the perfect place to practice listening, seriously consider differing viewpoints and ideas, plus negotiate an agreeable outcome. Prospective clients you meet the first time are surprised by your interest in their experiences and insights. Will you share your previous experiences so I may have a better understanding?

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2022

A reader wrote me, “Dave do you think sales enablement professionals need selling experience?” Whether it’s coaching, development, or helping sales people better manage their accounts, deals, pipelines, meetings. If we sold to engineers, I tried to find engineers who could learn how to sell.

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Sell Manufacturing Finance Sales 132

Veloxy

MARCH 23, 2023

Let’s now review three unique types of selling quotas : activity quotas, revenue quotas, and profit quotas. Selling activity quota This type of quota measures the number of activities performed by sales reps within a specific timeframe. 3 Strategies for meeting sales team quota 1. Find prospects from anywhere, at any time.

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Hubspot

JULY 15, 2024

If you find navigating LinkedIn overwhelming, trust me, you're not alone — but if you approach the platform with a clear strategy, you can turn it into a powerful tool for generating pipeline and driving sales. I've never seen anyone book a meeting because they had AE or SDR in their title. Here are some steps on how to get there.

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Prospecting Process Real Estate Non-Profits 78

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 13, 2025

We know how we should be executing the selling process, how to do great discovery, how to create value in every interaction. Consistency in researching and prepping, consistent data hygiene, consistent follow-ups, consistency in writing–whether emails, call/meeting prep, presentations. It is through systematic execution.

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