Iannarino

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Even though you want coverage over your sales team’s quota and your sales goals, much of what you believe is coverage is not. Over time, your CRM becomes a junk drawer of stalled and stuck deals, lies, exaggerations, half-truths, neglected prospective clients, and falsehoods.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Sales Acceleration is the sales enablement strategy that simplifies and shortens sales cycles. It delivers results by using a mix of sales technology and a value-driven approach to selling. Sales Acceleration Software is being used to consolidate the sales technology stack. Start selling faster, easier.

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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. They are the ones who succeed in sales.

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Tibor Shanto

JULY 7, 2021

Want to split a room of salespeople, just ask if “sales is a numbers game or not?” Full disclosure, I came from the sales is a numbers game camp. But there is no escaping the fact that while sale may not be a numbers game, your numbers have to add up. The debate has raged on for years with few converts. Behind The Numbers.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While it checks a lot of boxes for Sales Managers, there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done to unlock Salesforce’s potential to accelerate sales at your company. Start here: Speed up your selling activities in a few clicks If you’re using another sales acceleration software, most of the principles will still apply.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Sales great Zig Ziglar once wrote, “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” ” That’s the struggle of every team without clear sales targets: no clarity, no progress, no growth. See how it works What are sales targets? Why are sales targets important? But will they?

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Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 14, 2023

This guest post was written by Alex Cook , Manager, Enterprise Sales at Klue. Year-end can be the most exciting time in sales. You could also be well behind your quota, struggling to stay motivated and worried about job security. It can also be the hardest. Managing Through Adversity. Why are targets what they are?

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Membrain

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Throughout my entire career, there has been one unrelenting mantra that remains unquestioned gospel from the mouths of every sales leader to the ears of every dutiful salesperson: “You need to keep 3 times your annual quota in your sales pipeline”

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Pipeline Quota Sales 108

Force Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Healthy sales pipelines and accurate forecasts are grounded in structured territory, account and opportunity planning processes. These processes provide sales managers with an unrestricted line of sight into their sales organizations.

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Pipeline Territory Quota Sales 105

JBarrows

APRIL 12, 2022

The post WEBINAR: Leslie Douglas hosts ‘3 Quota-Crushing Pipeline Management Techniques for Building Q2 Pipeline” SPONSORED BY ZOOMINFO appeared first on JB Sales.

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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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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. Listening to sales executives, the focus is, constantly, making your numbers. And then there are the consequences of not doing so. The reality is, one is dependent on the other.

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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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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

Eighty percent of the prospecting sales force is under 25 years old. Sales teams, as a result, are conditioned toward a favorable user experience that utilizes minimalist designs to carry out actions in as few clicks as possible. Why should a sales process have people working harder, not smarter? Today’s sales processes.

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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 The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We’ve been doing sales enablement research for years.

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Pipeline Sales Quota Up-sell 126

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Feeling overwhelmed by the infinite options for growing your pipeline? You’re not the only outside sales rep feeling that way. This article doesn’t list every outside sales strategy under the sun. These are tactics that have helped outside sales professionals grow their pipeline by 300% in one month.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2023

But new business is a lot tougher than 12 months ago, let alone 24: Founder CEO Matthew Prince was refreshingly honest about what was happening in sales. “The top 15% of our sellers have achieved 129% of quota over the last four quarters.” Expansion sales cycles have lengthened 50%. Pipeline has not decreased.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or inside sales expert, we can all agree on a few things. One; sales is no longer just about high pressure, ‘won’t take no for an answer’ pitches. Today, it’s more of a different dynamic where sales reps listen, empathize, and even kill pitches early if they sense the prospect isn’t interested.

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Sales Gravy

AUGUST 12, 2022

Putting Aside Time Every Day to Prospect Will Keep Your Pipeline Full Kaizen is a theory that developed in Japan after World War II and revived the country, their spirit, and their commerce. It’s similar to what we call “feeding the pipeline,” and involves the art of cumulative prospecting. The same is true of sales.

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

9 Questions B2B Sales Leaders Must Answer Why isn’t improving B2B sales effectiveness your most important initiative? Over the last two decades, many sales leaders have chased every shiny object that was put in front of them. It is impossible to identify anything more important than increasing sales win rates.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Sales is near the the top of that list. The question now becomes, how does Sales Artificial Intelligence fit into all this? Does it really play a vital role in sales? Well, there are numerous ways that AI for sales can benefit a sales team. Well, there are numerous ways that AI for sales can benefit a sales team.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

As a sales leader, your efforts directly impact the company’s stability and growth. However, with increasing competition combined with a limited budget and sales personnel, reaching your quotas can be challenging. However, it’s not due to a lack of effort by the sales team.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Learn how easy it is to become the highest-performing field sales professional at your company. Before Covid, field sales was synonymous with hitting the road, meeting customers in person, and regularly making significant commissions. But what does tomorrow hold for field sales? Field sales is not dead!

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Territory Inside sales Outside Sales Pharmaceutical 244

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.

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Tibor Shanto

JULY 6, 2021

Sales like life is cyclical in many ways, some cycles help others may present headwinds. Is Your Pipeline Taking A Summer Holiday? And while everyone deserves a well earned vacation, that should not extend to your pipeline. By Tibor Shanto. But one thing cycles have in common is their repeating nature and their predictability.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 3, 2020

It’s becoming increasingly complicated to measure sales performance–particularly in complex B2B sales. We are used to setting quotas and measuring our progress against those quotas. When we separate measuring sales performance from compensating sales performance, we are able to start clarifying things.

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Iannarino

APRIL 20, 2023

A senior leader was unhappy with his sales force because they consistently failed to meet their sales targets. To improve their sales results, he ran some calculations that showed his team had a 12 percent win rate.

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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 The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. This time we are talking about sales management intelligence. .

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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. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Well, welcome, everyone, to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Pipeline Represent Sales Up-sell 124

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Looking for the best sales podcasts to boost your numbers and master the art of the deal? Whether you’re a rookie learning the ropes or a vet hunting innovative tactics, our curated guide to essential sales podcasts is your ticket to leveling up your sales game.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

As any business will attest, there’s no greater feeling than when your company grows and reaches a point where you need to expand your inside sales team. Naturally, more salespeople means more sales which translates to more revenue. According to the Harvard Business Review, the average annual turnover in sales is about 30%.

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Inside sales CRM Sales Pipeline 232

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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Gong.io

JULY 16, 2021

Pipeline management is no easy task. Top managers are skeptical at every step of the sales cycle. It’s what makes them great at identifying risk in their pipeline and creating a contingency plan for each deal. Better yet, you can take action towards generating a highly effective sales machine. It’s in their nature.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Your company’s sales managers only have a select number of sales reps to work with, and those reps only have a limited amount of time to close deals. A good sales pipeline management strategy is essential because every potential opportunity uses up your most valuable resource — time.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Nelson Gilliat , Demand Generation Manager at Brantr Media and Author of Death of the SDR , a book whose controversial central philosophy we discuss. The problems with the SDR to sales handoff. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 5, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Well, do you care about somebody that has more sales enablement skills?

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Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 31, 2021

While the calendar may not agree, Labor Day, from a sales standpoint, is the end of Summer. Closing business and prospecting to ensure you avoid the January lull with a pipeline that propel you to success. But also individually, AE should sit down with their SDRs, SEs, CX folks, and anybody involved in helping you achieve quota.

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