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RevOps Can And Must Do Better!

Partners in Excellence

It’s “strategic planning season” for many companies. They are presenting the strategic goals and numbers for the coming year. 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. Anyone can run the numbers.

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Does Your Sales Team Have Enough Pipeline to Make Quota?

Selling Power

To ensure your reps have enough pipeline to hit quota, you need a strategic prospecting strategy that separates the shoppers from the buyers.

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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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The Biblical Sales Force Part 4 – Accountability

Understanding the Sales Force

Strategic Account Plans Account Retention Average Gross Profit Average Account Value Lifetime Account Value There are more but you get the gist of it. Many sales leaders fail to set targets for much more than revenue/quota and perhaps 2-3 others from my list.

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How marketing fuels the shift from problem-market fit to product-market fit

Martech

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. Pipeline coverage and efficiency metrics become key indicators of success, ensuring that marketing aligns with sales and revenue goals. Sound familiar?

GTM 101
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A Lot of You Are Doing a “Strategic Retreat” in Sales & Marketing. That’s Flawed.

SaaStr

The Strategic Retreat actually usually works really well in the short term. Well at a practical level, many SaaS companies are doing a Strategic Sales & Marketing Retreat. What’s a Strategic Sales & Marketing Retreat? Third, you often increase quotas in sales. Second, you slow or stop sales hiring. You’ll need it.

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Sales Leadership Versus Sales Management – Podcast

Closing Bigger

They look beyond the immediate quarter and set a strategic course for the future. They meet quotas, but they dont innovate or push boundaries. But AI-driven tools like Gong, Fathom, and Maximizer go a step furtherthey provide insights that empower leaders to make informed strategic decisions. Their world is the next 90 days.