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Understanding Why Sales Teams Prioritize Prospective Client Qualification

Iannarino

You want your sales team to qualify prospective clients. You don’t want them to pursue prospects not likely to buy from your sales team. Yet, the ridiculous amount of pipeline you require makes it easy to add an opportunity with nothing more than a first meeting.

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What’s In Your Pipeline?

Tibor Shanto

Many reps and managers look at opportunities independently of one another, but the pipeline is a collective of opportunities. Unfortunately, many salespeople see their pipeline as a holding tank for opportunities, rather than a means of driving to quota. What is in your pipeline should meet specific and defined criteria.

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There’s Real and Then There’s Pipeline Real

Tibor Shanto

Some people hide from prospecting in their pipelines; pretending the opportunities, individually or collectively, are more real than they are. When it comes to prospecting, there’s real, then there’s pipeline real. While many salespeople will call anyone that breaths a prospect, others want proof. By Tibor Shanto.

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Cleaning Up Your Pipeline

Iannarino

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

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Pressure Points: How to Ensure Your B2B Pipeline Passes Inspection

This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement.

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4 Best Sales Pipeline Presentation Tips To Know Before Presenting

Iannarino

No matter how comfortable you are with these conversations, even the most seasoned sales manager can sometimes start sweating at the prospect of running a long-form sales pipeline presentation.

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Pipeliner CRM Integration

Sales Pop!

Since we often get questions about how Pipeliner integrates with other applications in a company, we will answer the most frequently asked questions about CRM and integration in this series of articles. At Pipeliner, for example, we run 58 different SaaS applications. Seamless integration of data from A to Z across the enterprise.

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