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Understanding Why Sales Teams Prioritize Prospective Client Qualification

Iannarino

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

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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.

Pipeline 268
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Cleaning Up Your Pipeline Junk Drawer

Iannarino

Sales leaders expect their sales force to carefully qualify prospective clients , as they don’t want them wasting time on non-opportunities. These same leaders also insist every first meeting be logged in the CRM to ensure they have the coverage they believe is necessary to reach their goals.

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Resolve Client Concerns with BOFU Sales Collateral

Iannarino

For example, we fill a pipeline , while they have a funnel. One reason marketers and salespeople have trouble communicating is because we speak different languages. We name things in a way that makes sense, like first meeting , discovery call , solution design , and so on.

Clients 269
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How Technology Helps you Manage the Sales Pipeline

Veloxy

Perhaps the answer could be in your sales pipeline. Research shows that top performing companies and sales teams do extremely well when it comes to managing their pipeline. However, over 60% of sales teams say their companies are doing a bad job of managing the sales pipeline. What is a Sales Pipeline? But first….

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The Pipeline Generation Problem…

Partners in Excellence

Building and maintaining robust/healthy pipelines is a problem with most organizations. And if my social feeds are any indication, filling anemic pipelines is the number 1 problem facing organizations. And yet, the pipeline generation problem is still a problem, seemingly getting worse every day. It is never about what we sell.

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30 Outside Sales Tips That’ll Grow Your Pipeline

Veloxy

Feeling overwhelmed by the infinite options for growing your pipeline? Instead, it lists the tactics our clients use at Veloxy. These are tactics that have helped outside sales professionals grow their pipeline by 300% in one month. You’re driving to a client meeting downtown, and your phone buzzes twice.