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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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Why Prospects Are Like Fruit: Targeting Your Ideal Client

Anthony Cole Training

Years ago, while attending the Objective Management Group International Sales Conference, Dave Kurlan, president of OMG, talked about how to effectively manage opportunities through the pipeline. He made the analogy that prospects are like fruit and vegetables in the produce section of your local grocery – they are all perishable.

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How strong brands build stronger B2B pipelines

Martech

B2B marketers are under pressure to deliver pipeline, but the old playbook of MQL chasing, generic content and paid ads isn’t cutting it anymore. We need a measurable proof of concept that fosters collaboration and helps us build a pipeline together. Marketers are pressured to deliver tangible results, usually leads and pipeline.

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Change – The Ultimate Sales Survival Skill

Sales Pop!

Potential territory realignments and new account assignments present both new and foregone opportunities as we proceed laser-focused on our pursuits and clients, those current and those likely to become ours on Jan. In terms of client base, what about your verticals? Is the list comprehensive? So you need to get busy with these: 1.

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Pipeliner Concepts—Common Lists

Sales Pop!

Next in our series on Pipeliner concepts, let’s explore Common Lists. The Pipeliner CRM Common Lists are another first for Pipeliner CRM, and no other vendor has anything like them. Because Pipeliner features are so flexible, Account Hierarchy is not limited in its use. Sales Roles.

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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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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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