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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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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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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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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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Kaizen and Feeding the Sales Pipeline With Cumulative Prospecting

Sales Gravy

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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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.

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