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Sales Quota: The Complete Guide to Hitting & Crushing Quota in 2023

Veloxy

In 2018, Salesforce found that only 57% of salespeople expected to hit their quota. Jump to 2022, and Salesforce found that a staggering 72% of salespeople expected their team to miss annual quota. Yet, the sales organization is failing to crush their quota, let alone hit it. Why is sales quota important?

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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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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. This especially applies to CRM and managing customer data, and quota attainment.

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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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9 Questions B2B Sales Leaders Must Answer 2024

Iannarino

Every improvement in win rates improves your sales force’s ability to reach their goals and increase their quota attainment. How much revenue generation from pipeline coverage do you generate from the lost deals that make up your pipeline coverage? Your pipeline should only include deals your team realistically might win.

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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. However, that’s not what pipelining is.

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Why Top-Performing Reps See Their Pipeline as Half Empty

Salesforce

When it comes to closing a deal, it pays to look at your pipeline as half empty. A healthy dose of pessimism in sales can help you avoid “Happy Ears” syndrome, where the desire to believe a deal will close can keep reps from hearing client objections or identifying roadblocks. Jennifer Lagaly, SVP, Enterprise, Salesforce. watch now.