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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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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.

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How Technology Helps you Manage the Sales Pipeline

Veloxy

Couple questions here – are your sales stagnating? If yes, then you’re probably looking for new ways to improve your sales performance. 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.

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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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30 Outside Sales Tips That’ll Grow Your Pipeline

Veloxy

Feeling overwhelmed by the infinite options for growing your pipeline? You’re not the only outside sales rep feeling that way. This article doesn’t list every outside sales strategy under the sun. Instead, it lists the tactics our clients use at Veloxy. In other words, they’re proven to work.

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9 Questions B2B Sales Leaders Must Answer 2024

Iannarino

9 Questions B2B Sales Leaders Must Answer Why isn’t improving B2B sales effectiveness your most important initiative? Over the last two decades, many sales leaders have chased every shiny object that was put in front of them. It is impossible to identify anything more important than increasing sales win rates.

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