Partners in Excellence

JULY 17, 2023

Over the course of my career I’ve looked at thousands of pipelines/funnels. Recently, I was in a meeting discussing the pipeline health. The managers, defensively, responded, “Dave, we know we need to get more in our pipelines. Most are pretty bleak, they don’t have enough opportunities to achieve their goals.

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Sales Pop!

MARCH 11, 2023

It should be abundantly clear that no medium to large B2B sales team or company can grow and succeed today without a clear-cut sales process. Today a company may have different sales processes for different products, functions, or product lines, and Pipeliner was the first CRM to provide the ability to set up multiple pipelines.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2024

Small deals can close in one call. But still … across all the SaaS vendors that Vendr tracks, how long do deals take to close? Zendesk and Datadog take the longest, and ZoomInfo and 1Password deals close the fastest: So what’s actionable here? At some point, you gotta close out opportunities.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” But these pipeline reviews should be true coaching sessions — not data-scrubbing meetings. Unfortunately, many pipeline conversations resemble the latter more than the former.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

As one might expect, much pf that was tied closely to the concept of pipeline quality. Give a sales person a pipeline goal and they can always hit it. And when managers discover this, typically rather than addressing the quality issue, they set a new goal at 4X, then 5X and so on, creating a pipeline death spiral.

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Sales Pop!

AUGUST 20, 2021

Within a CRM, a pipeline represents a sales or other type of process. Pipeliner CRM was the first CRM to enable multiple pipelines within CRM. This is the person who helps create processes and adapts them to pipelines. Creating Your Processes. Do you have a pre-sales process or an after-sales process?

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 4, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount and Colleen Stanley discuss the importance of Reality Testing sales pipeline opportunities. Reality testing sales pipeline opportunities is an important step in ensuring the success of your sales efforts and the effective use of your time. The content quality is excellent.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

As your company grows, you may find you have less resources available for closing each opportunity. Your company’s sales managers only have a select number of sales reps to work with, and those reps only have a limited amount of time to close deals. A risky deal can ruin your pipeline health and slow down your sales performance.

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The 5% Institute

APRIL 1, 2021

In this article, we’ll detail the sales pipeline stages that works perfectly for Sales Professionals and Business Owners in service based and consultative industries. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales. The Benefits Of Using Sales Pipeline Stages.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 29, 2024

A deal desk streamlines deal management and enhances win rates — if the process flow is set up correctly. This article outlines steps to establish and optimize a deal desk process flow with your team to help advance your sales strategy. What is the deal desk process?

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Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Feeling overwhelmed by the infinite options for growing your pipeline? These are tactics that have helped outside sales professionals grow their pipeline by 300% in one month. This is the sales process struggle that outside sales reps have been living with for 20+ years. Instead, it lists the tactics our clients use at Veloxy.

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Sales Pop!

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In the competitive world of sales, transforming “maybes” into closed deals is the ultimate goal. But how do you achieve this consistently and create a predictable sales process? If you’re bringing unqualified leads into your pipeline, it’s no wonder they’re not converting.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dear SaaStr: Did it ever take you a year to close a sale? It took me about 18 months to close Google, for example. And that means that are part of an annual planning process, often one that gets locked down in the fall, a few months before the close of the fiscal year. But, these deals can close anytime.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Closing an enterprise sale in a niche market follows the same sales funnel as any other deal, but a bit more fine tuned. It represents the culmination of ‘art’ and process, where the enterprise sales process is modified to better reflect the client’s unique and specific needs. SMB Sales vs Enterprise Sales Process.

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A dried-up sales pipeline is an unpleasant sight that most sales reps dread. Several sales managers and reps are aware of the buzzword “sales pipeline”. Sadly without a healthy pipeline achieving sales goals becomes a more challenging task. Gaining control over the sales pipeline can make goal attainment a stress-free process.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve long known (whether we use it or not) about the “sales process.” ” Virtually every organization has some variant of a sales process with stages we move through and, possibly, critical activities we should be executing within each stage. Then we go through some sort of discovery process.

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VanillaSoft

OCTOBER 27, 2021

To perform consistently, pretend you’re the CEO of your own pipeline and put as much effort into growing your ‘company’ as you do into closing deals. Use Rod’s IPAID system to put repeatable processes into play. Close your eyes and picture it. Think of processes, not tasks. In truth, that’s how he saw it.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Using the applicable insight and practices in this article, you’ll not only help salespeople widen their pipeline and shorten their sales cycles, but you’ll also improve sales team morale and modernize the sales process at your company. Read on to learn how to accelerate your sales process. Simplify the Sales Process.

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The 5% Institute

MAY 17, 2023

Sales pipelines play a vital role in the success of any sales-driven organization. In today’s highly competitive business landscape, having an effective pipeline is crucial for maximizing revenue and achieving sustainable growth. Closing The final stage of the sales pipeline is closing the deal.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Excellent pipeline visibility can make sales managers feel like superheroes. Being able to instantly tell executives the exact number and value of sales in your pipeline is like having spidey senses. A lack of visibility makes it hard to track deals, report to executives, and optimize the sales process.

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Spiro Technologies

MAY 26, 2023

For many businesses, pipeline refers to potential future sales. It’s a crucial component that allows organizations to visualize and track their sales process, from prospecting through fulfillment. Simplify Data Entry for a Healthy Pipeline Data is the lifeblood of any CRM, providing valuable insights for reports and dashboards.

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Closing Bigger

JUNE 22, 2022

This sales podcast episode is focused on how B2B sellers can plug the most common holes in their sales pipeline. When I am working with sales teams part of my sales training and sales enablement process involves getting out in the field and helping individual salespeople build their sales strategy.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We’ve long known (whether we use it or not) about the “sales process.” ” Virtually every organization has some variant of a sales process with stages we move through and, possibly, critical activities we should be executing within each stage. Then we go through some sort of discovery process.

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Sales Pop!

APRIL 25, 2022

Sales pipelines are used to aggregate the progress of potential customers all through the sales life cycle. They are usually visually represented in CRM software so sales team members can easily keep track of the deals that are in the pipeline at any time. A sales pipeline is a collection of potential customers for a business.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2021

If you want to hire your first sales rep and close more deals, you need to understand how the sales process works, what tools your team needs to be successful and learn to speak sales. Sales CRM — Software used to streamline pipeline management and safely store customer information, communicate with prospects, and drive more sales.

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Salesforce

JUNE 2, 2022

The magic is our maniacal focus on pipeline, which is the total dollar value of all the deals our sales team is working on. Why pipeline? Pipeline is the glue between the marketing and sales departments. How Salesforce manages pipeline. If this isn’t happening, the rest of the process won’t work.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 29, 2023

By Sheena McKinney , Sales Pipeline Radio Producer If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radi o and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! I’m your host, Matt Heinz.

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The sales pipeline is the lifeblood of every sales team, providing a visual representation of where all opportunities stand in the sales process. A good sales pipeline can help sales reps move prospects along the sales cycle, from nascent opportunity to closed sale, forecasting more accurately as they go.

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Lead Fuze

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That’s what managing a sales pipeline can feel like. Welcome to the world of AI sales pipeline. This is where artificial intelligence meets your sales process, taking over tedious tasks such as data entry and analyzing customer behavior while freeing up time for your team. What is an AI pipeline?

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Sellers love the close. But focusing solely on the close is like a marathon runner trying to take a shortcut — you might get ahead, but you’ll be kicked out of the race. That’s where a healthy pipeline comes in. That may seem like quite a hurdle, but we’ll show you how to build a healthy sales pipeline, step by step.

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Salesmate

JULY 9, 2020

Your sales pipeline covers every stage of the customer acquisition process from leads to after-sales support to repeat business. While revenue is a good indicator of success, it only measures what’s coming out of the pipeline – in other words, the result. How long does it take you to close a sale?

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Outreach

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Understanding what works and what doesn’t within the sales process can be complex for any sales team. In order to gain an accurate picture of progress and better manage performance, organizations need a sales pipeline. What is a sales pipeline? A sales pipeline is not a sales funnel.

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Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

At Pipeliner, we chose to go with AWS over a decade ago and have remained with them ever since. Continuing in our series on Pipeliner CRM security, here is our path and reasoning. In our continuing series, I will further explain our security processes and how they provide the utmost protection of your CRM data.

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InsightSquared

JUNE 23, 2020

Ugh, not another pipeline review! We all have those meetings we dread but are forced to sit through every week because it’s part of the process. As a team leader, you hold weekly or biweekly pipeline reviews with every rep to gauge the health of their active deals. Here are five signs your pipeline reviews may be broken. .

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Spiro Technologies

JULY 21, 2022

So you’ve prospected your tail off, connected with a prospect who’s receptive to your pitch, and moved the deal down the pipeline. While there isn’t a one-size-fits all prescription to get the deal over the finish line, there are some things you can do to ensure you have the best chance of getting to a closed deal.

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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 4, 2022

This applies to all aspects of selling and it is grounded in planning and in process. What is Process? . Let’s first talk about processes in general. Simply put, a process is the steps that are taken, generally in order, which will successfully complete a task or a project. Is There a Process for Leads?

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Xant

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Part of sales is thinking about your pipeline, your process, and how you can optimize or improve it. Qualifying more leads and closing more deals requires you to assess the black holes in your process, where it breaks down how it creates friction with customers. Most Lead Response Times Are Too Slow.

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