Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The leader held this individual up as a high performer. At the 5 minute mark, he would hang up, then call the buddy back. Even when he was talking to a prospect, he would hang up at 5 minutes, then call the person back. But they were still struggling to make their numbers and fill their pipelines.

Gaming 122

Gaming Contract Pipeline CRM 122

Martech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Source: GTM Partners, 3Ps GTM Maturity Model It’s not just about selling more products. He’s not just selling individual products; he’s bundling solutions that solve pain points across multiple areas of a client’s business, increasing cross-product value and making the platform more attractive and sticky for customers.

GTM 114

GTM Product Cross-sell Profit margin 114

Sales Gravy

JANUARY 14, 2025

Consider: Conversion Rates from Inbound Leads Speed to Lead (How fast are you following up?) Maybe you need to tighten up your proposals so more of them convert. Choose a CRM that matches your current size and selling process. Maybe you need more first appointments. Data points you to the gaps. The rule of thumb?

Appointment 98

Appointment Cross-sell CRM Pipeline 98

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For the subsequent ten years in software, we’ve optimized every little bit of how we sell it. But today, it’s different because the kinds of software we sell aren’t the same. In 2020, we transitioned from a physical selling universe to a virtual selling universe. So how much business has it closed?

Go To Market 132

Go To Market Quota GTM Price 132

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Recently, a reader wrote, asking a lot of questions about pipelines–what are they, why are they important, how do we leverage them, and so forth. At first, I was surprised by the question, I think of this as basic and fundamental to selling. Second, when I look at most sales pipelines, they are a disaster.

Pipeline 133

Pipeline Prospecting Closing Up-sell 133

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Sales teams today spend 70% of their workday on non-selling activities a massive roadblock to hitting quotas. Sales Reps are swamped with 1,400 non-selling hours every year. Prove it to me Sign up for free 1. Lets dive in. Double Sales Productivity in only 1 Minute. Eliminate 75%+ of those activities in 1 minute with Veloxy.

Product 130

Product CRM Price Objectives and Key Results 130

Sales Pop!

JULY 11, 2024

In the modern sales landscape, data-driven selling has become an essential strategy for success. Pipeliner CRM is a powerful tool designed to support data-driven selling, providing sales teams with the insights and capabilities they need to excel. What is Data-Driven Selling?

CRM 130

CRM Pipeline Sell Represent 130

Sales Gravy

APRIL 24, 2025

Its for closers, leaders, and the ones who want moremore pipeline, more wins, more control over their career. Are you hesitating at the close? Inconsistent follow-ups? Soft closes? The ultra-high performers Ive seen who get coaching consistently shorten deal cycles, multiply referrals, and close with precision.

Sports 98

Sports Referrals Sales Pipeline 98

Sales Gravy

MARCH 30, 2025

The most important thing you can do right now is conduct a deep dive analysis of your pipeline. Its not unusual to work hard to close so many deals at the end of the quarter that you start off in a weak position at the beginning of the quarter. On Track If you hit your quota in Q1 and ended up right where you should be, nice job!

Quota 102

Quota Pipeline Sales Up-sell 102

Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Relentless Prospecting Wins Deals: The deals you close tomorrow start with the work you do today. Whether its calls, emails, or social touches, keeping your pipeline full is the foundation of success. Showing up daily, sticking to your routines, and doing the small things consistently makes a big difference over time.

Conversion 96

Conversion Pitch Sales Trust 96

Search Engine Land

AUGUST 14, 2024

If you haven’t been keeping up with the role of automation and AI in lead gen advertising, this article includes advice and experiences on: Managing your ad strategy. AI tools to help you level up fast. As you implement or level up your comfort with AI, remember that ad accounts are not always your biggest lever for improvement.

CRM 116

CRM Campaign Niche Negotiate 116

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

You have to get wide when you sell into organizations with 2,000+ employees.” . Selling is a team sport once you’re talking quarter million dollar deals. Selling is a team sport once you’re talking quarter million dollar deals. I don’t just sell — I coach and direct a go-to-market team.”. Or any deals, really.

Closing 162

Closing Sports GTM Legal 162

Sales Pop!

MARCH 11, 2023

Pipeliner is the only CRM solution to allow a company complete flexibility in adapting its sales process to CRM and to allow a company’s sales process to be rendered in seven different completely visual views. You can: Enroll to an email sequence—the prospect or customer will now be sent a series of emails you have set up.

CRM 130

CRM Pipeline Process Sales 130

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Salesforce Adoption Pain Point #1 : Sales representatives report spending 66% of their day performing tedious, non-selling activity in Salesforce. This is a conundrum for most sales managers, as sales productivity is one of the common selling points of the Salesforce CRM platform. The key is Salesforce automation. Table of Contents.

Territory 342

Territory Represent Sales Lead generation 342

Sales Pop!

MARCH 17, 2023

Sales enablement is a process that helps businesses equip their sales teams with the resources, tools, and information they need to improve their performance and close more deals. Sales enablement refers to a set of processes and tools that are designed to help salespeople sell more effectively. What is Sales Enablement?

Cross-sell 242

Cross-sell Technique Sales Pipeline 242

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Want more leads, pipeline, influence, and awareness in 2024? Leading Public Cloud Company: “We got 110 qualified opportunities and converted 40 to sign-up for our offer. ” Scale-Up in Revenue: “Annual influenced 30 opportunities in our pipeline. And we closed a big deal at SaaStr Europa right on site.”

Pipeline 109

Pipeline Closing Up-sell Prospecting 109

The 5% Institute

JUNE 30, 2021

Sales Tips For Dummies – 8 x To Close Easier. Another one of our important sales tips for dummies is to keep your pipeline full of potential clients. Inbound sales are the method of setting up systems in your business, that drive potential clients to you. Sales Tips For Dummies #1 – Have A Plan. Outbound sales strategies.

Closing 139

Closing Sales Presentation Clients 139

Sales Pop!

JUNE 23, 2023

One factor differentiating Pipeliner CRM from our competitors—especially high-end systems such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and Oracle NetSuite—is that we have taken the incredible complexity involved with a CRM application and made it simple for the user. Because of Pipeliner’s visual UI, you will always know where you stand.

Technology 246

Technology Technology Pipeline CRM 246

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

Heres what to include: Pipeline Health : Review the pipeline metricsdeal velocity, win rates, average deal size, and pipeline coverage. Tools like Gong can provide insights into call quality, follow-ups, and adherence to best practices. Reps who get just three hours of coaching per month can increase close rates by 70%.

Cross-sell 72

Cross-sell Pipeline Legal Contract 72

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

That’s why building and managing a sales pipeline is so important. . A well-defined sales pipeline makes your sales process transparent, allowing you to see your deals in the sales funnel, where they’re getting stuck, and how long the entire process takes. What is a sales pipeline? Why is a sales pipeline important?

Pipeline 118

Pipeline Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Sales 118

Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

For most companies, selling virtually has become the new norm. And although some have taken to virtual selling like a fish to water, more and more businesses are struggling to adjust. So, how can we work on fixing a lot of these virtual selling challenges? 10 Steps to Building a Virtual Selling Team. Stop waiting.

Sell 317

Sell Education CRM Up-sell 317

SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2025

I really liked this one and wanted to write up a few more learnings. Balance Structure with Founder Knowledge When Graham joined, he discovered the founders had “unconscious competence” in selling to certain customer segments (particularly financial services). It’s a commission-driven role.

GTM 93

GTM Territory Pipeline Growth 93

Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

For example, selling to a person who is more advanced in age is considerably different from someone young or middle-aged. Salespeople must have a good grasp of who they are selling to with regard to preferences. However, that will only work when you are selling something that the person can really use that will truly benefit them.

Cross-sell 246

Cross-sell Sales Pipeline Represent 246

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I spent some extra time with them and realized they were both swinging with their eyes closed. If I could get them to swing with their eyes at least partly open, they might get their hands and bat close enough to the ball so that maybe the ball might hit their bats. Jack’s eyes lit up. He was all in! Incentives work.

Prospecting 69

Prospecting Cold Call Pipeline Gaming 69

Veloxy

AUGUST 10, 2021

But not to worry, the additional free time will allow your employees to spend more time actually selling and connecting with prospects. The same goes for eliminating manual data entry which frees up precious sales time for customer engagement. 5: Simplifying Pipeline Management. How to Improve Marketing Processes with AI.

Process 328

Process Sales Technique Pipeline 328

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. And while you can always push a product for the sake of selling it, you’ll only sell it once. In other words, they’re proven to work.

Outside Sales 130

Outside Sales Pipeline Inside sales Cross-sell 130

Sales Pop!

JULY 2, 2022

Yet sales closing rates remain stagnant—80 percent of salespeople fail, and salespeople only last 18 months on a given job. Up until the mid-twentieth century, salespeople were competent, and remained stable on the job (some even stayed with one company their whole career). The Mechanical Approach to Selling. Why no change?

CRM 242

CRM Pipeline Education Sales 242

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It delivers results by using a mix of sales technology and a value-driven approach to selling. Start selling faster, easier. Second , most salespeople spend most of their time not selling. The goal of your sales enablement strategy is to give your salespeople the things they need to sell more efficiently.

CRM 262

CRM Quota Sales Pipeline 262

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

In selling, there is no end to the tools that claim to provide coaching, performance reporting tools, conversational intelligence, role play tools, social selling, prospecting/customer engagement, negotiation, objection handling, closing, time management. Effective coaching requires follow up. So what is coaching?

Objectives and Key Results 125

Objectives and Key Results Objection handling GTM Pipeline 125

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 11, 2025

When I was in the hospital for a week in February, my discharge was delayed by two days because each time they asked me to walk up a flight of stairs, my blood pressure crashed. What have you personally had to give up? Have you thought about selling your business? The same thing can happen to salespeople.

Hospitality 125

Hospitality Sales Prospecting Up-sell 125

Hubspot

MARCH 13, 2025

And even with revenue up in 2024 , reps are still struggling to meet their sales goals. This begins at the sales rep level but can become an enterprise-wide problem when sales staff, from reps up to SVPs, focus on their year-to-date (YTD) positions against quota. Relying upon seller opinions when grading pipeline health.

Meeting 66

Meeting Pipeline Quota Sales 66

Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

What Positions Make Up an Inside Sales Team? This is often why many companies don’t end up with rockstars and new teams miss the mark. When we talk about outside sales, we’re referring to a team that goes out on sales calls to sell regionally and at conferences, events, and so on. What Positions Make up an Inside Sales Team?

Inside sales 232

Inside sales CRM Sales Pipeline 232

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2025

Top CMO Learnings: The CMO should be the quarterback of your pipeline – They’re the only executive with visibility across all four pipeline sources (Marketing, SDR outbound, Alliances, and Sales outbound). This wasn’t what you signed up for when founding a “product company,” was it?

Pipeline 78

Pipeline B2B Territory Quota 78

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Ah — that sometimes elusive, but always thrilling moment when you close a deal. That’s why we’ll move past outdated and ineffective sales closing techniques in this article and talk to sales experts to get the nitty-gritty of what it means to close like a boss in today’s world. How do you improve at closing?

Technique 105

Technique Closing Sales Electricity 105

Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As the selling year draws to a close, we’re captivated by Q4 activities focused on closing the year strong in terms of winning business and, hopefully, also delivering as much value as possible to our clients. In selling, it’s all about questions. How about your team selling assets – your SME’s? Market Patterns.

Real Estate 240

Real Estate Healthcare Government Objectives and Key Results 240

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

We’ve been reworking and implementing a revised selling/buying process. I don’t need no stinkin’ process, f**k off… ” (OK, I made the last one up, but I have encountered a lot of sellers thinking this.) But then they ignore it, pushing people, “Just do more, build pipeline, close more deals!”

Process 84

Process Sales Up-sell Pipeline 84

Hubspot

AUGUST 7, 2024

SaaS startups need to choose a CRM that meets them where they're at now and can keep up with projected growth over the next five and 10 years. This can be big-picture, like revenue planning, or in the minutia of your day-to-day, like letting you know that a lead opened your email and telling you when to follow up. Growth Potential.

CRM 81

CRM Price User Experience Customer Relationship Management 81