SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2025

5 Key Learnings from Scaling from 3 to 75 Go-To-Market Team Members in Less Than 12 Months The latest SaaStr CRO Confidential is out and Sam Blond did a great deep dive with Graham Mareno, VP of Worldwide Sales at Codeium. Create Compelling Economic Incentives For sales talent, compensation is critical.

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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. Sales Cycle Length. Let’s get started.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

Dear SaaStr: What Should I Do in a Sales Audit? A sales audit should be comprehensive and focus on identifying strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities across your sales process. Heres what to include: Pipeline Health : Review the pipeline metricsdeal velocity, win rates, average deal size, and pipeline coverage.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 22, 2025

We were arguing about a recent email she sent to the entire sales team (it’s about 100, worldwide). You need to be prepared to talk about these things in your pipelines.” What she wanted to review was pricing issues (they are heavily threatened with tariffs), specific contract issues, and other similar things.

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Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

That annual trade show that eats 20% of your budget but generates zero pipeline? Transformed into focused programs that sales actually wants. Partnering closely with sales Not through fancy slide decks about “alignment” but by embedding marketers directly into major deal pursuits. Streamlined. Tight budgets?

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 10, 2025

But let me give it to you straight: Sales isnt won with hacks. They talk a big game on Zoom, but when its time to dial the phone or ask for the sale, they freeze like a deer in headlights. Youre avoiding real sales conversations because theyre uncomfortable. 80% of sales happen after the 5th touch, but most reps quit after two.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Ask Jeb: How to Sell When Your Customer Has to Sell First Welcome to another Ask Jeb segment on the Sales Gravy Podcast! Im Jeb Blountbestselling author of Fanatical Prospecting, Objections, Sales EQ, and INKED. Im Jeb Blountbestselling author of Fanatical Prospecting, Objections, Sales EQ, and INKED. Identify these patterns.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2025

Dear SaaStr: Should I Let My VP of Sales Go? All Your VPs Really Need to Do is Tilt the Curve A great VP of Sales should show meaningful progress within one sales cycle. All Your VPs Really Need to Do is Tilt the Curve A great VP of Sales should show meaningful progress within one sales cycle.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 29, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. This time we are talking about sales management intelligence. .

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We’ll be right back on Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Sales Pop!

JULY 23, 2022

Navigation in Sales. The difference between “known” and heuristic navigation is the difference between Pipeliner CRM and other CRM systems. Pipeliner doesn’t try and use algorithms for navigation, but takes the heuristic approach, as it is far more effective. And this is what we provide with Pipeliner CRM. Responsibility.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

As any business will attest, there’s no greater feeling than when your company grows and reaches a point where you need to expand your inside sales team. Naturally, more salespeople means more sales which translates to more revenue. According to the Harvard Business Review, the average annual turnover in sales is about 30%.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Spotify , iTunes , Blubrry , Google Play , iHeartRADIO , or Stitcher.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Deal desk software organizes a sales team’s quote-to-cash workflow. These are primarily used in B2B and SaaS companies to help manage complex sales processes, papers, and status updates. Reduce your sales cycle and improve your close rate today with PandaDoc. Sales within B2B can be complex and challenging.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

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. These are tactics that have helped outside sales professionals grow their pipeline by 300% in one month.

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Sales Pop!

AUGUST 24, 2021

Focusing on your pipeline is certainly important. But in the interest of time, rapid sales team brainstorming events can be just as productive. Because strategizing about market changes will not only help future planning but create competitive advantage to help win deals in your pipeline right now.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. You can even ask Siri, Alexa and Google! My name is Matt Heinz.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

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 good sales pipeline management strategy is essential because every potential opportunity uses up your most valuable resource — time.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 15, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Well, welcome everyone to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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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? And because sales people already have a lot on their plates—e.g.,

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Agentforce represents a quantum leap in AI automation for customer service, sales, marketing, commerce, and more. That’s why we have pioneered the robust Einstein Trust Layer to provide toxicity detection, zero data-retention contracts, prompt-injection defense, and several other mechanisms. Transfer to human agent.

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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 definitions you should know. CRM objects — Represent the sales relationship you have with a specific person or company.

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Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Focusing on your pipeline and your clients is certainly important as the year closes but don’t ignore the environment question. In sales, we our love frameworks – simple and direct guides that take us from murkiness to solid understanding. I love the Clement Stone quote – “You are a product of your environment.

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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? Because it’s the greatest indicator of future sales bookings, or annual contract value (ACV). Pipeline is the glue between the marketing and sales departments.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Attracting qualified prospects — companies that are a good fit for your product or services — is more important in B2B (business-to-business) sales than earning a large number of leads. Identifying high-quality leads can be challenging though, which is where a sales methodology like the MEDDIC sales framework comes in.

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Sales Pop!

JULY 14, 2022

Holding Long-Term Contracts. Working Active Pipeline Account Opportunities. You organize your organization’s account team – sales, delivery and other key personnel touching the account to develop candid evaluations of your performance in each of the critical retention factors. Nurturing C-Level Executive Relationships.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 3, 2023

I’ve been writing a series looking, ultimately, at pipeline management. I’ve written about Win Rates, Pipeline Integrity. In this post, I’ll cover two more aspects of pipeline management, Average Deal Size and Average Sales Cycle. It could be lifetime contract value.

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Sales Pop!

MARCH 21, 2022

It is certainly these goals we’re aiming for at Pipeliner. In an ebook I wrote several years ago, Emotions in Sales , I discussed the fact that the opposite of fear is trust. How can we begin to restore trust, beginning in our own sales field? Today such agreement must be written into complex contracts and letters.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The world of sales is vast, and if you’re a sales professional, you’ve likely been exposed to both inside and outside sales roles. However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s what selling without a sales dashboard is like. But a sales dashboard is only useful if it’s done well. What is a Sales Dashboard? A sales dashboard gives your team a fast and efficient way to see all the data that is most important to doing their job effectively. Why Use a Sales Dashboard?

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Salesmate

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s a no-brainer that sales methodologies help businesses sell better and choose better customers for life. In our past articles, we have talked about some of the best sales methodologies in depth. This would be the last article in that series, and we’re talking about Sandler Sales Methodology. Sounds a bit confusing?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2020

We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about how to make that critical hire: the VP Sales. You’ll end up with a crummy sales team under a mis-hire. We’ve posted a script to use when interviewing a VP Sales. And lessons learned on what a VP Sales really does. And the Great VP, Sales all know this from experience.

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Salesforce

MARCH 13, 2025

Get a full visual of your business in an instant Get complete visibility of your pipeline, forecast, and team with Revenue Intelligence from Sales Cloud. You’re not yet ready to chase international sales , so you find your TAM for the U.S. Use sales planning software to create a realistic plan for capturing market share.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2025

The point at which a lead should convert to an opportunity or deal is when it meets specific qualification criteria that indicate its worth investing sales resources. This is where having a clear definition of a Sales Qualified Lead (SQL) or Sales Qualified Opportunity (SQO) becomes critical.

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Salesforce

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Ever been overwhelmed by the sheer volume of sales data you’re tracking — and confused by the metrics that matter? Below, we give you everything you need to know about sales KPIs that ensure a healthy, productive, and growing business. What you’ll learn: What are KPIs in sales? Why are sales KPIs so important?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. They do this by first identifying and focusing on the sales motions that are best for their product, team, and customer. Inside sales. Inside sales. Low-touch sales. No-touch sales.

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Sales Pop!

MAY 30, 2023

Success in today’s fast-paced and fiercely competitive company environment depends on having a strong sales CRM and lead management system. You may automate monotonous operations, keep track of prospects, and gain useful insights into your sales success with the aid of a solid CRM.

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