Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

If you are driving in your car, looking at your phone, fiddling with your radio, looking at people on the sidewalk, weaving in and out of traffic or speeding because you’re in a hurry, you are probably not a very good driver and bad things will happen. Back to the sales leaders. Pretty amazing, isn’t it? Want some help ?

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 11, 2017

How well can you relate to the following situations: producers not meeting sales expectations, there aren't enough opportunities in the pipeline, too few of the people are carrying the sales production load for the entire team?

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Martech

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In the turbulence of SaaS and B2B markets — where shrinking deal sizes, longer sales cycles and tighter budgets have become the norm — guessing isn’t just risky; it can get you fired. Optimize marketing channels to deliver their maximum multiplier effect on sales. Here are a few use cases: Pinpoint what drives high-quality deals.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We have a single pipeline metric, it’s a variant on pipeline coverage. pipeline coverage. We have pipeline quality, win rates, sales cycles, average deal sizes dialed in. With these three focus areas, we know we are doing enough to generate the volume of opportunities to feed our pipelines.

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Salesforce

MARCH 31, 2025

Sales motivation can make the difference between a company growing or stagnating. Your offering can have all the competitive advantages in the world, and your team can be trained in all the best scripts and techniques, but it’s your sales team’s willpower that gets them to dial, email, and message their leads.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 30, 2025

It can also make life much easier if your sales plan and quota gets bigger in the back half of the year as many do. The most important thing you can do right now is conduct a deep dive analysis of your pipeline. Get your calculator out and do the math on how much you need in your pipeline to crush your Q2 number.

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RingDNA

MAY 8, 2025

Inspirational sales quotes will fuel your drive, sharpen your mindset, and elevate how you lead and sell. But even as technology transforms how we sell, one truth remains: Great sales still depend on great people, meaningful conversations, and precise timing. That’s when the job changes.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 16, 2025

Although this article will provide a blueprint for building a strong, full, and sustainable pipeline, we begin with a hospital analogy. When I was in the hospital for surgery in February, and during the recovery that followed, I had specific KPIs assigned at discharge that I was required to meet. Sure its difficult. Sure its exhausting.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2024

When Marc Benioff started Salesforce, he codified the sales playbook. Then Mark Roberge , former Hubspot CRO, wrote The Sales Acceleration Formula with deep insights into quota structures. The biggest challenge to that outlook is an increase in the sales cycle. That elongated sales cycle created pipeline supply shocks.

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Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Your optimism is so compelling that you fill your pipeline with lofty probabilities, assured of successful outcomes. So, especially in Q4, question your motives. You’ll likely get some help with that from your sales manager. The post Q4 – Question Your Motives appeared first on SalesPOP! Yours to lose? Yes, even in Q4.

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Martech

JULY 11, 2024

Again, from ZoomInfo: “Identify interest: Purchase-intent signals help identify which companies are actively researching your solution before they fill out a form on your site or engage with your sales and marketing teams.” First, pull data from your sales and marketing systems at the account level. Pull data on 10 accounts to start.

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Sales Pop!

MAY 9, 2023

In business, a successful sales team can make all the difference. Creating high-performing sales reps means supplying them with everything they require to reach their objectives, from motivation and professional growth. Building a successful sales team requires the right talent, strategy, and leadership.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 18, 2025

Gaius, who runs an insurance brokerage in Ohio wants to know how to get his new sales agents cold calling and building pipeline earlier in their training cycle, without making them feel overwhelmed and sabotaging their confidence. The question is, how soon can they start generating leads and setting up sales conversations?

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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

What was the original purpose of sales? Let’s go back in time and look at a fundamental of sales that all salespeople should understand: economy. Sales had its origins in the exchange of goods, before the time of currency. Of course, the worst kind of sales is lying to close a deal, and this will never make an ally for you.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2023

Today, I am continuing the music analogy, but this time, as it relates to motivational tools. Last week, I wrote about how the criteria you use to choose your all-time favorite songs is essentially the same as the criteria your prospects use to choose between you and a competitor.

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Sales Pop!

JULY 2, 2022

Today’s sales scenario is, to say the least, baffling. We have more books on sales than ever, along with unheard-of numbers of sales seminars and an amazing amount of sales training. Yet sales closing rates remain stagnant—80 percent of salespeople fail, and salespeople only last 18 months on a given job.

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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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Hubspot

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a 2023 survey of over 450 sales leaders, 91% of their teams missed quota that year. And even with revenue up in 2024 , reps are still struggling to meet their sales goals. Getting stuck on YTD sales. Projecting a sales cycle ahead of time gives sellers a better chance of making their numbers.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 15, 2025

Knowing who you’re selling toand how they make buying decisionsis key to building effective campaigns, aligning sales and marketing, and accelerating pipeline. Then, validate with sales and customer success to ensure alignment. Sales uses them to prioritize outreach and qualification. How do you create an ICP?

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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. In today’s competitive market, sales enablement has become an essential strategy for any business that wants to stay ahead of the competition.

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Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 14, 2023

This guest post was written by Alex Cook , Manager, Enterprise Sales at Klue. Year-end can be the most exciting time in sales. You could also be well behind your quota, struggling to stay motivated and worried about job security. That means that across your team, the levels of individual motivation and satisfaction is variable.

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

In our most recent episode of CRO Confidential , hosted by Sam Blond , Graham Moreno , VP of Worldwide Sales at Codium, shared invaluable insights on what drove this growth, the challenges they faced, and how other SaaS companies can replicate this success. Key Growth Drivers 1.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 31, 2025

Even the people who provide the services promising inbound leads, meetings, and sales increases are struggling to generate inbound leads! The AI behind those poorly written messages, calls to action, and workflows responsible for sending multiple, ineffective follow-up messages, are not the answer to your ever-shrinking pipeline challenges.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 9, 2024

You’ve invested in Salesforce , hoping to streamline your sales process, improve customer relationships, and more. Why Salesforce Adoption Fails Your sales team should dedicate themselves to changing the way they work. Streamline your implementation to focus on what matters most to your sales process. Why does this happen?

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Force Management

JULY 1, 2020

The goal of this month's episodes was to highlight the key things sales leaders, managers and reps should be focusing on to improve pipeline health and increase margins. Use them as ways to keep yourself and your sales teams motivated. Check out our rundown of episodes below.

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SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2025

Dear SaaStr: What is The Best Way to Set Sales Rep Quotas at Each Stage of a B2B Business? Setting sales rep quotas in a SaaS business depends heavily on your stage of growth and ARR. You want your reps to stay motivated and not quit because they can’t make money. More here: A Framework For Your First SaaS Sales Comp Plan 2.

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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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Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

As a sales leader, your efforts directly impact the company’s stability and growth. However, with increasing competition combined with a limited budget and sales personnel, reaching your quotas can be challenging. However, it’s not due to a lack of effort by the sales team.

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Martech

MARCH 3, 2025

It has shaped how marketing teams operate, how sales teams prioritize outreach, and how executives measure marketing’s contribution to revenue. Executives, sales teams and marketing leaders have all built processes, playbooks and expectations around MQLs. Sales teams have long disliked chasing low-intent MQLs.

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Gong.io

MAY 3, 2021

2021 : Gong introduces Deal Execution, providing business leaders much-needed visibility into activity happening across all pipeline deals. Gong for Deal Execution brings together every interaction across your deals in a single view so sales teams can quickly understand pipeline health and stop sales from going south.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 31, 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. I think the more complex a sale is the more useful this approach is.

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Closing Bigger

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Sales Leadership Podcast Summary with Mike Curliss, President of Sales at Maximizer, and Shane Gibson Keynote Sales Speaker and CEO of Professional Sales Academy. The debate between sales leadership and sales management has been ongoing for decades. Sales leaders , on the other hand, are visionaries.

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Veloxy

MARCH 23, 2023

We’re living in an era where sales has the richest technology stack and set of professional capabilities than ever before. Yet, the sales organization is failing to crush their quota, let alone hit it. This blog post is your comprehensive guide on how to hit and crush sales quotas in 2023 and beyond. What is sales quota?

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 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. Matt: Welcome to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In the latest edition of SaaStr’s Workshop Wednesday , Sara Varni, Datadog ‘s CMO, shares how to build pipeline and create alignment across sales and marketing. While these insights seem like pipeline 101, they aren’t always implemented. Let’s look at some high-level examples of these different pipeline models. #1:

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Martech

APRIL 23, 2025

The Pipeline360 2025 State of B2B Pipeline Growth Report found 69% of marketers value delivered insights or “done-for-you” services over adding new tools to their tech stack. ’ Sales-marketing alignment still lags Is there a more evergreen topic in B2B than aligning sales and marketing? Processing.

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Martech

JULY 17, 2024

To effectively achieve product-market fit, the revenue team – an alliance of product, sales, marketing, customer success, enablement and revenue operations departments – must work together. Pipeline coverage and efficiency metrics become key indicators of success, ensuring that marketing aligns with sales and revenue goals.

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