Gong.io

MARCH 30, 2018

You’ve established your sales process and you have a structure in place to help your team achieve quota attainment. One of the first signs of a sales process that works is the number warm leads entering your pipeline. Are your team’s average sales prices increasing? Sales quota attainment will never be a one and done project.

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

This early hands-on approach helped them deeply understand their ideal customer profile (ICP), pricing strategy, and product-market fit, creating a solid launchpad for their go-to-market expansion. A staggering 7 out of 10 early sales hires exceeded their annual quotas, and some reps are on track to earn seven figures in their first year.

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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. Aim for the moon with targets and quotas In the words of the famous Michelangelo, the greater danger doesn’t lie in aiming too high and falling short.

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Salesforce

APRIL 7, 2022

When it comes to closing a deal, it pays to look at your pipeline as half empty. Learn how the brightest minds in business, culture, and sports “Think Outside the Quota” to find sales success. A good rep will acknowledge an unspoken bid around pricing and bring it up proactively. If the price is right, great. watch now.

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Engage Selling

DECEMBER 8, 2016

It’s one of the questions I receive the most often…how can a salesperson overcome those dreaded pricing objections? It’s interesting that this comes up so often, because it seems to me that more often than not, most salespeople are looking at … Read More »

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Salesmate

APRIL 9, 2021

Thanks to the marketing team, your sales pipeline is filled with enough deals to fulfill your quota. However, despite having a pipeline filled with deals, are you able to meet your sales quota? Many are stuck in the pipeline, and some slip through the crack. Why do deals get stuck in the sales pipeline?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

But with quota looming, sales professionals need a solid plan in place to quickly and efficiently identify and sell to new and existing audiences. Because by applying the right pressure to the right places in your pipeline, you can break into difficult new markets and bring valuable new opportunities to the surface. Everything.

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Highspot

MAY 26, 2025

For example, sales reps with low engagement in sales coaching sessions are 30% less likely to hit quota. If data shows that a pricing guide boosts close rates by 20%, prioritize this in training. Quota attainment: By linking training and content to sales outcomes, sales enablement analytics show what works.

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SalesPop

MAY 21, 2021

Through the articles in this series, we’ve now covered all aspects of account management, and its related features within Pipeliner CRM. Let’s now take an overview of the subject and pull all the pieces together, and see how Pipeliner powerfully supports account management. Field-Level Security. Lookup and Rollup Fields. Compact View.

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RingDNA

APRIL 11, 2025

But beyond merely revealing insight into reps’ performance, tracking the right sales KPIs is critical to assessing they overall health of your sales pipeline. And a lot of companies are finding it harder to build pipeline than ever before. Value: More conversations each day virtually always correlates with higher quota attainment.

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Outreach

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In order to gain an accurate picture of progress and better manage performance, organizations need a sales pipeline. Here, we’ll take a deep dive into what a sales pipeline is, why it’s valuable, and how to build one that can make a real impact. What is a sales pipeline? A sales pipeline is not a sales funnel.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 5, 2021

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 Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Matt: Well, welcome everyone, to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio. Shawn: Yes.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

For you the sales manager, this means forging better working relationships with salespeople and enhancing their ability to hit quotas consistently. After all, the reps have quotas to hit and there’s currently too much commentary of AI being aspirational as opposed to practical. Of course, we can’t rightly blame anyone.

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Pointclear

MAY 15, 2012

Formula to Predict Inquiries Needed to Make Quota i. Marketing managers regularly ask me how to predict the number of leads (really raw inquiries) needed to achieve quota (I wish more sales managers would also ask). Expectations from existing pipeline: $2,500,000. Net new business needed not yet in pipeline: $5,000,000.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 2, 2013

We don’t track much more than quota attainment. Beyond the quota attainment, sales does little to track, measure and embrace the statistical nuances of selling. Average deal size provides insight into how well a sales rep can maintain the integrity of pricing and drive greater value into the sale. There should be.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 10, 2013

Pulling future deals into the current quarter in order to make quota, is the same as borrowing money at exorbitant interest rates. When management asks the sales team to pull a deal forward, it leaves fewer deals in the pipeline for the upcoming quarter. Price in the cross hairs. It’s bad debt. We’ve all been there.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 24, 2022

When 57% of sales reps expect to miss their quota every quarter, managers need to rely on the 42% to make the team’s number. One of the biggest challenges for the missed quota reps is sales readiness. PandaDoc has four pricing levels. A more viable pipeline now drives 2+ more deals per rep, per month. Sales analytics.

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Salesforce

APRIL 2, 2025

Create an easy path to expansion through tiered pricing or premium features. There are several popular approaches for paid plans in SaaS models, including: Freemium pricing: The basic version of your service is free, and users can pay for upgraded features. Usage-based pricing: Utilizes a fee scale with the amount of service used.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2024

At this week’s Workshop Wednesday, Lucas Price, former SVP of Sales at Zipwhip and founder and CEO at Yardstick, shares his insights on how to hire and build a high-performing sales team. The distance between top performers and everyone else has never been wider, and most sellers aren’t hitting quota at many organizations.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

If your product or service is a high priced solution that includes customization, then outside sales will work perfectly. However, those leads are typically not enough to keep the pipeline full. Research shows that effective sales onboarding can boost quota attainment by almost 7% and improve employee retention by a whopping 82%.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, with increasing competition combined with a limited budget and sales personnel, reaching your quotas can be challenging. Of course, the method that suits you best will depend on the nature of your business, including factors such as products, pricing models, and revenue cycles.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2024

In the competitive arena of B2B sales, mastering the art of prospecting is key to ensuring a healthy sales pipeline, daily demos booked, and hitting your sales quota. RB2B reviews 5/5 on G2 RB2B pricing Free – LinkedIn profiles push to Slack $495/mo – LinkedIn profiles and work emails push to Slack, CSV download, integrations 6.

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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. Average deal size is pretty simple, it comes from an analysis of your past wins.

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Highspot

MARCH 6, 2025

Thats the difference between a sales team just getting by and one crushing quotas. Raise the performance bar: Actionable feedback helps reps refine their sales techniques, objection handling , sales presentation skills, and pipeline management. Try leading with value before the price comes up.

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A Sales Guy

MAY 13, 2014

If you didn’t make quota, own it. If the customer is threatening to leave over price, own it. If your pipeline isn’t big enough, own it. If you lost the deal, own it. It you missed your forecast, own it. If the competition is creeping into the account, own it.

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Hubspot

JUNE 16, 2025

Hiring managers don't just want to know what you sold — they want to know how fast you moved deals through the pipeline. Leveraged Salesforce opportunity scoring to prioritize high-value prospects, increasing my team’s conversion rate by 32% and generating an additional $420K in pipeline.' Peditto explains.

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Time and time again, I’ve seen salespeople hold off on presenting their price to a prospective client until the final written proposal. They don’t bring up pricing in person or before a written proposal is sent because they’re afraid to scare away […]. Want to know the easiest way to lose control of the sales process?

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

With SoPro, you’re helping your salespeople accelerate sales by engaging only with pre-qualified leads, thereby improving engagement rates and shrinking the pipeline. Relayto has scalable pricing options for any sized team, including customized packages for enterprise clients with strict security requirements. Buying lists is so 2021.

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A Sales Guy

JUNE 25, 2015

You negotiate a shitty deal, with a super low price. For salespeople, fear is usually the emotion that comes into play, fear of losing the deal, fear of missing quota, fear of not making a commission. To prevent fear from coming in the door, the best thing salespeople can do is build a solid pipeline.

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Salesmate

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It is undoubtedly disheartening when you fail to achieve your sales quota at the end of the month or quarter, isn’t it? Deals slipping from the sales pipeline isn’t a pleasant sight. When disturbing a prospect with wrongly time communication, you decrease the chances of moving the deal ahead in the sales pipeline. Clement Stone.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 2, 2018

The risk of doing it poorly or not at all is getting stuck in “the land of no decision” with the deal and your quota on the line. and if I’m chatting with a lead on Intercom, I rephrase my questions based on the pages they’ve visited, such as our pricing and solution pages. What’s The Problem You’re Trying To Solve?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It should have lead metrics (like activity) and lag metrics (like pipeline and closed-won). For example, our pipeline is at 125%, however, when we double-click that number, we see that we only have 30% of the opportunities we should have. Average Sales Price: The average value of a deal that closed in the system.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 23, 2020

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 Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! I want to thank everyone for joining us on another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 19, 2018

Technology has evolved, but has your approach to your sales pipeline? This list of 10 Tips for Building a Strong Sales Pipeline includes modern approaches and shows you how to apply technology to update a few classics that never go out of style. That means building and maintaining a pipeline is vital. Research backs this up.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

There’s a slide I see again and again from start-ups: 2 of the early sales reps are at 100% of quota, sometimes 150%-200%. Set up a weekly pipeline and stories meeting. Make pricing simple. Maybe even help some of reps 3-10 hit quota. And 8 others? What’s happening here? Well yes, probably. You gotta do it.

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Veloxy

APRIL 11, 2023

If the system spots an opportunity for a “hot” deal, it notifies a sales rep about it, reducing the time and effort for moving leads from the “in the pipeline” to “closed” status. Pricing: A full-featured inbox sales tool is available for $35 monthly. Pricing: The Professional plan starts at $500 a month. Pipeline management.

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SBI

APRIL 26, 2018

Customers such as Atos, British Telecom and Tata Communications use the Agent3 platform to focus their sales and marketing efforts on engaging the right person, at the right time, with the right message to build a bigger pipeline that is faster to close. And our blog has a plethora of articles and case studies.

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