Iannarino

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

9 Questions B2B Sales Leaders Must Answer Why isn’t improving B2B sales effectiveness your most important initiative? Over the last two decades, many sales leaders have chased every shiny object that was put in front of them. It is impossible to identify anything more important than increasing sales win rates.

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SalesPop

APRIL 23, 2021

Another important foundational aspect of account management—and sales itself—is the handling of quotas and forecasting. From my observation, only a few companies manage the problems for quotas and forecasting well. Someone will simply say, “We need to grow by 10 percent per year” and this is shoved in as a quota and forecast.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2023

But new business is a lot tougher than 12 months ago, let alone 24: Founder CEO Matthew Prince was refreshingly honest about what was happening in sales. “The top 15% of our sellers have achieved 129% of quota over the last four quarters.” You have to move on from the ones that can’t sell today.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Sales Acceleration is the sales enablement strategy that simplifies and shortens sales cycles. It delivers results by using a mix of sales technology and a value-driven approach to selling. Sales Acceleration Software is being used to consolidate the sales technology stack.

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Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

As you already know, there are actual sales resources , and then there are promotional tools disguised as sales resources. If you Google sales resources, you’ll be inundated with a wide variety of helpful content and content that will quickly become cold calls and emails. Sandler Sales. Sales Calculators.

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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. It can also be the hardest. Managing Through Adversity. Why are targets what they are?

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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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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2023

After rigorous research and discussion with many expert colleagues, I’ve discovered the universal secret to Selling Success. Leveraging friends and colleagues who consult, I asked them what they were seeing with sales executives they work with. It turns out the singular secret to selling success is “Build more pipeline!”

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Lead Fuze

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding how to set sales quotas is a critical aspect of managing and driving a successful sales team. A well-structured quota system not only motivates your reps but also aligns their efforts with your company’s overall objectives.

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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. They are the ones who succeed in sales.

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Membrain

MAY 9, 2021

One of the most unhelpful “rules of thumb” in B2B selling is the long standing and widely quoted myth that the benchmark standard when it comes to sales pipeline management is 3x quota coverage.

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Veloxy

JUNE 17, 2021

Sure, you might have quotas and deadlines that show accomplishment, but what exactly is the rate of your efforts? Since time is literally money when it comes to business, sales leaders have devised a way to instill dollar value on a day’s work. This intriguing value is what we refer to as sales velocity. What is Sales Velocity?

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Measuring the right sales productivity metrics is crucial for any sales team looking to boost its performance. This guide unveils essential metrics such as lead response time, conversion rate, and quota attainment to help you understand where your team excels and where there’s room to grow.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

The pandemic has contributed a lot to sales transformation. 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?

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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. It gives sales reps and leaders insight into deal size, sales velocity, revenue forecasts, and more. a sales rep’s quota.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

It’s no secret that technology’s evolution is changing the way sellers sell. Eighty percent of the prospecting sales force is under 25 years old. Sales teams, as a result, are conditioned toward a favorable user experience that utilizes minimalist designs to carry out actions in as few clicks as possible.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 30, 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. Matt: Welcome everyone to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Salesforce

APRIL 25, 2023

The sales pipeline should be three times the annual quota.” You might know this as the “3x Pipeline Coverage” rule. I used to be a sales consultant, looking at teams from the outside in, and (plug alert!) writing books like “ Cracking the Sales Management Code.” By now, it’s set in stone.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Nelson Gilliat , Demand Generation Manager at Brantr Media and Author of Death of the SDR , a book whose controversial central philosophy we discuss. The problems with the SDR to sales handoff. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Salesmate

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A sales pipeline filled with quality deals is synonymous with a healthy pipeline. The more opportunities in your sales pipeline, the better are your chances of achieving the sales quota. Sadly, there isn’t any magic that will fill your sales pipeline with quality deals overnight.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

More than 65% of B2B organizations rank sales productivity as a top challenge. Yet, today, GTM teams are expected to do more with less — meaning it’s harder than ever to build a quality pipeline. To overcome today’s biggest sales challenges, sales teams need to put their numbers and processes under the microscope.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2023

There are somewhere around 20,000 sales/martech tools available to help improve our ability to use our time, reach our customers. Theoretically, freeing us up to have selling conversations. ” As time has progressed, we’ve moved from CRM as the primary tool, to a handful, and now a sales stack. .”

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Salesforce

APRIL 7, 2022

A whopping 90% of sales reps describe themselves as optimists, according to veteran sales strategy professor Steve W. This is, though: nearly two-thirds of high-performing reps actually exhibit a healthy dose of pessimism in sales. When it comes to closing a deal, it pays to look at your pipeline as half empty.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2020

If a salesperson hit quota at their last job, they’re much more likely to hit quota at your organization, right? According to statistics from our sales professional user base here at RepVue , only 46.7% of sales professionals globally are achieving quota. And it’s even fewer in software sales organizations.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While it checks a lot of boxes for Sales Managers, there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done to unlock Salesforce’s potential to accelerate sales at your company. Start here: Speed up your selling activities in a few clicks If you’re using another sales acceleration software, most of the principles will still apply.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

What Is a Sales Pipeline ? A sales pipeline is a visual representation of your sales process. Salespeople and their managers rely on the sales pipeline to prioritize accounts, keep deals moving, and forecast revenue. . Companies typically visualize their pipeline using different stages.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About 69% of sales professionals say selling is more difficult now than in previous years, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales report. Even though it’s harder to sell, reps still need to hit their numbers. That’s where sales commission comes into play. Learn more What is sales commission?

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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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2024

“Selling Bad Breath” repulses the people we are trying to reach. No amount of “mouthwash” disguises selling bad breath. What is Selling Bad Breath? The business world reeks of “Sales Bad Breath!” Plus, we care about is our products, we have to make our quotas.”

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 7, 2022

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, everybody, to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

For the past 10 years, I’ve been a sales advisor for the portfolio companies of early stage venture capital firm True Ventures. It’s fascinating work for a sales mind like mine that’s focused on helping brilliant people turn ideas into revenue-driving businesses. . A Pair of Sales Development Representatives. By Lars Nilsson.

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Veloxy

JULY 26, 2022

But does it apply to the world of sales? Sales has been around just as long as the golden rule , and some may say that the latter came about because of the former. People have always been quick to criticize sales for its occasional pushy tactics, manipulation, and sense of dishonesty. The Golden Rule and Sales.

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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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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 3, 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. Well, welcome, everyone, to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Sales is near the the top of that list. The question now becomes, how does Sales Artificial Intelligence fit into all this? Does it really play a vital role in sales? Well, there are numerous ways that AI for sales can benefit a sales team. Well, there are numerous ways that AI for sales can benefit a sales team.

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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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