Accent Technologies

AUGUST 14, 2020

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Accent Technologies

AUGUST 10, 2020

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A Sales Guy

JULY 11, 2012

Shitty sales management can kill pipeline movement. As sales leaders, we spend so much of our time evaluating our teams and the individuals on them, we often forget that our s**t can stink too. This is especially true with first line managers. They lack pipeline innovation in terms of pipeline movement.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 6, 2018

This article takes you through 5 crucial tips to efficiently manage your sales pipeline. Before we jump right in, let’s define what a sales pipeline is. A sales pipeline is a systematic and visual representation of your sales process. Summary: Stay on top of your sales pipeline metrics.

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A Sales Guy

JUNE 28, 2012

The sales pipeline is the most important sales management tool there is. Everything happens in the pipeline, or at least it should. The sales pipeline is like the hard drive of a computer. The key to fast and efficient sales pipeline is preventing crap from clogging it up.

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Accent Technologies

JULY 30, 2020

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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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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Every sales leader and sales manager prioritizes their pipeline. It is fashionable now to work to acquire enough opportunities that the salesperson has a margin of error, something you know as “ pipeline coverage.”

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Sales leaders and sales managers spend a lot of their time worrying about new opportunities. To ensure they have enough, many set an objective for each salesperson to have 300 percent of their goal in the pipeline. At the same time, they claim to want their sales pipeline to have integrity.

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Taking the occasional peek at the sales pipeline is not effective pipeline management. Managing and reviewing the sales pipeline helps salespeople prioritize what activities to complete each month, it also gives them an accurate indication of how healthy their sales … Read More »

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Engage Selling

APRIL 4, 2012

Pipeline management and pipeline reviews are the most important tasks you complete in sales because they help you prioritize what activities to complete each month as well as give you an accurate indication of how healthy your sales pipeline really is. Sales are based on facts not on assumptions.

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Iannarino

MARCH 5, 2024

Maximizing Sales Success: Understanding and Reducing the Error Rate in 2024 It is crucial for a salesperson to know their win rate. If you are a sales leader or manager, you should be aware of your team's average win rate, as well as each individual’s win rate. However, there is another metric worth observing.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 17, 2022

Whether you call it a funnel, a pipeline, or deals in stages, it's crucial for sales leaders and sales managers to know that their sales team is creating and pursuing the opportunities that ensure they can reach their targets.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Looking for the best sales podcasts to boost your numbers and master the art of the deal? Whether you’re a rookie learning the ropes or a vet hunting innovative tactics, our curated guide to essential sales podcasts is your ticket to leveling up your sales game.

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Veloxy

MAY 11, 2023

44% of executives at companies with revenue exceeding $250 million believe their pipeline management to be ineffective. Now imagine a world where your sales process flows seamlessly, leads never slip through the cracks, and revenue pours in effortlessly. Welcome to the realm of pipeline management in Salesforce!

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 14, 2024

This is not an analogy about inflatable trampolines, but it is about the analogy between pumps and sales and for variety, it will be two separate stories instead of one culminating in pumping up sales. Last week the CEO reconnected with the sales team to check if everyone was selling properly. They weren’t.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 25, 2024

What’s our win rate, what’s our average deal size, what’s the sales cycle, what’s the quality of the opportunities we are managing in the qualified funnel? The first requires a 5X healthy pipeline, the latter requires a 2X pipeline. The company with a 50% win rate needs 100 deals in their pipeline.

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Iannarino

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As a sales manager, you’re used to having all kinds of conversations with sales leadership, including forecasting and opportunity reviews on large, high visibility, high-value opportunities, sales pitches, cold calls , networking chats, and more.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Prospecting is one of the most important of the 21 Core Sales Competencies, because salespeople must have new opportunities entering their pipeline at all times. But what about lead relationship management? Once you have that important lead, how do you nurture it and potentially turn that lead into a long-term client?

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Tibor Shanto

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Many reps and managers look at opportunities independently of one another, but the pipeline is a collective of opportunities. Unfortunately, many salespeople see their pipeline as a holding tank for opportunities, rather than a means of driving to quota. What is in your pipeline should meet specific and defined criteria.

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Membrain

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Sales forecasting is hard. For proof, you need look no further than the 2018 CSO Insights Sales Performance study, which reported that on average a little over 46% of all forecasted sales deals actually resulted in a win (never mind the timing).

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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. This was my first year going through a year-end managing a team. Managing Through Adversity. How many of those type of actions does it take to build enough pipeline?

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Engage Selling

APRIL 4, 2012

Pipeline management and pipeline reviews are the most important tasks you complete in sales because they help you prioritize what activities to complete each month as well as give you an accurate indication of how healthy your sales pipeline really is.

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Veloxy

JUNE 17, 2021

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? As the name suggests, sales velocity measures how quickly your company is making money. Average Deal Size.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Why are rollercoasters and anemic pipeline syndromes important? They aren’t important if:

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Force Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Healthy sales pipelines and accurate forecasts are grounded in structured territory, account and opportunity planning processes. These processes provide sales managers with an unrestricted line of sight into their sales organizations.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I spend a lot of time with sales managers, at all levels. Endless forecast and pipeline discussions–usually between managers and not with people. One on one’s are irregular, and easily pushed off when something the manager prefers to do. We talk about pipelines. They see pipelines are anemic.

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SaaStr

MAY 13, 2024

Manages press. Manages inbound (vs outbound) PR. Events, steak dinners, supporting a field sales team. Good field marketers do demand gen, in the sense that their events are responsible for a pipeline commitment out of the events. And it means managing the leads you do get through the funnel. A little, yes.

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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”. However, most of them do not pay attention to it and manage it effectively. They are the ones who succeed in sales.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

We spend 100’s of millions on SKO speakers, books, and training–all focused on doing the things that drive business, sales and marketing performance. For example, as sales people, we know–without a doubt that: We’ve got to prospect and fill our funnels. We’ve got to move deals through our pipeline.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Sales great Zig Ziglar once wrote, “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” ” That’s the struggle of every team without clear sales targets: no clarity, no progress, no growth. See how it works What are sales targets? Why are sales targets important? All they have to do is start running.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 24, 2023

I’ve seen countless businesses (including enterprise companies) compile — and try to analyze — sales data in spreadsheets like this. Sure, spreadsheets are useful for small projects, but they can be cumbersome when dealing with complex sales data. Sales dashboards to the rescue. See how it works What is a sales dashboard?

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 20, 2024

Although this is an article about sales process, the first two paragraphs have more to do with religion than sales. I’m sure by now you’re thinking, but Dave, what the heck does that have to do with sales process? I mined some data from Objective Management Group, which has assessed around 2.5

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Hubspot

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” Similarly, if a sales manager is only spending 30 minutes a month coaching each of their reps, it’s unreasonable to think that manager is going to improve rep performance.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. It’s simply incomprehensible that sales managers aren’t picking up the clue phone. It’s simply incomprehensible that sales managers aren’t picking up the clue phone.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity.

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